Name: Motel 6 Des Moines, IA - North
Address: 4940 NE 14th Street, Des Moines, Des Moines, Des Moines, IA 50313, United States of America
Rating: 5

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24-hour reception

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Des Moines International Airport

Motel 6 Des Moines, IA - North

Des Moines

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THIS PLACE IS DISGUSTING!!!!!!!  VERY SKETCHY PEOPLE APPEAR TO BE LIVING AT THIS PROPERTY.  EVERYTHING IS RUN DOWN AND GROSS!!  CIGARETTE BURNS IN THE BED SPREADS, CIGARETTE BURNS ON SINK AND SHOWER.  LITERALLY STEPS AWAY FROM THE HIGHWAY.  ROOM RATE WAS $139 AND IT WAS NOT WORTH $13. DO NOT STAY HERE!!!!!!  I CANNOT BELIEVE A PLACE LIKE THIS CAN STAY IN BUSINESS.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never have been in a roach and rodent infested motel room until now . My room did have a beautiful view of a covered pool with a sagging cover full of stagnant water. The room next to me I could only describe as a very busy crack house with its revolving door and frequent visitors til 3am . Why 3am ? That's when I packed up and slept In my vehicle until morning. Ask for a refund or switch rooms? I didn't feel like getting stabbed with a dirty knife . This place is disgusting 

Dirtiest motel I've ever visited 

If I could give this place a negative rating, I would. When we finally arrived in Des Moines at Motel 6 (4940 NE 14th St, Des Moines, IA), we were made to wait at the "night key drop window," which was not air conditioned, as the worker behind the counter refused to unlock reception (early evening). Finally, when more people arrived, he let us in.

Then he claimed he could not find our booking (we had booked 4 non-smoking rooms in all) even when we gave him the confirmation email. Finally, he said, "He would have to move some things around," as they were overbooked. This is interesting as we wanted to trade 2 other rooms because they stank of cigarette smoke and the deodorete spray they used to cover the smell of smoke. The smell gave my wife and I a headache. The other room we traded stank of cannibus.

The rooms were supposed to be "non-smoking" yet stank of cigarette smoke with burn marks on the bed comforters and shower curtain.

There was trash outside rooms that looked like it had been there for days (paper and cigarette butts) throughout the complex. 

Other guests appeared suspicious, with some of them drunk and falling around (one of whom actually collided with me and my children).They were drinking and yelling. We even had a police car turn up and drive around slowly as if they were looking for someone. There was dog poop right outside our first room as well as next to the pool area. We were looking forward to using the pool, but it was covered up and locked. Our kids were very disappointed. It showed a nice pool on the website, but even that area looked worse for wear.

Our second room was not much better, with bed bugs in one of our beds, and when we pulled up the mattress it was stained and covered in dirt and crumbs.

As soon as we found bed bugs, we left (we never slept as we were looking for another place to stay and we had already driven like 10 hours that day). When we called to get a refund, we were told they could only refund 1 of the 4 rooms we booked and would have to call back Monday to speak to the manager. When my wife called to request a full refund, the manager on the other end of the line was rude and would not listen to her, only listening once her husband (me) got on the phone. I explained all the issues we had and the reason for our leaving. They finally refunded us but told our reservation website we were a "no show," so we couldn't rate them on our reservation website. 

We finally found a decent place that would take us 45 minutes away were we could finally get some sleep at 2 in the morning.

Please avoid this place at all costs.

Please avoid this place at all costs.

I checked in July 12 Monday night Thru July 20th. Paid $538.00 to make my own bed, take out my garbage, go get more towels when needed. And to look at ants n roaches running around so I brought some Raid. The other problems The SINK was stopped up so either washing hands or brushing my teeth I had to look at water in the facebowl. The general manager is only available @ certain times. When I did talk to the manager he had such a nasty disposition, Didn’t want to do anything to makeup for a BAD STAY. He was trying to give 38.00 dollars back then gave me 50.00. After I contacted Hotel.com they sent a Full Refund email to Motel6 North when I called mr.sheth told me to go get lost because I gave 50.00 back. I should’ve camped out in my car.

Room from Hell

I stayed here during the Iowa State Fair on a Thursday night in August of 2018. This particular property has not undergone the room renovations/updates that most Motel 6s have. The lone bright spot was the fast and hassle free check-in but that might have more to do with the convenience of booking through Hotels.com than anything. The bedding was old and worn, the bathroom smelled of urine and the vinyl flooring had marks, scuffs, etc. This by far was the worst Motel 6 I stayed at. There were young partiers next door and they were loud until just after midnight. Because of the cheap rate, the clientele were not the classiest. A few rooms looked like they were extended stays as they were furnished apartments and the tenants were out on their “porch” aka their front door drinking beer on their lawn chairs. Keep it classy Iowa. Lol!

Skip This Motel 6

As other reviewers have noted, the sign by the highway says $55 and I was charged $64. I realize there's no difference in rate based on how long one stays, but I checked in at 0100 and was out by 0900.

As to room 110 itself: the kindest adjective I can give to this mattress is 'present', and that comes from someone who slept on an air mattress for over a year. It's so worn out as to be less pleasant than sleeping on the floor. Road noise is quite bad; soap was the only toiletry provided and it was extremely harsh; towels were very small; furniture is as close to 'ready for the trash heap' as I've ever seen. There's a Red Roof Inn next door that might be better.

With all that said, housekeeping clearly does a good job, as the room was as clean as I could reasonably expect. I don't know if smoking is allowed in hotels in Iowa, but someone had definitely been smoking in this room.

Nah.

So I had a problem or two for the 3 nights I spent at this motel 6. I wasn't expecting a whole lot because I mean, it's a motel 6. But I was expecting at least decent customer service. My daughter went to the vending machines and every time she tried putting a coin in it would just come back out the coin return, so we went up to front desk to ask about the problem, in a very sassy tone said "I think it is full then" and "Well I don't have the keys, I will talk to my boss." with her arms crossed. Very inappropriate for customer service where you need to help the customer in anyway you can and not give them sass. But it's just a vending machine, not that big of a deal, but she could've handled the situation 100 times better than that. We ran into some problems with checking out late, we actually had money coming in for the third night of the stay, but it ran a little late, which I will take accountability for, but the manager/owner (I don't know exactly what his role was to the hotel but I know he was the head of something) was acting like a big jerk about the time the money came, being way too invasive and just completely absurd, saying things completely unnecessary for what was going on, I would apologize profusely about it being pretty late, he got his money, and what he wanted. Just rude. Being part of the hospitality business myself I know how to treat a customer right and not like total trash. Work on your benevolence!! Besides all of that the room was decent for the price.

Yikes,could be better

We found this motel via bookit.com where the confirmed reservation rate was 39.99 for 1 queen bed. We got there about 9 pm and checked in, the fellow charged our card cd but gave no receipt. So expecting honesty, we didn't demand one. Off to our room. As we walked past apparent tenants who live there, we found our room as the housekeeper was just finishing up and closed the door. We walked in and it smelled of cleaning products.  That was good. Then 2 fat beetle type bugs crawled from under the bed which we dispatched. We just needed a few hours rest and got ready for bed. Hubby then killed a giant silverfish. We laid on the bed and it creaked and crunched as we turned to get comfortable.  Surprisingly tho very firm, it was sleepable and pillows tho small we fine. The curtains were hanging loose on one end of the window and we had to fiddle trying for privacy from the outside tenants. Lights out for some rest. Then the hwy noise had become noticeable annoying and never let up till we decided to hit the road again at 3:00 because sleep was impossible. When checking out the desk clerk just took our key and was obviously napping so didn't think I would bother him asking for a receipt because of course it should be correct.  After leaving I checked the credit card and they had over charged us (honest mistake?!?!) so I called. He said there were 2 people so it cost more. He had no time to listen to my complaint (
tho we didn't even mention bug slaying or other problems we had there) He had 2 chances to address this with us. Instead he chose to be sneaky and tryed to hide the overcharge and that is what makes me mad.

King of the road ....noise!!!

when I drove by the Motel 6 Saturday morning the sign out front said 54.95 $ for a room. when I checked in Saturday evening at 6 the price was 69$. I wasn't happy with the price jump or the fact that there wasn't a fridge or microwave in my room. plus it looks as though some people live there as one guy was working on his car in the lot, one had left a large bag of trash near his door for housekeeping instead of walking it to the nearby dumpster.the bed made a lot of noise when I rolled over and the pillows were very small which made me unhappy. so steer clear of this motel near i35,i80 on the northside of des moines.

Motel 6 Des Moines, IA - North

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