Surf Villa Hotel

The facility: (Surf Villa Hotel, 705 N Baltimore Ave., Ocean City, MD) we stayed in was nothing more than a glorified flophouse. Nowhere to store your clothes, wallpaper peeling off the walls, a very small closet with a half painted shelf. The tiniest flatscreen TV mounted damn near on the ceiling. The bathroom sink held in place with a stick. Rusted towel bar; 40 year old medicine cabinet. The apartments were over 300 yards from the ocean, not the advertised hundred feet. No continental breakfast, a single cup dispenser coffee maker; bring your own water though because there wasn’t any water in the lobby. You won't get any concessions from the property. It's obvious from the condition of the dump; they don't spend money properly maintaining the facility. The electrical is DANGEROUS! Expedia is to blame. No property vetting; just money taken for listing the worthless derelict property.

By far the worst hotel I’ve stayed at. The manager is completely belligerent and unprofessional. Also in a bad area. We first got there and there was NO parking. We went inside to check in and he barely explained where an ATM was because my card was declining. He sent me down to the other side of ocean city just to not be able to find the ATM he was talking about. We had to pay an extra $15 for overflow parking that doesn’t even last your entire stay. You need to keep paying each day you stay. We got in the room and the floor was filthy and the bed as well as the pillows were hard as a rock and neither myself or my boyfriend could fall asleep. AC did not work and there is little to no privacy in the room. I paid over $220 for one night at this place and will never come back.

First off, we used to frequent this place yearly when we would stay in OCMD and we are fully aware that it’s a no-frills, basic room and board place. That’s why we stayed there…a place to sleep and shower. We went down for the weekend and upon arrival, you could see there was some serious neglect in the recent past (ac units are rusted out, stairs and porch are starting to fall apart, etc). Our bathroom smelled of mildew and it appeared that they painted over it on the ceiling as the marks were coming through the paint. The halls wreaked of pot from other rooms. On top of that they charge $15 to park. In their lot. Huh? Again, we used to like coming here because despite it being basic, it was always clean and cared for. That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore and I don’t know if we’ll be going back.