Red Roof Inn

If I could give 0 stars I sooo would. Let’s see here’s the list: cockroaches in bathroom and bed area, burn holes in comforters, heat on even after turned off forced to turn on air conditioning, air conditioner black water stains, rusted, stale wet rug smell, appliances and fixture customer service questionable …
We were fully clothed and not considering putting our bodies under the sheets for fear of what we may leave with.
Was Suppose to stay longer than booked but definitely left sooner. Don’t even want the refund figure they could use every penny to get it together. How could any owner think this place is acceptable to advertise on reputable sites like travelocity Expedia
Perhaps they should continue to keep it as an option for housing the underserved.
I think it’s great as I’m a proponent for helping the underserved but I have issues when a family establishment is disguising itself as a reputable clean hotel. Far from true p. s. Adding a plus doesn’t Change anything. Horrible!

This place is getting one star only because I had to give a star to be able to write a review. Dive does not even come close to describing what a disgusting dump this place is. Trying to save a few bucks I booked this place thinking Red Roof should be a reputable company. After signing something at the front desk that it is a smoke free hotel we went to our room. We open our door to the most smokey, dirty, nastiest room I have ever been. We notified the front desk we would not be staying in that room. We had to get to graduation events so we dropped off our things and left. We returned to the hotel at 1:30 a.m. to check out and move down the street to Holiday Inn Express. The people at this hotel and the hotel itself could not have been nicer. I would highly recommend Holiday Inn Express. I will never again stay at a Red Roof Inn!!!

Price is always great when I come to this area. Service leaves a lot to be desired though.
Selection of tv channels is weak, the wake up calls rarely actually come through, I get kicked out of my room by faulty keys several times each time I stay, and today a maid walked in to my room while I was in the bathroom, despite a do not disturb sign and an order for no service at the desk.
Also unless you are in the top floor, the wifi sucks.
But I suppose you get what you pay for.

I don’t think anyone has ever obeyed the No Smoking rule but you can tell they do their best to get rid of that smell. Woman at the front desk (Shaniyah?) was nice enough to lend us a can of Febreeze so we sprayed the heck outta the place. That worked perfectly fine.
I expected a lot less of this place so once the smell was gone I was very pleased. The room was clean, sheets and bedspreads were bright and clean. I can never understand the reasoning behind the set up where the toilet and shower are in their own small room but the sink is out in the open as that can be inconvenient and claustrophobic but, whatever. They need to have two trash bins; one for the bathroom one for the main room. Outlets right underneath the bedside table/​ledge thing — so convenient! There were outlets in everything, the desk lamp, two in the microwave???
Flatscreen, safe ($ 1.50), microwave, fridge, coffee maker. (Rooms with fridges were $ 10 above standard)
Also: I think it’s been updated since others last reviewed and posted pics. Sorry I didn’t think to take pics before I left.

It’s a Red Roof Inn, not the Four Seasons, but you get exactly what you expect. The room was very clean, the staff was very friendly, and the room was cheap.

the stay was fine, and i do appreciate the price. But the service is terrible. Starting from the woman who talked to me on the national calling line — to the hotel itself. i called five times tonight (over several hours) after losing something there — and no one is even picking up the telephone. I wish they would add one more staff person.

Can you ever really give a Red Roof Inn a 4 or 5 star review? The answer is really no. Can you expect three stars to be the max? The answer is yes! I paid $ 45 a night back in February and found it to be like most Red Roof Inn stays. Affordable, decently clean, iffy clientelle, mediocre customer service, and a reasonable price. This place was not a Marriot or anything, but I needed to find a place to stay between finding a new home and this was pretty reasonable for what it was. It’s never terribly busy so the customer service is standard and quick. The wi-​fi connection was pretty fast. They had coffee in the lobby during morning hours. The rooms were pretty clean despite being rather small. Overall, I wouldnt have a problem giving my fellow Unilocal searchers a thumbs up if your in the area and want a cheap room.

The tub was slow to drain and the surrounding area is funky. Otherwise, I feel like we got our money’s worth for $ 50 a night. Clean enough room with fresh sheets and towels; slightly dingy but quiet. TV with HBO, wi-​fi worked fine. No breakfast, but there’s free coffee in the lobby in the morning. Saw no evidence of bed bugs in August 2012.

The price is right, but the service could be much better.
It turns out that the wireless service in this hotel is run by a company called Wandering Wi-​Fi. These GENIUSES placed all of their AP’s on the third floor and expected there to be good signal propagation throughout the hotel.
Also, we had to switch rooms on the last night we were there due to family being held over at the hospital and the room we got was, shall we say, substandard. There was hair, and a lot of it, behind the toilet. There were pubic hairs in the unchanged bed. There was even an unused (Thank GOD!) condom in the dresser drawer. Seems the housekeeping staff needs to be retrained.
I’m not even going to mention the amount of mold that was around the tub…

BED BUGS! STAY AWAY!!!
My wife stayed here a couple nights ago. She woke in the morning absolutely covered in bug bites. She checked the mattress and, sure enough, immediately found a little bug that spilled blood all over when she squeezed it.
The hotel had exterminators come to the room and my wife, needless to say, found another hotel, and also had to throw out all her clothes and luggage and buy new things. Having lived most of the last 5 years in NYC, we know that these things are hard to prevent and even harder to get rid of, so we have some sympathy for the hotel, but the bottom line is these things are absolutely horrible and we have even more sympathy for the unsuspecting customers that will stay here.
Stay away from this place, and always check your mattress when you arrive at a new hotel room!

This isn’t great from the outside. The area was a little «iffy.» However, the staff was very helpful and the place has been renovated recently. Great value! Not the Ritz, but the bill isn’t «Ritzy» either. Pet friendly and people friendly.

I stayed here for a wedding and was pleasantly surprised as I am usually a Hilton girl. It is still VERY motel on the outside, but the rooms were clean and upgraded and it was a convenient location. Great value at $ 50/​night.

Great price for what you’re getting. The place was clean and had everything I needed — a bed, cable TV and free wireless internet. The four star hotels pisses me off cause they are soo greedy. Stayed at Sheraton last time. Had to pay extra for parking, internet and bottled water. At ¹⁄₃ the price I got all I needed and at a decent quality. I’m a fan of Red Roof Inns now.

OK — my major gripe with this place is that Red Roof Inn (RRI) puts a hold on your card for whatever amount of cost you may possibly accrue during your scheduled stay. I do not know if this policy is instituted nationwide, or simply at this location — BUT I do know that RRI, for one night with a discount, put a hold on my debit card for $ 100. The total bill with the AAA discount ended up being less than $ 50, but RRI felt it had the right to put a hold on my card for more than *double* what the actual bill was. :-O
That said, aside from the inexplicable charges (which better have been refunded back into my account), the stay wasn’t all that bad considering it’s as cheap as it is, and allows dogs. I do not recommend this for any extended period of time, but for one night, and assuming you have double the funds in your account to cover the «hold» they put on your debit card, it’s OK.
It’s also convenient to Duke (great for the cheap college student), as well as not too far from Eno River State Park — so if you want to go hiking, wading in the river, and enjoying some time in an amazing state park without the hassle of setting up a tent (and in this heat, the inclusion of air conditioning is a major bonus, even if it was blowing weak, is a major help), then this RRI is a reasonable (albeit slightly ghetto) alternative.
Also, it looks like the bathroom and the sink area have been renovated, but the carpet looks to still be at least a few dozen damp and dank years old. The beds are also not very comfortable either (kind of sunken in, not a real box spring, and the pillows are fluff with no support). As previously mentioned though, for ONE night, it’s not bad, and worth saving a few dollars if you are trying to save money. More than one night, eh… not so much. I would have stayed another night, but I couldn’t afford more «holds» on my debit account for double what another night could potentially cost according to whatever arbitrary decision the person at the front desk decides to make.
The barking, how could I forget. If you have a bark collar for your dog, please bring it. It was thunder storming last night, which drove my dog nuts, barking her head off, which in turn, also drove the other dogs nuts, setting off a domino effect of barking throughout all of the RRI. I, along with the rest of the hotel, didn’t get much sleep because of this. :(