I inspected hotels for Wyndham for 10 years and I can tell you there are some extremely nice Days Inns. Yes, the brand has its issues, but you find good and bad from most economy brands. You just have to read online reviews and look at photos as you do with all hotels.
You shouldn’t be surprised Wyndham owns the Days Inn brand. If it makes money, they want it. They also own Knights Inn - check those out if you want bad. Super 8, Travelodge, Howard Johnson, Ramada, Baymont, Wingate (their only brand that requires brand new builds and their ‘business traveler’ hotel), Microtel and Wyndham.
There are good and bad in all of the above brands, including the Wingates, although the bad is a very small percentage of Wingates.
While inspecting for them, I was home 2 weekends a month, spending every single night in a different hotel room. Believe me when I say I have seen the good, bad and ugly of each of these brands. Some were so bad I refused to ever stay at that particular hotel again and some were so nice I always stayed there while in town.
“Days Inns are terrible. I’ve stayed in a few and they are dumps.”
Can’t say I stay in those places - a bit pricy. But I DO FINE in Motel 6’s. Not quite home, but then I don’t expect them to be either.