Howard Johnson by Wyndham Reno Downtown

Location: Several users noted proximity to casinos and convenience for travel, though this was often offset by neighborhood concerns.(based on 1 review)

There’s not much I liked about this property and I would never stay here again. My room was not clean. There were hair shavings on the sink and counter from the previous renter. In the corners of the sink area there was evidence of roaches. The paint was peeling off the walls in the bathroom. When I took a shower the tub filled with water as it was clogged. The smoke detector was painted over and didn’t work. My door lock on the inside was missing the cover so the inside of the lock was exposed. The microwave was DISGUSTING! The walls are pretty thin and the water pipes are super loud. The clientele in this area are pretty sketchy. I went down to the front office to get some ice and water. All the vending machines were broken. They had a coffee machine and juice machine, but no water. I asked the receptionist if there as a sink in the back to get water and she said, “no we don’t have ANY water.” Parking is pretty tight, especially if you have a full size pickup like I do.

Horrific place. I purposefully booked the Howard Johnson by Wyndham in Reno, NV, to try to get a mediocre room instead of a bargain basement place that I had to worry about traveling alone at. The hotel itself was shaped like a "U" with the parking lot in the middle. One half of the U was painted for Travelodge, and the other half was painted orange for Howard Johnson. There was NOTHING different about the hotels at all. There was astroturf on the rickety metal stairs up to the second floor, and it looked like there was so much urine on them that they had started to rust the rails. The door to the room didn't seal on ANY of the three edges it was supposed to, and one area had a large enough gap to stick my pinkie finger into. The room itself was so old and worn down that it was impossible to tell if it was clean at all. The bathtub was frightening. There was no enamel left and who knows what was clinging to the sides.