Days Inn Dubuque

My company booked here, for a couple of weeks.
The rooms are pretty sizable with double beds, TVs, mini fridge. Rooms are not the cleanest, but nicely maintained.
Free continental breakfast every morning is plentiful and decent quality, all in a large dinning area.
They also have a pool, and a bar & grill., which I didn’t get the chance to try.
Front desk staff is helpful and nice. This Hotel is not bad at all.

Absolute worst. Booked rooms here for a funeral and they were substandard at best! Toilet was broken room smelled horrible! Asked the lady at the the front desk for a list of taxis and an extra blanket in case a family member had to stay and all she gave a crap about was the 10 dollars for an extra guest. By the way she charged me even though she didn’t even have an extra cott for the guest that I may have! She billed my credit card before I even made it back to my room. She actually didn’t even care if the guest was gonna stay or not! Billed me anyways! Hate this place and the woman at the front desk can kiss my ass. Never ever ever would I ever ever stay here again ever! I will sleep on the street before giving my money to this outdated extremely rude establishment! But hey, they don’t even know what Unilocal is so whatever. STAY AWAY AT All COST!!!

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the manager called me a Nast names. The manager never once worked with me to change my stay or offer to help

On their best day, this would be a 2 star hotel. Unfortunately, surly staff, agressive & rude owners combined with rooms that look like a 1970’s Holiday Inn make it a 1 star for me.
Pros:
Cheap BASE PRICE
Free continental breakfast
Adequate location
Cons:
Surly, lazy, unprofessional staff
Very distasteful & unprofessional owners (probably explains employees attitudes)
Cannot fulfill the simplest requests
Noise from highway pretty bad
Rooms basically clean but carpets and bedding have seen better days
Between the two of us, we’ve easily stayed 500 nights in hotels across North America, Europe & Africa. Our stay here Nov 2014 was the first time either of us has felt compelled to send a formal complaint to a hotels head office. When discussing a minor disagreement with the owners wife, the owner got belligerent with me and tried to goad me into a physical fight. After I laughed at him and told him to sit back down, he put his hands on my wife in an aggressive manor to escort her out. He’s very lucky I did not see this live… because I was busy recording the entire proceedings on my smartphone. So ya Ronnie boy, go ahead and try and deny this one, I have video.
Read the other complaints on the 2 main review sites (this one and the other one), all the bad you read is fact. We witnessed it first hand. Rude and lazy staff on the phone. Incompetent at check in. Obnoxious foul mouth at check out. Lazy bar staff playing darts on shift and shirking their duties. Nasty «lunch lady» in breakfast room, unreasonable owners that don’t listen, don’t understand, and clearly believe they are above the law. The only positives I will say about the place is; It’s cheap (until they start trying to add fees that were not agreed to on reservation or checkin) and the housekeeping staff seemed good.
Best Western & Holiday In are MUCH better hotel options in Dubuque. Yes you will pay more, but you’ll have a much more enjoyable stay.

I am staying here so my daughter can visit Clarke University. I chose this place because of the price and the proximity to the college. While the food and bar was good, the room is hot, like 80+ degrees hot. When I told the lady working the front desk she was nice enough to give ma a box fan, but told me she couldn’t swap rooms for me because they are all sold out for Thus, Fri & Sat. WTF? I am here now and leaving Saturday and she can’t move me to a room with AC? Not staying here again nor would I recommend anyone stay here. Spend a little more for customer service and an updated room.

Pricey for the stay DON’T GO stay elsewhere 6 rooms around us were loud & slamming doors for HOURS! Sure front desk at check out said why didn’t you call On 6 rooms? How many drunks were they going to take on? at 80 a night pay a lil extra or go through hotwire & get a deal for a better hotel. The rooms are closets & the walls are paper thin. If you expect to sleep go someplace else if you want to drink & party just follow the glowing drunks palm trees.

The facilities were rundown, but I can live with that. What I can’t live with, however, is returning to the hotel at 11:00 pm, from a wedding, to be greeted by two intoxicated men standing outside my room that was wide open with all the lights on. Apparently the intoxicated men had been checked into my room and given keys. After notifying the front desk that they had been given the wrong room (which they claim to only have noticed after they walked past my purse, my bag, my book, my clothes, and discovered my tampons), no one contacted me or even bothered to close the door. I have never felt so violated or vulnerable. The management’s response was beyond reprehensible. They said they’d leave the owner a note in the morning. If you value your possessions and/​or safety, don’t go near this place. The Marriott was a welcomed relief!

So far the drink was good and food looks good to! They have live music in the bar pretty cool. My room is not bad either.

A pleasant surprise in Dubuque! Like all Days Inn properties, this started out life as something else. I last stayed here during the Reagan Administration when this was a Holiday Inn. If you look closely, you can see the tell-​tale signs of its Holiday Inn days, but it matters little. This is a family owned and operated motel.
The Days Inn Dubuque is an old-​style motel, with outside entrances to each room. My room was large and comfortable. Amenities included a refrigerator, microwave, full-​length mirror, digital flat-​screen, a desk and chair, coffee pot, side chair and a comfortable king size bed. The old heater/​air conditioner has been upgraded to a modern digital unit. And yes, they have WiFi.
This is a large property, spread out on a shelf cut into the bluff, overlooking highway 20. (Take the Hill Street exit and look for the palm trees. Seriously. Palm trees in Dubuque.)
The property is divided into four buildings, first one is the lounge, breakfast and office and the remaining three of them are lodging. The three buildings each have a WiFi hub, so unless some moron is streaming a movie, there should be enough bandwidth for everyone.
In the heyday of the Holiday Inn, the bigger ones (like this one) had restaurants and lounges. At this Days Inn, the lounge is still there and operating, but the restaurant has been relegated to breakfast duty. Like almost all lodging these days, a good breakfast with a wide selection is included in a very attractive rate.
So all this was forty eight bucks. This Days Inn packs a lot of value for $ 48,00, so it will be my lodging of choice when I’m passing through Dubuque.

Our family stayed there for a month and the staff were very friendly. Best place to stay for the money. Try finding another place to stay that includes PETS, refreigerator and microwave, free breakfast and doesn’t break the bank. They have a weekly and monthly rate. Unless your a snob and need fancy new stuff in the room to make you feel like a Queen, this is the best place to stay. It was clean and had what we needed for a family of four.

OMG!!! I am actually going here for four days here starting Saturday 7÷8÷12. What have i got myself into (writer shakes his head in disbelief). Thanks to the reviews i know to get a room away from the highway, and nearer to the office. Also i will bring my own pillows and egg crates to put on top of the bed. will have a review later next week.
Okay I am here now. Seriously guys this is not the Marriott or embassy suites. this hotel kind of reminds me of the days when i was a kid, when my family traveled cross country and stayed at holiday inns (which is what this hotel was before it’s present name). the rustic décor is much more stimulating than the «modern art» crap you see in way too many hotels nowadays. I have found out from management here that all of the mattresses were recently replaced, and they are firm, but people with bad backs will greatly appreciate them. The rooms was properly furnished, and the shower was hot. I was told that building #2 here is utilizing the old boiler/​chilled water system, so on weekends with the kids that come to participate in the tournaments (ie; soccer) the families pile the kids in the rooms and their is alot of opening and shutting of the doors. which brings the temp up a little bit. I was told they are getting a higher capacity system real soon, but if you want to whine about it you should specifically request to be placed in either bldg #1 or #3 where each room is individually air conditioned. as far as the noise goes, one side faces out to a 4 lane hwy (route 20) so if the noise bothers you ask for a room on the other side of the hotel, which faces a 25 foot rock cliff. oh yeah don’t expect to check in late on a Friday and get a choice room. they have rooms here that are specifically ‘no smoking/​pet free rooms and if you do either they will charge you to deodorizing the room. Really the place is what you would expect from a days inn, red roof inn and Ramada inn. it is a mid range hotel and not a sleazy crack head hotel. judge for yourself and not just other peoples opinion alone.

For $ 48.00 we got a one night stay with breakfast.
The rooms were old and are in need of updating. Because this hotel has rooms in which patrons can smoke and bring their pets in, its smells and also attracts a varied crowd. Our room was not available for immediate check in. We were offerred immediate check in if we’d switch our room type which we declined. So we went to our next activity and later got the room we booked.
The room was not very clean. Fingerprints were still on the mirrors. The bed made us itchy — yucko!!!
This hotel is right off the highway exit, and all night we heard loud trucks hitting bumps in the road and several times emergency vehicles going by.
The amenities in the room were nice and so was the breakfast. This gave it an extra point, else it’d be a 1 star. I would not choose to stay here again.

I have stayed here twice now and find it clean and comfortable, but the walls are paper thin so hope you have neighbors that are quiet and all will be good, a nice Bar near the lobby to Quench that thirst and an ok free breakfast

I am actually currently staying here at the moment.
The Days Inn in Dubuque isn’t a bad place. They have weekly and monthly deals which are a lot cheaper than other places. I believe there are not many other places that offer weekly and monthly deals around here that are reasonably cheaper than other inns/​hotels.
The majority of the time, the sink and counter is outside of the toilet/​shower area, but there was one room that had the sink within the toile area. From what the front counter said, the majority of the rooms have a refrigerator and a microwave. That is my favorite thing about this place, so if I have left overs, I can eat them later on. :P Overall, the rooms are a small nice place to stay in.
The only negatives I have about this place is the fact that the walls seem thin. The Days Inn also provide a restaurant and a bar. During the holidays, sometimes it seems to get a bit loud outside to the point where you can literally hear people’s conversations. :D
Secondly, I think the bed is a bit hard. It feels like the longer I stay here, the less and less sleep I get. It also seems that I can feel every move my boyfriend makes throughout the night, which wakes me up a bit. According to him, it’s the same when I move. At first feel, the pillows feel extremely soft and comfortable, but like what Victoria H says, I think one pillow is not enough, yet two pillows is just way too much.
I have not eaten in their restaurant nor drank at their bar, or eaten breakfast in the morning here so I cannot make any comments on that.

We booked a room a few hours before checking in — on Fourth of July nevertheless. I did it online, so the whole process couldn’t have been easier. We checked in around 9pm and went straight to our room.
The room is nice. Small, but enough for 1 night’s sleep. The beds are, well, felt more like «between a rock and a hardplace». The mattress was so incredibly hard. The pillows were very firm, but I felt like 1 wasn’t enough and 2 were too much.
The breakfast was nice. There are juices, bagels, doughnuts, coffee, and waffles.