Studio 6 Altoona, IA - Des Moines East

This location was a palace compared to our previous night's stay at the Super 8 in West Des Moines. They got us in a room in 30 minutes. When you walk in all you smell is clean! Our room was impeccable, staff were SO helpful and kind, and the location was super convenient! No breakfast but we didn't care one bit with the peaceful night sleep we had!!!

Pros: * Inexpensive! * Close to Adventureland! * Check in and out was very smooth. * Staff is friendly. * Rooms appear recently renovated. * Surprisingly strong water pressure in shower. Cons: * Zero amenities, bring your own toiletries. Apparently they are extremely expensive to purchase from vending machine? There is also a truck atop nearby where you can pick up essentials. * Pillows are flat and you cannot get more from the desk, although they will refuse you with an apology. Consider bringing your own pillow(s)...and towels, if you don't like scratchy too-small towels. * Renovations are not complete - missing caulk in shower and doors to cabinets. * The room was missing a shower liner and the shower leaks onto the floor despite care taken not to...how often does this happen? Mold ris

We stayed here this last weekend. The service was great. The staff met whatever requests I had. A small laundry room was available. The vending machines carried items not usually found such as laundry soap and shampoo. The room was clean and adequate. We’d stay here again. Thank you Studio 6 for a wonderful weekend of rest!! I didn’t see the issues listed in the previous reviews by the way.

BUGS! No coffee in room or anywhere else, no shampoo (sold in vending machine for $9.50), only super cheap bar soap for a shower. Room smelled musty like an old refrigerator that hasn’t been plugged in for a year (oddly, the large fridge was new). No pool towel, hallways half painted, doors locked around facility, had to walk all the way around the building to get to the pool I was right next to. Tons of garbage and old beds outside rotting in to rain in between the handicap parking and the side entrance. Exterior doors with broken locks, left totally insecure right next door to 24/7 truck stop. Awful service, woke up with bug bites. They charged $160/night for this headache. EDIT: Bugs confirmed. There was only one fake review on here when I booked a couple days ago. Please read the

Don't buy the hype. This place is a pit. Dirty, filthy, smells like an ashtray, staff is patronizing, no continental breakfast of any type, backs up to a truck stop. We thought we found a deal. Found a fake. Gross. They are trying to clean it up and call it a Studio 6. Dont buy into it. Over priced 1 star hotel at best