I had made reservations 3 days prior to arriving on a Friday night from a 8 hour drive. On arrival the lady up front told me my room that I had reserved on a credi card was not available. We had to get a double bed room. My husband is extremely tall. This is why we get king size beds. This is also why we reserved the room ahead of time. The lady continued to give me some lame excuse that they would have lost money on my room if they did not go ahead and give my room to someone else. This is after I told them on the phone when I reserved the room that we would not be there until 11:00pm. We actually arrived at around 8:30 p.m. We also got a non smoking room because of my sons medical conditions. Our room smelled of smoke terrible. There were cigarette burns throughout the entire room. The crack under the front door was at least 1 inch with absolutely no weatherstripping. The room still had coffee stains from the previous resident on the sink. It was so nasty!!!!!! My parents stayed in another room and their room was just as bad to the point that their front door barely locked from were someone had tried breaking into the room previously. The door frame and metal on the door was bent all to pieces. I felt like i was staying in some little side street roach motel. I travel all the time, but this was the worst experience ever. I would love for the health department or some other officials to come to this hotel to see the standards. This was nothing like the Days Inn that I am used to. I will also be trying to contact a representative of Days Inn so they can look into this hotel.

What an experience!!!!!! I looked at this motel on line and it looked fine. I made a reservation for 3 days for myself and my two grandsons. We were looking forward to spending some quality "Nanny" time with visits to the beach and water park. When we arrived, I saw some signs of renovations going on and that should have put me off but I assumed the room would be ok.
The first room we were given had no lock on the door and the
door looked as if it had been kicked in. We were then given another room. We moved to the next room and it smelled terrible.
The smell was moldy and dirty. The bathroom was filthy and the carpet was gross and nasty. Needless to say my grandsons were pretty upset and disappointed. I should have immediately checked out but we were in the middle of a terrible thunderstorm and it was getting night time. Since I didn't know my way around the area, I decided to tough it out for the night. Little did I know that I and my two grandsons would spend the night in fear. The noise began around 10 pm. There was a large crowd down below our second floor room that was obviously having a party. We could have dealt with the noice, although we were not getting any sleep but when the people began running up and down the corridor outside our room it was too much! I called the front desk 8 times between 11:30 pm and 4 am and no one answered. At that time I was annoyed but not too frightened. Then people began pounding on the door. I shouted at them to go away and thanfully they did. My grandsons were terrified. What sleeping we did was done on our beach towels on top of the bedspread. We did not use the nasty tub or shower and as soon as the first rays of light appeared outside, we left that place. The person checking me out did reverse the remaining two nights off my credit card but would do nothing about the night we spent there. In fairness to Days Inn, I called another one in the area and after learning of my experience with the nasty one, immediately gave me a very nice, clean room in their motel at a reduced price. The people at the nice motel told me that the downtown one was a known area for gang and drug activity. Thank God, my boys and I made it thru the night. I also contacted Days Inn corporate offices and advised them of the conditions in this place. They really need to get their name off of that one. The pictures and advertising on line is very misleading and bad publicity for Days INN.

After making reservations then reading the reviews on this site I phoned Hotwire to voice my concerns & thankfully they suggested I contact the local police dept. After the WONDERFUL police dept looked up the address history, the deputy called me back & told me that she "would never advise anyone to stay here-especially if bringing children. There were 6 "incidents" reported in the last 3 months, and that was only outside, who knows what is going on inside. " I called Hotwire back, they looked at "online opinions" as well & then said they would remove this property from their inventory. (what would we do without tripadvisor!!) Hotwire refunded 100% of my money so thanks for the outstanding customer service!!!! And for the record, this is not a Days Inn run property, it is a franchise/independently run property.

When my parents and my family decided to go to daytona for vacation, we decided to make a 2 day trip and stop at a halfway point so that my parents (in the late 50s) could rest up for the night, we had found days inn on the internet. Looked great on the website and promised a good deal with prepayment. When we arrived, it wasn't at all like the website description. First, my husband and I started in our room and could not open it b/c the lock was busted, so had to be moved to a new room. Once inside, there was mold in the corner of the cooling unit, the bathroom floor was nasty and door did not shut properly. You could see feet prints on the walls. My parents room was the same and the cooling unit did not work so they were moved as well to another room. We settled down for the evening and when it was time to head to bed, my 5 yr old son, found a pair of black panties in the bed!!!! I marched myself to the lobby and demanded a new room for my parents, they were then at 10pm, put in their 3rd room! Exhausted, we slept without the covers and got up early the next morning and immediately checkedout without showering. I went to the lobby and demanded some kind of reimbursement for our trouble and when it was all said and done, I got told that it was a different rate (more expensive) and because it was a prepaid, I couldn't do any refunds or exchanges. I called a few days later to speak with the manager to no avail. Needless to say, all they were worried about was how I found the hote and made my reservations - a week later, my travel program called to get a review on my stay at "days inn" and I let them have it and told them that I would never stay at a Days Inn" again.