Holiday Inn Express: Corpus Christi - Beachfront

They label this Holiday Inn Express but it's the Emarald and falling apart. Very deceiving.

Hotel is very out dated. Walk from check in to handicapped accessible room is a long walk. Hello, handicapped? Furniture in room is old and worn. Dirty looking doors, mold in bathroom. Disgusting. Asked to be moved to another room - none available.

The rating of the number 2 hotel in Corpus Christi on Trip Advisor must have been from a LONG time ago! This place is dingy, humid, dirty, & mildewy! The lobby is old and sad. Our room had a chair that looked like it came from a nearby dumpster. The small couch was broken, with a big dip in the middle, not that I would have dared to sit on it! My wife developed respiratory issues after walking into our room. We arrived at 8pm and immediately left the hotel and demanded a refund! The Holiday Inn Express next door is 100 times nicer than this place. We heard that the hotel will be transferred to another hotel chain next month and will be renovated (or, perhaps, demolished). Clearly they have given up. Stay away from this place!

DO NOT STAY! HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL BE CALLED! First I am stuck here one more day. See attached photos that still understate the condition of this hotel! It's HORRIBLE, service is AWEFUL, and the smell is DISGUSTING. We are waiting for our 3rd room change which I don't believe will happen. Bugs crawling on the ceiling which dropped down, black mold and dust from the air vent, there were poop streaks in the toilet, floors and tub are gross, boogers and food on curtains, and sea mold on outer windows and that's the second room! We left for dinner after the second room change and was told that it would be cleanef and taken care of by the time we returned. Only the poop streaks were cleaned. I called and demanded someone from the font desk come look and was told they can't but would send housekeeping up aga8n they never came. This morning we found that clean towels were clean and two hours later still waiting for new ones. Now for the breakfast, it is cold bread and Begels with oranges only. Go next door to the Holiday Inn Express for their full all you can eat breakfast. It is great for $10! The lobby will tell the tale of what your rooms will be like. The windows and doors are filthy, the automatic and handicapped doors do not work, it's muggy, and the elevators are dirty and wreak. One smells like straight urine! This was reported and the response was "oh that's not acceptable". Yet no action or cleaning has been done. Parking! $10 a day the the front desk made me pay even after I advised I was with a group where parking fees were excluded! Still he had me scan and pay. I confirmed this morning and was told I should not have been told to pay. Customer service. I only have a problem with one person is unconcerned. He only says if there's a problem we can move you again. I asked got a manager and was told he's not in and was given his "personal" number. Well I called and it was the front desk number. When the attendant answered he then hung up on me! The beach! It's a pet friendly hotel and you can smell the pet friendliness coming from the sand. The beach of the of the property has trash out there. If you want to rinse off you will use the water hose provided free of charge. The indoor pool. It's like a sauna and has a strong smell of mildew. Go next door to Holiday Inn where they allow you to use their pools for free if you are staying at Emerald beach! So th8s is my first 24 hour experience. I will update when I either get a response from management or leave this hotel if I can find anything on memorial day weekend. We are here as a group with a basketball organization for a youth tournament and paid close to $500 for this mess. I will not accept anything less then my money back.I will be providing the health department with this information and ALL of the pictures. I will also contact the better business bureau and any other hotel licensing and hospitality boards of i receive just another generic response and apology that seems to be the case wi

Our school district booked this room for so our students could compete at the State Powerlifting meet. The experience has been awful. I’m embarrassed to have to bring our students here. Upon arrival the place looked nice but once we checked in the problems began. We checked in around 5pm and the rooms were not ready. They gave us a key and we went up and it wouldn't work. I went to ask why and they said it was for rooms on the other side of the hotel. We had to walk all the way around outside because that was the only way to access it. This place is obviously under construction and yet they would rather put profit over the people they serve. There are missing ceiling tiles, the carpeted floors are filthy, the patch jobs are crappy, painted over nails, dust all over vents and appliances. We asked to be moved and they refused saying these were the only rooms they had. I will never stay here again and will be informing the business office at our school the issues we had and will also share with the other coaches at the state meet being held here in Corpus Christi. In the future I feel like they should only book the rooms on the side of the hotel where the remodels are complete.

Nothing good to say about this part of the city…Except please do not stay anywhere near here ….Too many homeless looking for trouble !!! Three guys eyed me and my wife while walking down the sidewalk, like they they wanted to jump me right then and there …probably too many people around, the only reason they did not !