Days Inn Music Row -Not Music To My Ears
Written: Nov 19 '07 (Updated Nov 19 '07)
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Pros: Seriously? None. Not one.
Cons: Filthy, disgusting, and filthy.
The Bottom Line: I have no idea what kind of people were staying there. There is no good reason to stay at a place like this.
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| hadassahchana's Full Review: Nashville-Days Inn Vanderbilt/Music Row |
I will admit up front that I did not spend a single night in this hotel, but I was going to. Before my recent trip to Nashville, I booked a room in the Days Inn Nashville/Music Row-Vanderbilt. It is located a five minute cab ride away from the best music bars in Nashville, about 1/2 mile from Broadway. It was the ideal location for me, since I'd planned on spending most of my time listening to all of the wonderful up and coming musicians playing there. When I found the Days Inn for a reasonable price, I was delighted and really looked forward to my stay. According to the information provided on their website it had all the amenities I wanted in a hotel.
When I arrived an hour before check-in time, my plan to stay on Music Row was abruptly changed. When I entered the lobby, the first thing I noticed was the exceptionally strong smell of urine. It was overpowering, and from my experiences working in a nursing home, I could tell that it wasn't only fresh but also had some which had been around for a long while. Also, the lobby was filthy. Dirt covered the counter and the walls - large streaks of grime were all over all the walls in the lobby, dust covered the furniture - but not the dirty and empty pop cans, candy wrappers and fast food containers which were littered liberally throughout the lobby sitting area. I was stunned - this was not what I'd expected from a Days Inn hotel.
When the clerk saw my dismay, she told me to at least check out my room, which, she assured me, would be clean and fresh. I reluctantly agreed, and headed for the elevator. It arrived after a series of thumps and clangs, which alarmed me. However, the clerk assured me it had been repaired only recently. Unfortunately, it had not been cleaned at all recently. The carpet was grimy, worn down to the bare steel floor underneath, and made wet squishy sounds when I stepped onto it. The smell in the elevator covered the dreadful odour of the lobby, however. I looked down again, and found a puddle of vomit beginning to dry around the edges. Unfortunately, the elevator door had closed by this time so I could not jump out. It began its slow ascent, its jerks and jumps accompanied by the clangs and metal scraping sounds I'd heard earlier, and I was quite nervous about this.
The door finally opened onto what I can only assume Hell would look like if it didn't have a housekeeper. I saw the Days Inn housekeeper, however. She was sitting on her cart smoking, in the hallway of the non-smoking floor. Not that it really mattered, as the smell here was even worse than both the lobby and the elevator, if such a thing were possible. There were damp smelly puddles all along the corridor - on top of the grimy carpet, which should tell you how much urine and whatever were pooling there. The walls were even dirtier, and judging from the smell, I didn't really want to know what the smears were made of. The hall was lined in windows which were absolutely filthy. In one place, the drapes were stuck to the window with whatever crud was on them, and the drapes were covered in stains. They were dark coloured, so imagine what sort of ick could leave a stain on dark fabric.
Strangely enough, the front walls of the rooms were all floor to ceiling glass windows covered with curtains for privacy. However, the curtains were about five inches narrower than they needed to be in order to prevent other guests from seeing in - and unfortunately I did see into several of them.
I opened what was going to be my room. I saw dirty sheets lying on the floor, ashtray spilled onto the carpet, and again the carpet was wet and smelly. As with the other rooms, the curtains did not completely cover the front floor to ceiling window.
I was in tears by this point, as you can imagine. My hands felt sticky from touching the door as well as the elevator buttons. I just wanted to settle into a nice hotel and relax before joining my son for an evening's fun, and suddenly I found myself hunting for a place to stay.
I was priced out of the other nicer hotels in the downtown area. I went to a local Wendy's and used their wifi to search for another place to stay. The employees at the Wendy's were not surprised by my experience at the Days Inn, and they told me it was always like that.
I finally found a hotel near the Gaylord Opryland hotel, about 15 minutes by car from downtown. I had a hard time finding a place with a vacancy as the CMA awards had just ended and a lot of fans were staying on to hear a special performance at the Grand Ole Opry. I felt really lucky to find anything at all, and the hotel I found was probably one of the best I've ever stayed in. It was the Fairfield Inn, and there will be a review to follow.
All in all, my experience with the Nashville Days Inn was so awful that I can say that I will never ever consider staying at any Days Inns. I actually took my shoes off in the hall of the new hotel, carried them into my room and washed them so as not to bring whatever was on them into that nice clean room.
I can't think of enough bad things to say about this Days Inn. They did advertise a free breakfast, but I simply cannot imagine eating anything in that filthy dive. I can't tell you anything about the bed because I couldn't force myself to even touch it much less lie down on it. I also didn't go into the bathroom, and you can probably guess why. My recommendation: do not stay there. Do not ever book any Days Inn online, since they seem incapable of doing any sort of quality control. I called their head office, and I was told that the Days Inns are all privately owned franchises. When I asked why they would consider putting the company name on a place they obviously did not inspect, the man on the phone had no answer at all, except to repeat that all Days Inns are privately owned. Therefore, stay at any Days Inn at your own risk. I certainly won't ever do so.
Recommended:
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