Design Motel

We arrived into Saratoga late on a Saturday evening (the first weekend of racing season, so of course we should have booked ahead!). Tried a couple of other places, all full, but the Design Motel had one room available. Too tired to keep looking (we'd just driven from Washington DC) we paid the exorbitant charge of just over $140 for one night and went to the room.||||First impression? The stench of cigarette smoke in the room. The sheets were at least clean, as were the towels, but those were the only two positives about the experience. The shower would not work, so we had to half fill the bath with tepid (at best) water simply to clean off the travel dirt. At least sitting in the tub gave a good view of the broken and missing tiles and the ingrained dirt on the floor. ||||I think

Absolutely horrible. The front desk ppl are rude. This place is over priced and I had other guest telling my wife and I not to stay bc of bed bugs. I asked to look at the room first befor I even purchased the room and was told no. Regardless we left and will not be staying. I've been to and seen some bad motels but this one takes the cake.

I cannot beieve this place is open for humans to sleep nor the city of Saratoga allows it. they rent it to bums weekly until some event is happening for out of towners. The rooms have cigarette burns everywhere and the smell is something that might resemble a week old dead body in a dumpster on a 110 degree day. When I arrived my door was already open and some guy was standing outside the door....I went inside and there was a fresh dump in the toilet ...the bum just dropped a duece in my room. I was surprised there werent any chalk outlines from the murder that has to happen there daily. This place needs to be burned right to the ground||||Needless to say I did not stay there

I can't believe they have this place still open. Every room has something wrong with it. The room we were in was completely covered in mold, had busted tiles in the bathroom, when you walked on the floors you sank down due to rotting wood, there storm windows on the windows so we couldnt open them to get any air, the ac didn't work, the flashing was showing in one area. Ontop of that there is a constant sewage smell coming from this motel. And if something goes wrong the owner tois too cheap to have anything fixed correctly. Something is wrong with the wiring, causing rooms to lose power if they use their microwaves at the sametime. This motel may be a cheaper place to stay when its not during the racing season, but its no wonder...they arent even worth the amout they ask for much less the

While up In Saratoga, ny, we stopped In at the Design Motel on Rt 9, just south of Saratoga. I should have known just from looking at the outside that this would be a mistake. The roof is mostly ''patched up'' which right off spells, neglect. When we asked to look at a room, my girlfriend just turned around and ran out. Black mold in the shower, dirty filthy carpets, cigarette burns all over the floor, rugs trying to cover the nasty rug at places. It looked like there were many rooms rented to homeless people or what they call ''weeklys''. It was racing season, and we could have had this room for only....135.00......are you serious. When checking with the chamber of commerence there we found they just made a face and said...''please, Its an eyesore. It was unreal, .....I still have nig