Ocean View Inn & Suites

"Rooms make you feel in a prison cell."

"This motel was horrendous. One of the worst I've ever stayed in and would never recommend anyone to stay here. My wife, my friends and I are military and we drove 6 hours to spend the weekend at the Jersery Shore. We got in late at night and when we got into bed we found bugs in the pillows, stained sheets, and old skin flakes. My wife was so disgusted that she couldn't sleep the rest for the night. That was even the worst part, when the rest of our party arrived, they missed check in and were told to come back tomorrow. They knocked on our door to let us know what happened and as we were talking about finding a solution. The manager came outside and started yelling at us, rudely swearing and threatening to call the cops on my friends. My buddies were respectful and tried to explain to him the situation (how we had a long drive from the base and were exhausted), but he keep yelling at them. They didnt want to make a scene and left for the night and found a hotel down the road. We were so outraged and shocked that we left with our friends and found another room. We are still waiting to see if they will refund us after we made our complaints. The fact that service members who fight to defend our freedoms were so badly treated on the 4th of July is disgraceful and the manager should be ashamed of himself. Please spread the word, this establishment is terrible quality and service and they dont deserve any business ( especially from military)."

"I had to go to Tom's River for a conference. There was other things going on that weekend, so this was one of the only hotel/ motels with vacancies. The guy in the office (not sure if he was the owner) was extremely creepy. He made inappropriate comments about me traveling alone and not having a man to spend the evening with. I shrugged it off, ignored him and went about my business. The room was fairly clean but I got bitten up over night by bedbugs. I should have known something was up because when I looked at the mattress before going to bed, I saw that the mattress was wrapped in plastic wrap. Yep, you read it right.... ACTUAL PLASTC WRAP, like the one you use to wrap up your leftovers in. I thought it was kind of strange at the time but then I again shrugged it off thinking that maybe that was their way of trying to be proactive, please I was too dang tired and sleepy too care at the time. MY MISTAKE!!! Thankfully I kept my bags in my car. I had parking right in front of my room so it was just a couple of steps to get my clothes out of my car. I stayed at this hotel for two nights. The day after I got home, I started itching like no one's business!!!!! I had bites all over my back, legs, butt, and the backs of my arms!!!!! My doctor confirmed that the bites were indeed consistent with that of bedbugs. Please look into staying somewhere else and skip this hotel!!!!"

"Well, I showed up around 9:30 with a friend who helped me out with a room, my friend paid for it and had left. My friend also stated that it was fine for my boyfriends mother to stay with me the night since she drove from South Carolina to help with a difficult situation. The owner came out when she arrived and kicked us all off the property. He was screaming he was name calling and threatening us. We had to leave after 5 minutes. I really hope you don't have this experience with the owner if you are reading this. I am still shaking at how quickly he started screaming and even followed me into the room while I was by myself in a threatening manner. Mind you, I'm a 5 foot 4 girl 105 pounds. He's a bigger guy who can throw his weight around probably 400 pounds and 6 foot something. This is not a professional business owner. I really hope if you stay your experiences will be better."

"The room was fine but the manager had no bed side manor at all. He was rude and mean and to strict. He would ask my mom to leave after 8:00 p.m even if she was dropping off food for us to cook, or supplies to clean with ext.. I understand rules and all but that was a little bit over board. We are very unhappy to even have come to this hotel, even with being homeless we wouldn't ever stay here again. We also had lot of issues with the internet , it was horrible.The only good thing was the pool even though it never stayed open from 9 a.m till 6 p.m as it says on the rules and on the pool signs."