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Motel 6 Knoxville, TN - North

2.0 star property
A refreshed retreat with garden views just minutes from the University of Tennessee, offering travelers a convenient base for exploring Knoxville attractions

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The Motel 6 Knoxville North was refreshed in 2021, offering a peaceful spot for travelers. Guests enjoy garden views, an on-site deli, and free WiFi in common areas. Specialized parking for larger vehicles makes it practical for road-trippers.

Reviews

5.4 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Pet friendly
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24/7 front desk

Room options

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  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed
  • Free WiFi

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Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed, Accessible, Non Smoking

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed
  • Free WiFi

About the neighborhood

Inskip, a neighborhood in Knoxville, is home to Motel 6 Knoxville, TN - North. Market Square and Turkey Creek Shopping Center are worth checking out if shopping is on the agenda, while those wishing to experience the area's natural beauty can explore Tennessee River. Check out an event or a game at Neyland Stadium, and consider making time for Knoxville Zoo, a top attraction not to be missed. Visit our Knoxville travel guide
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5640 Merchants Center Blvd, Knoxville, TN, 37912

What's nearby

  • A large brick building with a clock tower, flag, and flagpole.
    University of Tennessee
    6 min drive - 5.9 miles
  • A football stadium filled with spectators, a marching band, and a football field.
    Neyland Stadium
    7 min drive - 6.8 miles
  • A basketball court with players, a scoreboard, and a crowd in a stadium.
    Thompson–Boling Arena
    8 min drive - 7.0 miles
  • Knoxville Expo Center
    20 min walk - 1.1 miles
  • Knoxville Convention Center
    6 min drive - 5.7 miles

Getting around

  • McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS)
    23 min drive

Restaurants

  • McDonald's
    7 min walk
  • Cracker Barrel
    14 min walk
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
    3 min drive
  • Austin's Steak & Homestyle Buffet
    14 min walk
  • Ingles Market
    18 min walk

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Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • In-room WiFi speed: 100+ Mbps (good for 1–2 people or up to 6 devices)
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free self parking on site
  • RV/bus/truck parking on site
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking and van parking available

Food and drink

  • Snack bar/deli

Family friendly

  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Vending machine
  • Water dispenser

Guest services

  • Change of bedsheets (on request)
  • Change of towels on request

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • Vegetable garden

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • 6 accessible parking spaces
  • No elevator
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible concierge desk
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
  • Wheelchair-accessible van parking

More

  • Double-glazed windows
  • Humane treatment of captive wild animals
  • Local artist showcase
  • Local culture and ecosystem education
  • Locally-owned and organized tours and activities
  • No plastic coffee stirrers
  • No plastic drinking straws
  • No plastic soft drink bottles
  • No plastic water bottles
  • Non-plastic coffee stirrers available
  • Non-plastic drinking straws available
  • Reusable cups
  • Reusable tableware
  • Smoking not allowed
  • Some LED lighting used
  • Vegan dining options
  • Vegetarian breakfast available
  • Vegetarian dining options

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Private bathroom
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • TV with cable channels

More

  • Access via exterior corridors
  • Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
  • Cleaning products are eco-friendly
  • Eco-friendly toiletries
  • Free local calls
  • LED lighting
  • Phone
  • Recycling
  • Water-efficient showers

Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at 3:00 PM
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets stay free
Service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees
Welcoming dogs and cats only
2 total pets
Restrictions apply; for more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
1 child, up to the age of 17 years, can stay for free if using existing beds when occupying the parent or guardian's room
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • Deposit: USD 60 per accommodation, per stay

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Safety features at this property include a smoke detector
This property affirms that it follows the cleaning and disinfection practices of Clean@6 (Motel 6)

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Frequently asked questions

Is Motel 6 Knoxville, TN - North pet-friendly?

Yes, this property allows cats and dogs (limit 2 total). Some restrictions may apply, so please contact the property for more details.

How much is parking?

Self parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at Motel 6 Knoxville, TN - North?

Check-in begins at 3:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Motel 6 Knoxville, TN - North?

Check-out is at 11 AM.

Where is Motel 6 Knoxville, TN - North located?

Located in Inskip, this motel is 1 mi (1.6 km) from Knoxville Expo Center and within 6 mi (10 km) of University of Tennessee and Victor Ashe Dog Park. Knoxville Children's Theatre and Bounce USA are also within 6 mi (10 km).

Can I cancel my reservation for free and receive a full refund?

Yes, this property offers free cancellation on select room rates, because flexibility matters! Please refer to the property cancellation policy on our site for more details about any exclusions or requirements.

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Reviews

Motel 6 Knoxville, TN - North Reviews

5.4

5.8

Cleanliness

7.0

Location

6.8

Staff & service

5.2

Property conditions & facilities
Rating 10 - Excellent. 64 out of 379 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 56 out of 379 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 69 out of 379 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 72 out of 379 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 118 out of 379 reviews

Reviews

Verified

10/10 Excellent

angela

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Staff very friendly! Means alot! Rooms have been updated & are very nice!
Stayed 1 night in May 2026
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Candis

Disliked: Staff & service
I booked here for my son graduation and called to inform I was running late but the staff didn’t understand English or something very well and told me I didn’t have a reservation and kept hanging up on me
Stayed 2 nights in May 2026
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Denette

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Traveled with my fiancé,and 18 year old daughter. We went to see a show in downtown Knoxville a 3 hour drive from where we live. Booked this hotle last minute online,because we didn't want to drive back home so late. When we got there the staff didn't speak English so it was hard to communicate he also tried to charge me a extra 10 dollars cause my reservation had two people instead of 3 which I didn't think that would matter due to it being a double bed hotel room. He gave us a room that was completely disgusting! Burn holes all over the bed cover, floor was nasty,mirror was nasty just the whole thing was horrible, and I've stayed in some 1 star hotels before nothing ever this bad, I would have slept in my car before laying on those beds! Even sleeping in the car wasn't an option because there were definitely some shady people in and out of the other hotel rooms....we drove home that night!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2026
Verified

4/10 Poor

Keifr

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room was dirty found condoms under bed and got charged my Expedia and by the motel. So I spent 150$ for 1 night unless Expedia will refund my charge.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Mathew

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The check in clerk couldn’t be heard because there wasn’t a hole in the glass to speak though. The room smelled so foul from the stale cigarette smoke. Roaches were crawling on the back of the door. I have never seen such a disgusting room! I immediately checked out and drove to another hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2026
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Mark

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Don't do it!

We were there about 7 minutes in our room. We left. Wouldn't recommend at all.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021
Verified

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Floor was very dirty and had a large depressed area where vinyl was cracked with some missing. Shower had no place to put shampoo/shower gel bottles while in shower. Shower floor was slippery and the area around drain wasn’t finished well. Needs at least one grab bar in shower. One mattress was good but the other was way too soft.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2021
Verified

4/10 Poor

Karen

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We were told our room was just remodeled. However, there were cigarettes holes in the comforters, the shower had black stuff in the grout and looked dirty. The floor was uneven and dirty also.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2021
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The sheets and blankets were full of cigarette burns and stains... we got a non-smoking room and it smelled terrible like smoke. There was trash all over outside of the room. The people outside were very rough.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020
Verified

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stay was ok. Staff was great
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2020
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Faith

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

Not the best

This is a nasty poorly ran establishment I got a room non-smoking and the room smelled disgusting the sheets in the cartons had cigarette Burns it was filthy and there was no smoke detector. Alot of shady people . NOTHING AT ALL LIKE THE PICTURE
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2020
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Jaden

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It is too high. U cant get internet.
Stayed 1 night in May 2020
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Jessica

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Horrible experience

The place was maybe the dirtiest hotel I’ve ever been in. The shower had a couple of used bars of soap in it, in addition to a wrapped one. It smelled like mildew. The toilet had obviously not been cleaned. The room reeked like cigarette smoke, and we didn’t even feel safe there (there were tons of people outside smoking, and it just seemed like a really rough area. For the first time in my life, we ended up leaving and going somewhere else. It was seriously the dirtiest, worst hotel room I have ever seen.
Stayed 1 night in May 2020
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

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

Avoid this dump

Possibly the most uncomfortable bed I’ve ever slept on. Literal holes in the drywall, crumbling apart. Several big cigarette burn holes in all the sheets/blanket. The power outlet next to the window ac unit has clearly caught on fire before. It’s almost totally black. Found trash under the bed
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2020
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

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

Stay away

That motel was the dirtiest place I have ever stayed! Was run down and the floor was sticky and probably hasn’t been washed since it was installed. We had to kill a few bugs, etc.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Joseph

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights. Room never got serviced. No where to hang towels in bathroom and no shelf for soap or shampoo. Also killed 3 cockroaches in the room.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2020
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nothing it stunk and everything about this place was terriable
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Travis

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

Horrid place

No room phone. Trash in drains burned bedding. Leaking toilet and nothing done to make it right not even a partial refund.
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2019
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Catherine

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Roaches and not clean. Did not feel safe at all!

The first issue was it wasn't cleaned. I had to call several times for dif issues. No pillow case. Hair in the tub and only noticed that because I saw a washrag on the shower sprayer and asked my brother who has down syndrome and that was with me if he used it. I didn't think so since he was fixing to take a shower and I was getting stuff ready for him but double checked and i looked down and black curly hair all in the tub. I cleaned the sink counter with wipes i keep because with a wipe of a wet cloth stuff came off. All other places were booked for Garth Brooks or I would of changed. I asked about a dif room after seeing tub (tey had warned me the 2nd flr rooms were better but I'm disabled and hard to go up and down steps) and they said just easier to clean tub. The guy just wiped it with towels. There might of been cleaner on it already. If I had an issue they cane right away thou and were very nice. The TV didn't work and the guy came again for that and fixed it. The room also had roaches which I have never in my almost 53 years had a motel that had roaches and I've pd a hell of a lot less then 168 for 2 nights. I will put up with a lot but not bugs!
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

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

Run run run run do not stay here

This was just awful! DO NOT stay here!!! I repeat DO NOT stay here.Spend a little extra money for a nicer place you want regrets it but if you stay here you will regret it BIG TIME.There is roaches,holes in the wall,beds are awful to sleep in been there since motel was built,none of the electrics outlets work so couldn’t charger phone,smoke free room with cigs holes in cover,the heat didn’t work so we was cold all night,someone knocked on our door at midnight(We didn’t answer it),couldn’t sleep because of the noise,Check in was at 3pm. But didn’t get checked in until 3:30 cause rooms wasn’t ready.We just wanted a place to sleep after the Garth Brooks concert but this wasn’t the place to pick we will NEVER stay here again.Hotel needs to be closed down.I have never in my life stayed at a place so awful.i have photos but for some reason it want let me down load them
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The bathtub was disgusting and I had to bathe in the sink
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019
Verified

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

You get what you pay for

I’ll give the staff credit, the check in lady asked me to check the room before we checked in because it would take two days to refund the money. Not a good sign. The room was inexpensive so we overlooked the horrible smoke smell even though it was a “smoke free” room. The lady said it was hard for them to enforce it. And we were ok with the old conditions. But the cigarette ashes on the night stand and the fact that the only way to change the channel on the tv was to manually change it from the direct tv box located behind the tv was a little much. The room served its purpose during a Football weekend and was inexpensive. You get what you pay for.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019
Verified

4/10 Poor

Raquel

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Awful

No shower curtains, tub looks awful-refuse let my 2 yrs old bath, lot of open plug outlets
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Katie

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
There were roaches everywhere. The rooms were not clean. There was even a dirty soap bar in the shower. There were dogs barking in the rooms above us and beside us. We felt very unsafe and had to leave and spend more money for another room. It was the worst experience I've ever had traveling.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019
Verified

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The facility needs a refresh but was a great value for the price. Need a place to crash when on a road trip? This your place.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019