On our way home to North Carolina we stopped at what seemed to be a decent motel. It was, after all, a Days Inn and had to live up to certain corporate standards...or so we thought! We had visited a Motel 6 next door just earlier and had requested a visual inspection of one of the rooms. Decent enough, but we still had suspicions of the old motel, so we went over to the Days Inn.
We should have left the second the manager refused to let us peer inside one of their rooms. Anyhow, the room we were given had peeling wallpaper, moldy carpet, stained sheets and a non-functional bathroom light. Demanding our money back produced no results, so they simply handed keys to a different room, this time (probably out of spite) in the very back of the property in an empty and dimly-lit parking lot two doors down from a homeless family whose goods were strewn on the balcony outside their room.
Even though this room's interior was far better than the first, it still seemed subpar to Days Inn standards. We discovered much better motels the next exit eastbound on I-40 the next morning. At all cost, AVOID this dump!
- Days Inn Knoxville
