Drake J.
Yelp
I don't usually write reviews on yelp or any other websites...but I was able to see and try lots of new things during my visit to Kansas City and really my stay at Oak Tree Inn spurred me to review a few places.
If you are thinking about staying here, for whatever reason, don't. I cannot stress enough how bad our stay was.
Let's start with the positives, because there were a couple good points.
-The beds were actually really comfortable and I felt like I slept well...once we put towels down over the comforter to shield us from potential bodily fluids and I got over the fear of bed bugs.
-Free wifi...but the wifi is slower than dial up. Seriously. Couldn't even get google maps or any other basic service to load over wifi.
-Free breakfast...but you won't want to eat any of the food. I have never had scrambled eggs that were so cold and tasteless.
Now on to the bad:
-We reserved two rooms (our receipt we brought with us to check in showed this), yet they only booked us one room.
-My friend who was staying with me was delayed getting to KC, so she called the hotel and gave them all her CC info and whatnot and they told her they would let me check in to my room. When I got there, Peggy at the front desk said this would not be possible. When she finally realized she had taken my friends info already, she agreed to let me check in to our ONE room, but refused to admit we had TWO rooms and told us that the hotel was 100% full.... until we showed her our receipt. Then magically another room was available! Lucky us. Peggy was incredibly rude and talked to us like we were stupid. I guess she was not wrong though as we were dumb enough to book rooms here.
-I got to my room and upon walking in the door I was greeted by a very distinct smell of feces. I tried to open a window, vent the room out but it did not help at all. Finally I realized the smell was coming from the drains in the floor in the bathroom so I covered them with a wet towel and the smell went away.
-Speaking of bathroom, the whole bathroom is a flat floor with a drain in the middle so when you take a shower, the water just flows right out into the entryway, what a great feature!
-Stains, dirty carpet, ripped up carpet, wall peeling, etc. Its all here!
-The real KICKER -- when I got to our room, I found a used razor in the room...a nice memento from my stay at the Oak Tree Inn. Unreal.
Finally, the price here is way out of line. We paid about $165/night at this shithole. Seriously, for not much more $, could stay at a nice place downtown.
If you are looking for a cheap place to stay in KC, just look for a Motel 8 or something with decent rooms, for the price here just stay somewhere nicer downtown.
We had a great time in KC, despite this place being our home for a couple days...the food you all have is amazing!