This motel is best suited for the economy-minded traveler with modest expectations -- perhaps college kids or guys on a fishing trip. Amenities include a mini-fridge,microwave, TV, and hair dryer. The room was a reasonable size. The motel is centrally located in Rockport and is in walking distance to the piers, etc.

The outside of the motel is quite run-down and we had second thoughts about checking in. Frommers says that parts of the motel are from the 1930's -- and, uhmm, it looks like it. Our unit had a TV with a wide range of channels, but the window air condition was so noisy that it drowned-out the TV. There was a shower (one of those plastic-lined ones) and no bath. The singe-sink bathroom was very small. The room was somewhat shabby -- by that I mean that the windows were dirty, the blinds were broken, the pictures on the wall were faded, the repair-work seemed home-done, rather than professionally done.

I would rate the quality as somewhat below a... more