Microtel Inn Dayton/Riverside

Smelly. The bed was soft to the point that you sink into it and feel like your feet are higher than your head… not easy for me to sleep like that. No hair dryer in the room! Had to call the front desk and was told to wait half an hour and then go to the front desk to get one… then was told I had to bring it right back when done. Breakfast selection (at 7 am, so still early) consisted of three muffins and a Danish. Juice machine didn’t work at all. Will not be back.

You know how you smell after a day/​night at the casino and you smell your hair and your clothes? Multiply that by 10 and thats what this hotel smells like. As other reviewers have stated, I have never seen so many «Do not smoke or you will be charged» signs, but it smelled so bad you might have thought they were handing out free cigarettes at the hotel desk. And I would be remiss to not mention that this is by far the filthiest hotel I have ever seen. My wife and I arrived very late and tired and the room (Which had lime green and lemon yellow painted walls with full wall mirrors on all remaining walls, a broken shower rod that allowed the shower head to empty on the bathroom floor, filthy carpet) did not seem to smell as bad as the lobby, stairs and hallways, so we just crashed for the night. I really did not notice the bed quality, mostly because as the night progressed, all I could think of was the smell which got worse as the night went on. And did I mention there is no elevator? Its only 2 floors but be prepared to lug your stuff up the stairs… Needless to say, we checked out pronto at 6am and found a much better hotel a bit further from our family we were here to see. The only reason I booked here was location and the brand name recognition Wyndham, how bad can it be? Well, it can be pretty darn bad… The old saying «You get what you pay for» is so true, no hidden gem here, pay $ 40 more per night and travel a few miles further and get a hotel worth sleeping in.

Looks decent on the outside. The staff are nice enough. The wifi works.
However…
The physical plant is run down badly. The cigarette smell likely will never be removed.
Net/​net, this would be a poor third world hotel experience.

Agree with Tim M’s assessment from 2011. It’s 2014 and the place has gotten worse. We were offered the same room with the creepy one way glass looking mirror on the wall above the bed. Behind that wall is a storage room, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it really was one way glass. The latch on the door was missing, though there were dozens of screw holes where it had been repeatedly installed. Very sketchy. Pretty sure there was an adult business operating out of the room next to ours, based on conversation easily overheard through the very thin walls. We declined to stay the night and drove another several hours after midnight so we wouldn’t have to stay there. No refund either, of course. Listed online as three stars– 1 seems generous.

We stayed here on New Year’s Eve overnight, while visiting friends in Dayton. The building looked all right from the outside, but the surrounding area was very run-​down overall, and upon closer inspection, you could see that there were little exterior maintenance issues (our room window had a giant crack in it) that could use attention.
Microtel is a franchise, which basically means that the owner gets to do as he/​she pleases with the property — and this owner didn’t seem to do much, except provide low prices, which is fine. Other Microtels might be wildly different than this one. I wouldn’t rule out the brand name forever.
Upon first entry, we were bombarded with secondhand smoke smell, despite lots of signs forbidding smoking in common areas posted around. We stayed in a «non-​smoking» room, but, it was still filled with smoke from the other rooms, and even with the fan on, we could not avoid the clouds of smoke rolling in under the door all night long, and we smelled the next day like we spent the evening in a seedy casino somewhere — it had seeped into our luggage and perfumed the fresh clothes that we packed! I even had dreams about smoking!
The bed was low to the ground, and of pretty poor quality, you could feel each spring grinding and popping inside as you sat on the mattress, and it was overall really bouncy, so that if my boyfriend rolled over, it was pretty turbulent. Linens and pillows were low-​quality, but presumably clean. I was really worried about bedbugs and checked for signs… maybe that’s why everything was of minimal quality, perhaps they just had to replace everything… can’t say for sure.
The furniture was also really… basic??? The closet and drawers and things were like the kid’s room kits you can get at a discount store, which I’m sure are functional enough — but they’re not very nice-​looking or durable-​feeling, which is kind of a bummer when you spend money for an overnight stay somewhere. I mean, really, half the greatness of being in a hotel is having something you don’t have at home, and I just found myself wishing I were home, here!
I didn’t use the following, so, I can’t comment on quality — but the room did also come with a microwave, fridge, and a flat-​screen TV. I had to use the powerstrip that the TV was plugged into to charge my phone overnight, the wall sockets were strangely loose, and the prongs on my charger kept falling out of them. It said there was wifi, but I couldn’t get much of a signal on the 2^nd floor, and didn’t really bother to keep trying.
Even for the low price, it was really not worth it. We won’t stay there again, but if you smoke — and are looking for a bare-​bones place to crash — this motel might be right up your alley!