This hotel at 5201 Gulf Freeway in La Marque has definitely seen better days, but Google reviews indicate there's still some life in it yet.
I stayed at this hotel back in August 2008 (I discussed it on my Mall of the Mainland page) and while I don't have pictures of it from that time I do have information. It opened in early 1983 as a 160-room Holiday Inn (Holiday Inn La Marque/Texas City) and in fall of 1998 lost the name (briefly becoming a La Quinta, then Ramada Inn a few months later). It flipped several names in the next decade, including "The Grand Hotel" as of early 2006 (with "Grand Slam Sports Bar"), then Travelodge by 2007 (with "RJ's Sports Bar", I seem to remember this being smoky and outdated)1 and then Americas Best Value Inn & Suites in late 2010. RJ's later became Jimmy's Bar & Grill, which is still open. (It closed for a time in the early 2020s for obvious reasons). It assumed its current flag, Red Roof Inn, between 2023 and 2025.
I have a Travelodge directory from 2008 but it mentions this hotel having only 130 rooms, not 160 rooms like it was under Holiday Inn. It's possible some rooms got combined into suites but there's also the theory that some rooms got closed off later.
1. That being said, I had a pretty decent view of Travelodge back then. Their tendency to put their name on some of the worst motels out there has caused me to doubt its pedigree.
This post was originally posted on Carbon-izer.
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