Days Inn Traverse City

Room was big and clean. Pool and Spa are in a pleasant, wooden room. Front Desk lady was truly awful.

I was so pleasantly surprised by our stay here. During check in, the attendant noticed a note that we were in TC for our anniversary, and gave us a warm congratulations. We found our room (I was expecting a standard room – though I knew the in-​room jacuzzi was awaiting), which was a very big suite… no sparkle and shine, but clean and accommodating. After just a couple of minutes, there was a knock at the door and I asked my husband to answer. He was greeted by the manager, who presented him/​us with an anniversary card and a mug filled with Traverse City dried cherries. If that isn’t a warm welcome and great customer service, I don’t know what is!

I visited Traverse City recently and stayed at the Days Inn, making a decision to stay there based on reviews on Expedia, where it was rated highly for it’s price range.
I wasn’t impressed. The room was dingy and had a bit of an odor, but that’s to be expected of just about any hotel room that isn’t new. The bathroom had a lot of mildew. The walls seemed to be paper-​thin as I could hear everything around me.
The AC unit has a lot to be desired, not really cooling the room off well at all.
This hotel needs to get with the times and provide accessible outlets for plugging in phone chargers and other electronics. Just about every hotel I’ve been at in the past ten years has had at least one outlet accessible, but here they seemed to hide them behind furniture probably to discourage you from using them. I’m sorry but if I’m staying at your hotel, I’m going to charge my phone there. I expect that to be part of the package.
The breakfast was OK… typical of what you’d expect from a hotel continental breakfast.
The best part of the place was the pool and spa. Both were very nice.

Clean, mediocre chain hotel. Good location, pool and hot tub, small playground for kids. Close to downtown and beaches. The housekeeping service wasn’t very good, and the continental breakfast was pretty awful, but it is a good spot to stay with little kids who think all you can eat fruit loops is the best breakfast ever.

We stayed at the Day’s Inn on 31 North and it seemed far away from downtown Traverse City. The room was fine — clean and in good shape — but the breakfast was lacking and served in a warm, small room on the first level. At $ 100/​night, I thought it was expensive for what we got, but it was the least expensive hotel in the Traverse City area.

Not a bad place to stay — not the best but it treated us just fine. Room was clean and really we just slept here & left.
The continental breakfast had quite a few choices — cereal, oatmeal, fruit, breads, etc. Gotta love when breakfast is included with the room!

My husband and i stayed here when we took a last-​minute trip up to TC for Labor Day. We would rather spend money on activities than a room we’re basically just going to sleep in. Most of the other hotels in the area cost nearly double. We got a king room, which had a desk, microwave, and mini fridge. The room was clean and comfortable.
The continental breakfast was pretty standard for a lower end hotel… cereal, bagels, muffins, pastries. They also have coffee in the lobby at all times which was very convenient since our room was near the lobby. On labor day, when most folks were apparently heading home, the breakfast area was a madhouse with nowhere to sit, but that was not the case for the rest of the time.
The Days Inn does have a fitness center, which is nice considering the price of the rooms, but it’s pretty basic with a stair machine, a treadmill, and a couple recumbent bikes. The machines were very old but okay in a pinch. You are also required to get some special cord from the front desk in order to use the treadmill. The pool would probably be a better way to get your workout in.
The wireless was fine most of the time, but when the place was packed on our first night there (the night before Labor Day), it seemed to really flake out.
Overall we were pleased with our stay. We appreciated the amenities, as well as the extra cash in our pocket to use on food and experiences. We would stay here again.

I would highly recommend. Front Desk very helpful and refreshing to see people who can speak and understand English.
Very helpful recommending local restaurants and wanting to hear feedback on that recommendation.
Rooms clean and comfortable.
Don’t go anywhere else!
Greg

This was a good choice to stay. I was booked at another hotel for about $ 100, but saw this for $ 79 and decided to switch.
The hotel is older, but still nice and the rooms are updated. The room (2 Queens) looks exactly like it does on the Days Inn website. Flat screen TV, mini fridge, microwave, etc. It was a nice room. Our biggest room problem was that we were placed in a room that had connecting doors to the room next to us. We do not like to be in rooms like this (we’ve had problems with other travelers in the past) but we had no problems with this hotel.
The pool was great — nice and large and we had plenty of room to swim along with a few other people that were there.
Breakfast was okay — the muffins were kind of icky, but it was standard fare. They really don’t have a lot of seating. If it hadn’t been raining we could have sat out on the patio. We just grabbed food and went back to the room where it was quiet.
The staff was very pleasant. The maintenance guy that was walking around always said hello and asked us how we were doing. Even if he didn’t care, it was nice to hear.
We would probably stay there again.

Cheap and close to the airport. After an extended day in Traverse City due to storms in Chicago, this was a quick rest stop at a cost of only $ 70. Staff was friendly and helpful, quickly obtaining us a room and helping call a 5:00 AM cab for our early flight. Free WiFi and breakfast were also a plus. Rooms were clean and utilitarian but the whole motel had a strange smell to it. Even so, definitely worth the cost.

Solid choice. Heres everything you need to know in one sentence or less: Convieninet to downtown, and the airport (no free shuttle, but they’ll call you a cab), reasonably priced, close to the bay (a block or so away), clean, updated rooms, friendly staff, nice tvs, free wifi, and continental breakfast.

Traveled to Traverse City last weekend and we stayed here one nite. they were very friendly. the place was very clean, But it still felt like a chain hotel. with all the other choices. Breakfst ws nothing special. Its ok if your looking for a chain hotel.

Nicely updated rooms and a new type of feeling about the entire property. This Days Inn is located just outside what I would call downtown Traverse City «proper» and it’s super close to not matter. The TART bicycle trail is just south of here.
We got a 2 queen suite room. The way this room was set up was it had a main bedroom with one queen in it; then in the other room it was really the living room with a queen bed that was folded up into the wall of the room. Interesting. There are flat screen TV’s in both the living room and bedroom. The bathroom is set up with 2 doors, one from the living room and one for the bedroom. Nice if you need some privacy. Also the bedroom side has a separate sink and mirror area outside the bathroom. There is a big closet in the bedroom and then another smaller one in the living room.
The kitchen area includes a sink, a microwave, and mini-​fridge. No stove to cook on but was not really anything we were looking for.
The pool is a decent size and is indoors and runs from 3 feet deep to 5 feet deep. The hot tub right next to the pool looks like it can hold about 12 people at once.
We were here mid-​summer on a weekend and paid $ 150 a night which included tax. It’s a good price compared to some of the other properties around this area, and I like that this place looks and feels clean and new. Oh, and free wi-​fi that works well (I’m using it now for this review!).

Not bad at all. The hotel was obviously recently renovated so it looked and smelled newer. Had a room with two queen beds, desk, chair (s), dresser, safe, flat screen TV, mini fridge and microwave — all the typical stuff. We brought our laptop as we knew there was free wi-​fi. there is a business center too. Free continental breakfast (cereal, muffins, fruit, bagels…), plenty of complimentary parking, pool, room service. The hotel was was pretty busy, however not all that noisy. The price wasn’t bad either — we reserved our room via the internet so I think we had some sort of discount since we stayed 3 nights.
The location was great. We would definitely stay here over the pricier accommodations.

Great deal for a motel right on the main drag, easy access to most anywhere in the Fudgie Kingdom. We’ve stayed here five or six times over twenty years.
The good: Price. Suite, with four of us, kitchenette, teevees in both rooms. Under a hundy per night. Rooms have been renovated, the staff is very nice and there seem to be a LOT of people working here. Pool is pretty great, breakfast is free, although it’s just cereal, fruit, muffins, that sort of thing. The place is pet friendly; our dog would have been a tenner a night, if we hadn’t decided eight hours in the car would have been too much for him and us.
The bad: The place is pet-​friendly. So, when you walk in the room, you’ll know they’ve worked very, very hard to make the place smell like there wasn’t just an aged basset hound «working the room» for the previous week. I almost wished the chemical smell would have been replaced with mere dog pee.
Overall, though, a real bang for the buck. We’ll be back.

I agree with Kwoky. This is one of the best hotels in the area and we got a group rate which was 62 bucks including breakfast and morning paper plus theres a pool

For a 2.5 stars hotel, this is an excellent deal for my vacation. We had a room with 2 queen beds for less than $ 130 per night. It came with breakfast, swimming pool, gym, wi-​fi, and a business center for your convenience. I was extremely satisfied with the service provided by the front desk and the people who manages the café are wonderful as well. My only complaint was that room service didn’t attend to our needs even though we left them a message. In addition it’s close to the airport and a short drive away from downtown Traverse City and the Old Mission peninsula. I will definitely be back here for my next trip.