Review of Days Inn by Wyndham Jacksonville Baymeadows 2*

I don't think this hotel will remain a La Quinta for much longer. It is rather different than what you would expect from that chain. If your standards are: safe and without bedbugs, this place will do. The locks on the rooms were electronic and probably the only new thing on the property. The sheets were the La Quinta brand pattern, clean, without any sign of problems. It's not what you would expect in any other way, though. Other doors (plural) on the property (to storage? ) had big holes in the wood where they were just missing handles. The interior courtyard was full of cigarette butts where one person started and it was left, so everybody else just continued. There were signs of recent painting to look at the plants and cement, but not a color you could see on the exterior walls. I think a lot of the repairs on this property are done not using a professional. There were signs directing the way to the vending machine, but the property did not actually have one. (I asked. ) We were happy to find a place to stay, it being late and the other hotels for quite a ways around being full, so I imagined that our room was one of the last available. It may be that our room is one that they don't usually book unless they have to, or it may be representative of the other rooms. Our tub had a permanent stain in it in the enamel that was not from rust. The room had a strong chemical peachy smell on entering, but when I woke in the night, it just smelled like chemicals. There was no desk in the room, just a space where one had been, so when we brought our dinner back, we ate on an ironing board (at least there was one). We approached it with a spirit of adventure, but if there were any other choices, I wouldn't go back. Everything had the feeling of miserliness in terms of keeping the place up. They seemed to have enough guests to have the cash flow to keep the place up, it wasn't dead. I thought it was a bare, minimally acceptable standard, but not really for the price we paid or for what you would expect of the La Quinta chain. Our room absolutely did not look anything like the pictures above.