Melbourne's worst hotel The StayInn hits the market for $4.5million

Melbourne’s ‘worst’ hotel notorious for drug dealers, cockroaches and syringes in bedrooms has hit the market with a $4.5million price tag. 

The StayInn Motel on 844-846 Sydney Road in Coburg North, closed in 2019 before operating as an independently run crisis accommodation. 

NSL Property Group agent Guy Naselli said labelling the StayInn as ‘Melbourne’s worst’ motel was an understatement.

The StayInn Motel on 844-846 Sydney Road in Coburg North (pictured) has hit the market with a $4.5million dollar price tag 

Known as Melbourne’s ‘worst’ hotel The StayInn (pictured) was notorious for drugs dealings and unkept rooms 

‘That would be putting it mildly,’ Mr Naselli told realcommerical. 

The 2787m2 motel has a 2.7-star Google rating after being described as ‘one of the most disgusting’ and ‘disturbing places’.   

One customer said some residents used the motel as a halfway house and dealt drugs out of their rooms ‘with snakes kept as pets.’   

‘The place is notorious for drug dealers, hard drug users and I really hope anyone with kids don’t book here,’ they said. 

‘Urine, vomit and blood in my room, every surface was filthy, I couldn’t even shower or close the bathroom door,’ another customer wrote. 

The 2787m2 motel (pictured) has been slammed with a 2.7-star Google rating after being described as ‘one of the most disgusting’ and ‘disturbing places’ 

Past customers complained that the motel was used as a ‘halfway house’ for drug dealers (pictured: the motel’s pool area) 

The StayInn motel (pictured) closed in 2019 after being run as both a hotel and a crisis accommodation for people in need 

Other customers complained that ‘every surface in the room was filthy’ when they stayed at the motel (pictured) 

‘Do not stay here! I did not feel safe, the place is some sort of drug hub! Left the same night I booked,’ a woman wrote online. 

But other reviewers praised the now defunct motel for providing crisis accommodation for people in difficult financial situations. 

One man said he stayed for one night after having slept in his car for three nights with his cat. 

‘It was far better staying there in a comfy bed than in my car. I felt safer, too, because the other tenants aren’t a problem if you don’t bother them, and your door is locked,’ he said.    

Colliers agent Joe Kairouz said prospective buyers needed to look at the lot as a ‘blank canvas opportunity’. 

‘We’re also getting interest for childcare and medical uses … it’s a mixed use zoning so the local planning scheme does allow for residential accommodation,’ he said. 

The motel is up for sale via an expressions of interest campaign that will end on May 6.   

Another customer warned others not to book if a room if they have children (pictured: damaged rooms at the motel) 

The hotel (pictured) is up for sale via an expressions of interest campaign that will end on May 6