I've never had a really bad experience with a hotel or motel's actual facilities or amenities. My nightmares have all been caused by other guests. Like the time we stayed at a budget motel near Orlando while, unbeknownst to us, there was a national amateur rugby tournament going on and most of the other guests were participants. The rooms were all ground-floor and each had a large plate-glass picture window. Did you know that rugby players really enjoy testing the tensile strength of such windows by throwing one another against them at 2:00 AM? Our window must have passed the test as the guys all bounced off of it instead of crashing through it.