Motel 6

Got the room two hours after check-​in time, and not even an apology. Rooms are OK, not very clean, and sand flies in the pool area.

Metro Miami area was our last stop of the road trip… It took me two weeks to find a reasonable price lodging, I have stayed at other Motel 6 and never walked away with ill feeling… well that all changed after one night stay at this Motel 6.
When I booked, I saw the photos of the room… the photo showed clean, neat and well designed room, our original reservation was for 3 nights… We pulled up at 11:45pm, walked into the office (which was HOT) and checked in… got our key and went upstairs… after putting down our bags, etc, we ran out of space to walk around… the room was very small, one bed against the window/​ac unit and the other bad against the bathroom wall, in between the bed were probably 2 feet of space.
One wall mounted TV, a small table and two chairs. We were hungry and wanted to nuke our cup noodles, only to find that the rooms did not have a coffee maker or a microwave… had to take two bottles of water and the cup ramens to the office and use the microwave in the vending machine area.
Tried to sleep, but couldn’t due to the noise from the street and people walking back and forth in front of the door… got up, grabbed my phone and booked another hotel… we only stayed for one night, checked out the next day and got a refund for the remaining two days.

Booked online for $ 200, got here and the rack rate in the office was $ 106. Already paid so SOL. Too bad, so sad.
Otherwise: Nice room. Easy check in. Close to the airport.
DO NOT book through Expedia. Call direct and save $ 100.
The next morning we got up half an hour early to call the office to get us a cab. The office first said that their cab is outside about 10 minutes later. Then two minutes later they said oh there was no cab. Then 30 minutes later there was still no cab. So we called Über instead. This hotel is poorly run.

These people forgot to put towels in our room. When I called to complain, the front desk told me to come and pick these up. I realize it’s a motel, but there is certain level of service has to be provided. I’m really tired, want to go to sleep and doing their job is not something I paid money for.

This one is a little pricey for Motel 6 but that’s completely understandable considering the prices of all the other hotels in the area and in Miami.
This one is 10 minutes away from Fort Lauderdale airport which is very convenient, it is also few minutes drive to the beach which is great if you want to watch the sunrise, easy drive!
About the hotel, I booked earlier and when I went there, the staff is great! They are very helpful, informative and fun. All throughout up until I checked out, everyone is very courteous. The room I stayed in is very neat as well. This is by far the cleanest and nicest Motel 6 I’ve seen so I’m glad!
If you’re looking for an affordable motel close to the beach and still driveable to Miami, this is the best one.

Motel 6 has always been our go to motel due to then being pet friendly. This location makes you kennel the dog if you leave it in the room. They feel the need to check the rooms even if you don’t need service. The room here was the smallest we’ve ever seen at a motel 6. It smelled horrible & the floor was filthy. They have been newly remodeled, hard wood floors so no carpet.
For some reason the front desk called us every morning about 8 AM to be sure our stay was going good. Even after we requested they not call so early that we wanted to sleep in a little. Front desk said they had to call because we gave an email address when we made our reservation. Whatever that implies. Plenty of other hotels in that area for the same price.

Soon as I turned on lights to room, full of roaches crawling across bed and floors and walls. Disgusting. Roach INFESTED. Bad enough to ask for money back and sleep in car.

Just stayed here for one night before getting on a cruise. We knew it wasn’t the hilton but booked late and didn’t want to spend much for just one night.
Arrived to what we expected, old and slightly run down lobby. The front desk clerk that checked us in was nice and helpful. We got to the room and were instantly put off by a musty smell. We weren’t sure if that is just from Florida weather or what it was. The room was fine and had everything we needed for just one night. Probably wouldn’t stay there for longer than just one night though.

Ok my second day here just as bad as the first one! We stayed because we paid through expedia. My husband took the dog outside I was wondering why it was taking so long I got outside and the hotel was surrounded by the sheriff department. One of the men told me to get by the road I said whats going on, he yelled get the F over there unless you like getting shot! So now I feel like he made a threat at me so I will be following this with a call to the department. They spoke the same way to everyone. So along with bugs and criminals/​druggies this place is awful! Oh and not to mention it is AGAINST there policy to NOT come in your room! We asked for no housekeeping because our dog is in the room while we ran to the store we came back and out room card didn’t work, they said it was because of the pet alone which we had been told it was ok, and they said it’s policy that they come in to at least check. Which I think is BS, for the price you have to pay here you deserve privacy

Ok so a friend of mine was staying at this place waiting for her condo approval. Whoever heard of a curfew at night to come outside and enjoy a cigarette? Tis is Dania Beach! One of the busiest tourists cities there is If guests are keeping quiet and outside their own rooms that they are paying GOOD money for, not bothering a soul who is TOP FLIGHT security to say something? I would personally never stay at this hotel. Never any towels, security guard stalks the place, h and the best yet was the damn SWAT team coming in… looking for a murderer, which yes, they found. Don’t’ recommend. Plenty of cheaper, nicer and more open paces near by. AND WHO HAS EVER HEARD OF PAYING $ 3.17 A DAY FOR WIFI THAT YOU NEED A CODE FOR EVERY SINGLE DAY???

Staying momentarily due to last minute changes while awaiting flight check in. After checking around 9p, the room was ok but the customer service level could be improved. There was one towel/​wash cloth for a double occupancy room. People were very loud outside making it difficult to rest before travels.

Already best hotel 6 experience ever. Room looks far nicer than any thing I’ve experienced from a motel. Front desk gal was helpful as well, pretty dang good deal for being so close to the beach!

This was a layover until we went on our cruise. Area is kind of spooky at night and lots of people walking around motel all hours of the nite. Nearby places to eat the motel only tells you about some pizza places and asian and italian ones but 2 miles down the road on US 1 there are some great places to eat and shop, which I found out the next day. The rooms are basic with a full bath but who really takes a bath at a motel, showers for me only !
The young lady was very polite and internet was $ 3.00 for 24 hours and pretty fast. Beds were with 4 pillows and not to bad to sleep in clean sheets and cleaning of room was not with an overpowering cleaner. Would stay again if need to. Paid less than $ 55.00 for on night.

De passage au mois de mai 2012.
Hotel pas chère et bon état avec piscine
Je conseille pour faire des économies

Yep, for a Motel 6, and for where this is, it gets 4 stars.
I have stayed here off and on since a few years after graduating from college and beginning to vacation and discover the U.S., and into the recent past, though I have moved on to nicer digs as the years have gone by.
It is cheap, clean, and in a great location. It’s in Dania, a sleepy town known for its antique row, and on Dania Beach Blvd., where the A1A makes a perpendicular jog away from being parallel to the ocean, before making another northbound turn and taking you into Fort Lauderdale as Federal Highway. Other Motel 6s are west of I-​95 and in not so pleasant areas, for the most part.
Also, remember the pricing conventions. Winter is the high season, so all the rates in South Florida are higher. Summer is the low season, due to higher temperature and humidity, and being hurricane season, so the rates are pretty good. It’s funny how the locals mob the beaches in summer, and seemingly do less so in winter, when the conditions are STILL great for going to the beach.

Bug expert (of a kind) here.
I know bedbugs. Man oh man, do I know how bad bedbugs can be with one encounter while in the service long ago. Much worse than the leeches in Vietnam that left us a bloody mess looking like we had been in combat.
Fleas ain’t so great neither. Once we had to spread insecticide outside to get rid of an infestation.
I don’t understand the many complaints about fleas and even bedbugs at this motel. Can’t deny what others encountered. Both happen but my room for one night was sparkling clean, dirt cheap, quite pleasant, with a very accommodating desk clerk.
I would give the place 5 stars but, hey, it’s a Motel 6.
Best, Terry

Yeah this place is terrible. We checked in at the front paid $ 200ish for a week… no problem. We get to our room… not one towel in the place! So i had to go down to the front and ask for some towels. The dude hands me 4 smurf-​sized towels saying thats all they had. I was going to give him an earfull but i decided to let it go cause i was just too tired and hungry to deal with it. Got to my room, turned on the computer to surf the net… you have to pay an extra $ 3 for wifi. excuse me but i just paid $ 200 and now i have to pay extra for this. Give me a f!@#ing break! I agree with Phylicia, the sheets and pillows smelled like unbathed people.
The following day room service pounds on my door at like 10 am (come on most people are sleeping at that time), so i open the door and tell her i just need towels and to come back later. Actually get people-​size towels which was a relief. We left and came back about 10pm-​ish and to our surprise, no one cleaned our room. WTF! Then the next day wake up, come in late… once again no room service no towels. go down to the front desk, tell them the problem and the lady behind the desk has the nerve to tell me that if you stay for a week they clean only mondays and thursdays! again, WTF! I have never heard of such bs.
I don’t care how many monkeys they have in their backyard, I care most about service and they failed big time. I wouldn’t recommend this place to my worst enemy. Avoid Motel 6 at all cost!

Stayed here the night before a cruise that left out of ft. lauderdale and then the night we got back from the cruise.
There were 15 of us, so this was a cheap place to stay for the night.
The rooms were surprisingly clean.
Nice place to crash b4 a cruise.
Right next 2 the port.

Well, let me start with check-​in. I pulled out my Visa which was thrown back in my face, because the woman at the front desk saw a AAA logo in the corner and thought I was handing her a AAA card. Then I found out it was $ 100 bucks a night, but I stayed anyway. The room was very small and filthy. My bed sheets had not been washed, I know that because my pillow smelled like an un-​bathed person (I’ll leave it at that) I dealt with it though, as I am falling asleep, on my disgusting pillow, a domestic dispute breaks out in the room adjacent to mine between two (I assume) drunk people. The final straw was their refusal to open the pool on time. They did give me a free stay (I am yet to use) when I complained, which was very nice. All and all though, it wasn’t the best night I had ever had.

This motel is cheap and clean, but do not stay there for a vacation even though it is near the beach. Their guests are mostly truck drivers, drunks, cheaters and traveling circus performers. The good part about the place is that you can go to the back of the parking lot and often see a family of monkeys — For decades, dozens of green monkeys have lived on a 19-​acre thicket just past the Motel about a mile from the Atlantic Ocean.
How they got here is a mystery.
Some say the monkeys escaped the set of a Tarzan TV show. Others say they fled a research facility. The dominant theory: They are escapees from a roadside attraction that went out of business.
Whatever their origins, they have become something of a tourist attraction and minor local celebrities. Camera-​toting tourists feed them, though some local residents complain when they wind up in their back yards.
But the future of the Dania Beach monkeys is suddenly clouded by the usual suspect: development.
A two-​tower, 288-​condominium complex is in the works for their little monkey paradise.
The monkeys live a mile from the beach on a stretch of undeveloped land — a rarity here in fast-​growing Broward County — where waterfront condos sprout like mushrooms and sell for top dollar.
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Skip Trubey, an inspector for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, says two distinct troops of vervet monkeys live in the 19 acres developers are looking at.
Also called green monkeys because their fur has a greenish-​brown sheen, they are about size of a 20-​pound dog. The males are larger and more aggressive than the females and have 2-​inch long teeth like a wolf. All the vervets have long, brown tails and are natives of the African savannah.
Trubey is unsure how many Dania Beach monkeys there are, but he estimates up to 100.