Days Inn Gainesville I-75

I recently spent nine nights in motels on the way from Cleveland, OH to Mesa, CA. This Days Inn was the best. I had a great room right by the pool with a huge grassy area where I could walk my dog.
But what made the stay most special was Mark, the desk clerk at the motel. He was absolutely wonderful. Fortunately, he was also there the next day when we checked out. I was concerned because I had seen liquid dripping from my car. He went in the back room and got a piece of cardboard to place under the car and catch the liquid. Turned out to be just water, condensation from the air conditioning. Really great guy.

Used to be our standard place to stay but has fallen into such disrepair. Rm 224 had roof leaks and roaches. So damp and moldy we turned the heat on to dry out the room. Within 10seconds such a smell of burnt dust came out that the smoke detector went off. Had to pull it off the wall to stop it. This place should be $ 40 per night if that and we paid double. Oh well that was our last stay at that Days Inn.

Ann, the receptionist, helped us get an extra cot. We ended up receiving an extra complementary room for the three of us. Our friend is diabetic, so our concerns for a mini fridge were met. It was very accommodating with a good rate. What started as mildly negative perceptions of Days Inn turned into wonderful hospitality.

This hotel should be avoided at all costs. I pre booked the hotel for a two night minimum and no cancellation. I came into town with my wife and two young boys for the gators vs vandy game on Nov 7, 2015. We checked in, took a quick look at the room, left the hotel and never went back. The over $ 300 for the two nights was lost, but the hotel room was just that bad. We found another hotel and paid $ 460 total for the two nights. We will never consider a Days Inn again.

This review is was mainly for the three front desk ladies.
First off, I want to say Priscilla and Ashleigh were exceptionally accomodating and sweet. Both girls were very friendly and attentive. I want to give them 5 stars and excellent customer servive! Both girls are very cute as well!
As for the facility, it was very not very clean. The Floors were dirty old carpet. Needs to be changed. The house keeping were a little unprofessional. I stayed here for work, and I have equipment in boxes that I work with. As I prep daily for work i have a couple boxes of trash, which i take to the hotels dumpster myself. One day i had let in sit in front of my room for a couple hours while i was working in the room. And, as i stepped out to my car, a house keeping lady told me in a rude tone «the garbage dumpsta is right there, and those boxes, (pointing at the two in front of my room) you can take em there!» Now, its not a big deal to me, except she had poor communication and unfriendly tone.
The tap water here is nasty, very chlorinated and metallic. Our sink was clogged, and it took 5 days till maintenance fixed it.
The free wifi was some times ok, and most of the time, intermittent.
You get what you pay for here. Cheap stay.
But, again, the highlights were the two cute blondes who were so bubbly and profesional, who could make me forget about the majority of the malcontent staff.

Avoid this place at all costs. Stayed in room# 117 but Im sure all other rooms keep the same standards. Took me one day to get sick from the ridiculous amount of dust in the room and the old AC system. Shower was full of stains.
On my second night as I walked in the room, a big roach crawled under the TV furniture, communicated this to front desk and the lady’s response was «if it bothers you go next door (CVS) and buy some roach insecticide» …pretty offensive but well, thats the story at this place, think twice before staying.

It was scary. The door did not close properly, bed looked dirty, roaches in the bathroom and moldy roof. DO NOT STAY THERE. I quickly asked for a full refund and ran to the Sleep Inn in Ocala. They need to tear down the building and construct a whole new facility.

You get what you payed for. On our way to Tampa from Indiana, we decided to stop at an hotel for some needed rest. The rate we got was $ 75 a night. The hotel has no gym, so heads up. It has an outside swimming pool, which looks usable, but could also have things that I didn’t see. Opening the room and seeing the room was worrying. We didn’t find cockroaches or insects inside the room. We did find a dirty bathroom. I also dropped my sunglasses on the floor and went I went to pick them up, I looked under the bed. I use to work at an hotel. I know you’re supposed to clean under the bed. They don’t here. The breakfast was simple. Frozen omelettes, make-​yourself pancakes, yogurt, and your basic drinks were all present. We will definitely not be staying at this Days Inn ever again.

Look out Gainesville ’cause here I come!
This was the hotel I stayed in when we first we moving to Gainesville and were looking for a house to rent about 4 months ago. This place is AWFUL!!! Its «cheap» compared to the rest of the hotels in town and unfortunately we were there the weekend of the LSU/​UF game so it was still over a hundred bucks a night. Don’t go here — I was fearful of catching bed bugs or some disease since the room was SO dirty. The drapes were splattered with red and brown something. the mattress was brown in several large spots. The walls where no longer flat… years of abuse and I’m sure drunk college kids punching holes in them led the walls to look like swiss cheese with Spackle everywhere. Carpet was crunchy. GROSS.
Good God — do not stay here. I slept with my pants tucked into my socks and my shirt tucked into my pants… I contemplated sleeping in the tub but the tub had what appeared to be black mold in the corners. The hotel owner owns the new hotel being built across the street. Cash cow, no reason to update/​repair/​change etc. I understand but don’t approve of this practice. If at all possible — DO NOT STAY HERE.
Only 1 star part of it… free breakfast.

Absolutely horrid! Booked this hotel on orbitz for game weekend. Checked out after 1 night and also contacted corporate.

Unilocal should create a «negative stars» option just for this place. This was my first experience at a Days Inn, but because of this one I will never stay at another Days Inn for the rest of my life. It’s no wonder they have you prepay, because upon opening the door no one would agree to pay for the rooms. I saw a cockroach and apparently there were several more crawling around the room my husband avoided telling me about so I wouldn’t freak out, they had also eaten up a lot of the furniture, meaning the place is infested. There was a horrible leak in the sink that was causing mold to grow in the carpet, no place to sit other than the stained bed and cigarette burned chairs. There was rust in the sink, in the tub, in the clothing rails, on the lamps, in the air vents, it was everywhere. The tv was placed so low from the bed so if you wanted to watch it you had to sit up in bed using pillows that were so lumpy it’s like they TRIED to make them like that, because that’d take effort. I showered with my sandals on, never walked barefoot, I put nothing on the floor and even had a hard time placing stuff on the dresser. I left in shock. This is by far the WORST place I have ever been.

I should have checked Unilocal before I stayed here, but my phone was dead and I needed to find a hotel late at night. I guess I should have expected it for the price, but the furniture was so old, the room was smokey, and the bathroom was dirty.

We stayed here during our visit to Gainesville for Go-​Fest and it was A-​OK. We found it in one of those hotel books at a gas station. Nothing fancy, nothing terrible. The pillows were pretty much non-​existent so bring your own, but the place was a good deal for the price. The internet in the hotel was pretty crappy — don’t go there if you need Wi-​Fi for work. It was only located a few minutes from all the action in Gainesville since it’s located next to I-​75.

This was the creepiest hotel I have ever been in in my whole life. There were cops out front arresting someone. I was there with my two under 3 kids without my husband and I was scared to death. There were people living in the hotel barbecuing in front of their rooms. There was a gap under the door about and inch wide. Cigarette burns old over the furniture. The man working the front told me he wasnt even a real employee, only filling in for his aunt. The pool wasn’t even filled!