Our nightmare experience was not in FL. Family reunion and had 4 hotel rooms booked at this Days. The rooms all smelled of smoke. When you got in the king sized bed, you "rolled" downhill towards the middle, etc. Your basic horrible experience. One couple checked out early. The clerk accidentally cancelled all four rooms' keys. So, after we had spent the entire day at the reunion, we returned to our room only to be locked out. We had a three WEEK old baby with us. Thank God that I was nursing the baby. Can you imagine if the formula had been locked in the room and we had a screaming, starving baby! Oh, and it was July 4th. We went to the front desk and noone was working in the office. The door was locked and there was a sign posted "Clerk quit". OMG!!!!
The rest of the story is long but basically, police were called, we eventually got our stuff out of the hotel and management refused to refund the money that was charged for the hotel even though we didn't sleep there that night.
Don't ever hand over your money to a Days Inn.