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On a summer, Friday night in the heart of Atlantic City, the nice normal hotels are close to $200 - way too much! But my husband and I found this little motel (Motel Martinique) that's actually right off the boardwalk & beach and right next to the nice hotels and Tropicana casino and unbelievably it's only $100 (plus tax) for the night. We go to our little room with 2 double beds and at first glance it looked nice. But then we started looking around the room and found a hole in the top of TV (covered by duct tape), small amount of graffitti on 1 of the walls, chipped/old furniture, missing TV remote control, etc. So we're thinking the place is kind of sleazy, but for $100 it'll be ok. THEN I find, right by the nightstand, a used condom laying on the carpet. DISGUSTING.

I was ready to call the motel a loss and go stay in another nicer place, but somehow or other we ended up staying there. We had a blanket from the car and we laid it... more