Red Lion Hotel Boise Downtowner Reviews

The restaurant is quite nice, very clean, and also provides breakfast

Extremely dirty. The bathrooms were not cleaned. I wasn’t comfortable staying at the hotel and decided to book a hotel elsewhere.

It's such a cute hotel. Little rundown. It doesn't look like anything has been updated. AC was very old.

I have stayed at some cheap motels, the motel 6 was nicer. The staff was friendly but the room was dirty the lights didn’t work and the sink leaked. Room should have been compt and they still charged us $80 I will never stay at a red lion again

There must’ve been a mistake or something but my check out wasn’t until 12 and around 11 I had a couple walk into my room. They must’ve gotten the wrong room. They kind of panicked and apologized so it wasn’t a big deal to me. But I thought I’d share my experience.

The television didn’t work and when we called the front desk, they told us to just disconnect the HDMI cable and reattach. We did that and it still wouldn’t work. Very frustrating. Shouldn’t have to pay 130+ dollars for a room that doesn’t have a working television.

Sorry room was noisy. Hair found from head on tv console.could not control Air/Heat. Room temperature very uncomfortable.

Beds were terrible….old and worn out. There was no housekeeping our entire stay. No one dumped garbage or changed towels unless we asked. It was cheap and that’s all.

Front staff were very helpful and enthusiastic to help. The lady at check in was having a tough time getting people checked in due to a card error. After 30 minutes of waiting and four people still ahead of me to check in, we decided to go grab dinner while we waited. When we got back, everything went pretty standard.

We arrived at the property and our Uber driver had told us that to be very careful in the hotel that we were staying at because the government had a Covid relief program that they had rented out several rooms to about 20 to 30 is my understanding to people that could not afford rent when we arrived. We noticed that they were very shady people outside. It was very dirty. It was an unsafe, and we were scared. We checked in anyway and went upstairs, hoping that it would be better. The hotel is very rundown. It has very old amenities doors, windows patios. The room is scary and old and dirty and I did not feel safe so I ended up booking another hotel and just losing out on all of my money.

location is convenient. Staff were friendly. However the facility wasn’t as clean as the outside appearance would suggest.

I stay at the Red Lion for the Big Sky basketball tournament every March. The staff is wonderful, the hotel is clean and quiet. Location is close to downtown and the price is a fourth of the downtown hotels. The neighborhood has unique restaurants and barbershop. Facility is a little dated and not everything works perfectly. But a lot of charm.

The only redeeming quality of this experience was the kind front desk staff who helped me process a refund. I would have paid almost any price to have an alternative to the Red Lion Downtowner in Boise. Incredibly unclean, run down, and disappointing. I booked a top floor, corner room, jet tub suite. It was dark dingy and barely furnished room. There were lots of stains on practically every chair. The toilet was unclean with… something in it that resembled blood drips. I found a previous occupants’ dirty underwear and towel underneath the bed (who knows how long they had been there). My jetted tub spewed dark particles of something into the bath water. Half the lights in the bathroom didn’t work or were missing bulbs. There were mismatched bulbs throughout the room. The bedroom door wouldn’t shut as it didn’t fit on the frame. Practically everything was dirty and in disrepair.

We needed to check in early and were told they would call when a room was ready so we could then check in. They never called, which wasn’t a big problem. They comped us a breakfast for “any inconvenience” which was nice.