Econo Lodge Midvale — Hotel in Midvale

I guess it's my fault for expecting better. The problem is, I've been pleasantly surprised in the past. Perhaps I'm trying to re-find those positive hotel/motel experiences.||||The South Midvale Motel 6 is grim. Imagine a nightmare you've had where you wake up panicking, but soon realize that everything is okay - because you're safe in your own bed. Only this nightmare is real and it doesn't end until you check out. Just like the Eagles Song, Hotel California: "You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave."||||The GOOD:||- The General Manager is outgoing, affable, and friendly.||||- It's right off of the I15.||||The BAD:||- The hotel is a level of dirty you've likely never fully experienced. My room may have been tidied at some point in the past, but it was most certainly never cleaned. It requires a deep cleaning by men in hazmat suits. I'm not even certain that would help.||||- There were no toiletries available. I'm not sure if that's a Motel 6 policy, or if I was the lucky one to not receive those. So, no shampoo, no conditioner, and certainly no body lotion.||||- There were no face-cloths. Just two thread-bare towels and one hand-towel.||||- The TV in the room had be attacked by a toddler with a black marker. Of course when the TV is turned off, you wouldn't see that - but as soon as you turned it on, it was all over the tv.||||- Did I mention how dirty (like ground in dirt) the room was?||||- The area around the hotel is surrounded by burned-out drug addicts. There were meth-heads all over the place. There was broken car window glass in the parking lot, so clearly someone's car had been broken into.||||- That area of Midvale is NOT SAFE. What is it with the greater Salt Lake City area? Are there nice parts of the region that aren't accessible from the I15?||||- The La Quinta (right next door) is no better.||||SUMMARY:||- Don't be like me. Don't be cheap. Find a place somewhere safe, in a hotel that has seen a mop and a sponge - or someone who has actually cleaned for a living.||||- As for this Motel 6, I'm not even sure a renovation would help. I'd suspect they'd have to demolish the building, burn the rubble to keep it from spreading it's demonic powers, and start again (with a Priest who could...

As the other reviews say, this is literally the worst hotel experience you could imagine. I should have read reviews, I was just in a hurry to book a place and did not at all get what the Hopper App showed. All the other reviews are correct, no towels, no soap or shampoo, terrible service where they treat you like a bother rather than a guest. The day after I stayed I realized I left a bowl, I went back to get it. I was talking to some people on the other side of the fence and the clerk comes out all mad telling me I have to move my car. I was like "there are tons of spots, I was a paying guest last night, I am leaving in a few minutes, why do you care that my car is parked here?" she gets all mad and keeps telling me I must move my car because its past check out time. I said, "You have got to be kidding, you don't even have towels or soap at this place and you have the audacity to come out here telling me, a paying guest I have to move my car because it's slightly after checkout time when there are tons more parking spots available? I have never had a hotel do this ever and been parked plenty of times after check out". She proceeds to say she's calling the police and gets on the phone. Absolutely insane to treat guest this way.

The part not mentioned in other reviews though. This place is full of homeless drug addicts. I showed up and noticed very few cars but a lot of people walking around. I decided to lead with love rather than fear and talked to and befriended these people. They are human beings who are struggling with the disease of addiction. Don't fear them, show them love and humanity.

Seriously though, people walking around looking for "clear" aka meth or "the blues" aka fentanyl or "black" aka heroin. First time in my life seeing people smoke these drugs off of foil. So, if you want to find some hard drugs and hang out with addicts, which honestly was a great experience for me, I feel like I was ministering to the sick. Then this is your place. The staff and room is awful, the people, well, they are humans...

Don't stay here at this motel econal lodge. In Midville, Utah, they are very racist here, I told the people that I was going to pay, and they kicked me and my kids out of the room, but they have 8 other people here that haven't paid and they haven't bothered them at 1 time, I believe they're doing this because I'm black. And I will be definitely calling their corporate office to get my money back every room that I stayed in smelled like hearing the maids didn't clean the rooms properly. They're very dirty. I understand it is a motel, but it's still standards of keeping the plays clean because people can get sick. Um, the water was leaking everywhere. All over the bathroom, I told them last night. The lady last night at the desk didn't leave a message for the day shift to let them know that the sink was broken and they didn't even want to bother to put us in another room. So I'm leaving this review to let everybody know and to be aware of what they're getting themselves into when they come to the Ecologe, in Midville, next to the La Quinta. This is the cheapest motel in town right now. But the dirtiest of all motels, you might want to just go to another motel that's that's charging you more to stay there.It's...