I thought paying 49 bucks for a chain hotel in salt lake was a good deal, but I was wrong. I could forgive the cheap wal-mart furniture, the old staticy non hd Tv with no channel guide, or the hard beds with cigarette burns in the comforter if that was the only problems it had. The room smelled like laundry left in the washer overnight, there was old soap with short hairs on it in the shower, the shower curtail was half broken and tilted down so the shower curtain slid to the center, and the door on the mini fridge was broken. All in all a horrible hotel experiance. If I hadnt booked through hotels.com I would have asked for a refund.

This is our fourth stay in this hotel and in the last ten years and are sad to say that things have gone seriously downhill. We travel from the UK every few years to visit family living in Salt Lake City. The Days Inn used to provide a clean, comfortable and reasonably priced base. However, when we visited two weeks ago we were very disappointed.

We occupied four rooms between us and in all of the rooms the cleanliess just wasn't good. There were make-up marks on pillows, hair in the bathrooms that wasn't cleaned away, and ripped bedsheets in one of the rooms. The communal areas are also dirty; this was not helped by the large number of construction workers who appeared to be using the hotel at the time of our stay and walked around it wearing boots caked in mud.

The hotel offers a free continental breakfast, but the choices are now more limited than they used to be. There's tea, coffee and juice and doughnuts and some cereal, as well as a waffle maker (if you can be bothered to wait). On some days there was also bread for toast or muffins but it was very much on a first-come basis. The water for tea was often cold.

The other thing that seriously lets the hotel down is the area! Midvale used to feel like a fairly safe part of Utah, especially as we consider ourselves to be quite a well-travelled and worldly family. However, it now appears that Midvale has changed and the hotel has not upped it's security to deal with this. The keycard access lock on the back door to the hotel was broken and therefore anyone could have walked in. There are groups of people who seem to hang out in the carpark, and individual women who spend a long time waiting around!!! On one evening we were unfortunate enough to witness a couple having sex in a car in full view of the hotel!

We won't be staying here on our next trip. If you are set on staying in Midvale, the Executive Inn across the road has newly refurbished rooms for about $8 per night more and better security. If only we had known this before we had booked!

I knew this was a bargain hotel and my expectations were not high. The fact that the desk staff was incompetent and rude made this place a NEVER AGAIN! When we checked in the desk clerk asked my name and took my credit card then handed me 2 keys. I had to ask where the room was. No information was given as to where or when breakfast was, where to park or where the pool was. Also I had to call back to the office for the internet access code. The floor in the bathroom was sticky, there were 2 towels and 2 washcloths in a room for four people. No hand towels anywhere. In the morning my daughter and I came down at around 8:50 and when I asked at the front desk where breakfast was the desk clerk made a gesture to the hallway, but quickly followed with 'they are probably cleaning up in there already'. The one bright spot is the friendliness of the cleaning staff. The smiled and were the best ambassadors for this dismal place. Go somewhere else!!!

I don't expect a huge amount from places at this price point- this has been one of the worst still. The only merit is the inside corridors... It just felt dirty and not well taken care of, although the front lounge looked great