Motel 6

Stay away! Listen you your girlfriend or wife when they tell you not to go. She was right! This place is nasty, smell is bad. There is a giant Crack between the door and doorframe we seen what looks like blood stains on the box spring. Constant banging from room all around us. The bathroom smells like pee. Cigarette burn in the blankets. Dirty pillow cases. The only pro is that the heat works good. But just stay away from this place. Sleep in your car rather than staying here.

Avoid this place! You may not pay much to stay here but you don’t deserve the experience at such a small cost

I felt like an episode of COPS was about to break out any second. Was in town for a Phish show and ended up driving home cause it was just too sketchy. There’s obviously a prostitution presence, with girls coming and going being picked up and dropped off by pimps. Room looked like a war zone.

Disgusting place to stay. Unless you’re using the room for a super cheap place to party all night, do not come here. My mom, sister, and I came here for the night on our way home from Florida and felt so unsafe that we left around 3am and went to a rest stop to sleep in the car. Also, there was no fridge, elevator was broken, blood/​urine spots on carpeting. The lobby looked like a prison check in and people roam around all night long and were very noisy. The ONLY good thing I can say about this place is that the wifi was fast.
Ps. My mom, sister, and I are still itchy from the whole experience. There are definitely bugs crawling around in there.

I got stuck here for 3 nights after a recent mishap with having to rebook a flight out of RDU. After a little investigating, it turns out that this particular Motel 6 location had previously been a Rodeway Inn.
The Pros:
1. Since it was previously a Rodeway Inn, the rooms were a lot larger than something you’d see at a normal Motel 6, and had upgraded amenities such as real blankets, real bedspreads, a full-​sized bathtub/​shower instead of the mainstream «space capsule shower stall,» etc.
2. Lightning fast wifi, and free.
3. As I had to check in at 6 am on a Friday, the front desk clerk was kind enough not to charge me any extra, and I was still able to utilize my normal 10% off Corporate Plus discount code.
4. The property was three levels with exterior corridors as well as an interior elevator. Other features included a huge lobby with several sofas.
The Cons:
1. It resided in what appeared to be an extremely unsafe area, although right at the intersection of Capital Blvd. and the Beltline, which was a nice, safe area many years ago. At not even 12 noon on the day of my check-​in, there was widespread police activity going on in the parking lot and property. I saw police officials literally knocking on several room doors, and I myself was asked for ID by a police officer, along with a few questions regarding whether or not I had seen any suspicious activity in a nearby parked vehicle while I was outside my room waiting for a cab to arrive. The police recorded my ID information and continued to question what I was doing there, which cab company I called, how long I had been waiting outside, etc. I got an extremely bad vibe from the whole thing. Not to mention more thug types wandering around and about on the property than I’d ever seen at any other Motel 6 location I’ve ever stayed in! The Motel 6 chain is pretty notorious for being attached with characteristics such as these for the most part, but this place was just downright spooky — and that’s coming from a guy with a German Shepherd!
2. The front desk clerk, although he was nice enough to let me check in at 6 am on the day of arrival, practically demanded a tip for his «generosity.» Not cool!
3. I found it extremely bizarre that my room didn’t have a telephone, although I didn’t need one. After mentioning this to the front desk, mainly to ensure I wouldn’t get charged or blamed for a missing telephone, I got a simple «oh, a lot of our rooms don’t have telephones.» I wasn’t sure if it had to do with the rebranding process or if was something else, but still really strange.
4. There were huge chunks of the popcorn ceiling that had fallen off, exposing the concrete underneath.
5. The occupants in the room above me must’ve been doing the nasty, because their bed wouldn’t stop squeaking for the entire three days I was there.
6. The credit card machines and printers at the front desk were operating at a tremendously slow pace. It took several minutes of waiting around to get printed receipts for anything.
Although there weren’t any major problems with the room itself, due to all the riff-​raff going on, I can’t really recommend this place. Go down the Beltline a couple of exits, and hopefully, you’ll have better luck there.