Motel 6-Madison, WI - East

Inhabitable motel. The halls are covered in debris. Old toilets were piled at the exits. Discarded mattresses and furniture littered the parking lot. The building smells like smoke. The inattentive staff never pick up the phone and sit behind a wall and plexiglass. The parking lot is full of loitering individuals throughout the night, gathering in groups and drinking alcohol out of open containers.

Room was relatively clean. Rest of the property was not and was a bit disturbing. Stayed here due to price hikes in the rest of the city so I got what I paid for. If you are very budget conscious this hotel will provide a bed and pillow that are adequate for sleeping.

We stayed here ONLY because there was an Epic software user conference in Madison and there were almost no rooms left anywhere. We were moving kids into college, so we absolutely had to find a place to stay and this was basically our only choice. The most recent reviews mostly cover it. I would have said previously that the table stakes you expect from a hotel are cleanliness, and while that's true, I've gone further down the hierarchy of needs. The most basic expectation is that you feel safe, and my wife and I did not feel safe. Lots of screaming and yelling, lots of doors slamming, and they continue basically all night. It's all exacerbated by the fact that the rooms are the opposite of soundproof. As others have noted, it's not clean either, especially the hallways and the parking lot. The room was not spotless, but not much worse than I expected. The other areas were much, much worse than I expected. Above safety and cleanliness you get to sleep quality. Our bed was actually not bad, and the sheets seemed clean. The pillows felt like they were made of a couple of dozen of foam balls. Tolerable. But the above mentioned noise makes sleeping very hard. ******THE NUMBER ONE PRO TIP IF YOU HAVE TO STAY HERE IS TO BRING A WHITE NOISE MACHINE.************* I have to imagine this hotel will not exist in a couple of years. I assume the hotel was acceptable at some point in the past, and it very much feels like it must be in the middle of an awful downward spiral.

The motel was in bad shape, with holes, broken windows, and stains. The parking lot was the scene of active drug dealing and drinking. The bed had bed bugs. I had to move to another hotel. Other than that it was fine.

It's very scrappy and unsafe