It was 2AM, and I had just gotten out of the University Hospital ER in San Antonio. I didn't feel like driving home for 2 hours. And I didn't want to spend a lot of money either to stay for less than one night in San Antonio. If nothing else, the brand name of Motel 6 stands for CHEAP and a bare bones level of quality and cleanliness.
I found this place with my car's GPS - another Motel 6 in the Medical Center area was already full, so I called this one and the night clerk was kind enough to hold the room for me until I arrived and checked in.
Check in was a revelation - there was a small line of people waiting to check in at 2:30AM! Good thing I had called ahead and reserved a room. And the clerk was locked inside her office and used one of those bullet proof cashier's booths to do the check-ins. She gave me a $5 discount for having been to the medical center.
The room was ... interesting. Granite sink countertop! Wood floors instead of dirty mangy carpets! (veneer plywood anyway). And a bare minimum of anything else. A small TV that was from the 1970's era. Didn't turn it on. Small, thin bath towels.
The bed was the biggest disappointment. Soft and spongy, and an extremely thin bedsheet barely covering the mattress. There was a mattress pad, but it was strangely much smaller than the mattress. This had to be the most disappointing part of the night, having to sleep on that bed.
The faucet in the room appeared to have some sort of flow restrictor that not only slowed water flow to a trickle, it also cause the water to spray out in multiple directions with fine mist-like jets. Sigh.
Anyway, I managed to sleep through the night thanks to 15mg of melatonin obtained at the nearby 24hour CVS Pharmacy, which I also found with my GPS.
All in all, I would not have picked this hotel except for the extraordinary circumstances, but I got the sleep I needed and I made it home safely the next day. So, three stars.
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