Days Inn Cortland / Mc Graw

Dump! Don’t stay here, this motel is gross! Motel is extremely dated, has a weird smell that you can’t get out of your clothes. The room is the size of a ballroom with no furniture except for the bed and a table holding the tv, the A/C unit sounds like a Boeing jet plane. Spend a little more and go elsewhere, this place is not worth a penny!

Booked here as my HI express was sold out. Move in weekend for local college. Upon pulling sheets back to get in bed, there was food/crumbs in the bed. (On a side note, some suspicious looking guys sitting in their car, outside the doorway) Got our belongings and checked out. Now, of course I am having issues getting a refund. This place is an absolute dump. Any SUNY Cortland, Ithaca, Syracuse parents stay away. Wouldn't even stay here if it was free.

So as I was checking in another guest was complaining that her room was too hot. The clerk said "Yeah I know it's hard to control. We just open the window." Hmmmmmm. I asked about breakfast. He said "When it was a Days Inn we had breakfast but not now." I am a very frequent traveler. This is the first motel I've stayed in in over 20 years that didn't offer SOMETHING for breakfast. Even a bagle and cofee for gosh sakes!! Hmmmmmm. Got to my room and the pass key didn't work. The clerk apparently saw me struggling on a TV monitor and came running up with a new key. He said "Most guests have this problem. The pass keys don't usually work." He struggledd himself but finally got the door open. Hmmmmmm. Went into our non-smoking room and it absolytely REEKED OF CIGARETTE SMOKE!!! Hmmmmmmmm. The coup de grace was that the roomwas about 45 degrees (it was 15 outside). When we turned the heat on the room warmed up quickly then WE COULDN'T TURN DOWN THE HEAT! The heat was either on full blast or totally off. No in between. So several times during the night we had to get up and turn the heat on and stay awake long enough to turn it off so the room didn't turn into a sauna. HMMMMMMMM. Bottom line: the place is clean, and seems safe, and the clerk seemed like a nice guy but I'd be a fool to stay there again. If you do, good luck. After all, it is cheap!