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Anchor Motel: Traveler Reviews

145 Sheridan Avenue, Seaside Heights, NJ 08751
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Anchor Motel
Ranked #27 of 40 hotels in Seaside Heights
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Fort Lee, New Jersey
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7 hotel reviews
Reviews in 2 cities Reviews in 2 cities
25 helpful votes 25 helpful votes
“Staying FAR FAR AWAY”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed July 17, 2012

5 people including me. my brother and my sisters and me were staying in seaside heights so we went to Anchor Motel. After we checked in the adventure began.Since my Parents were staying it Cranbury Inn we stayed at anchor motel.We checked in at 3:30 PM we went to our room Smelly (it smelt like urine). Bathroom was small when We went to go to Burger king in Toms River we ate the table was sticky so we went to eat outside in the rain. my Burgers Tomato fell on the floor so when i picked it up THERE WAS SAND EVERYWHERE I almost fainted! So we had to spend 3 days in a Urine room.IT HAD BED BUGS ASWELL. So i had to spend 3 days in a Urine room with Bed Bugs Id rather stay in Our Odessy van.

  • Stayed August 2011, traveled with family
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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seapalace, Public Relations Manager at Anchor Motel, responded to this review
July 18, 2012
Dear guest,
We are sorry for the troubles you faced while staying with us. If you had a problem with the room smell and other issue we would have gladly changed your room given the opportunity to do so. We are available 24/7 for all our guests. We try to pick up as much as sand and dirt from the sidewalk and parking lot. We are near the beach so you will find sand on the road and parking lot. We know bathroom may be small but due to the construction restriction we are able to do only limited upgrade. We are looking into reconfiguring bathroom for optimal space and usage. As far as your claim about the bedbug is false. Three days you stayed with us you or your friends never complained about bitten. Our rooms are regularly checked by licensed pest control company and when guests brings concern about the the bedbug we immediately contact our pest control company to do a thoroug inspection of the room in which 99.9% is nothing.

To all our future guests please don't be discourage by this negative review. We are here to provide safe, clean and memorable stay for all our guests. We have many repeat guests who have enjoyed our services and have returned year after year.

Sincerely,
Jd
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“It was great...til I found the stains.”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed July 5, 2012 via mobile

For starters, when you leave the motel everyone will agree a great place to go is an STD clinic. The service and people were great. However, because of the previous reviews we decided to inspect the sheets. This is where problems occured. We pulled back the comforter and saw that the sheets and pillow was filled with multiple blood stains accompanied by other mysterious stains even Sherlock Holmes wouldnt want to investigate. Then I entered the bathroom, and it was small, but we could look past that. What we couldnt look over was the bloody thumb print across from the toilet looking you dead in the eye. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the hairs I found in my bed aswell. In order to sleep I had to lay my own blanket i brought from home over the sheets and covered myself with my beach towel.. and i used my gymbag as a pillow. Needless to say opening the door and starring face to face with multiple cop cars and cruisers was very reasurring when I wasnt trying to smoke a fat L. They said cable tv and wifi, so that actually meant 16 channels and no wifi. All in all, bring a pillow, a sleepingbag, some febreeze, but for the love of christ leave the blacklight at home. <3

  • Stayed July 2012
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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seapalace, Public Relations Manager at Anchor Motel, responded to this review
July 18, 2012
Dear guest,

We are glad you like the service from the front desk. I had hoped if you liked the service you had voiced your concern to the front desk. Our linens are changed upon each checkout and they are sent out to be cleaned by outside company. I do want want to apologize for stains which may have been there. We will be looking into new laundary services who may provide better cleaning. We do have more than 16 channels on TV but may be TV programming may have changed. We do have wifi available. We would have corrected all the issue if we given the opportunity to do it. We will take your issue and created new procedure to avoid more negative reviews.

Once again I am sorry for issues with your stay. We look forward to improve service for our future guests.

Sincerely,
JD
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New Jersey
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37 reviews 37 reviews
7 hotel reviews
Reviews in 16 cities Reviews in 16 cities
14 helpful votes 14 helpful votes
“The worst place to stay....”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed November 10, 2011

I booked this place online thinking in going a couple of days with my 2 years old daughter and my mom. I needed a not expensive place to stay, close to the beach and humble.
Ok ...it is close to the beach but it's not humble at all and not cheap at all specially for what you pay. The pictures are amazing....the place is horrible....thirty...the rugs have been there probably since they opened. If you walk without your shoes, then you need to wash your feet. (seriously) the door in the bathroom didn't close properly so if you were inside and you want privacy, forget about it.
The owners are a family that seemed to be nice at the beginning and bad at the end. They charged me for the whole period that I was going to stay as soon as I arrived (usually you pay when you leave right?) I made the mistake and I pay before I enter the room.....Please don't do that stupid mistake as I did....once I was inside I knew I was not going to stay longer and of course, they didn't give me my money back. They offered me instead to go back Monday -Thursday (who is off those days?) in off season....I called several times trying to book and "apparently" they were booked....it's hard for me to believe that this place will ever be booked.
Do yourself a favor. PAy more for a nicer place. As a matter of fact, we discover walking around that you can get better places for less money including breakfast...

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  • Stayed May 2011, traveled with family
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 2 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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seapalace, Owner at Anchor Motel, responded to this review
June 15, 2012
Dear Guest,
We are sorry for issues you had when staying with us. We would have liked you to come to the front desk and address the problems with the room which we could have fixed. We always try to make every guest stay beautiful and enjoyable. After reading your review we will address changes. Just to let you know we change our linens upon every guests' departure.

Sincerely,
JD
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Montville, New Jersey
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1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
“Not worth the trip..”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed September 6, 2011

As other people said, I found hair on the sheets, so don't know if they were changed since last guest. Bathroom door wouldn't even close. The bathroom light and loud fan on switch was way too annoying. Too expensive and not so nice. No thanks to coming again.

Stayed September 2011, traveled with family
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Yonkers, New York
1 review
“Second Time back and cannot wait to return!”
5 of 5 stars Reviewed August 24, 2011

We went in both July and August. The staff was friendly and the place was very clean and pleasant. A short distance from the beach. The pool was clean and the entire stay was great. We will be back next year.

  • Stayed August 2011, traveled with family
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 5 of 5 stars Service
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Also Known As:
Anchor Hotel
Anchor Hotel Seaside Heights
Anchor Motel Seaside Heights
Address: 145 Sheridan Avenue, Seaside Heights, NJ 08751
Region: United States > New Jersey > Jersey Shore > Seaside Heights
Amenities:
Swimming Pool Wheelchair access
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Ranked #27 of 40 hotels in Seaside Heights
Price Range: $$
Official Description (provided by the hotel):
Anchor Motel is family and operated for past 10 years. We are present on property 24/7 to make sure each of our guests is having most wonderful vacation. We are only block and half from Seaside Heights beach. We are close proximity to nightlife, bars and amusement rides. ... more   less 
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