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  • Rooms: 174
  • Address: 2901 E. Busch Blvd/I-275, Formerly Days Inn Busch Garden Maingate Tampa, FL 33612
Property Type: Hotel
  • Lodging offering guest rooms, a 24-hour front desk and a variety of services and amenities.
Description: Modern - Near Busch Gardens. This description is based on information provided by the hotel.
No Business Center No Fitness Center Free High-Speed Internet Free Parking Pets Allowed Restaurant No Room Service Swimming Pool
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“A real dump”

Days Inn West of Busch Gardens

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1 of 5 stars
Fishkill, New York
Aug 30, 2005
5/5 found this review helpful

We stayed at this hotel from 8/25-8/27. We have always felt the Days Inn was a safe choice to make when wanting a clean, reasonably priced hotel to stay at, when traveling. We don't feel that way anymore. The first room we were offered (347) didn't have a working shower or toilet. We then found ourselves in room 353. The only way I can describe it is a "dump". The bathroom floor was filthy, caked dirt in the corners. There was mold along the calking. The bathtub had clumps of plaster on the edge and a dead roach in it. The tissue box was stained and dirty by the sink. The TV had a sticky substance all over the screen. The chair fabric was VERY stained and it looked to me as though one of them had been chewed on. The blankets were stained, the carpeting frayed. To make matters worse our room was NEVER cleaned for our second night stay. (We would have gone to another hotel but were too busy and tired to bother. We now wish we had done that) We left the room at 12:00 noon. We made it a point of taking the "do not disturb" sign off the door thinking we'd at least have fresh sheets and towels upon our return. That was just too much to hope for. When I called the front desk to ask why our room hadn't been cleaned, I received no explanation, just a "we have clean towels up at the desk if someone wants to come get them". What's going on here? There are WAY too many hotels, all in the same area, with comparable prices for this hotel to be run this way. We were told by the front desk the hotel was being renovated. What does that have to do with providing your guests good service and a clean room NOW?

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“Don't Even Think About It!!!!”

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1 of 5 stars
fernandina beach, florida
Jul 25, 2005
9/9 found this review helpful

I wish they let me give less than one dot on here. I am embarrassed to say I have actually stayed here twice. The first time, we stayed here for one night. The room smelled musty, everything was old and gross looking. But, I got the room for $45.

The next time, we got the room for $49 and I knew it was a lower class hotel, but I thought maybe we just got a bad room the one time. We got in very late the first night and had planned on walking to Busch Gardens. We arrived late, as I said, and tired and only wanted to shower and get some rest for a day at Busch Gardens in the morning. We got to the room. Again it stunk horribly. I was so tired and about to pass out asleep, so, I just wanted a shower and get to sleep and would deal with the rest of it in the morning. But, then I got to the bathroom. There were many-MANY hairs of all sorts in the tub and on the walls. And they weren't just from the last guest. Some were blonde, some brown, some black, some long, some short, some were of the 'kinky' sort obviously not from someone's head, but another type of hair. I don't mean just a couple, but enough to clog up a vacuum if someone were to actually try to clean anything in this motel.

I was honestly too tired to try to find another hotel, so we skipped the bath and went to bed and found another hotel in the morning before going to the park.

Awful, Nasty, Don't stay here.

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cantfindaname's Summary
Date of Stay: June 2004
Member since: July 19, 2005
  • My ratings for this hotel are:
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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“Never go!!”

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1 of 5 stars
hialeah, florida
Jul 18, 2005
4/4 found this review helpful

07.15.05 - 07.17.05
First of all...We opened the door and the smell was horrible, it smelled like old, dusty, dirty, wet carpet. Second of all, the bath tub was all rusty and the toilet was about to go through the floor. You literally felt the toilet move the floor. The toilet over floated. The phone didnt even work! the door almost didn't lock. i felt unsafe....and the dennys was horrible too. dont ever go even though its a great location for busch gardens/adventure island.

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This TripAdvisor Member's Summary
Date of Stay: July 2005
Member since: July 18, 2005
  • My ratings for this hotel are:
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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“Don't stay here!!!!”

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St. Mary's Georgia
Jun 19, 2005
5/5 found this review helpful

The room was very disgusting. The tub was so filthy I had to wash it out before I took a bath in it. The walls and the door to the bathroom was covered in dirt. I would of only taken a minute to wash it down with some type of cleaner. The bed spread was not clean, when you touched it you could feel the dirt on it. I will never stay there again.

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This TripAdvisor Member's Summary
Date of Stay: June 2005
Member since: July 07, 2005
  • My ratings for this hotel are:
    • 2 of 5 stars Value
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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“Horrible!”

Days Inn West of Busch Gardens

May 18, 2005
2/2 found this review helpful

This Hotel was the worst I have ever seen! The room was filthy. Not a good place at all. I went in Jan of 05 with a bunch of friends and we are all young, so we aren't all that picky we just wanted a cheaper place to crash for the night after going to Busch Gardens. Well we were very disgusted after seeing our rooms, we were extremely frustrated, but it was too late to go anywhere else. But I would never recommend this place to my enemy.

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This TripAdvisor Member's Summary
Date of Stay: January 2005
Member since: July 07, 2005
  • My ratings for this hotel are:
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Address: 2901 E. Busch Blvd/I-275, Formerly Days Inn Busch Garden Maingate, Tampa, FL 33612