Value Inn – Milwaukee South

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My wife and I were passing through Milwaukee on our way to a wedding in northern Wisconsin, so I went online and made us a reservation for two adults plus one infant. We showed up to the hotel around 10:30, after a very long day, and checked in. I asked if the crib or pack and play or whatever was in the room, or if I needed to take it. «We’ve never had anyone ask for anything like that,» the clerk said. Awesome.
So I pulled around to our room and opened the door to our non-​smoking room. The room reeked of cigarette smoke, and was none too clean, either. My wife looked around the room, turned to me, and said that she was not putting the baby down to crawl around the floor. I heartily agreed. The furniture was old and battered, and there were cigarette burns in the linoleum. The sheets were clean, though, and the shower worked, so that’s a plus. Oh, and they did have free wifi, so, there you go.
Look, I’m not picky, and if I were by myself, for $ 56 it’d be an okay place to sleep, I guess – I mean, compared to camping out in my car at a rest stop, at least. But even for a budget hotel it was run-​down.
My favorite part of the room: I went into the bathroom, and there on the doorframe, mounted right by the toilet, was a bottle opener. I told that to a friend from Wisconsin, and he thought that sounded about right. My guess, based on the teens or college-​age kids outside their rooms smoking, is that about 49% of its business is from truckers and 49% from kids wanting a place to party, with the remaining 2% being people like me who saw the price and said, «Well, how bad can it be?» That’s just a guess, though.

Good value, clean room, free coffee, inet. Fan in bathroom very loud. Would stay again.

Cigarette burn holes are everywhere and the floor is dirty. The room has serious mildew smell when we entered the room. This is way worse than the camping site we usually stayed.

My SO and I stayed here over Christmas and then again this weekend. The differences were noticed. First off the check in lady said if anything was satisfactory to let them know since they are attempting to clean up the hotel and their image. Awesome. The linens were clean looking and smelled like fresh cotton much different from Christmas when they looked unwashed. The room had been completely cleaned and dusted. Yes the outdated furniture is still around and you can still hear your neighbors when they’re being loud but for $ 50 what do you expect? We enjoyed our stay especially since we were only using the hotel as a cheap place to stay while visiting my family.

The guests in the room next door, have all their linens & blankets sprawled out on the sidewalk in front of their room… Who am I to judge? Maybe they’ve got the right idea, to basically camp outside, instead of physically spending the night inside this wretched room here in Shady-​Ville, USA…
Man, they are really letting this place go down a sad sad path with an excruciatingly long death. It’s painful.
It’s like that trashy ghettoy place you always see in movies when shady deals go down, but it almost always ends in someone getting shot, or sketcky hookers werk it, or some altercation causes some victim of this place to meet a fierce death.
Seriously rhis place gives me the creeps.
I just hope we don’t catch any nasty hitchhikers outta this place and into our bags, ie Bed Bugs or something unimaginable like that *double shivers of disgust*
Pros/​Cons:
–Paper thin walls, can hear the drunk neighbors and the neighboring crying baby
–Nasty greey shag carpet, with DNA from the room’s past residents… hair & skin chunks, and what looks to be feces smeared in the toilet room wall… I showered with flip-​flopa on, for fear of catching some strange infecrion or fungus here… seriously I would strongly urge you not to walk around barefoot in here.
–Horrid smokey-​dingy stench, with cigarette burn holes to match
–the A/​C unit is gut wrenching withnthe STANK waves raging out when that beast kicks on *shivers in disgush, not temperature*
+I do like that the layout is set where the toilet and the shower are in one separate area, with the capability to shut the door, but you’re not hogging up the vanity area, so others can use the sink/​mirror area to. get ready while someone can be secluded in the shower or on toilet time
+They DO actually have a decent refrigerator amd a mini-​microwave, which no matter the star level of hotel/​motel/​Inn, I feel that is a rarity and most places can’t or won’t supply you unless you have a medical necessity.
–Tiny beds, tiny flat pilows, w/​no extras, just 1 oer person basically. Apparently you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.
–Slacking on oulets … anything near the bed would be nice… I am always needing to charge SOMETHING, and I don’t want the outlets in nonsensical locations when I want to lie in bed and Unilocal (I say this as my phone is almost dead, because of this issie… first world problems, I know.)
–Nothing at all offered for breakfast, not a one banana, or granola bar, not crackers, norhing.
This place gives me. the heebie-​jeebies, and the feeling like it’s only partially, kina-​sorta cleanish… and the foul smelling A/​C \ HEAT unit, seems like it’s goinf ro get me sick, I can just feel it happening…
Maybe I should do like the neighbors are doing, and grab the blankets and take my chances outside… the crisp night air would certainly be a welcomed change. To whatever recycled air mixed with weird human skin dust and hair that is pumping out now, into my face, and my lungs.
Grossss
This whole place is just dingy, cheap, and it makes you feel awkward to be here.
Please don’t stay here, save yourself the grossfactor activation.

The website for this hotel was misconceiving. It made the rooms look clean and updated. When I arrived, I realized this used to be the Knight’s Inn, which was a total flea bag.
The price was about as cheap as you’re going to find in that area, due to the lake close by, etc. One room, one night was $ 56 with tax. They had a note on their that there was a pet fee for $ 15/​pet per night. Um, no. I did not declare my dog.
The improvements are a fridge and microwave, and the mattresses are pretty new, i.e. no stains like when it was a Knight’s Inn. Some of those looked like someone had been murdered on the bed.
The first thing I did was check for bedbugs, and that was clear. The TV is old, the carpet is dirty and they don’t clean the corners, so crumbs by the bed and wall. The bathroom was in desperate need of a re-​do, and the room stank of smoke even though it was suppose to be smoke free.
There are some positive notes though. This hotel is where the truck drivers stay, they are friendly, and keep watch in the area, so no trouble with people breaking into your car. They even offered me some dinner from their grill.
It is also quiet there, I didn’t have screaming kids waking me up all night, or people partying.
So if you want cheap, but no «Taj Mahal» this place is ok. It’s even with a Motel 6, but does have the added appliances and a hair dryer.
They also give you actual keys, not door cards, and you can open the window all the way and it has a screen.