Olentangy Motor Inn

We needed a place for our family to stay near OSU and this was awesome! Having the Crimson Cup in the lobby made it even better because in the morning we were able to go and get delicious lattes .. I also was impressed with how close the hotel was to OSU and plenty of other areas near downtown columbus.

We had a coach and his son booked at this hotel for a wrestling tournament. They arrived around 8pm, and were assigned to room 144 in a back building which was slated for demolition the following week. When they first got in their room, they noticed it filthy and in disrepair, but they dropped their bags and went to get dinner. After dinner they noticed the outside door wouldn't even lock, but thought they'd try to stick it out at least the one night. However, at 11:30 they discovered they had roommates in the form of BUGS, so they took off across the street and got a room there. After speaking with the General Manager, Jerrold Williams, I wouldn't recommend this place if it was the last place with a bed on the face of the earth. Mr Williams was very unprofessional and argumentative. He wasn't too bad until I pointed out all the issues reported to me by our coach. He obviously didn't want to hear about the dirt and the bugs, let alone the fact that they shouldn't have even been putting people in rooms of a building scheduled to be destroyed in less than 7 days.

After making my reservation for 3 nights, I read a review titled “Never stay here” and had 2 thoughts. “Oh No” and “but surely it can’t be that bad”. Well, after staying I discovered Yes it actually is that bad ! The room wasn’t clean when I checked in & had questionable liquid stains on a couple of the tables that I wiped up myself with a towel thinking I’d get a change of towels. During my 3 night stay, there was no housekeeping whatsoever nor any new towels brought in. It was advertised as 100% smoke free but I smelled smoke in my room & saw numerous people sitting on their door step or standing right outside their door smoking. When walking around looking for a working ice machine, a few of them talked to me with the exact same complaints about this place. At a little over $100/night with taxes & fees, this place’s only benefits are it’s location and the fact the better inns close by are sometimes already full. They sure take advantage of the situation too with the employees bad attitude & unwillingness to even attempt to be pleasant or helpful. Even if it was only $19/night, I’d still rather just stay in my wifes’s hospital room at the James overnight 😮

I had to stay here 4 days; I did not know this is such a terrible place. The room is not clean, no housekeeping, the room do not have proper lighting. There was an internet problem when I checked in. They assured that they will solve it, and they did not. They could not solve a basic internet issue for 4 days!!! Basically, they do not care and work. They just playing with their phones. Stay away, this is a trash place.

We stayed two nights at the Varsity Inn Columbus and Gerard at the front desk was very friendly and helpful. He gave us a recommendation on a wonderful place to eat and helped us with walking directions multiple times. He even checked back in with us later to see how it went. Would recommend staying here!

We went to check in with our reservation and was told they oversold, even after we talked right to a Varsity Inn worker saying we could come check in at any point, but then when we went to check in our room was gone. We notice 3 others turned away as we were trying to find another hotel on game day at 11:30 pm. They could have cared less and we ended up finding a room 20 miles away after almost giving up and sleeping in our car as noticed some other had made that choice. Do not count on your reservations being there for you. Stay somewhere else!!!!!