Bill
Phoenix,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, April 15, 2009
I have a friend, very good friend, who is a former "Inspector" for Cendant/Wyndham Worldwide I can tell you this place use to be a Travelodge. It is a across the street from a Mexican Strip Bar which has lots of violence. The Owner of this dive, WAS on the Travelodge "Board of Directors" if you can believe it. The reason it "flippped" to a Days Inn was because the much better Days Inn/Super 8 down the street was sold to a homeless shelter. Wyndham would rather have "quantity" than "quality" and they recently from Septemer 2008 to December 2008 laid off over 4,000 employees, MANY of which were inspectors. Just beware of the Wyndham brands. You should ask the manager to see the last "qa report" or last "city or county" inspection before checking in! Wyndham needs to realize that they cannot continue to "appoint" members to their various boards who are running sub-par motels, OMG! There is another "Board Member" running the Knights Inn on 32nd/Thomas AND the Travelodge in East Mesa!
Karl
Clovis,#3Consumer Suggestion
Fri, March 06, 2009
I visit Phoenix every year in order to fly to Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines. I normally stay at the Marriott Fairfield Airport which is more expensive than normal Fairfields and nothing particularly fancy but is clean and adequate with a good breakfast and an airport shuttle. I stopped going to Days Inns, Super 8's etc. years ago. There didn't seem to be any universal quality control. One was great and the other was not. I stayed at a Super 8 years ago that had 6 outside lines for 40 rooms. Obviously this is not a place to stay on business!!! Another one in a different state had the same phone problem. Marriott and Hilton require consistancy in their franchised properties and you can pretty much guarantee that one Fairfield or Hampton Inn will be like another. The difference in cost between a Days Inn and a Fairfield isn't that much and you have a better chance of having an uneventful stay.