Days Inn Mt Vernon

Do not stay here. The health department should shut the hotel down. I saw the exterminator come. I got sick from the strong smelling chemicals they use for cleaning, which is surprising because the hotel is far from clean. Internet doesn’t work in the conference rooms. Lots of drifters and safety was a concern.

This hotel has been in the area for quite some time and has changed franchises over the years. My recent stay

Worst hotel experience of my life. Go somewhere else. Seriously, you don’t even need to read why. It’s a horror story.
Room: larger than expected but with walls so thin you can hear other people moving around all night. Cramped bathrooms with almost no amenities, uncomfortable and springy beds, lumpy pillows, and BUGS. The three of us who slept in the room woke up the next day feeling itchy.
Area: near I-​5 and Skagit Valley College, but in a pretty seedy area. There is a bowling alley across the street, so prepare to have groups of drunk people standing near and peering into your car all night in the parking lot that sits between the hotel and the bowling alley.
Breakfast: everything packaged, almost nothing edible. Fruit looked like wax. We made waffles. We hated them.
Staff: truly the scum of the earth. Older woman who checked us in Friday night told us we could have a rollaway bed, told us it was «taken care of,» made no mention of it costing a fee. Somehow, on the way from their storage to our room, she managed to break off a part from the bed and gave no apology or offer to get another one for us. The next day, at checkout, we complained that the rollaway bed was broken in several places and folded up on my roommate during the night, injuring him. The overweight front desk associate LAUGHED at us. Seriously, she thought it was hilarious. She couldn’t stop laughing. I couldn’t believe it.
Even worse, she gave me a bill that included $ 20 for the rollaway bed, a fee that not only the bed didn’t warrant, but that I never was informed of. I told her that I would not authorize that charge, asked to speak to the manager, she said the manager wasn’t in but that I would get a phone call. Fast forward four days and I have a FRAUDULENT CHARGE on my credit card including the $ 20 rollaway bed fee, so I called to complain. After asking four separate times to speak to the manager, I spoke to the manager Becky, an awful and unsympathetic person who basically told me she didn’t need my permission to charge whatever she wants on my card, and hung up on me. I lodged a formal complaint with Days Inn’s corporate complaints team.
I paid more than $ 100 all included to be fearful my car would be broken into, get a terrible night’s sleep on a springy mattress and lumpy pillow listening to bumps coming from other rooms, possibly get bed bugs, eat a disappointing breakfast, and get laughed at. Thanks, Days Inn!

Night staff wasn’t too accommodating. Wife tried to ask for extra pillows and she promptly said there are none. Also asked if we can get in our dog and she sighed and reprimanded me that I should’ve called in earlier. Then she look at my passport card and asked why she’s not familiar with this I’d. I told her I used that to go to Canada, which is pretty much a valid I’d. In any case this $hithole of a dump town is populated by ignorant buffoons.

(4÷17÷2015) We came into town for the Tulip Festival, honestly, way better towns to stay in close to the farms than Mount Vernon (try quaint Anacortes). The city itself is a rundown, commercial strip mall catering to college students. This Days Inn is convenient to I-​5, that’s about it’s selling point. It’s bordered by a bowling alley, Chinese restaurant, KFC, and there’s a Mexican restaurant inside. The neighborhood is somewhat seedy and late at night, gets rowdy (apparently hanging out in the parking is the thing to do on a weekend). It’s unfortunate for this hotel that they still have smoking rooms available, does nothing to boost the appearance of cleanliness, which is dismal. Staff, while very nice and try very hard, have little to work with (and some of them were about as bright as a burned out lightbulb). The rates are OK, not great, but still not a draw. NOTE: the WiFi sucks.

Pros:
— Friendly staff.
— Clean rooms.
— Offers military discount.
Cons:
— Cost higher than average motel rates.
— WiFi never worked.
Overall I had a solid night of sleep without issue. Couldn’t ask for much more although I was definitely hoping the WiFi would work.

The 2 star, «Meh. I’ve experienced better» is a perfect description for this motel.
CONS: The walls are thin and noise really travels, my room stank and the hallways felt dirty (didn’t lean down to inspect). The bowling alley across the parking lot is a nice idea but people hanging out in the parking lot means you typically need to close your blinds. Ah, the WiFi is shoddy at best, needed to continually turn off/​on my connection to reload Unilocal webpages (brand new, top-​of-​the-​line Mac).
PROS: Fortunately, my room was clean and spacious and room service did their job well. It is located right next to a Safeway and other little stores as well as being only a few miles from a movie theater and plenty of restaurants.
I brought my noisemaker, used some aromatherapy to make my room smell nice and had a nice night of sleep.
For the price $ 55/​night I’ve done better but in a pinch this place will do.

We were supposed to stay there for 3 nights while visiting for a friend’s wedding. The problem was they NEVER cleaned our room! We checked out after spending 3 days and 2 nights there. The first time they didn’t clean our room they said it was because we had a «do not disturb» sign hung outside and they will NOT go back and clean a room if you have that sign displayed. We NEVER hung that sign. A maid did knock on our door and we said we were about to leave and asked if she could come back, she said yes. She was at the room across the hall when we left, but our room was never cleaned. We thought it was just a mistake and simply requested new towels for that evening. Then it happened again! This time we were out of the door by 8 a.m. and were gone all day yet our room was NEVER cleaned. There was no sign hung and when I asked the front desk about it they said the maids work from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., so they had plenty of time to clean! I was not going to simply be offered clean towels again, I’ve gotten better service than that staying at hostels!
I refused to stay there another night and pay a staff that was clearly lazy and not interested in doing their job. DO NOT VISIT THIS HOTEL!!! This was literally the WORST hotel experience of our lives. Once we told our story to another local hotel they comped us a night and the booking agency refunded our money for this crappy hotel.

For our 1 night stay while up in Skagit, have to say Days Inn was A-​OK
Doesn’t look like it’s in the best part of town but then again, there’s an attached Mexican restaurant (which we didn’t try), Starbucks is walkable through their parking lot & a lot of other box stores are surrounding you & there for your convenience
Easy to get to off the I-​5 & price was affordable — near to our concert so we didn’t have to drive the 1.5 hrs back to Seattle. Score!
Free WiFi
Beds were large & much more comfy than the place we stayed the night before & even though we were on the 1^st floor, we didn’t hear a peep from our neighbors
Free breakfast which includes make your own waffles — this is bonus in my book… although we didn’t indulge since we were meeting Seattle buddy back in town for brunch but nice to know this is an alternative
Maybe next time we go up for the Tulip Season!

I can totally see where all the not-​so-​great reviews are coming from. I had to spend 2 nights up in Mt. Vernon for work, kind of last minute, so Days Inn won.
Did you know they have 3 floors? Neither did I. That’s probably the tallest building in Mt. Vernon. Anyhow, this was not awesome because I had a bunch of photography equipment to haul up (thankfully they do have an elevator). It was awesome because there are only like 5 rooms on the 3^rd floor and I think I was the only person staying up there the first night. It was so quiet! I couldn’t hear the people below me, so I got a great night’s sleep. (My apologies if I’m a stomper to those below…)
The breakfast looked really good. They had a waffle station and cereal and all kinds of delicious things a gluten-​free-​weirdo can’t eat. I took 3 bananas, 2 apples and 1 orange and some coffee and juice.
The staff is friendly. And, if you love gangster rap, I’m sure you’ll be treated to it in the early morning hours by the desk attendant. It was blaring both mornings while I was leaving. I dig it, though.
My negative thought is this: they let people have small dogs. Bleck. Somebody had a room next to mine my second day. Gross. When I returned home from my photo-​shoot it non-​stop-​yappy-​barked for hours. I was very close to complaining, but it kept barking at the maid in the hall and I think she actually took care of it. I realize it’s not entirely the hotel’s fault. Who comes to a hotel to leave their dog there? Jerk-​Faces, that’s who.
That’s really my only complaint for the Days Inn. It’s pretty mediocre. Pillows were comfy, bathroom was clean, and my car wasn’t stolen.
Win.

Wouldn’t stay here again. While the cleaning crew was helpful, the parking good, and the elevator a great addition here are my problems:
Their luggage carts are ready to die. They look like they were bought in 1950. Time for an upgrade.
I called with an Access member pass and the girl over the phone didn’t know how to submit the number but assured me it wouldn’t be a problem. Come to find out, the discount couldn’t be applied but I didn’t find that out until AFTER a week stay there (I had just moved to Washington and my apt. wasn’t ready yet). The employees could work on being more knowledgeable about what discounts are accepted or not — I would have chosen a different place, otherwise.
The AC doesn’t work well in the rooms — it takes at least an hour to cool off but the AC doesn’t get really cool.
Wouldn’t go here again. It’s pricey for what you pay. Sorry, guys.

Hate it, hate it, hate it.
I was in town for an oral board with a police agency in the area, which can traditionally be very tough and nerve-​wracking. I wanted sleep.
Good luck with that.
First, though, the good. The room was massive! The bathroom was nice, clean, and pretty spacious. There were a number of chairs and what-​not in the room, the bed was huge with great pillows. The TV was pretty damn big and all in all, it was great room. Itself.
The hotel is the problem.
All night long, all I heard was every other guest. The ceiling was so thin and porous… every time the person above me got out of bed to go anywhere, I could hear the stomping from one end to the other. And sadly, I think it was a person of advanced years, because they were constantly getting up almost hourly to go to the bathroom.
I literally heard the elevator down the hall ding, heard the footsteps of someone get on from the ground floor, then ding again on the second floor, and heard them walk down the hallway. Upstairs. Down the hall.
The room across from me… and next to that one, appeared to be occupied by some sort of party patrol. All night long they were opening the door and going from one room to the other, letting the doors slam against the door bolt lock. I saw this through the peep hole about the tenth time it happened. It took me a while to look… because ANYONE who closed their door ANYWHERE in the hotel… I could hear it slam shut.
So when I look… the night manager is coming out of this person’s room, telling them to talk to a different manager who was coming in at whatever time in the morning.
It seemed pointless to complain to the management about the room being loud… when they were already there. Being loud. At 11:30 at night.
I was woken up at 5:30 AM by the same people, slamming their door four or five times. And the guy upstairs walking around.
Oh, it didn’t help that the door had almost no seal around it, so a bright ring of light flooded in from the hallway.
TERRIBLE. I wouldn’t stay here again if you paid me. The people were nice, the room was big, but I got almost no sleep and felt horrible the next day.
Oh, there was free breakfast. I didn’t bother and just left to go and try and get straightened up for the oral board.
THANKS, DAYS IN, MOUNT VERNON!

I really liked this place. From the outside it looked like it would be a motel dump bcz it was huge in the middle of no where and attached to a Mexican bar. But when I walked in I saw that it was actually better on the inside. There was a lounge and dining area with a flat screen in the wall playing the local news. In the morning they serve breakfast including fresh made waffles, fruit, different kinds of cereal, bagels, oj, coffee, hot cocoa, an other juice, etc. It was definitely not ur «bagel & coffee only» continental breakfast. There was a pool/​patio area with lawn chairs and umbrella tables and my room window opened up to it. The room I stayed in was 134 and it was spacious. Flat screen on the wall, a lounge chair and convenient table and desk area, large bed and nice clean spacious bathroom.

I just stayed the night ¹²⁄₁₁ and the rate was inexpensive the room was decent. The reason for only one star is that the building is so cheap or old that the person who had the room above mine woke at 5am and woke me up. The floors are so thin I could hear him walk around and flush his toilet. I could not go back to bed until he was done getting ready for the day. I will never go back. it is not worth saving a few bucks.

There’s a reason there was no «Sleepless in Mount Vernon». Meg Ryan would have been run out of town in 5 minutes, unless she had a massive neon sign readable from Interstate 5, and a car park rivalling most sports grounds where I can park my monster truck. Having said that, there wasn’t many SUV’s, or monster trucks as I prefer to call them. Mount Vernon has some really beautiful surroundings that contrast with town. There are so many chain places here, that local businesses look the same to compete, ie BIG signage, and BIG car parks.
This hotel is clean, except the bed cover had a cigarette burn in it.
Breakfast is included with waffles, bagels, sugary loop cereal or fruit loops for the health conscious.