River Oak Inn

2.5 star property

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Front of property
Exterior
Standard Single Room, 1 King Bed | Laptop workspace, blackout drapes, soundproofing, iron/ironing board
Reception
Exterior

Reviews

7.6 out of 10
Good

Popular amenities

  • Pet friendly
  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant
  • Business services
  • Bar
$119
$104 nightly
$119 total
Total with taxes and fees
Jan 25 - Jan 26

Explore the area

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1203 Main St, Bandera, TX, 78063
  • Place, Medina River
    ‪5 min walk‬
  • Place, Bandera Beach Club Tubes, Kayaks & Shuttle
    ‪9 min walk‬
  • Place, Bandera City Park
    ‪15 min walk‬

Room options

Premium Suite

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful
(2 reviews)
  • 400 sq ft
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

Standard Double Room, 2 Queen Beds

7.6 out of 10
Good
(11 reviews)
  • 400 sq ft
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Queen Beds

Standard Single Room, 1 King Bed

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(21 reviews)
  • 300 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

Premium Suite, 2 Queen Beds, Non Smoking

  • 400 sq ft
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Queen Beds

Family Room, Multiple Beds, Bathtub

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(1 review)
  • Sleeps 6
  • 3 Queen Beds

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About the neighborhood

Bandera

A stay at River Oak Inn places you in the heart of Bandera, steps from Medina River and 10 minutes by foot from Bandera Beach Club Tubes, Kayaks & Shuttle. .This motel is 0.7 mi (1.1 km) from Frontier Times Museum and 0.9 mi (1.5 km) from Bandera City Park.

What's nearby

  • Medina River - 5 min walk - 0.3 miles
  • Bandera Beach Club Tubes, Kayaks & Shuttle - 9 min walk - 0.5 miles
  • Frontier Times Museum - 12 min walk - 0.7 miles
  • Bandera City Park - 15 min walk - 0.8 miles
  • Mansfield Park - 2 min drive - 1.7 miles

Getting around

  • San Antonio International Airport (SAT) - 64 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪OST Restaurant - ‬16 min walk
  • ‪TJ's At the Old Forge - ‬6 min walk
  • ‪SONIC Drive In - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Dairy Queen - ‬19 min walk
  • ‪Best Western Bandera Suites & Saloon - ‬9 min walk

About this property

River Oak Inn

Riverfront motel with a 24-hour front desk and a coffee shop
River Oak Inn offers 28 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. 70-inch Smart televisions come with premium cable channels.

Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations and complimentary toiletries. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access (speed: 25+ Mbps). Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and blackout drapes/curtains. Housekeeping is provided daily.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 28 guestrooms featuring microwaves and Smart televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as coffee/tea makers and irons/ironing boards.
This smoke-free motel features kayaking nearby and rafting nearby.
Enjoy a meal at the restaurant or snacks in the motel's coffee shop/cafe. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include a computer station, a 24-hour front desk, and a vending machine. Free self parking is available onsite.
River Oak Inn has a restaurant on site.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • In-room WiFi speed: 25+ Mbps

Parking and transportation

  • Electric car charging station on site
  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • A bar/lounge
  • A coffee shop/cafe
  • A restaurant
  • Couples/private dining

Family friendly

  • In-room microwave
  • Mini-fridge
  • Soundproofed rooms

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Vending machine

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)

Business services

  • Computer station

Outdoors

  • In a nature reserve
  • On a river

Accessibility

  • No elevator
  • Thin carpet in room

More

  • Smoking not allowed

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided
  • Blackout drapes

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shampoo
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Toothbrush and toothpaste (on request)
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • 70-inch smart TV with premium cable channels

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Microwave
  • Mini-fridge
  • Restaurant dining guides

More

  • Iron/ironing board
  • Laptop workspace
  • Mobile key entry
  • Phone
  • Soundproofed rooms
  • Window screens

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 4:00 AM
Contactless check-in available
Late check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 40.00 per pet, per day
Service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Pet fee: USD 40.00 per pet, per day
  • Service animals are exempt from fees

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Cashless transactions are available

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

River Oak Inn Reviews

Reviews

7.6

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 120 out of 306 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 77 out of 306 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 53 out of 306 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 33 out of 306 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 23 out of 306 reviews

7.6/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

7.2/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

8/10 Good

Glenn

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very good service. The new owners have made updates. But still need to make a few more. Overall the place was a good stay for us and I would recommend the motel and would stay there again.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Skipper

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Juan

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice and quiet very clean hotel good price for the area
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

8/10 Good

Michael

Business traveler, Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Enjoyed the stay.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

2/10 Terrible

Lorie

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Customer service is nonexistent. We were arriving later than we were expecting originally so I called to verify my room was still going to be available. Called four times over an hour and no answer. I finally got someone to answer on the fifth call. When I got there, the lady was just rude. As if I need to check in was an inconvenience to her. We arrived at 7:30 PM so it shouldn’t have been an inconvenience. Additionally, there was mold on the wall above the shower, water damage to the walls and broken handrail in the bathtub with a sharp edge. Messy putty job to fill the hole where the pole came out. The next morning when I went to check out, the office is locked still at 8:30 in the morning. Try to reach the front desk by phone and they don’t answer so when I had to ring the bell several times she told me I needed to be patient. Patient was long gone waiting for their service.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

8/10 Good

Jae-Sun

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Gary

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Theodore

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

River oaks hotel bandera.

You can tell this is an older hotel but my room was clean and well maintained. My room didn't smell like smoke so that was great.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

6/10 Okay

OLLIE

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Nice town to stay in

It was OK, bed was nice, huge TV, good hot water pressure, clean, easy check in/out. Lovely receptionist...there were some repairs less than stellar however. There was toilet paper filling a hole in the baseboard in the RR, as well as the chewed up doorstop in the RR and there was pealing paint on the RR door.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

6/10 Okay

David

Traveled with group
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities
Very average property not a good standard
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

William

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Clean rooms, easy parking, and professional and helpful staff
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jefferson E, Round rock

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

David

Traveled with group, Traveled with partner
Disliked: Amenities
The property was very basic
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

David

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hotel was very clean. The pillows were so soft. The area is beautiful. We will be coming back here.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jefferson E, Round rock

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Bonita, Frisco

Traveled with pets, Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
We arrived late in the evening (around 11 pm) to check-in. You cannot go inside. They have the door locked and you have to use a "night-window". No one was coming to the window, despite my husband pushing the doorbell button. I finally had to call the number on my Expedia reservation for someone to come to the front. The hotel is a little rundown. You can tell they tried to update some things, but the work is sloppy (i.e., there was a hole in the ceiling in the bathroom area of our room). I will say, it seems like they upgraded the beds, which was a huge plus. The beds and the pillows were excellent, and there were 3 beds in our room, which was very accommodating for our family of 4 + 2 dogs. The beds make up for anything else that I may not have liked, given that we only needed to be there to sleep for 1 night. Checkout was easy, and they allow pets, which was a huge plus for us.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jennifer

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Steven

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

James

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Great stay

Hotel was very clean, the staff was super friendly. The bed was so comfortable. Usually when you stay at a hotel the beds are so hard and uncomfortable but not here, they were amazing.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

4/10 Poor

Troy

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

2/10 Terrible

angela

Business traveler
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Don’t waste your money!!

The shower knob was literally falling out of the wall. The towels were the size of hand towels, poor quality, smelled bad and were old. The room had a horrible odor we had to buy freshener it smelled so bad. We had to wait 15 min to check in.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jeremy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Jeremy's review

It was a very clean, comfortable, and well air-conditioned room. Very amenable and there is a restaurant just behind the motel. They did a good job keeping it neat. Well done!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Shelby

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Roel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Biker friendly!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025