Where to begin...honestly, I'm humiliated that I didn't first investigate this hotel by reading Trip Advisor reviews BEFORE booking a reservation and taking my family there.
My wife and I planned a short holiday visit to Universal Studios and to see the sights this past December with our 8 year old son and 11 year old daughter. This was the worst hotel stay I have ever encountered in my 43 years on this planet. Don't fool yourself into thinking that I'm exaggerating, I'm serious. Our stay was terrible.
The Days Inn website boasts numerous amenities including a pool, friendly staff, a deluxe continental breakfast, and walking distance to the 'walk of fame'. What the website didn't mention was that there were things floating in the pool that shouldn't be floating in the pool, that the front desk staff was argumentative and spoke English as a 2nd. language, that breakfast would be stale, and that walking distance to the walk of fame really means non-stop traffic outside our room window 24-hours a day.
The elevator was broken so we had to carry our luggage up a flight of stairs, which proved to be a challenge because there wasn't anyone from the hotel WILLING to assist us. There was foot traffic outside of our room all night with light knocking on the doors and whispers, my wife and I could only conclude that someone most likely was running some sort of small time drug dealer operation out of there. Women walking in late at night dressed in stripper apparel....it was just bad.
We tried to hole up in room when we weren't out seeing the sights, but even that proved to be a feat. We had roaches...that right....roaches PLURAL that came out of our bathroom drains. Someone from the front desk came up with a spray bottle and sprayed out bathroom, and then left....they were very nonchalant about the entire thing, like it was routine for them to do.
I, we actually, wish we would have known about Trip Advisor BEFORE we booked this trip. We will never stay at a Days Inn again, Hollywood CA or not. It's obvious corporate isn't all that concerned with who uses their brand name.
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