Days Inn Tempe ASU

I booked a room at this place because i raced Ironman Arizona. It’s close to the event and had available rooms.
While i don’t expect a 3-​star hotel to provide all amazing amenities, i still expect it to be clean.
So, be warned, this place is full of cockroaches. I told the people working there and they seemed to have been surprised by my statement. They said they will fix the issue. But the next day they were still quite active in the room.

BEDBUGS. I was in town for my niece’s graduation. Was watching TV and noticed a bedbug crawling over the bedspread. I captured it and went down to the desk. I gave it to the clerk. The clerk said there was no night manager and that no other rooms were available. Bedbugs suck your blood in order to survive and will infest your luggage. I did not stay. I left at 1 am and had to find another motel. This was very inconvenient and cost more money not to mention the gross-​out factor at finding a blood-​sucking insect in the bed. Don’t stay at this motel folks. Bedbugs are a public health problem and Days Inn needs to be aware of this and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

DO NOT STAY HERE, do not sleep in the beds or shower here and don’t sit on or touch the furniture, tub, toilet, walls or counters!!!
Dirty Linen on beds, sheets not changed and dirty towels in bathroom. Toilet stained with something smeared on it, wall behind and floor beneath. Chair cushions stained with who knows what. Wood furniture filthy with dirt/​grime and scuffed up. Carpet and tile absolutely disgusting with dirt, stains, someone else s hair on carpet and bath tile/​tub. Walls, outlets, switches, baseboards, tub/​shower all dirty with dirt/​unknown substance smears and grime. TV non-​functional but replaced with old large cpu type. It is absolutely a dive. Management uncaring and non-​communicative.
Would NOT put a star at all if it was not required!!!

wishing we could give this hotel NO stars! from the moment we walked in the doors to the lobby, we were greeted with THE WORST customer service by Vanessa… and that was just the start. they had four rooms under my name, when we only reserved two. after about an hour we finally get the keys to our rooms and well, they didn’t work. well one of our doors was already open (sketchy). there were people hanging around the pool area, which mind you the pool had no water, and they were clearly not staying at the hotel. we ask vanessa if they normally have people roaming the property like that and she pretty much told us to deal with it because she has to deal with it everyday. we proceed to just simply cancel our rooms and ask for someone to speak with and she said no one was there but her, rudely telling us her manager will be there the next day so we can deal with it then. she told us that she doesn’t represent the company, so we asked «what are you then?» and she replied with «a representative» LOL! we still have yet to get ahold of this mysterious manager Gina Padilla, and it’s now four days later. we have called numerous times greeted with a rude greeting and attitude by Shatalia (or something like that, as we can’t understand her rude ass over the phone). clearly this hotel SUCKS ASS and has the WORST customer service i have ever dealt with. who knows if we will get our money back, but what we do know is that we will NEVER stay (or try to stay) here ever again, and neither should any of you reading this!!!

This motel is convenient location to ASU and Gina the day manager is a very pleasant person most helpful. The lobby is clean and welcoming. BUT. the rooms need attention, they are tired, bed was very uncomfortable, and the pillows squish up to nothing. The no smoking room we were in smelled of smoke in spite of using half a can of fabreeze. The price was reasonable but this place is worse than when we were here two years ago. It just looks seedy.

It took me a minute to decide how many stars to rate this establishment.
I read a few reviews, and decided that the lowest rating I could give it was suitable
I recently attended a conference in Phoenix, but made my plans the night before. Big conference = limited hotel options.
The only rooms I could find within walking distance were $ 300/​Night which was more company money I could spend considering I was trying to do this as cheap as I could, within reason.
After realizing that I would have had to go farther out, my first goal was to find something near the Light Rail, which was next to impossible to find within a short distance — so my search took me to the Days Inn, which was in Tempe.
So, I book a room at the Days Inn as it is next to the rail and I can take it to and from the convention center.
I realize that this isn’t a review of the rail, but, this information might help someone in the future who is going to stay at this motel or rely on public transit in Phoenix (and have never visited before, like my self).
I’ve traveled to Atlanta and Chicago, and both were easy in the terms of finding the their public transit — but trying to find it from the Sky Harbor Airport wasn’t easy if you are coming from Terminal 2 (Nothing is labeled, no signs and the website has rather vague directions on how to find it).
Turns out, you have to take the airport shuttle to Terminal 4, go up to the 3^rd level, find the Escalators that go to the Sky Train (Free) platform, and then take it to 44 & Washington Metro Station (Again, didn’t seem to be clearly marked).
It took about a mile of walking around the airport and 45 minutes to figure all this out.
Once I got to the Metro depot, I had to purchase the permit for the Metro which wasn’t as straight forward as it should have been.
Long story short: You have to buy the pass, then activate it. I bought 3 and it asked if I wanted to activate all my passes, which I didn’t want to do. I had no idea what activating it was, so I just took my passes and left.
The rail uses an honor system, although there are security officers walking through from time to time checking your permit to make sure it is valid. That was a bit odd for me as well, I was expecting some type of turnstile to prevent me from getting on the rail, but no such thing. I finally realize that I my ticket has to be validated, which physically prints the expiration date on the ticket.
I finally take the 20 minute ride on the rail and get to the neighborhood where the motel is at.
Not the best neighborhood, but alas the motel is directly next to the rail station — which is a benefit for some, detractor for others. During the week days, the last run near that station is around 11:20 — 11:30 at night — weekends are probably later.
The clerk at the front desk was brief and short, but nice.
I got to the room, and yes — the rooms are as bad as what everyone says they are.
My room had a smell to it, which didn’t bother me much. What did bother me:
1) The overall condition of the room — Poor
2) I could only find 1 empty power outlet near the sink to charge my phone, or laptop
3) The curtains were finicky; I had to put the trash can on top of the air conditioner to keep the curtains from blowing away from the window and wrap the curtain around the door handle so I felt more comfortable (I had the idea people could peek in if they wanted to).
4) The condition of the hotel — Poor
5) The laundry room isn’t actually a room, but a washer and dryer in the parking lot.
6) I went to buy a soda, and it got stuck in the machine. The front desk offered the money back, which I didn’t care about — I wanted the soda!
The biggest thing that killed me was:
7) The price and value of the motel — I paid $ 75/​Night which wasn’t as bad as other people paid, but it definitely isn’t work more than $ 55/​Night.
I did like the proximity of the hotel to the rail, and there was a place down the street called Four Peaks to eat at which was OK
But, I definitely wouldn’t stay here again or recommend this motel to anyone.

Holy Crap this place was BAD ! ! ! !
If I could give it no stars I would but I am unable to. For the love of god people don’t stay at this hotel for your sanity and for your health its best for you all to avoid like the plague. Here are a list of problems we encountered
1) No swimming pool (Staff said it was posted on their website but could never find such a listing) (as a consolation they were willing to bus us to another hotel to use their pool)
2) No hot water (was at best warm if you like that sort of thing)
3) Toilet didn’t flush
4) Shower head didn’t work (well it did about half the time we were there)
5) Bathroom light didn’t work (Same as the shower head)
6) no plug for the drain
7) No high chairs when we went down for the breakfast
8) Room had a musty smell
9) The hotel ran out of towel (How the hell does that happen)
10) Saw a roach in the room
11) Free Wi-​Fi worked maybe about 20% of the time we were there and when it did it was horrible
All in all I guess the thing that really ticked me off is the staff did not give a flying F*** about our problems saying no refund and it was our fault for picking them to stay with.

My team booked 10 rooms here because it was the cheapest ($ 91 w/​tax) on a busy weekend. I personally was fine with my room and liked that it came with complimentary breakfast, but had issues with noise and the sketchy types of people that stayed there (i.e. drunks late at night, someone mistakenly pounded on our door at 2am thinking it was theirs). NoteL there is no elevator. Perhaps this place is better run when it is not packed.
Complaints from everyone:
1. Almost all the rooms still had a trace of must and cigarette smell. Some rooms smelled moldy like something died.
2. No use of pool. Under maintenance. They said we could go to the hotel next door for the their pool.
3. Wi-​Fi rarely worked. Also, people with different cell phone providers had a hard time using the data on their phones because of the bad reception.
4. Almost all of us had to get another key card as they stopped working for our rooms.
5. The beds are ok. The pillows were a joke as they just sunk. Bring your own.
6. Across from the metro line so you hear the metro all night. «Ding Ding»

This place is a dump! The bathroom door didn’t close, the shower didn’t work, there were chew marks on the sheets, there was a mouse in the room, tons of stains on everything, and our keys stopped working and when we went to go get new ones, the front desk was closed. WHAT FRONT DESK CLOSES MID DAY?!? The beds felt horrible, the pillows were little squares and smelt like vomit. Just overall, this place sucks. I recommend finding some place that’s actually nice. As my friends said, they should call this place you’ll never spend more than two Days Inn

I’m not saying this is the greatest hotel on the planet – the non-​smoking room smelled distinctly of cigarettes, the bathroom door didn’t close easily, the shower was really hard to operate, and there was some staining on the fixtures. However, the wifi worked perfectly, and the sheets and towels were new and clean and smelled fine and it was quiet and safe and comfortable.
The best thing, really, was that this hotel basically saved our lives. We decided to get a room at 4 a.m., and thanks to all these crappy Unilocal reviews, this was the only hotel (we checked about a dozen) that wasn’t sold out for the Marathon. We checked in at 4:45 a.m. and they said we could stay as long as we liked. We were able to sleep til 3 pm and check out at 4.
So, under other circumstances, maybe I’d give it a 2, but it was affordable and didn’t have anything seriously wrong with it. I needed a place to sleep, and I’ve stayed in WAY worse places.

inexpensive.
free wifi.
free airport shuttle.
large room. coffee/tea/microwave/frig/tv/vcr&dvd player
breakfast.
quiet.
pool.
nice desk staff.
have my own laptop, didn’t use theirs.
strong a/​c, no neighbors (it’s 8pm now)
nice.
from reading other reviews looks like they remodeled.
we will come here again. paid $ 75 last time in phoenix for far less.

Okay the only reason this hotel has a star is because one is the minimum. My daughter and I came out to Tempe for orientation at ASU — upon entering the front lobby I realized this was a hold over from 1970 — don’t know where they got the pictures online but not at this flea bag. We walked into the room the air — conditioning smelled like it was causing an electrical fire — there was a hole in the wall near the outlet — the place was filthy right to the towels hanging in the bathroom. Do yourself a favor and skip this dump! We didn’t stay more than 15 minutes and even at that I was afraid of what else I would see. The front desk thought it was amusing to inform me that the computer and printer in the front lobby are ancient and probably picked up at a second hand auction.

It’s about what you would expect to find at an economy lodge built in the ‘70s and changed little since. The amenities are, in fact, right out of central casting for a movie showcasing bell-​bottom pants and long sideburns. My room, 118, was surprisingly large and, by all accounts, reasonably clean. It also included a working refrigerator and presumably functional microwave oven. Several of the lights, though, flickered or didn’t work. On the morning of my stay, the wireless Internet access was also on the blink. Still, the price was right — $ 69 plus tax — and the location was convenient.

I stayed in this «hotel» on a cross country trip in late 2009. I’m just getting around to Unilocaling it now, but I doubt anything drastic has changed.
Me and a buddy of mine were trying to travel very cheaply. We camped out as much as possible, but decided to splurge on the $ 40 hotel here in Tempe. We didn’t have much of a choice as it hit 110 degrees during the day and was a cool 85 at night. My expectations for a hotel are fairly basic in my opinion:
1. Clean enough to not find multiple bugs, have nasty smells, or stains anywhere.
2. Have a bed.
3. Have air conditioning (at least in Arizona in August)
The only thing that this Days Inn got right was having a bed in the room. But it wasn’t even good enough to satisfy rule #1!!!
The receptionist wasn’t very friendly when we checked in, but I could overlook this small feature. Again, it’s not high on my list when I pay $ 40 for a room. After driving around to where our room was, it looked nice enough at first glance. We were just happy to have a place to get out of the furnace that was the outdoors. After getting inside, we crank the a/​c full blast. Ahhhhh, finally some relief… or so we thought. We waited for a while for it to cool down, but in the mean time all we could do was strip down to our underwear and just lie on the beds. But it never did start to cool down. It was just blowing some warm air. Strike #1.
Waiting for it to turn night so we could actually move around without breaking a sweat, we were watching some tv and I noticed a few crickets jumping around on the comforter on the bed. WTF? Strike #2
We decided to go out later that night because we had heard the Tempe nightlife was pretty good. It was all going good until we called it a night and came back to the hotel. We wake up early in the morning to check out and the bathroom is completely infested with ants all over the sink. Crawling over our toothbrushes, the towels, up and down the walls, we had had enough. Strike #3
I’ve never had problems with other Days Inn in the past, but I guess not every franchise has the same owners and rules. Definitely avoid this place like the plague.

I agree with the other guys. The towels here are gross. Staff is not helpful. When i checked in there was no vehicles in parking lot. When I asked for a room I could park in front of because I wanted to be able to keep an eye on my truck they said none were available to me. If you don’t get much business maybe you should be nice to the people who do show up.

I’m writing this at 3 AM because I can’t sleep at this joke of a hotel.
Two words best describe this catastrophe: noisy and cheap.
Noisy in that the air conditioners roar to life every few minutes, drowning out the very loud music from the bar across the street. But they can’t drown out what sounds like some electronic screeching that’s built into the walls of this place. The walls are also paper thin, so you get to hear what your neighbor’s decided to watch on tv that night (better hope it’s boring!).
Cheap in that the towels have stains and feel like sandpaper. There’s nothing to drink either, since all the ice machines are apparently out of order. The «free wireless» is also apparently emitted from a single router that does not cover the entire building. I had to walk outside, laptop in the air, in order to detect the signal.
Not worth the $ 40 I spent on this. Try camping in your car instead.

I feel the Days Inn Tempe is best described as «a place where you can purchase the right to sleep for awhile.»
I booked my 10-​night stay on Travelocity for a non-​smoking room, yet when I entered the room I almost choked. It was disgusting. I’ve never had a smoking hotel room before and I will make sure I don’t again. They said they couldn’t move us to a different room.
My local lady friend brought over a bottle of wine but forgot a corkscrew. No big deal, I thought to myself, as the front desk of a hotel will surely have a corkscrew. Nope. Coors Light it is.
The towels felt like they were made of cow tongue, and they missed our wakeup call one morning making me late for a training class that had cost me about $ 500.
I’m awarding one star in addition to the minimum one-​star rating because I got to drink cheap beer by the pool in 90 degree weather for 10 days, and there are a few good places to eat and two dollar stores very nearby. The dollar store had a corkscrew.