Is Palace Inn pet-friendly?

No, only service animals are welcome at the property.

How much does it cost to stay at Palace Inn?

As of 30 Oct 2025, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at Palace Inn on 1 Nov 2025 start from Rp1.079.520, excluding taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

How much is parking at Palace Inn?

Self-parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at Palace Inn?

Check-in start time: 4:30 PM; check-in end time: anytime.

Where is Palace Inn located?

Located in Saylorville, this motel is 1 mi (1.6 km) from Woodland Hills Golf Course and within 3 miles (5 km) of Des Moines Area Community College and Ankeny Dog Park. Ankeny Stadium and Prairie Ridge Sports Complex are also within 6 miles (10 km).

Palace Inn Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

10/10 Excellent

Stephen

12 Jul 2025

exactly as described. Nice wildlife ! great deal, great location.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Freddie

9 Feb 2025

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Very clean and rrlaxing

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

2/10 Terrible

Anna

13 Jul 2025

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Place didn't have an air conditioner, a microwave, and a coffee machine. The refrigerator was bearly working. The bed covers were dirty and there was a dead spider on the wall. The registration was claustrophobic and dark.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

Mark

1 Aug 2025

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

I checked reviews before I booked the motel for two night's lodging. Based on reviews, I thought how bad could it be. I took two box fans with me since indications were that the room might be hot in July. Long story short, I could not stand to be in the room let alone stay there for two nights. I should have looked at the room before I paid for it and I'd suggest nobody pay before they inspect. I wouldn't have stayed there if they'd have paid me to do it. I made a list of the environmental and facility health, life safety and security deficiencies and took pictures to support those findings.

Bedspread looks like it was used as grease rag.

Bathroom vent/light hanging from ceiling. Light doesn't work.

It appears carpet hadn't been vacuumed for a long time.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

15 Jul 2024

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

It was in a good neighborhood. Staff was helpful and nice. The room could use some work.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024

2/10 Terrible

Steven

27 May 2024

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Don’t stay here.

Completely run down place. No soap. Fraction of a roll of toilet paper with no spare. Roach trap under the sink. No knob on the shower faucet. Didn’t smell good.

Stayed 3 nights in May 2024

6/10 Okay

David

18 Apr 2023

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities

This place is fine for short stays. I slept here one night while driving from Denver to Toronto. I got in around 9pm, grabbed some food down the street from the Burger King, slept, got up and left. The room was small, dusty, it relied on a space heater for heat, and the curtains didn't shield as much light as I desired. The Inn is located in an industrial part of town, so no street noise, but not many amenities in the area. When I got there, only one other car was in the parking lot, but when I woke up the place was mostly full; so I guess others have the same idea when booking a room at this place. At the time of this review, there is road construction, which makes the turn off slightly hard to spot.

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

4/10 Poor

Thomas

15 May 2023

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

My son was graduating from Iowa State and I booked a room for one night in AMes long before the graduation. Plans changed and I needed to stay a couple more nights. By the time I looked for rooms in AMes for the weekend, everything started at $500 a night. I expaned my search down to Des Moines. I was looking for something cheap. I figured all I needed was a bed and a shower. I found this Palace Inn for $70 a night and thought what the heck. I booked two nights. When I got there the road in front of the place was closed and there was routed over the the other side of the road. There was a gravel path open to get to the property. No big deal. The place looked run down. When I got out of the care and walked up to the entrance, it reeked of cigarette smoke before you even got inside. I went into the "lobby". It was the room the size of a closet. There was a small plexiglass window over a little counter with a hole in the bottom of the window. I couldn't see anyone behind the glass. I heard a voice say " can I help you?" I said "I have a reservation". What's the name?" I told him my name. I didn't hear anything for a while. I said "don't you have the reservation?" "Oh I got you". " ID and credit card". I slipped my license and credit card through the hole in the window. I got the key. "Number 7. Pull around behind the snow plow." The room also reeked of smoke. Beds were fine. Shower was hot. Wi Fi worked. It was quiet. Not the cleanest. For $70 it was OK.

Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

22 Sept 2024

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

You get what you pay for. Smells of smoke and mildew. Roach trap in the bathroom. Be careful using the deadbolt; it might take some time and brute force to leave the room.

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

2/10 Terrible

Jill

17 Jun 2024

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This place was nasty. It stunk of mold and mildew. Was enough to put me into an asthma attack. Didn't dare touch anything

Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2024

2/10 Terrible

Laurie

31 May 2024

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Kind of a little dive. Bugs in the drawers and smelled of cigarettes. Just layed on top of covers

Stayed 1 night in May 2024

2/10 Terrible

Arthur

18 May 2024

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Run away

Room smelled like Mold the moment you walk in, roach traps full of roaches all over the place. Shower handle broken, stains in the pillows and sheets. I complained to the manager and received a full refund.

Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

2/10 Terrible

Aswin

7 Aug 2023

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Everything that can go wrong went wrong. The room was supposed to be non-smoking but full of smoke and nicotine stains. The entire bed and pillows were covered with disgusting stains and all sorts of bugs were crawling. The owner/front-desk staff just shrugged it. I checked out immediately and they denied any refunds.

2/10 Terrible

Kenneth

23 Jul 2023

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

It was an extremely small room * advertisement says it had air conditioning. It had one vent in the general quarters that did not cool the room so the stay was hot to the point we were sweating ( if you wanted to feel the cold air you had to sit literally right next to it) *Fridge did not work right wasn’t cold at all first thing I did when I walked in, was check for bedbugs (I did not find any) We sit down and started watching TV and little things started to pop out at me * the skirting of the bed was stained and look like to be burned with cigarettes (this was supposed to be a non-smoking room) * there was some sort of liquid that a drip down the wall and it had started yellowing, which usually happens with bodily fluid (Screams hasn’t been cleaned in a while) * when the light reflected right, you can see hand prints all over the wall, which means that was some sort of residue over the wall for you to be able to see where somebody and put their hands * Cobwebs were all around the room * furniture was beat the hell, and or broken There are too many issues to list in this review

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

3 Aug 2021

Sketchy, at best

Definitely a back-alley hotel. Spend the extra $10 to stay somewhere else.. Not worth $60 a night.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

4/10 Poor

Brandon

10 Jun 2021

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Avoid.

Dirty, run down, out of date, and disorganized.

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

15 Oct 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort

Comfortable enough for thecost

Not sure why it had an 8 rating. Although it was clean, it is very old, didn't provide shampoo, and the internet didn't work. They also had no record of my reservation. However, it was clean and comfortable enough for the cost.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

19 May 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Perfect night sleep. Clean room and large bathroom

Stayed 1 night in May 2019

6/10 Okay

marlon

24 Jun 2018

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

You get why you pay for

The hotel is old in a area with nothing around. No one was there when I checked out. No air conditioner was in Our room. Checked in at 10 pm left at 9 am good for that but not for a long term sty

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

25 Jul 2017

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Bad wish I could have found another hotel

Wish I could have found another hotel and got my money back, the room smelled, the bed and pillows were hard and the front desk called on my check out day at 10 a. M. And said to have 1 hour to get out! Never again!

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2017

2/10 Terrible

K, iowa

8 Jun 2017

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Roadside dump

Poor quality with no amenities. Nonsmoking room reeked of stale cigarettes

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

23 May 2017

Disliked: Room comfort

Palace Inn Des Moines

Hotel room very outdated....shower head was old and I needed to do a backbend to get hair wet. Room smelled a little musty when we checked in. We had to make a hasty departure though, due to sewage smell in the room. Seemed to get worse after we used the shower. Quiet area, we got good sleep. I can see why it was rated only 2.6 out of 5...you usually get what you pay for, but in this case $78.00 for the smell of sewage is waaaay too much for my taste.

8/10 Good

TerryAmy, suburban Chicago

21 Feb 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Bed, shower tv - love me a basic room!

We only use a hotel to sleep, relax, and refresh - we don't need a newspaper, fitness room, or business center, so it's awesome when we get it all in a clean and mostly comfortable place. When we stay here again, I'll be sure to bring my own pillow. Hubby loved the super-firm ones provided, but I'm a fluffy girl. And if you stay in a non-smoking room, remember that these are not on the central vent system (keeps the smoke out, very nicely), so turn off the heater before running your hair dryer.

4/10 Poor

William

21 Aug 2016

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

The bed and pillows were very uncomfortable. They were both very hard, the bed was almost like sleeping on the floor and the pillows were flat and hard.There was a dirt ring around everything were the vacuum wouldn't quite reach all the way to the wall and it did not smell very good either.

6/10 Okay

Sabrina, Spiro

16 Aug 2016

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Room comfort

Hotel was clean & quiet. Does not have AC control in room.

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