La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Salem OR — Hotel in Salem

Poorly maintained, uncomfortable beds, not very clean and really rude staff. I don’t think I have ever given a one-star rating to any business, but this property earned it. I wasn’t expecting much and I’ve stayed at a lot of travel/budget/business hotels, but I’ve never been abruptly interrupted by a front desk staff member and told to “be quiet” because she was having trouble hearing people on the phone. Seriously. I was in the lobby seating area meeting with a business client when she (Sherika) abruptly interrupted and scolded me. She told me to be quiet as she couldn’t concentrate and could hardly hear people on the phone. I’m not a very loud talker nor do I have a deep, commanding voice and even if I were I would never expect a staff member of a hotel to so rudely interrupt my business meeting and scold me like Sherika did. I was so dumbfounded and embarrassed in front of my client I didn’t even respond. I apologized to my client and we moved our meeting across the street to Denny’s. On day two of my stay I was hoping I might grab a banana on my way out so I asked a gentleman at the front desk if they might have any and he told me they “no longer carry bananas as they didn’t have a long enough shelf-life”. It made me wonder how long those few apples and oranges had been laying around that fruit bowl across from the gut-rot coffee so I decided to skip breakfast. I was a bit surprised to discover that Motel 6 has better amenities than this property. I was very surprised that this La Quinta didn’t supply lotion in their rooms. Nor do they supply a plastic bag for soiled laundry. The broken ironing board and child-sized, almost toy style iron was pretty funny as well. After staying at this place for a couple of nights, not getting very much sleep on my board-hard squeaky old mattress (honestly the most uncomfortable bed ever!) I cut my stay short and checked out a day early. I pity the poor business traveler who gets booked into this dump. I also really appreciated the lovely graffiti on the inside of the elevator doors and the non-working paper towel dispenser in the men’s restroom. I will do my best to avoid La Quinta properties...

The STIFFEST BEDS POSSIBLE 😒don’t recommend if you want cozy nest quiet comfort. Thin cover set up too , but you could double up two beds covers for the added heaviness , I guess.

The lay out of the lights/light switches and bulbs in the room were designed by an idiot. So bright and an awful blue lighting not conducive for relaxing let alone turning on and off because in odd places. Had to try to wrap towls and balance pillows on lamps just to make them less bright blue so could eat and watch the tiny tv with only 15 infomercial channels without a light that belongs in a nightmare laboratory scene blasting you in the eye balls before bedtime. The single light hanging above the bed I had to wrap in towels looks like it’s been pulled opened before with someone trying to figure out why it’s so damn bright white and you can see it’s one of those led energy saver bulbs. Just not what should be in this fixture at all.

Room smelled a little funny when I arrived but you get used to it 😂not sure how to describe it

Can also hear toilet water flushing in walls sometimes. Not the most expensive building plan let’s put it that way. SENSORY NIGHTMARE

Also only one entrance, the front entrance. Your going to have to pull your cart or luggage over a runways length of fake cobble stone , god-awful feeling and sounds as you walk up to the entrance announcing your coming when you just want slide right in and not be seen or heard like a ninja. Other two exits don’t have key cards nor handles on the outsides of them, very unwelcoming on that aspect as well. Parking lot fills fast at night.

Edited to add I’m in Room 104 and starting at 5 am beeping from somewhere in the walls can be heard along with people in the lobby waiting for 6:30 am breakfast to be served. An alarm clock in a vacant room across the hall went off and I had to go get someone to turn it off (poorly designed “pretty looking” clocks allow you to turn on the alarms unknowingly to easily, as I turned mine on while moving it the night before too and it went off 6:15am😒 Defiantly packing up to find another...

Let. Me. Tell. You. This place was awful. My fiance and I love Salem and love to visit. So we chose La Quinta as our hotel for our stay. The hotel was having work done, no big deal, upgrades! Cool. So we settle in, wed both been traveling all day so we hit up the honky tonk and went home early for a long nights sleep. 1:30 am ya'll. 1:30. In the morning. I hear this dripping in my sleep thinkin Gosh darn my man left the shower drippin'. The urge to pee overrode my desire to ignore the drip and keep sleeping. So I stumble to the bathroom and what in Sam Hill do I find? A full on flooded bathroom. The drip wasnt no drip, Noah's ark was trying to make voyage through the vents from the floor above. And by golly I had to wee, so I laid some towels down, and a couple over my shoulders to take the burden from the vents above and did my thing, then went to the bed to wake up the bear... so I poke it. The bear. So he gets up and looks at the bathroom, lets out a stream of truly eloquent french, pulls his knickers on and marches down to the front desk to let them know the drywall sky is gonna fall. Front desk lady moves us to a new room. We get settled around 2:30 into our new, much smaller room, and lay down. But what!? There's a big ol' street lamp outside the window that's as bright as my tig welder without a hood on. Me, grumpy as a dwarf now, gets up to close the curtains. Better me than the bear, who drove 14 hours the day before. But! Those darn blackout curtains didn't close! So to all of you driving along the road outside la quinta that night that caught a glimpse of my (very white) naked self attempting to wrestle with some curtains in a very groggy state, you're welcome for the entertainment and I apologize for any emotional damage my floppy bits might have caused. The cherry on top and the end of my story... We had to pay full price. La Quinta,...