Governor House Inn

Absolutely disgusting! False advertisement about a pool!!! They have tarps all over the pool in the Hot Virginia summer!!! They adverts pool… lie!! Charged me.. a Veteran..112.00 for the night when it’s 65.00 all over the internet!!!! Bathroom is so disgusting!! I have pictures of every disgusting thing here! American Restaurant is now an Indian Shrine! Dead Animals hanging in plain sight!!!! This is America not a Savage, filthy country!!! The employees pretend to be new… they lie! Manager offered 1/2 a nights stay for the pool being a lie… but she is never here to hive it to me!!!!! No one else is authorized!!!! The cigarette smell is so no profound!! Just look at my pictures!!! This is what happens when Indians buy American businesses… their standards are so much lower than ours!!! This place is a butcher shop trying to be a cheap motel!! Pay more for a real room elsewhere! This is a dumpster fire!

On our cross-country road trip, we looked for old-school motor lodges, but they were hard to find. We happened upon this one that happened to be pet-friendly, drive-up, and convenient, but we ended up staying two nights because it turned out to be very clean, comfortable, and quiet. We'd stay here again (and we wouldn't say that about every one of the 20 places we stayed).

I will stay here again. For the price, I rated this motel 5 stars, but please understand that it is not a luxury “5 star hotel.” It’s plenty good, though. It’s affiliated with the Motel 6 adjacent to it, which is where we checked in. It had exactly what I needed: a decent bed, a decent pillow. The mattress was not as firm as I would like, and the pillows are small but I found them adequate, and I am picky about pillows. I only stayed one night, so I wonder how several days on the mattress would affect my bad back. IMPORTANT FEATURE: the motel is within close driving distance to the East Falls Church Metro Station, where all-day parking was $5. (Pro tip: DO NOT try to drive into DC. Traffic WILL delay you, parking will be hard to find, and parking costs will exceed Metro costs, by a longshot. Don’t even think about it.)