Days Inn Fort Lauderdale-Oakland Park Airport North

The front office staff were friendly and efficient checking in and out was the fastest I have ever experienced.The airport shuttle took a bit to come on arrival, but did get there, and got me to the airport in record time on return. The rooms did not get cleaned until very late in the day, I had time to run all errands in the morning till early afternoon and still beat housekeeping . The pool could have been a little cleaner being that not many people seem to utilize it but there fitness room was very nice and so was the continental breakfast.

the room smelled like mold and cigarettes even thou it was supose to be a non smoking room. it was noisy all day while i was there. with a train going by every hour adding to the noise. there was all kind of shady people hanging around. i could hear every persons conversation from outside the your door. i could not sleep .!!!! i got my room changed for a quieter room but that did not work out either it was still noisy i could hear the train louder and the people fixing the pool and the guys all hanging outside my door. i didnt have no sleep that night either so i checked out the next day i didnt feel safe and it smelled and i didnt get any sleep. point blank i hated it and i will never book a room there again! i feel i should be reimbursed for the hotel stay.

hotel room was clean and pleasant. one problem it is close to the train tracks and they ran all night it seemed. it was right off 95 so easy to get back to the airport or head to south beach.

I am fortunate to travel often and the minute I walked into my room my thought was that I should have stayed somewhere else. Check-in was impersonal and a bit lengthy and annoying. Once in the room, immediately noticed that my TV had poor reception (at three or four points over two and a half days, it just stopped, or that channel's screen was taken over by intereference). While hotel location is right on I-95 and quite near several things in Fort Lauderdale that I planned to do, the alarming sounds of the train station nearby seemed to come at inopportune times. Bed was fairly comfortable and there are some amenities, but I wouldn't want to use the pool or the exercise room. Make no mistake - this is a budget property, very dated, with a fairly chaotic feel in the leasing office. Feels like the kind of place where someone might try to break in on you.

This was one of the most annoying stays that I've ever had in a motel and I've stayed in 100's of motels and hotels all around the globe! It was nearly impossible to get any good rest for the 3 days that I stayed there because: 1. Location is right next to (i.e., nearly on top of) commuter light rail tracks. Trains come through every 15-20 minutes from 6AM to midnight and blast their horns long & loud since loc. is near a major intersection (I95 & W. Oakland Park Blvd.). 2. Consistent with other reviewers' comments, just forget about getting any reliable wireless or wired internet svc. anywhere in the motel, regardless of room location. Even the hotel's one and only public computer in the reception area couldn't get on the internet. Many guests complained about this problem, and the staff attempted to fix it during the entire stay but to no avail. 3. Major safety-concern incident: I was awakened @ 8 AM on 2nd day of stay by a caller with a heavy tropical accent who stated he was the front desk clerk. After asking me some leading Q's and pretending to be confirming my departure date and # of guests in the room, etc. (all of which he had wrong of course), he told me he had some "free samples" to give me. I told him no and after he continued to jabber on and annoy me even further and I realized that he was probably a scammer, I promptly hung up. I immediately called the front desk and they told me that they were aware of a scammer who tries to lure guests out of their rooms and then does who knows what to them. They had tried to catch him with no success (this had been going on for some time); and they had reported it to the local police. My immediate thoughts were: a) how did he know which rooms were occupied so he could place his calls?; and b) how was he able to ring the rooms directly w/o going through the operator? This attempted crime really does appear to me to smack of an "inside job" or collusion with a staff member. I was very concerned about my personal safety because of this and other observations I made (refer to below comment) for the duration of my stay. 4. I went down to 1st floor to get snacks from the one and only vending machine @ 3AM and there was suspicious activity and so many vehicles of every sort passing through the parking lot that I had to wait to get across the street! 5. Many of the residents are contractors and they enter their vehicles starting @ 4AM; all of which seemed to sound their horn when they deactivated their security systems. It was virtually impossible to get any good rest in this place! 6. After checking out I discovered that the elevator call btn. on my floor didn't work and I had to drag all my luggage down 4 flights of steps. 7. The housekeeping staff only had to clean my room once as I declined svc. the other days. All they did that day was provide clean towels and did no cleaning that I could see; and they didn't even bother to make the bed. 8. The door into my room stuck so badly that I had to act like a football linebacker and put full shoulder force against it to open it. 9. My cell phone failed completely (electronics problem) and I attempted to make a long distance call from my room, as I had been told by the front desk clerk when I checked in that [surprisingly to me] long distance calls from the room within the territorial U. S. were "free". After getting the busy signal on every try for 15 minutes I called the front desk and was informed that the motel doesn't permit dialing long distance calls from the room; even though instructions are provided on how to dial such calls on the phones in each room and even though I had given them my CC when I checked in. How deceptive and inconvenient!

having stayed at this great location, several times, just south of ft lauderdale, right off the 95, I was disappointed that it is becoming so run-down (in just the past 8months) pool in sun still nice, but property is failing; too bad

It was a good stay, the room was properly cleaned, but the lobby area was too cramped especially during the complimentary breakfast time.

I DID NOT CHECK IN. WHEN I ARRIVED THERE WAS A LINE STANDING OUTSIDE IN THE PARKING LOT.THEY WERE TRYING TO MEET WITH STAFF WHOSE OFFICE WAS OUTSIDE THE HOTEL BUILDING. ONE STAFFER TRIED TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE. SECOND STAFFER WAS STANDING THERE IGNORING THE PEOPLE.

It was an unusually cold weekend for Southern Florida. I had to walk several blocks for any food and had to hurry so I was back before dark. I don't mind walking but not the best place for a single woman.The room was clean and had all I needed. The price was reasonable.I followed instructions from the hotel upon arrival. It was cold and windy. After 40 minutes I called again about the shuttle. This time it arrived in about 15 minutes. The driver said that was the only call he had had.[...]

Great value. Would definitely visit again. You pretty much need a car though because of the location but it is right on 95!