Motel 6

You may think that my one-​star review of this Motel 6 is simply unreasonable. After all, it is a value chain that primarily focuses on providing the barest of necessities. Unfortunately, this one-​star review has already been adjusted to scale and would be zero-​stars, were that possible. Alas, one star will have to do!
Do you enjoy a functioning air conditioning unit in your motel room? This Motel 6 may not be for you.
Were you expecting your non-​smoking room to not smell like cigarette smoke? This Motel 6 may not be for you.
What is a reasonable color to expect your white tile shower floor to be? Unless your answer is yellow, this Motel 6 may not be for you.
Do you like dirty rooms that appear to have been cleaned only to the extent that a cleaning cart replaced your towels and bedsheets? Well, you may have found your preferred Motel 6.
The staff tried their very best to put lipstick on this pig, but unfortunately a polished turd is still just feces. My recommendations is to avoid this particular Motel 6, and to not let your mother reserve a hotel room for you and your father as you travel towards Denver.

I was in the room for 5 minutes before finding a different hotel. The room was dirty, smelled like cigarettes (despite being «non-​smoking»), and I did not feel safe in the area at all. I know Motel 6 isn’t exactly a nice hotel, but at minimum I expected it to be clean and actually be smoke free. BUT, the staff and manager were really sweet, and refunded me with no issues.

I booked a stay for 6 nights here & only made it thru 30 minutes. As soon as I walked in the first thing I noticed was the smell. Although I reserved a non-​smoking room, the room was very muggy & smelt like smoke. The A/​C was on very low & the rooms aren’t individually controlled. I looked at the vent & it was coated with black dust — i’m assuming it was never cleaned. The neighborhood seemed very sketchy & after reading more reviews, I decided to go elsewhere.

Yeah the employees here were really nice but it’s a shithole to put it nicely. The guy I spoke to when I checked in was really friendly and nice but that was the only good part of my one night stay. I was reserved for 8 nights but moved out of there after the first night. One, the drains didn’t drain in the shower or sink. Two, the place smelled bad unlike the clean Fairfield inn smells like that I went to instead of motel 6. The place just felt kinda dirty and I felt the need to check everything for cleanliness which you shouldn’t have to do in a hotel or motel that you spend 700 $ on for a tiny room. You could tell where the door had been busted through before (probably by cops or angry drug dealers) because it didn’t close right and the dead bolt lock was broken off the door. The walls are paper thin, lots of shady people in the lobby area. I didn’t feel safe leaving my girlfriend there during the day while I was at work so we checked out immediately. On a good note, they did not hesitate to refund me my money for the rest of the nights. Overall, I’d rather sleep sitting up in my chevy all week than stay here.

It’s like sleeping inside of a giant cigarette. I don’t know too many motels that put ash trays in non-​smoking rooms. I do know, however, that it encourages smokers to smoke inside the non-​smoking rooms because the smell was intense. This, of course, is in spite of the fact that Motel 6 tried really hard to encourage people to not smoke in a non-​smoking room by putting a no-​smoking sign on an ash tray. Putting a no-​smoking sign on an ash tray baffles me so much that I’m posting a picture of it so you can believe it. No, it wasn’t photoshopped. Somebody actually put a no-​smoking sign on an ash tray. And it obviously didn’t work. On the plus side, anybody who tried to break in would get caught because they’d fall to the floor coughing.

They wanted to charge me an extra day to check in a noon.
They said check in is 4 PM. This is NON-​standard for the Motel 6 chain.

After a long day of driving I got into Denver well after one A.M. and decided instead of calling any local friends at such a late hour a real bed would be much better than a couch. The ladies who were working were both genuinely nice and friendly.
I was given a room, the first keys I was given did not open the room door. The second batch of keys did, reluctantly, but I was entirely unprepared for the condition of the room. First off I was hit in the face with a stench of stale smoke and B.O., the beds were turned on their sides and up against the walls with no sign of sheets. There were old pizza boxes, assorted garbage, and what looked like trash bags full of clothes all over the room.
After a the shock of the condition of the room had set in and settled a little I backed away and returned to the front desk baffled. Again the ladies were helpful and one even went to test the keys and check the condition of the next room assigned to me. Which was a room in much better order. But, for a non-​smoking room it was still drenched in the smell of cigarettes. There was even an ashtray on the night stand with ash in it. One of the two beds (there were no single rooms available) had ash a layer of ash on it as well as singeing from when that ash had been warm. The other bed was ash free but both were made with crumpled sheets. The no longer white pillows or sheets under those top blankets were also less than inviting. The bathroom of that room had a septic smell, a shower and toilet that were in need of a scrub, and the wall were covered in a layer of assorted grimes.
So with a quick inspection of the room complete it was clear that no matter how nice the desk staff was the cleaning crew wasn’t on the level. More importantly it was clear that I was not going to sleep in that motel. So I bit the bullet, made a call, left the motel perfectly willing to accept that the cost of the room was the price I was willing to paying to not have to sleep there, and crashed on the clean sofa of a groggy friend.

I stayed here for two nights midweek upon moving to the Denver area. I was pretty blown away with the modernized rooms, as it was my first time staying in one — orange walls, hardwood floors, a flat panel TV, wooden chairs, and a real shower curtain in the shower stall. The front desk managers were really friendly, and the property appeared to be very well cared for. Denny’s and a Conoco station were located right next door within walking distance. The only downfall was that there was major reconstruction of the entry road going on, which held up traffic a bit, but I can’t fault the motel for this.
Definitely recommend. Pretty upscale, for a Motel 6. Be advised that it’s one of the boiler/​5 pipe setups for central heating and a/​c, which means that you can usually either get one or the other, but not both — something to consider in the off seasons where it might be hard to control the temperature of your room.

Cheap. Pet friendly. No pet deposit or additional payment. Smelled like smoke and bare bones. But our room was very clean and the staff was accommodating and friendly. You get what you pay for. For $ 40 in 2013, we were not expecting the Ritz, weren’t even expecting the comfort inn!

Ah Motel 6, so famous for their many locations and boring commercials.
I’m sure they vary from place to place, but it seems that I got the shortest end of the stick. The room came with two beds, but these were two of the smallest beds I’ve seen in a motel room. The sheets were suspect, but the worst part was that there was a smokey smell and flies flying around the place. I was also unsure whether the door properly locked most of the time.
One time I was coming back to the motel and there were two cops outside dealing with some shady people (s). That did not help my impression.