Gratiot View Motel - Saginaw

The owner goes out of his way to ensure convenience.

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Looks like an older motel that some attempts at modifications were made to make more comfortable. Positives: new baseboard, recently painted, new flat-screen 32" TV with cable, DVD player, refrigerator and microwave, mostly clean. Negatives: baseboard too small (could see where old baseboard was, so raw wall exposed), older carpet, headboards on both […] beds were loose from wall (felt like they were going to fall), one missing lightbulb from bathroom, one bulb didn't work in room, pillow smelled like bad body odor (had to wrap in my shirt to sleep on it), room was small. Not a five-star motel (more like a one-star), but if your not going to spend much time in room, it is a good place to rest (but bring your own pillow!). Breakfast was good (Otis Spunkmyer muffins in pkg, bananas, apples, cereal, milk, OJ). There's a Bob Evan's across the street if you want a better breakfast. The night was quiet and the room was dark (when I turned the DVD player toward the wall). Bathroom clean but older. Read more

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The room was nice we were just looking for a place to sleep after shopping all day. It was in a nice area easy to get around to all of the places we needed to go. We would stay there again.

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Honestly, I would not recommend staying here. It's the cheapest around, but you get what you pay for. The rooms are dark and small. The "included breakfast" is cereal that looks old. I left shortly after checking in. Paying an extra 10 dollars a night is worth it.

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I would not return to this motel. It was in need of updates and run down. Spend the extra to go elsewhere.

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This is a small motel run by a pleasant brown family. They’re nice people and I’m sorry that I can’t give the place a better rating. We wanted to do a shopping excursion at Birch Run and Bronners in Frankenmuth. On short notice, we found ourselves with a weekend to spare on what was coincidentally the holiday for Canadian Remembrance Day and U.S. Veterans […] Day. Never again. It took us two hours to line up and cross the bridge at Sarnia/Port Huron due to U.S. immigration bottlenecks. Thank heavens there are public washrooms just on the Canadian side of the bridge since you’ve probably already been in stop-and-creep traffic for an hour or more by that point. I made this reservation for two nights in Saginaw because virtually all the places to stay in Birch Run and Frankenmuth were full. I reserved through Hotels.com and they recommended the place based on one review. The price was right at $__ a night — an extremely good price compared to rates triple that in Birch Run. I even phoned the motel on the morning of our trip to speak with the proprietor to confirm our reservation and to ask for a pleasant and quiet room. I wasn’t expecting much and that’s what we got. The running water was hot and cold as it should be. The carpet and bed seemed new and it wasn’t noisy but that’s about all that was good. The room was small and stuffy, the furniture was well-used and shabby, molding/trim was broken/missing around the doorways and so were the baseboards in the bathroom. The walls were an example of how NOT to put up wallboard and the paint job throughout was really slapdash. Lighting was meager. The tiny bathroom window had no screen and I had concerns about wildlife coming in from the woods at the back. I was willing to put up with all this but then on the second night the towels were stained when I went to use them; at least, I hope they were stains and not somebody else’s dirt. And it’s those towels on top of everything else that did me in. Sorry, but we won’t be back. Read more

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Clean, efficient, across the street from Meijers! Thanks.

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