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2 reviews for Days Inn
So...I didn't know Alhambra has some "tough" areas but I got lucky to be at Days Inn and near Shakas for dinner. I thought the room was nice and comfy. The TV was HUGE and granted there was no MTV so I missed ABDC, there was still a wide range of channels available. The gentlemen who run the front desk were very nice and called the taxi company three times for me to assure I'd get to Keck on time.
The room was clean, and my only complaint was that there was some loud party going on outside or downstairs from 11 pm - 2 am, which woke me up a few times. It also took me a while to sign onto the WiFi service, but once I got on it was a good connection.
I only stayed for a night, but I'm not sure I'd stay there again if I were on a longer trip given its location in the city and parking situation.
I have to say that this is the first time I've been let down by Yelp reviews. It's my own fault, though--two reviews isn't really enough to go on, right? Anyway, I really don't recommend staying here. It's not especially dirty, unsafe, or horrible; it's just not very good, and I'm sure you can do better for the same price.
GOOD POINTS
+ Coffeemaker, minifridge, and microwave in-room, plus a huge LG flatscreen TV, a DVD/VCR player, a desk with a chair, a couch, and a coffee table. The rooms are actually pretty well laid out and functional.
+ Parking area with lots of flowers (slightly mitigating the view from the rooms, which is of the trash-filled alley behind some bars.)
BAD POINTS
- Nothing to watch on those huge TVs: there's only 11 channels (one of which is Mandarin-only).
- HORRIBLE wifi service. First, you have to go get a ticket from the front desk with a randomly generated username and password for EACH user. Paranoid much? I'd rather click "yes" on a disclaimer page than go through this nonsense. Once we got our tickets, it took forever to get online, and then we had to move over near the window, even though our room was only halfway back. I couldn't check e-mail from bed, and people further away from the main office might not be able to get online at all.
- Narrow entryway to parking lot seems bound to cause an accident.
- The one elevator is down a dark hallway, which would have felt pretty sketchy to me if I'd been traveling alone. The elevator was fairly dirty inside.
- As far as I can tell, all of the guest rooms are upstairs. I didn't see any first-floor rooms.
- Fairly weak continental breakfast: prepackaged muffins, quartered; mini Sara Lee-type bagels; coffee; cereal (milk and juice are in a mini-fridge below the counter that didn't see till later). But at least there was fresh fruit (nectarines and bananas).
- Light sleepers beware: there's a fair amount of noise here. I could hear people moving around upstairs, people walking by outside, the nightclubs across the alley, and the air conditioner spazzing out. It had only two settings: run constantly on its highest, frigid setting, or loudly flip on and off every couple of seconds, which kept waking me up.
The night after this we stayed in a Quality Inn in San Diego. For about the same price, it was a million times better.
I'll be coming back to Pasadena in spring of 2009 for a conference and definitely won't be staying at this Days Inn; nor would I recommend it to anyone else. I can't afford the conference hotels, but maybe I can get into the Saga Motor Hotel before it's booked up.
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