Super 8 St Paul / I-94

I will never stay here again!
I was in town for a dog show and it was the same weekend as state fair, so there weren’t any rooms available. We called weeks in advance and this was all we could get. I travel and stay in hotels all the time and this is one of the most disgusting hotels I’ve ever stayed in. There is a foul smell right as we walked through the door… not to worry… we always bring a candle and some Febreze. Ohhhh but this smell is not covering up! The next thing I noticed was that the blankets on the beds were dirty! The sheets appeared clean but the top blanket was filthy, spotty, and it looked like it was oil stained. There was one hand towel, and one shower towel… That’s it. There were no pillows on the beds. Weird! We asked for pillows and the man at the desk was very helpful and nice… he got us 4 pillows. Sorry to back track but when we checked in he told us we could only enter through the front door but could go out the door by our room anytime we want. I asked if we could prop the door open while we carried our stuff in… he said yes but told us to close it promptly after. Hmmmmm! So as I was walking to the front door (cause I hadn’t had the door propped open anymore) I saw him taking the pillows and pillow cases out of the dryer to give to us. When we got the pillows they looked like old pillows with head sweat/​oil on them. I’m laying here not able to sleep because it is soooooooo disgusting and it is 4:08 in the morning.
Keep in mind that we got in late on a Thursday night… around 1230. As we were carrying things in and pottying dogs there was an Escalade parked with its music bumping, someone asking me for a cigarette, one car jumping another car, and two guys waiting outside the «never enter that back door, only come through the front» back door. My mother asked the guys if they were here for the fair and the guy said «no, I’m just here to see my buddy.»
I think the weirdest thing (but I could be wrong) was when we got to the parking lot there was a stripped down bike against the back wall and in the course of an hour the bike had disappeared and a mattress and box spring had appeared in its place.
I seriously have not slept a wink because I’m itchy. I don’t know if it’s just me being paranoid or if it’s bed bugs. I just want to crawl out of my skin. I keep turning on the light to check for bugs.
Drive a few more miles in any direction to any other hotel is my advice!
This is now a motel 6! Correct address!

This is hands down the worst place I have ever been in my entire life!
First I called because I was having issues with my current apartment and I needed a ace to crash for two nights while they fixed it.
I got there about 9:30 or so at night and waited while a family checked in. THIS IS NO PLACE TO BRING CHILDREN!
It was my turn to check in and I should have known as soon as the lady at the desk asked me if I was paying with a card or cash.
Um.WHAT?!? I thought you HAD to pay with a card due to any damages that may occur during your stay.
There is no doubt in my mind you can rent a room by the hour here.
I payed for the room and went up the stairs to it. The whole way there I kept thinking «this isn’t right.» I soon found out why.
The room next to mine had recently been kicked in. You can tell because the frame around the door is all messed up and a wood board is in place where a door knob should be.
I got to my room and good God. It looked like a run down, dirty, smelly dump.
The wallpaper was bubbling off the walls, the carpet wasn’t cut right to match the size of the room and was bubbled up in spots. There is no towels, toilet paper, coffee maker or a cleaning crew evidently. The smoke alarm was covered with plastic wrap and the whole place was dirty. The door doesn’t even close right. There is a gap between the door and the frame. Perfect for anyone who wants to look in to your room. I could write so much more but please take my word for it. Unless you want to pick up some drugs and maybe a lady of the night. do NOT stay here!

I couldn’t get 0 or negative stars to come up. the shitiest place I’ve ever been and I am a plumber no lie I walked into my no smoking room that smelled like mildew and smoke mixed. As soon as I dropped my bag by the bed a mouse ran out and went into the wall by the heater. I slept with the light on because I assumed there were cockroaches fortunately I came in at 3 and left at 7 so I’m still alive 4 now. It’s cheap but so not worth it

There are FAR too many poorly managed hotels like this. You can tell its the management and ownership, not the staff.
I took one of the last rooms in the Twin Cities for a busy event weekend. If I had any choice, I would have paid more to be elsewhere. Expect to be panhandled on your way to this hotel, and your car may be on blocks the next morning.
The elevator was down, clearly because the owner refuses to pay a dime. It has been down for months, based on other reviews. The revenue made tonight would more than pay for a service call.
I got to the room and the TV was on. Strange. I got situated and realized there was no remote. Okay. I tried to change channels by using the front buttons and found out that not only do those not work, I can’t turn it off either. Clearly someone made the decision to leave it like this without any fix. I didn’t bother calling down to the desk because it was late.
The whole hotel screams, «we aren’t investing a dime in this place until it falls down». Sadly, with its solid concrete structure, that may take decades. The owners will continue to treat their guests like cattle until then. Super 8 should pull its flag and sever ties with this owner.

My stay at the Super 8 in Maplewood, MN was overall fairly decent. The whole building has at the very least a small scent of cigarette and gets much worse depending on what floor your on. Oh, and dont use the elevator. It gets stuck quite often.
But other than that I didnt have any issues at all. Checking in and out was very simple and the lady at the desk seemed to know what she was doing really well, and I also got $ 40 cash back for trying out their travel rewards plan.
I recommend this hotel for a quick, cheap stay as long as you can stand cig smoke

Readers I know. Seriously? It’s averaging a one star review and you still went? One, one star review per year. Yikes! Yikes, indeed.
I read reviews some days back when initially researching hotels & motels in the St Paul area. I needed a block of rooms and was willing to travel some distance from the St Paul downtown area. In the end I opted for a good room for my older relations downtown and inexpensive rooms for the others at this motel. I came to using this business because of a third party discount site quite like
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Details: Rooms could use an update, new fixtures, linens, comforters, towels, wallpaper, etc. My comforter had cigarette burns, the towels changed out the following day had blackened stains of some kind. Looked like some kind of engine or machine grease. Some areas of the rooms look as if they hired amateurs to install washroom tiles, caulk, sinks and other features. Unprofessional work completed. The carpet in my room had stains of I’m not sure what. One was a big red stain which could have been anything, another area had a sticky spot which was gross to step on (I nervously laughed every time I forgot and stepped on it) and the area nearest the air conditioner had a foul smell of shit or bile. I imagined that someones bowels were dropped here and it was never known, so no one person cared to clean it properly. Much of the room if professionally cleaned could be anything. better than it’s current state. The parking lot has it’s fair share of impending disaster. I will warn you, to watch where you step, drive or park.
Free breakfast: Nothing special. A few Yoplait yogurts, frozen waffles, some fruit, cereal, coffee and tea. If you want it, get there EARLY. There are families living in some rooms & others that live like it’s their primary residence.
Employees care and are helpful but can do only so much.
I guess cigarette smoking is still permitted indoors in Minnesota since smoking rooms are available. A guy walked in with us as we entered the motel, puffing a cigarette. He discarded the butt in the hallway. The butt sat there for three days. Cleaning crews clean rooms daily but hallways and public spaces don’t seem to be maintained as well. They have fixtures in public areas that make you think you are in a comparable three star motel but the overall maintenance of the place is in dire circumstance. An investor needs to step in and rehabilitate the place.
My note to the owners: A professional steam cleaner or industrial size steamer can be any business’ best friend. A small expense of say $ 500 — $ 1500 dollars for the purchase of this tool can help maintain a «thorough» cleaning. I know this. So please go to Grainger Industrial Supply or Amazon and get one. Steam cleaners of this caliber can produce steam at very high temperatures and is considered «green» cleaning as well. In the future if you were to ever have any unwanted «pests» living in the mattress, this steamer would also protect against that.
Sometimes saving a couple bucks isn’t worth the trouble.

I have to agree with Jill: Do NOT stay here!
We had visitors in town this weekend. They normally stay at the Super 8 near Stillwater, which is completely fine. It was booked, so that property referred them here. I wish we had known, so we could have gotten them out of the reservation. They had been told that this property was «newly renovated» so they decided to give it a chance. When we got to the hotel, there were shady folks wandering around the parking lot. I am a city gal, but even I was not entirely comfortable with the lurkers. More lurkers in the lobby. Hmm… When we got up to their floor, there were dirty q-​tips on the floor and stains on the carpets and walls. Okay, maybe it is the rooms that had been renovated. Nope. There were stains on that carpet too. Cigarette holes in the comforters. Hair between the sheets. A sizeable hole in the wall. Broken drawers in the dresser and desk. A broken headboard that looked downright dangerous — broken wood and exposed nails. Filthy curtains. A stain down the side of the mattress that looked like someone puked up blood. Water stains and cobwebs on the ceilings. The list goes on. We went to talk to the guy at the front desk about changing rooms, but they were completely sold out. He was very nice and apologized. Even gave a discount for the inconvenience. At the end of the day though, it was not a place I would ever reommend to anyone.

Where to start… Perhaps with a simple statement, DO NOT STAY HERE.
Let’s discuss the public areas of this establishment first.
Their website advertises a «fitness center.» It’s actually a large closet with an ancient stationary bike and a treadmill whose better days are far behind it. There’s a shelf for towels, but no towels on it. There’s a TV to watch while you work out, but unless you want to watch Comedy Central, don’t bother with it — because that’s the only channel that it gets. Also, you can’t get into the fitness area using your room key. You have to ask the front desk staff to let you in. Which is a huge annoyance, particularly when you just need to dart out and use the restroom before returning.
They advertise a breakfast in the morning. First, if you want a decent selection of food, you have to get there right when the breakfast area opens, because they don’t put out very much food. Second, if you want a decent breakfast, just go to McDonald’s instead. A fast food breakfast is ten times better than what this Super 8 offers.
The elevator is questionable. I found myself wondering several times if it would successfully transport me without incident. One time, I pushed the button to call the elevator and never got a response at all. As soon as I located the stairway, I avoided the elevator whenever possible.
The hallways are pretty ugly. The carpets are covered with stains and the walls are pleading for an update. «Tenement building» comes strongly to mind.
Now on to the guest rooms… When I was preparing to go to bed on the first night, I went to engage the security locks on the door. I then discovered that the outer lock was missing half of its hardware, rendering it useless, and the deadbolt lock had been improperly installed — the bolt didn’t match up with any of the holes, making it useless too. I was tired, so I just put one of my suitcases in front of the door and went to bed.
About those beds (and I would eventually try out two of them)… the mattresses are in desperate need of replacement. I spend most nights trying to reposition myself so that I didn’t constantly feel like I was going to roll off onto the floor. The sheets were not just cheap (which I had expected in a Super 8), but actually scratchy. And the comforter was covered in cigarette holes (even though I was in a non-​smoking room).
I also had a lot of trouble controlling the temperature. Very hot and very cold both seemed to be options, but mid-​level temperatures were tricky to obtain. The room cleanliness was also poor. Although the main area of the room had been vacuumed, there was a thick line of dirt along all of the walls.
The next day, I returned to my room in the afternoon to take a bath. That’s when I discovered the cockroach in the bathtub and the line of black mold along the top edge of the tub. That’s when I finally complained to the front desk.
To their credit, the person at the desk immediately comped my first room night and moved me to a different room.
Room two was in a bit better shape than room one, but added some new issues — although they were more minor. The TV remote didn’t work. When I woke up one morning and wanted to make some hot water for tea, I discovered that the provided coffeemaker had no coffee pot to go with it (and it was the type that needed one to be usable). This should’ve been noticed by the housekeeping staff.
After complaining again, the front desk staff comped me another room night.
An ongoing problem that I had with both rooms was soundproofing. Simply stated, there was none. You could not only hear everything going on in the rooms next to you, but also the rooms above and below you. And when the people down the hall decided to party until 4am on one night, I got to «enjoy» it too. The hotel had no one on staff who could monitor the behavior of guests and enforce any kind of quiet period. That was not the only night when loud people noise was a problem; it seemed to be an endemic issue with the hotel’s main clientele.
The only small bright spot was the front desk staff. I found them to be very pleasant. Plus, they comped 2 nights of my 4 night stay — one of the two reasons why I didn’t leave after the first night (the other reason being that I was at a conference that dictated an early departure and a late return every day).
Beyond the front desk though, the few staff that I encountered were surly and unhelpful. As I was trying to manuever 2 suitcases through the front door, one of the staff stood 3ft away smoking a cigarette while watching me struggle to open the door.
I might also mention that this hotel does not accept checks of any kind — cash and credit card only. But that info doesn’t really matter, because you would be an idiot to stay there after reading this review.