As a first time visitor to Nashville there were a few pros and many cons to The Iris Motel.
Pros: the location was great! It was 5-10 minutes from pretty much anything, and walking distance from a few places to eat. The room itself was clean but unfortunately that was the only pro of the room itself.
Cons: the room was a lot smaller then it appeared in photos, while that’s not a huge issue it was a let down. The “iron and ironing board” that was provided was probably the smallest iron you could find, and the miniature ironing board was extremely difficult to use while ironing clothes for an adult. When we entered the room the toilet was running like it had just been flushed, but when we went to actually flush the toilet it would not flush. We had to take the top off the toilet and finagle the internal contraption to get the toilet to flush....this happened not even 5 minutes of being in the room. The third con is the water pressure in the shower was atrocious and the tub didn’t drain well so if you showered for more then 2 minutes you were standing in a pool of water. Forth, the “air conditioner” was a joke. We would set it to have the fan blowing so we would have some circulation going through the room and it would turn off every 20 minutes. We weren’t able to sleep through the night because of this, we would wake up sweating and have to figure out how to get it to turn back on so we could cool down. 5th, the noise....on Friday and Monday at 7am the dumpsters directly behind the hotel would be emptied creating a ton of very loud noise very early. Idk about most people, but I like to sleep in while on vacation and not be woken up dripping with sweat because the air conditioner would turn off randomly and the dumpsters were being emptied before the sun was up. The other guests were just as noisy, slamming doors and yelling. 6th con (the fact that there are 6 is just insane to me) the parking situation. There is parking behind the building as well, and if your room is in the back obviously that’s were you would want to park. The only issue there is the entrance and exit to get behind the building was VERY small and easily blocked by another car. Driving in at night would NOT be recommended as it is narrow and you could easily miss it while tired after driving all day.
All in all the price you pay to stay at The Iris is not worth it. I would gladly spend the extra $100 a night to stay at an ACTUAL hotel where these issues don’t happen. 90% of these could have been solved by having a front desk, but if you don’t reach them before 5pm you are out of luck until the next morning. Again....the last thing I want to do while on vacation is use my day time hours to have an issue fixed in the room I’m staying at.