Days Inn Salem
by lovemycactiAverage size rooms, clean enough, friendly enough. My only gripe is the paper thin walls!
Its not so bad, unless you get a junior league hockey team two rooms down from you (oh yes, lucky us) for one night, and the night after, two couples of teens acting all Britney Spears-like and giggling until 3am.
If you're a light sleeper, look elsewhere or pre-request a room as far away from another as possible. Still can't beat the price for a chain hotel though. The only other trouble we had was exiting the place and the on-location Dennys.
The driveway in and out for the Days Inn and Dennys is situated so going in is easy, but coming out - don't expect an exit with ease if you need to turn left (left will lead you into all the stores, services and eateries). Right just turns you back onto the highway. So plan on doing a U-turn when no ones looking or following the highway out for ten minutes to circle back in.
The Dennys that shares the parking lot with the Days Inn is older, a little run-down looking and the two days we ate breakfast there, had a bad experience both times.
The first breakfast day, they screwed up my friends order and we could see our food was ready five minutes before it was served to us - the waitress wouldn't stop gabbing to the other two waiters/waitress.
Breakfast day two, they screwed up my order and the waitress (a different one than yesterdays) was very rude and unaccomodating about a price descrepency. We had to rouse the attention of her manager to settle the problem. We spent a week in the area and ended up eating the remainder of our breakfasts at a chain-restaurant called Friendlys - which I highly recommend.
