Microtel Inn & Suites Ann Arbor/Plymouth Road

Hotel is very noisy with people next door to your room. We’ve stayed here numerous times and had to deal with disruptive people either next door or above. Calling the front desk to ask them to deal with it is a total joke as they just ignore you. The hotel is clean and seems recently updated.

This hotel was fine. The room was clean but smelled vaguely of old cigarettes. The complimentary breakfast buffet was reasonable and the staff was very efficient.

Their showers are substandard. Due to water saver shower heads, the water flow is almost like a mist – something like a watering can for gardening. The mgmt will say they are conserving water, but the cost to do it right would be minimal. And it doesn’t really save water, you just end up taking a longer, less satisfying shower. If you run the shower to fill it, it takes roughly 22 minutes to fill the bathtub. So that should give you an idea about how weak the pressure is. One star for lack of mindfulness on the part of the management. Try the Holiday Inn 200 meters away-​showers there are adequate and that’s all we’re asking for.

If you want a cheap and clean place to stay overnight, this is the place. This hotel is very hard to find due to the fact that there is very little signage and it is hidden behind the Holiday Inn Hotel. Once found parking was amble and available right in front. Most Microtels are built the same, so where ever you go, you pretty much know what you are getting.
The two things that they offer to guests, free WiFi and breakfast have a lot to be desired. The wifi in the rooms is almost useless with almost no signal strength. And the free breakfast is nothing more than starch and sugar. Found out the coffee served is not fresh brewed, but some coffee slurry that is just mixed with hot water.
One important thing to keep in mind as some other reviews mentioned, is that this place is very noisy. The hotel backs up to the interstate and you can hear cars and trucks all day and night. Plus the noise from room to room is unbelievable.

Room was very clean. We had a suite, which on the weekend of the Art Fair, booking through Expedia was only $ 82.00! A steal! Was a spacious suite for the money, didn’t go in expecting much, but they exceeded out expectations! Would stay there again. They don’t have a pool, and the walls are a bit thin, which is why they didn’t get a 5 Star from us.

I’m surprised at all the negative reviews; I had a perfectly pleasant experience during my two nights staying here. Admittedly I wasn’t looking for much in the way of amenities — the continental breakfast and free WiFi, the free campus shuttle and pickup, and HBO were all pluses — since I spent all day doing research at the nearby UMich library. Still, the room was clean, the breakfast sufficient, the shuttle exceedingly convenient, and the staff, overall, extremely pleasant and efficient. I dropped a star because of a singularly unpleasant interaction I had with one front desk person, who made it seem like scheduling the campus shuttle service was the biggest hassle known to man.

This hotel does not seem to have the best of reputations, but from my experience, I think it is a good stay. While a bit small, my room was clean and well-​furnished, with plenty of lights. The breakfast is sufficient, with nothing noteworthy. Just note that the hotel is right next to the highway, and there aren’t many signs pointing here.

All three hotels in the same lot suffer from the same problem-​a dinky little sign announcing where they are! Plymouth is a busy street and technically you cant make U-​turns etc on it, we drove by the unassuming entrance twice! Not the hotels fault, I’m sure it drives them nuts too, Just an FYI.
Our room was fine, clean, plenty of amenities. We only use hotel rooms to sleep in and shower, so it served that purpose. The walls DID seem thin, you could hear vacuums going in other rooms, some stomping, but it was quiet at night. Wake up before 10AM, people, if you don’t want to be bothered by noise (I’m rolling my eyes…)
Here’s my beef. True story.
Our last night there, I developed a very serious migraine. Pounding headache, one of the worst I’ve ever had. It was 2AM, we had to be up at 5AM to leave for our flight. I went down to the front desk, the guy was outside smoking or on the phone. He came in after a few minutes, I asked about pain relievers. Figured they’d have travel packs at the desk, just as they would shampoo, toothpaste etc. He said they did not, and personally he didnt have any either. He said they may have some in the 2^nd or 3^rd floor vending. So I had to travel and check the machines. Nothing.
So basically, at 2:30 AM with a splitting, blinding headache, I had to go out to travel and find an open store to buy a pain reliever, in an area I was unfamiliar with.
My expectations aren’t THAT high for budget hotel rooms. Be clean, be convenient, be easy to get to. 1 out of 3

The whole point of a hotel is that you pay money in order to sleep, correct? Because you’re certainly not paying for the atmosphere. Not at this place, with its grand total of two – two! – low-​light fluorescents. I’ve never stayed at a hotel so cheap, so ghetto, that they didn’t even bother to put a lamp by the beds. And you’re going to need one, because you definitely won’t get much sleep here. Unless you like drifting off to the screaming of jake brakes, the horrible grinding truck-​braking noise that will be your lullaby, all night long, at this place.
There are plenty of hotels in Ann Arbor that don’t force you to sleep in the middle of four lanes of highway. Unless you’re flat broke, stay at one of those instead.

It is what I expected. Room are small but clean and confortable. Great stay for this price. I’ll stay in Microhotel again

Okay people let me give you the REAL deal since CLEARLY these previous reviewer are INSANE!!! When is comes to a place to stay BEST bang for your buck this is it!!! Unless you REALLY want to swim??? Really??? Yes, the Holiday Inn is next door it has a pool and a restaurant… the pool is nasty and the restaurant food is over priced and nasty… the front of the building looks newer but the rooms are old and nasty… high priced… nastiness…which is why I moved to the Microtel
MICROTEL REVIEW… GREAT STAY. GOOD PRICE. CLEAN ROOM. Yes the room are smaller. It is an economy hotel people (what is your IQ??? MY GOD)! The walls are thinner (IQ?!) so you might hear your neighbors… if it bothers you… call downstairs bc they have a GREAT STAFF and are staffed 24 hours. They told me this at check in which was super friendly and super speedy. I, however, had no problems my entire stay. I could hear some noise during the day. However, I am not totally up tight so it really didn’t bother me.
They have a FULL MEMBERSHIP to an awesome gym across the street that’s open 24 hours which was pretty cool. If you can’t walk to a gym that is just silly… you are going to work OUT LOL!!! It’s not a huge place but the machines are new and really state of the art. It’s also in a really safe area and most of the time I walked over.
I stayed for almost 2 weeks. I found that the free shuttle service during the week was awesome Rick and Owen the shuttle drivers helped me get all over town! They don’t charge you anything to drive you around Ann Arbor dropping you off and picking you up as a guest. But I have to say since I stayed so long I got to notice a lot of other guests and I must say — if you are using a FREE service the LEAST you can do is TIP your driver because otherwise you look SO CHEAP!
The internet Wifi is also free. But again its an economy hotel with GREAT RATES!!! So if it is SLOW or you can’t get on… just let the staff know!!! They will always help you! I had no problems my WHOLE STAY! If I couldn’t get on STAFF FIXED IT!!!
Free Fax and Copy, Free Printing, the breakfast was clean and for a FREE CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST it was pretty nice AGAIN AT THE PRICE IT WAS NICE!!! REMEMBER WHAT YOUR RATE IS!!!
Housekeeping was in my room EVERYDAY I never put anything away and NOTHING ever came up missing EVER! Those people did a great job and were honest and friendly! This is honestly one of the CLEANEST locations I have ever stayed at. Joy the manager is on TOP of her staff making sure that everything is done correctly. You constantly see Omar the supervising housekeeper checking on his staff as well. It is good to see such a well managed team.
I would recommend this place to anyone for a 1 night or long term stay!

Exactly what I expected. We booked Microtel as it was pretty inexpensive, easy to navigate to and from, and reviews indicated it was decent enough.
The rooms are «micro» but fine if you’re just going to be sleeping in them. Room has little fridge and microwave. We had leftover kimchi fries from Seoul Street that were too delicious to toss so we took them back to the room for later. The microwave is curiously noisy but heated them up just fine.
The continental breakfast is fine but really nothing special. A few pastries, bagels, cereal, and fruit.
My iPad, and my partner’s Nexus, had a hell of a time connecting to and staying connected to the free wifi. Since we wanted to watch Netflix, it wasn’t the end of the world; had we needed to work it would have been a problem.
Would stay again if keeping to a budget.

I won’t come back here. Sure it’s decent and not expensive. My iPhone was stolen by one of the staff. The situation made it really clear that one of the staff stole it because I called to ask about the phone and then WITHIN minutes miraculously the phone got turned off so I couldn’t track it. Then they insisted that they couldn’t find it and that I must of lost it somewhere else– she even blamed the other guests but I had it in my hotel room and KNOW I accidentally left it there because I was *nowhere else* that AM other than my car and that room– I even recall where I put it down in the room. Then found the manager extremely defensive and unwilling to even attempt to consider that her staff took my phone. She insisted that they didn’t want it and that they had a box of them, but it’s still worth $ 400. I am not quick to jump to accusing someone but it was so obvious that it was stolen minutes after I called to inquire after I tracked it to the location in the hotel.
So if you stay here watch your stuff and know that there is a sticky fingers running around and don’t expect the manager to be helpful if they take something from your room. Just make sure that you keep your valuables locked away in your car or with your person! Needless to say, I won’t go to this microtel again and will pay for the pool next door at the HolidayInn or stay closer to town. It wasn’t worth the $ 400 I lost at the end of the day. Pick somewhere else where your stuff will be safe.

This place isn’t bad. Rooms are decent. My family stayed here when I first came to Michigan.

We stayed at Microtel for a footaball weekend. It is by no means a luxury property, but it is VERY clean and comfortable and the staff is very helpful. Someone was always cleaning in the common areas. The TVs are old-​fashioned square ones, and the rooms are simply furnished, but I would recommend this place to anyone. And why is it that the cheap hotels give you free wifi and free breakfast? The 5-​star hotels I have visited charged a bag full of $$$ for each.

Decent, clean hotel. Free breakfast is simple but good (forget the coffee — it sucks!). Personally when staying for a few days I prefer the «suite» which is a little larger and has a fridge and microwave. Nice touch that you get access to the Anytime Fitness over the road. For $ 60 – 80 a night it’s OK. Don’t get a room facing the freeway — too much noise!

This is the 2^nd Microtel I’ve ever stayed in and the rooms are identical, down to the cushioned window seat. it is quite small and the lights are all an unpleasant florescent but I can’t really expect much more for $ 64 on a Thursday night (through
).
Check-​in lady was super nice.
You get 2 little bar soaps and 1 shampoo (no conditioner, lotion, or anything else).
Strongest shower head I’ve experienced in a long time.
Toilet reminds me of airplane toilets in that it sounded like a loud vacuum.
Complimentary wireless internet (slow).
Thin walls (I was woken up by my next door neighbor’s phone vibrating repeatedly from 2 – 2:30am…it was either an alarm he had set or someone trying to reach him badly).
Complimentary breakfast (didn’t get to try it).

Cheap/​ish. Tiny tiny tiny room… as in the bed was the entire room.
When I got there the computer system was down so they couldn’t even tell if I’d made a reservation or give me my special rate.
No workout room. They shared with another hotel across the parking lot so I had to bundle up in the snow just to go to use a few lousy treadmills.
Free shuttle to the hospital, which I turned into a free trip to town since the hotel is nowhere near anything.
Blah… would rather have paid a little mroe to stay in the cute town itself.