Super 8 by Wyndham Sterling Heights/Detroit Area — Hotel in Sterling Heights

My friend and I decided to try out the motel 8 since we were in the general area. The parking lot looks fairly repaved. Check in was a breeze and didnt have to wait in a long line. The lobby looked fairly clean but the stairs leading up are very dirty looking or worn out. The carpet and overall decor seems outdated. The halls seemed quite busy with people making noise and walking around at various times of the day and night. We got a double bed motel room. The room is a bit small, the TV had no overlay on channel numbers so if I say wanted to watch my favorite show at 9pm, I had to flip around guessing where the channel was instead of just entering the channel number and jumping to said channel. The channels were mostly not HD and local channels were fuzzy looking and hard to watch.||The ac / heating unit in the room worked well but the switch on the unit was loose and didn't land on the specific spots properly (low fan, high fan etc) so you had to guess which spot it was on.||The wood laminated flooring in our particular room was raised up and was prone to us cutting our feet if we weren't careful. ||The wifi is pretty weak with tons of buffering when watching any type of social media video (not watching a movie) and when the front desk was informed via calling from the noisy phone in the room, their response was they were "unusually busy" and when I asked them to perhaps rebooting the router to fix the issue I was told "I'll see what I can do". Well it didn't work nor did they reboot the system since you can tell on your mobile phone or device when a wifi connection is offline and back onliien and I saw no evidence of a reboot of the router. This wifi is by far weaker then any establishments I've been in this far this year and the front desk was a bit rude in how they handled the conversation I regards to the wifi. ||Breakfast is continental which is basically bagels and cereal with weak coffee. Nothing to brag home. their is a warming sign about bringing food up to your room is grounds for evicting you from your room losing your deposit. This by far was a first I've ever seen from a chain of hospitality across my US travels. |We walked some of our stuff down to our vehicle the day of checkout roughly around 9:42am and we hear the housekeeping down the hall say "done??, done??" I responded huh? because I couldn't hear her and didn't understand what she murmured and she repeated it again like a canary. If you want to be bugged by housekeeping asking if you're "done??? done??" then this is the place for you. This was truly aggervating. We should not be hassled by anyone since the keys are not turned into the front desk and we were not even close to the 11am checkout time.||Bottom line: ||You get what you pay for. If you're there to have a room to try to sleep in, then this is the place to be. The price is below average rates around the mile radius of other bigger and well known hotels that imo are better since I have reviewed them. No amenities, very weak wifi, drug interactions, archaic carpeted dirty floors and decor, no HD TV, beat up looking bath tubs and barely any cctv for protection just to name a few from the long laundry list of cons for this place. The noise from other guests is enough to knock a star rating down let alone the smell of weed, the carpet has a funk to it and people stomping down the halls and witnessing drug deals that took place in the parking lot. ||This wouldn't be the first spot that comes to mind for a hotel / motel. The parking lot isn't bad though & that's the real winning take. Not far on van Dyke are a vast selection of hotels both high and low priced all with...

My friend and I decided to try out the motel 8 since we were in the general area. The parking lot looks fairly repaved. Check in was a breeze and didnt have to wait in a long line. The lobby looked fairly clean but the stairs leading up are very dirty looking or worn out. The carpet and overall decor seems outdated. The halls seemed quite busy with people making noise and walking around at various times of the day and night. We got a double bed motel room. The room is a bit small, the TV had no overlay on channel numbers so if I say wanted to watch my favorite show at 9pm, I had to flip around guessing where the channel was instead of just entering the channel number and jumping to said channel. The channels were mostly not HD and local channels were fuzzy looking and hard to watch.

The ac / heating unit in the room worked well but the switch on the unit was loose and didn't land on the specific spots properly (low fan, high fan etc) so you had to guess which spot it was on.

The wood laminated flooring in our particular room was raised up and was prone to us cutting our feet if we weren't careful.

The wifi is pretty weak with tons of buffering when watching any type of social media video (not watching a movie) and when the front desk was informed via calling from the noisy phone in the room, their response was they were "unusually busy" and when I asked them to perhaps rebooting the router to fix the issue I was told "I'll see what I can do". Well it didn't work nor did they reboot the system since you can tell on your mobile phone or device when a wifi connection is offline and back onliien and I saw no evidence of a reboot of the router. This wifi is by far weaker then any establishments I've been in this far this year and the front desk was a bit rude in how they handled the conversation I regards to the wifi.

Breakfast is continental which is basically bagels and cereal with weak coffee. Nothing to brag home. their is a warming sign about bringing food up to your room is grounds for evicting you from your room losing your deposit. This by far was a first I've ever seen from a chain of hospitality across my US travels. We walked some of our stuff down to our vehicle the day of checkout roughly around 9:42am and we hear the housekeeping down the hall say "done??, done??" I responded huh? because I couldn't hear her and didn't understand what she murmured and she repeated it again like a canary. If you want to be bugged by housekeeping asking if you're "done??? done??" then this is the place for you. This was truly aggervating. We should not be hassled by anyone since the keys are not turned into the front desk and we were not even close to the 11am checkout time.

Bottom line:

You get what you pay for. If you're there to have a room to try to sleep in, then this is the place to be. The price is below average rates around the mile radius of other bigger and well known hotels that imo are better since I have reviewed them. No amenities, very weak wifi, drug interactions, archaic carpeted dirty floors and decor, no HD TV, beat up looking bath tubs and barely any cctv for protection just to name a few from the long laundry list of cons for this place. The noise from other guests is enough to knock a star rating down let alone the smell of weed, the carpet has a funk to it and people stomping down the halls and witnessing drug deals that took place in the parking lot.

This wouldn't be the first spot that comes to mind for a hotel / motel. The parking lot isn't bad though & that's the real winning take. Not far on van Dyke are a vast selection of hotels both high and low priced all with...

There were cops in the parking lot when we got there. I was too tired to leave to drive safely and had already paid online. The young man at the front desk was really kind, reassuring, and helpful. I had to ask him for some sheets for the pull out bed and bill exchanges for the vending machines, and he was very helpful and patient about it. He's the reason for any stars at all. I was hesitant to make a review, but I think it could legitimately be a health hazard. The stairs were covered in filthy thin worn down carpet, and the door was patched up. The keycard was nice, so I thought it would be okay inside. From the first glance it seemed to be with updated decor, but it was not. The floor was sticky and dirty. Shoes stayed on. There was an obvious dried up spill on the floor of some sort of sugary beverage. There were crumbs, pieces of food, and some baby socks under the foldaway bed. The middle of the peel-and-stick laminate flooring was worn through and chipping, and a piece stabbed my son's foot when he stepped where the subfloor was flexible. There was a greasy handprint on the table like it was slathered in something. The mini fridge was warm, damaged, and the seal was broken and unusable. The TV was nice. There was a 7 inch wide round bloodstain in the mattress up where somebody's face would be. The bedding seemed clean. I didn't see any bugs or anything under the mattress pads, so we just stayed. The bathroom sink was held together with random caulking and a prayer. The bath tub was painted over a LOT and had wear marks through several uneven and oddly colored layers of paint. The faucet sprayed outward in a cone shaped mist that will spray anything on the sides of the sink. The toilet wasn't awful. Just low flow and have to hold it down to flush, so normal. There were pieces of thick wooden laminate flooring like an inch thick and about two feet across screwed into the floor just outside the bathroom tub. We chose not to turn the shower on or use the tub. There has clearly been water damage or something to the subfloor in the bathroom and inside the room. The floor is soft and flexible, and I worry about mold exposure. The beds were comfortable. The AC unit was very dusty and caked up. The smoke and monoxide censor on the ceiling looked greasy. They need a contractor in there. I kinda wish I went camping, but it was fine and now we have a story about why you should make sure that you know what you're doing with home repairs...