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  • 3/5 Lynzi S. 2 years ago on Google
    The ONLY reason I’m giving this a 3 ⭐️is because about A year ago or so I was here and the man who worked at the front window was SO nice that I can’t stand to leave a lower review. I don’t even know if he still works there or what his position was at the hotel other than he checked me in and was one of the nicest people I probably ever met. I still have to keep it real tho-the rooms aren’t The nicest. It’s not a bad neighborhood but I personally didn’t feel safe being out alone at night around there. If you use Priceline or something you can find a nicer hotel room for around the same price. The nice man at the front desk was really the only positive point of this 🏨 hotel.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Dove 1 year ago on Google
    If I could give zero stars I would, the only staff member who was nice was gone the rest of my stay. The room smelled of cigarettes and the walls were sticky and brown with it too. The room had no mini fridge or microwave (I asked about that and they said they took them all out about a year ago) and the sink didn't drain the entire time. We had to use a bucket even through the owner said it would be fixed next day. Also apparently their site doesn't work cause I updated our stay about three months in advance to stay one more night, but he made me pay another night additional even though I tried to show him the confirmation email I got about the updated price for the additional night. The towels were stained and dirty, along with the sheets pillows and floors, the bathroom also had exposed electrical wires coming out of the wall. The doors secondary lock looked already busted off cause the screws were about to fall out, and even one of our lamps didn't work. The TV had no remote even. I could go on and on about how horrible the stay was, literally it was just a box with some beds in it. Do not go here and the poor place needs a new owner. Horrible horrible time. (Edit: this was for my stay for Kumoricon that year as well 2021)
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Melissa B. 1 year ago on Google
    The man that either owns or manages this place is SO rude.... I was checked in by a female employee who was actually pretty nice or at least respectful but after she checked me in I went to my room and I realized she had forgotten give me my change. Room was $108 plus the $100 deposit i gave her 220. When I went back to the front desk there was a man there. I told him I didn't get my $12 in change and he yelled at me and said I was lying and that if I "tried to pull a fast one like that again that I would be 86ed" and then proceeded to say he has "dealt with people like me for 30 + years and knows what kind of games I was playing" I couldn't defend myself because I was worried he would kick me out and then the $220 would be a waste... So I just left the front desk with out my change because I was not trying to get 86ed when I just checked in... But the service the was absolutely rude wrong and unfair ... I would HIGHLY recommend going to a different motel/hotel if at all possible... There are plenty around for the same price with better rooms and way Way better customer service....
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Joni D. 1 year ago on Google
    Worst stay ever. We had reservations for a non smoking downstairs room with a fridge and microwave. Upon arrival We were forced to wait more than an hour extra to check in because they didn't have a clean room. Then they said the room the cleaned for us was upstairs and made us wait longer. Then the room they gave us was still dirty. It smelled like a dirty ash tray. There were burns in the bed spread. Dirty and bloody sheets. Toilet didn't flush. No fridge or microwave. Holes in the wall. No stopper in tub for a bath. Fiberglass in the tub was busted. No trash can. Floors still had trash on them from last guests. Tried to contact the front desk and the phone didn't work. Called down there using personal cell phone and was literally told by the manager that he didn't want to hear it that there was nothing wrong. So I called customer service and was told because the property was privately owned we had to deal with the property owner. We stayed in room 111 and we got pictures of everything.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Avril L. 1 year ago on Google
    I saw reviews of this place not being the cleanest, but I hadn't seen any that mentioned how unsafe the place felt as it did when I was there this past weekend. My friend and I had booked one night, as we were in town for a concert. Neither of us are strangers to roughing it but we ended up not even staying for the one night we booked. Part of why we had chosen this place was because it was within walking distance of the concert venue, but neither of us felt safe to walk to and from this place at night and instead drove and paid $37 for event parking. And eventually, we agreed it would be safer to drive 2.75hrs back to Seattle at 11:30pm rather than sleep at this place. We paid $110 for the night but we both agreed that whether we slept there or not we'd already eaten the cost because this place definitely was not worth what we paid. I wanted a refund, but I wanted to get out of there ASAP more. There contributing factors were: - Check in: They don't let you into the lobby to check in, u talk to the front desk through a box office style window. At first I thought it was just for COVID measures, but given the following points + staff not wearing masks, I don't think that's the case. The lady who checked us in was nice enough though. - Parking lot: When we parked in the lot, of the 6 or so cars already there 2 were very banged up and 1 had been tagged the way state patrol does when a car has been left abandoned. The last one was in the worst condition of the lot. Again, no stranger to roughing it, but this in combination with above point was a little unnerving. - Other staff: After checking in, a man who appeared to be part of house keeping was openly leering at me and my friend as we were walking to our room. It was 31°C/89°F out, I was wearing a sundress and he was blatantly trying to look up my dress as we went upstairs to our room (we thought second floor would be safer). - The room itself: I paid extra for a non-smoking room. We get in and immediately I see an ashtray under the TV and dozens of cigarette/blunt/joint burn holes in the bed covers. Upon closer inspection the sheets also seemed to have old blood stains on them. The bedside lamps were bare bulbs and one of them didn't even have a bulb in it. The nightstand was busted up, peeling, and had a light coating of grime, dust and hair. The table and solo chair also were dirty and had something gooey and white dried up on it. The TV stand and walls had sporadic patches where you could see someone had hastily wiped something off of them, but clearly didn't do a great job because you could see the wipe marks left over from not totally wiping away whatever they were trying to clean up. I touched one of these spots and my hand came away sticky. The locks on the doors were janky, the bath tub had all kinds of stains on it. They provided just a single bar of soap, and for $110 a night I really had expected a tiny bottle of shampoo to be thrown in. The only positive was that the AC unit was clean and working well. - Other clientele: We left the room around 4pm and a group of men checking in were unashamedly leering at us as we walked down to our car. We came back to get ready for the show (and load our bags back in the car; partially because we were leaning towards going home afterwards, partially because we thought our stuff might get stolen), the house keeping man from before was back and leering at us. After the show, we went back to check out and use the bathroom before we left (the stadium bathrooms were packed) and this time, a man in the parking lot with a motorcycle asked us "you guys want some powder? There's no fentanyl in it". We left quickly after that. We weren't expecting anything fancy; not even a 2-3 star experience, but I can't express enough how much I don't recommend this place. Part of the issue is the surrounding area and crazy city rent, and that's not the motel's fault, but still. It's not safe and it's certainly not worth $110/night.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Ben R. 11 months ago on Google
    Worst stay of my life. My family used to road-trip and stay at motel-6’s all over the southwest, none of them were as bad as this one. I came in expecting stuff that was clean and barely functional, but they failed on all counts. The sheets had pink and brown stains, there was no towel (did have soap), the toilet seat hinges were barely attached and the toilet clogged. The ac/heat did not work, nor did the basic ventilation. Then their clerk gave me the wrong check out time, so I had to talk to four different staff members to get my suitcase back. -10/10. Never stay here. I’m never staying at a motel 6 ever again
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 S M. 6 months ago on Google
    My car was keyed while it was parked here. Not to mention the manager disappeared for over an hour, leaving nobody to help with parking fees or check-in for guests. Do not park your car here and take your business elsewhere.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 V ChTina Jansen H. 8 months ago on Google
    So the person taking our $ for the room, which has a broken TV ....and wen the room was not even $80..... Taxes & fees made it almost $30 MORE?? WOW!! And I cannot IMAGINE feeling less comfortable in an establishment. We tried to just CLOSE the open curtain and the curtain tore. Like on the top. No end tables. One would think it was an hourly motel as shoddy as it was. I've been in a Number of Motel 6's, and it's the worst example of a Franchisee being incapable of being "worth the name"...
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Sam �. 6 months ago on Google
    Looking at the other reviews, I guess that I should count myself lucky that my room doesn’t reek of cigarette smoke. Basic to the point of being utilitarian, which is fine in theory, if the fixtures are actually decent quality…which these are not. My least favorite part is the bed - I literally can’t sleep (it’s 4am as I write this) because the mattress is like concrete. I don’t know if that makes me spoiled, but I know that I had better sleep when out camping and lying on tree roots. I’m trying to get out of here as fast as I can. The “savings” aren’t worth it.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Christina R. 6 months ago on Google
    We booked here because it was one of the closest hotels to the convention center for Rose City Comic Con. All the bedding had cigarette holes through them. The cover, the fleece, and the flat sheet on both beds were absolutely covered in numerous burnt cigarette holes (4 or more on each bedding item). There were potato chip crumbs and hair between the sheets of one of the beds. The sheets and cover had stains and the flat sheet of the same bed with crumbs also had a red stain that we couldn’t be sure wasn’t dried blood. One of the towels had curled hair in it. We ended up booking an additional hotel further down the street for the weekend because we couldn’t bring ourselves to sleep in those beds with peace of mind. And the deplorable conditions of the bedding gave us an indication of what any possible replacement bedding would have consisted of.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Brittany c. 1 year ago on Google
    I have never had a worse stay anywhere in my life. As soon as I walked through the door there was a large notica le spot on the wall. It’s a booger, a giant booger. This room has clearly not seen a proper clean in ages. The bed is the worst thing I’ve slept on, I should have read the reviews but it was right near where I needed to be. I’m giving 2 stars because they are nice enough to try to move me to the back, away from the train thing that goes by all hours. Really a hotel shouldn’t even be in this location, it’s aweful on its own. But the room is terrible. One of the only two lights doesn’t work, none of the plug ins work. There is no clock. My phone died and my alarm didn’t wake me up so I woke up at 1015 to cleaning banging on the door. Never again
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Kate M. 1 year ago on Google
    We are Amtrak travelers from North Carolina; Portland is the base city for our return on the Empire Builder. We chose this motel because we had a rather nice experience with the room and the courtesy offered by the staff about 10 years ago. After such a span of time, you are probably asking me "so you didn't check the reviews? You just thought that everything was still groovy?" My point is please do what I didn't do. READ THE REVIEWS. And believe me folks, this is not the place you want to stay. What a horrid place with an even more horrible owner. Everything on their website is a lie. There are NO refrigerators, NO microwaves and NO coffee. ("Oh, don't worry," an employee said. "There's a coffee shop right across the street.") We arrived at 11:15 am as we had to return our rental car by noon. The owner absolutely refused to allow any check-in prior to 3:00 pm. Absolutely no exceptions. He would not allow us to store our luggage. His helpful suggestion: "Camp outside, or go to Denny's." (a block away.) So we had to find a place to store our things (three small suitcases, two shoulder bags and a guitar) somewhere in the city and kill those 4 hours somehow. We were traveling with our autistic son but the owner was unmoved. "NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!" While we were out, waiting for 3 p.m. to arrive, we checked the reviews. Boy, has the place gone downhill since we had that very nice stay here some years back. And when we did return, the nasty owner was gone, and a sad-sack employee tried to make excuses for why all the promised amenities were missing. "It's all the mayor's fault," was her preposterous exclamation. Yes, she assured us, every business wants to do better by its customers, but Portland's wicked Covid restrictions make that impossible. Right. Why could we then go across the street and in just a few minutes get a very nice room, for a very nice rate, in a very nice hotel with a very nice staff. (Thanks for all your help, Sarah!). Rather than accept the Motel 6 flunky's ridiculous story, or a room that didn't have what the place's website promised, we found that the Inn at the Convention Center was what we should have booked in the first place. (Our canceled reservation was supposedly refundable. We shall see whether that was a lie, too.) The Motel 6 people should lift the "Portland downtown" motel's franchise. It's a disgrace to the brand.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Miranda L. 1 year ago on Google
    I booked a non-smoking room with a fridge and microwave. Neither were in there, and the room stunk of cigarette smoke. The TV didn’t work at all. There were cigarette burns and stains all over the bedding. There was mold in the room behind the beds and even more in the bathroom.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Maiku N. 2 years ago on Google
    Room smelled intensely of tobacco smoke so I was told to open the windows. Smoke alarm was missing so I was handed one to plug in. Phone line was cut and I was told to use cell phone. Basic cable, no wifi... no usb ports for device charging. Loud traffic and transient populations frequenting the lot. Dark metal staircase flush with parking spaces with no bumper post backed in and crumpled my trunk panel.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Scoots B. 2 years ago on Google
    non smoking room smelled like stale smoke. have had to scrub and wash everything when i got home because it smelled like a smoker's lounge. hair dye all over tub, shower curtain liner and bathroom door. dirty sheets (slept on top of quilt). socket the ac/heater plugged in to was falling out of the wall. something on floor, might have been glass, did not want to investigate. tv remote was missing. i get that every where is strapped and worked thin but it was so nasty and not something that suddenly popped up over the past year or whatever. awful.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Josh J. 1 year ago on Google
    Friend and I were truly shocked by how awful this place was. Over a four night stay, we only saw the cleaning staff once when we sought somebody out to plead for a new set of towels which we were grudgingly given. The room had very definitely NOT been cleaned before our visit either. Staff were passive aggressive and standoffish throughout. Neither TV nor wifi was working for the entire time we were staying. I see similar reviews here which I didn't read before arriving. Good lesson in reading reviews. For the extra 30 dollars per night, I recommend checking across the road for availability in the Hotel EastLund where we visited a friend who was staying there - the standard was exceptional by comparison.

  • 1/5 Minerva M. 1 year ago on Google
    Queen Bed Purchased for couple staying weekend for Rose City Comic Con. $210 Fri-Sun. Table. 2 chairs. 1 queen bed. Bathroom. TV. Ac unit. That's all. Very thin walls. Strangers randomly going to doors at night knocking (other con goers complained about this as well). Blankets were full of burn holes. Wifi didn't even load pictures or anything on phone. Used for RCCC. Location is great for the comic con. Had dead bugs in corners of floor. When asking for help with another being loud above, got told to deal with it ourselves & we were interrupting their (front desk) sleep. Not extremely professional in that so had to go to handle it myself at 2:30am. Be careful of trash & human fecal matter on sides of building. Door lock was very loose. You pay for basic sleeping area & bathroom. When asked for extra towels & pillows, met with feeling guilty for asking. Didn't want to force my other half to share a towel with myself. Overall, we paid for a great location. That's the only positive I have. Recommend bringing your own toiletries & towels. A cooler for food, ice & water. Bring your own blankets & pillows.

  • 1/5 Nynuh T. 1 year ago on Google
    Stayed here for 2 nights. For 200$ I guess you get what you get. DO NOT STAY HERE! Please spend the extra money on a nicer hotel or Airbnb. The room was disgusting. The floor had dirt everywhere, holes in the walls, the shower head was busted and leaking...not to mention the area this is located in, is homeless central. We constantly saw homeless people roaming the rooms and going through trash.

  • 1/5 Nerd M. 1 year ago on Google
    Very cheap but also very unprofessional. We arrived to a very shambled room, one of the desk lamps was just gone ( like it had been stolen off the wall) and the bathroom vent was also just gone (again, like someone just took it off the wall), that was our first stay. We decided to give them another chance. Our second try, upon arriving at our room, the bathroom had no working vent, had mold on the ceiling, and the TV remote was dead. The deadbolt on our door was broken and the smoke alarm had no batteries in it either. There was no drain plug for the bathtub and also the shower handle was backwards. The convenience of being a short 10 minute walk from MODA definately does NOT compensate for the lack of amenities paid for by your customers. Definately will not be staying here again and would advise others to avoid as well.

  • 2/5 Victorybell 1 year ago on Google
    It wasn’t too incredibly bad of a stay, the room did smell of cigarettes, there were little cigarette burn holes in our blankets and there were a few dead ladybugs inside. The TV didn’t work 100% of the time, and the wifi was so weak I couldn’t keep my phone connected for more than an hour or so. Shower water pressure could’ve been better, but at least the heater worked well ! I wouldn’t come back unless it was an emergency stay

  • 1/5 Carrie C. 1 year ago on Google
    Blood on the comforters. Cigarettes hole in the comforters . The desk Personnel would not give me new blanket with no cigarettes hole . The room I was in was in no smoking room . So why did I have comforters with holes and blood on it. no towel in the bathrooms no wash clothes in the bathroom. TV was completely unplugged to the TV and the wall. When I ask for towels the lady at the front desk was rude.

  • 1/5 liberty v. 4 months ago on Google
    Absolutely horrible stay rooms smelled so strongly of cigarettes and there was even burn holes on sheets blankets and floors. railway is right outside and runs loudly past the hotel every 30 ish minutes so forget about sleep not to mention the room was so freezing and the heat didn’t work. Room should have been no more than 60$ a night for the quality. Instead it was 110. Would rather spend the extra 20$ for a Hilton

  • 1/5 Kay K. 4 months ago on Google
    Disgusting place. If you’re thinking of staying here—don’t. You will be up all night, beyond uncomfortable, tossing and turning, wondering if you’re safe. To the owner of this motel and the staff: CLEAN YOUR ROOMS!! REPLACE YOUR BEDDING!!! There is no reason these rooms should be this poorly maintained. Fix the light fixtures half-hanging off the walls. Change the stained, ripped sheets. Scrub the writing off of the doors. Air out the rooms so they don’t REEK of cigarette smoke in Non-Smoking rooms. Just being in there made me sick from the smell. If you had any pride in this place, you’d do better for yourself and your guests. And update your website, stop lying about providing amenities you did away with years ago. At least be honest when trying to sell this place. Unless that is intentionally deceptive and you’re running a scam, which I’m well convinced you are given your don’t-care attitude.

  • 4/5 Manuel C. 2 years ago on Google
    It's a Motel 6 so expectations were low. Was cleaner than I thought and was impressed with the work ethic of the front desk. Checking in late at 11pm and they were outside blowing leaves to clear the walkway for guests. It was cold and rainy as well. Would stay here again.

  • 1/5 Samuel B. 2 years ago on Google
    Room smelled of cigarettes and mold, had to spray febreeze and keep the door open while we were there. It was unbearable. I love motel 6, we’ve been staying at these motels on every road trip and I’ve never had an issue but this one is terrible. It’s a motel, you don’t expect much but the very least is that it’s clean and it doesn’t smell. There were also cigarette burns on the blanket and dirt everywhere. Motel 6 is a great company but stay away from this location. Not clean at all…

  • 1/5 Lexa 2 years ago on Google
    By far the worst motel room I’ve ever stayed in. Never have I left in the middle of the night because I could no longer stand being in a room. The floor was sticky as well as every surface in there, including the toilet seat. There was bugs crawling out of the bathtub and there were several large holes in the bathroom itself. There wasn’t a single towel in the bathroom, nor was there a shower curtain. The blanket was covered in blood stains. The worst part of it all was the heavy chemical smell in the room that got worse once I laid in the bed. The mattress and the sheets reeked of heavy duty chemicals that gave me a really bad headache. My headache go so bad I couldn’t sleep so I left and tried to check out. There was no employee in the lobby for me to check out with and get at least a partial refund. I ended up leaving my key and going up the street and checking into a much nicer hotel that was only $20 more (Quality Inn)!It was worth leaving. Don’t stay here!!!

  • 1/5 Milly W. 9 months ago on Google
    Check-in via a window outside in HOT sun. Hotel room smells badly. Beddings are dusty. Aircon is too noisy. Hotel next to tram line that runs all night - v noisy - difficult to get good night’s sleep. Hotel rooms & Aircon needs renovations & upgrade badly !


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