Name: Cookes Motel
Address: 2121 Ocean Westway Saint John,Ocean Westway, Saint John, Saint John, Saint John, E2M5H6, Canada
Rating: 5

Smoke-free property

Garden

Reception desk

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Non-smoking rooms

Room service

Fridge

Cable TV

Minibar

Shower/Bathtub

Shower

Linens

Toiletries

Rooms

Accessibility features

Wheelchair Accessible

Accessibility

Iron and board

Services and amenities

Microwave oven

Bottled water

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet access

Internet

Parking

Free parking nearby

Free Parking on Premises

Location

At the mini-hotel

Room amenities

Saint John Airport

Cookes Motel

Saint John

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

10-beds

11-beds

12-beds

13-beds

14-beds

15-beds

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2-beds

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3-beds

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32-beds

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37-beds

38-beds

39-beds

4-beds

40-beds

5-beds

6-beds

7-beds

8-beds

9-beds

king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

2-bedrooms

3-bedrooms

4-bedrooms

5-bedrooms

6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

First, this property is combined with the "Regent Motel," where the customer reviews are much lower. 

We found the beds extremely uncomfortable, and the location is right on a busy road. Although we paid for 2 nights, we spent one sleepless, uncomfortable night, and moved on, with no refund offered. 

Can't recommend this!

Miserable night!

Unfortunately, I came in on the last day of a long road trip, in the rain, with a cold & a wet dog.  The office was locked and I stood in the rain to ring the bell before a teenage boy came to the door and caled the manager on a cell phone.  If I had more fortitude, I would have taken off running at first sigtht of the room in spite of having made a reservation directly with the property and having completed the registration and payment procedure before seeing the room.  The place is old and has been allowed to deteriorate .  Furnishings seemed like products of dumpster diving; mismatched, very poor quality, with things like shabby Contact paper on surfaces, 2 well-used hand-off office tables, folding chairs, thinly painted particle board pieces.  .  Bathroom had only one bare lightbulb.  No closet, one hanging rack with no hangers.   

The room was basically clean, but had an odor that was musty and suggested previous tenants had not complied with the "No Smoking" restriction. I spite of inclement weather, I left the windows open and ran the ceiling fan for several hours.  It had the equipment as listed: TV, microwave, frig, free WiFi, which worked fine.

Uniquely Awful!

We stayed here from September 7 to September 9, and we did enjoy our stay. The rooms were very clean, despite the age. The rooms were older, but kept up well. When I had called to inquire on the rooms and that bad review, the owner was very understanding. She told us that we could come and check it out for ourselves before we actually booked the room. I though, "hey, what is there to lose?" So, we went, and had a great stay. The breakfast was excellent. It's not downtown, so you don't get the heavy traffic from the city, and it's close to the main highway to get into Saint John. Overall, I did enjoy my stay and would do so again if we ever go to Saint John again.


Great, Inexpensive place

Cookes Motel @ Saint John, New Brunswick. August 16th to 19th.
Based on the bad review of July 2007, I almost cancelled my booking . I called Susan at Cookes Motel and told her about the bad review and how I was apprehensive about staying with them. She said," come and check everything out for yourself and then decide" and that is exactly what we did. 
The rooms were large with two double beds, clean and well maintained. Towels and linen was changed every day. It was value for money. We had absolutely no cause to complain. The staff were all exceptionally helpful and very courteous. The breakfast could be improved a bit in terms of quantity. I mentioned this to Susan. Our overall rating on a 1 to 10 scale would be 7.5. If you are a budget traveller with no desire for extra luxury, this would be the place.
Eshwar P Sitaraman, Toronto.


Value for money

We were there July '07. I based my stay on the previous review. Oh how times have changed!!!! It was horrible. The only positive was the great water pressure. The beds were lumpy and felt like crators in the center. The towels are now threadbare and sparse. The breakfast is the worse let down. You have a choice between 2 eggs, 2 (bacon, sausage) or ham and one piece of toast. Or frozen no name blueberry waffles and the meat. The eggs were consistantly overcooked, sausage undercooked, bacon precooked. Bread sparsely buttered and half size jam. Coffee tasted as if it had been run through a sock, the juice was watered down. I can tell you I would have been disappointed had I payed $20/night instead of the $50. Oh yes, the smell, mold, and upon inspection found the source on the curtains. I was repeatadly "attacked" by the shower curtain. All in all it was awful. BEWARE!


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