This is an old motel that I was told upon check-in is being renovated, but with many rooms and few cars in the parking lot, we were given a room at the very back. (I assumed this was because we were traveling with our little dog.) Having traveled all over the U.S., we often use coupons from the travel books and don’t expect a facility’s finest since we’re not paying rack rate, but I have to say that this was the worst room we have ever encountered, and it was a disgrace to the Day’s Inn name. The furniture was badly damaged (as in chunks of wood visibly missing!). There were cigarette burns in the bedspread and carpet, a big tear in the drapes, and the lampshades over the beds had bulb burns on them. It appeared that someone had used oil-based paint over latex because it was visibly peeling from the woodwork, the mirrors were clouded with smoke, and the bathtub…..well, let’s just say I would NOT take a bath in it. We had to plug in the floor lamp and clock radio, and the 3-prong outlet we needed for our laptop was behind a huge piece of furniture where we found much dust and even dirty Q-tips! Outside was a filthy trash receptacle, and the common area around the ice machine was littered with debris and looked as though it hadn’t been hosed down or swept in months. The room had a coffeemaker, but when I went to use the creamer, I found it caked hard in the package, so I had to go to the office to get more. Breakfast the next morning was the usual low-budget fare, but there was just nothing cheery about the décor. (The pictures on their web site just don’t match what I saw!) I wish I had trusted my intuition when I noticed an offensive smell (kinda like cat urine) as I walked into the front desk entrance, but we had been driving all day from Ohio and were tired. My eerie feeling about the surrounding area was compounded by a horror flick playing on a big screen tv in the lobby that the desk manager had obviously been watching. The only good thing I can say is that the parking lot was well lighted and the beds were clean, so all was well……once a chair was propped against the door and the lights turned out. We were granted an extra hour to check out the next morning since my husband was in Durham on business, but housekeeping (an elderly man and woman) knocked on the door at 10:15 AM. I would suggest finding the extra dollars to stay at the Holiday Inn Express where we will stay from now on!
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