Motel 6

I stayed here 12−26−15 and while it is an older motel 6, it has been modernized. Also of note, this is a 100% smoke free hotel (per state law) the price was right room was clean and staff was friendly. I would stay again, as for the price it was budget friendly and I had no issues while staying here.

This place was awful. You can practically touch all four walls from the center, several rooms are on the bed bug registry, it smells like cigarettes, mold and Lysol to cover it up. The TV is an ancient cube tv, the bathroom is not big enough to turn around in. You can hear the conversations of the rooms next door. The pricing was terrible. There’s no way you could pay me enough to use the blankets that were on the bed, so we decided to bring our own blankets and pillows from the car. The mattress and surrounding area smelled like pee. The front desk worker wasn’t friendly or personable at all. He just took my card, charged me too much for what we were getting and gave us a room key.
Seriously, if you read this and still stay there, you either don’t value cleanliness or like to live dangerously.

Prices cheap, but you get what you pay for. May 2014, went to visit kids in college there. Rooms smelled like old stale smoke, TV blurry, snowy pictures, dark dingy atmosphere. Worst of all, when checking the bed for signs of bed bugs, I found a 4×4 inch large stain on the mattress, that looked eerily similar to dried blood. (I worked as a nurse for over 30 yrs, and know what dried blood looks like). After seeing this, I went directly to the front desk, asked for my money back and left. (The management apologized, and did offer me another room… No way in hell was I going to another anything in that place… the web site is deceiving. Avoid this place, if you value your life. Sleeping in your car, and washing in a gas station, is a better option than here!

i am right there with the other reviewer who lived to tell the tale. this place is dismal. of course, the price is low so you sort of expect it.
pros: low price, nice staff
cons: FILTHY, honestly very probably unsafe, all the tv channels were blurry, internet did not work consistently, the rooms all reek of cigarette smoke (the first room was so bad, i had to ask the desk and they said they are all like that) strange scary people live at the motel. i ended up checking out and going across the street to red roof inn which was still sketchy, but wayyyyyyyyyy better.
i actually felt dirtier after taking a shower here. there are dozens of motels in the area, do yourself a favor and keep moving and pass by this one. they also appear to have stolen our cc# and put us on a scam text list. awesomely BAD!

Dear Motel 6,
I am elated to have the unique distinction of being the very first person to rate this motel because it means that I’m actually still alive and not chopped up in a million tiny pieces waiting to be discovered by some poor kid on his dirt bike in the back alley of the Dollar General.
Let’s be clear, for $ 39 a night, I think I had pretty realistic expectations for what I was getting myself into. One enters into this sort of arrangement with the same fear most prison inmates have entering the yard for the first time: keep your head on a swivel, don’t make eye contact and never, ever loop your pinky through another man’s belt loop. I mean, I watched Oz. I know how these things work. Navigating a motel experience isn’t so different.
Unit #135 was pretty typical as far as your average motel amenities go and I have very little to complain about in this area. The plumbing was in working order and all 30+ cable television channels were at my disposal on the 24″ Magnavox bolted to the counter top. There was even a working remote control, which actually earned three quarters of the one star in my rating. The carpet had been replaced with a sort of faux-​linoleum-​bamboo flooring, which I can only assume is a complete godsend for the housekeeping staff when met with the unique challenge of removing the stubborn chalk outline from a dead hooker’s body. Not that I’m saying that sort of thing would/​could ever happen here, but if it did, clean up would be a cinch. *snap*
I didn’t get a chance to patron any of the on-​site facilities such as the laundry room or the ice machine, but can confirm that the latter appeared to be in working order when I saw a larger gentleman in overalls wheeling a cooler back to his unit and dumping the icy contents into his charcoal grill. Again, I did not make eye contact or ask any questions, but the ice looked pretty standard in size, shape and temperature. It would also seem fair to assume that personal Weber grills are permitted.
I supplied my own inflatable mattress and bedding, so it would be unfair of me to rate the mattress experience, but the stained coverlet really set the tone nicely to let my imagination run wild. Stale cigarette smoke permeated the room once the cherry vend-​a-​scent had burned off, but luckily I came prepared with several candles to impart some notes of evergreen over the lingering carcinogenic haze. I was thinking, and like, not to project, but maybe some propaganda about the dangers of smoking might be well received here. I mean, I was seriously so desperate for sleep at 4AM this morning that if someone had told me converting to Wicca would make the dance party next door stop; I would probably be hosting a séance and worshiping the wheel instead of typing this review right now.
Thanks for leaving the light on, Kalamazoo Motel 6. I’ll probably be sending you an invoice for the STD I contracted while using the towels, so we’ll talk soon…
Love,
Holly