Red Roof Inn Ames

Ames. Looked at for its owner on 18 October 2026, the way a guest and an AI assistant would.

Red Roof Inn Ames
Photo from Red Roof Inn Ames's Google listing
Revenue you could be losing
$118 to $221 a month
For each room you have
Because of
  • Your prices, and the commission booking sites take
  • Your AI score, 0 of 5
  • How your competitors price, day by day
And it doesn't end there.
Your website health
Couldn't be read
Your AI score
0 of 5
AI answers about Ames that recommend you
Google reviews
3.9 out of 5
From 66 reviews
Your price vs nearby hotels
Not compared
Your overall score

You rank 528th of the 642 hotels we read in United States

43out of 100
The hotels we read in United States, by overall score
  1. 1stSleep Inn & Suites Ames Near ISU Campus56
  2. 2ndRed Roof Inn Ames (you)43
  3. 3rdSonesta Essential Hotels Ames26
Why you rank 528th
  • Booking direct25 of 25
    Google shows your website's own price, and none of the main booking sites asks noticeably less
  • AI assistants0 of 20
    AI recommends you in 0 of 5 answers about Ames
  • Google Maps3 of 20
    Rated 3.9 from 66 reviews, not in the first 23 for “hotels in Ames”
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Google Maps

You're not in the first 23 on Google Maps for “hotels in Ames”

Most guests who search the map choose from the first ten hotels it shows. You're rated 3.9 from 66 reviews.

What moves you up the map
  • Answer every review, the poor ones first and within a day
  • Ask happy guests for a review as they check out
  • Add new photos of your rooms every month
  • Keep your phone number, website and hours right on your listing

With OneHorizyn you see your place on the map and your reviews against your competitors', every week.

Where you and your competitors come for “hotels in Ames”
  1. 100+Red Roof Inn Ames (you)3.9 from 66

The bars are each hotel's number of Google reviews.

What AI tells guests

AI doesn't recommend you when guests ask about Ames

More and more guests ask an AI assistant where to stay before they search, and book from the shortlist it gives them. We asked one, Claude, the five questions guests ask most, on 18 October 2026, letting it search the web as it answered.

  • “Where should I stay in Ames? Name the best hotels.”
    You're not named
    1. 1. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University
    2. 2. Hilton Garden Inn Ames
    3. 3. Staybridge Suites Ames
    4. 4. TownePlace Suites by Marriott Ames
    5. 5. Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Ames
    6. 6. Comfort Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
  • “What are the best luxury hotels in Ames?”
    You're not named
    1. 1. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University
    2. 2. Hilton Garden Inn Ames
    3. 3. GrandStay Hotel and Suites Ames
    4. 4. Staybridge Suites Ames
  • “What are the best hotels in Ames for a family holiday?”
    You're not named
    1. 1. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University
    2. 2. Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Ames
    3. 3. TownePlace Suites by Marriott Ames
    4. 4. Staybridge Suites Ames
    5. 5. Hilton Garden Inn Ames
    6. 6. Sleep Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
    7. 7. Comfort Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
  • “What are the best hotels in Ames for couples?”
    You're not named
    1. 1. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University
    2. 2. Hilton Garden Inn Ames
    3. 3. Staybridge Suites Ames
    4. 4. GrandStay Hotel and Suites Ames
  • “What are good value hotels in Ames?”
    You're not named
    1. 1. Comfort Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
    2. 2. Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Ames
    3. 3. Sleep Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
    4. 4. Sonesta Essential Ames
    5. 5. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center
Your website

Your website couldn't be read

redroof.com answered on 18 October 2026, but turned our reader away or showed nothing without its scripts. Search engines and AI assistants often meet the same wall.

What to do this week

Three things to do this week

Each one comes from what we found above, and each wins back guests who book you direct.

  1. 1
    Keep your website the cheapest place to book

    None of the main booking sites asks less than your website today. One rate change on any of them undoes it.

    How: Check your price on each of them every week, and on your busy dates every day.

  2. 2
    Give AI assistants a reason to recommend you

    Asked about where to stay, family holidays and couples' stays in Ames, AI recommended Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University and Hilton Garden Inn Ames and others, not you.

    How: Add a page to your website for each kind of guest, with your rooms, prices and what's nearby. AI assistants recommend the hotels whose pages answer the guest's question.

  3. 3
    Get onto the first page of Google Maps

    You're not in the first 23 hotels when guests search Google Maps for hotels in Ames.

    How: Add new photos, answer every review, and keep your phone number, website and hours right on your Google listing.

With OneHorizyn you see every week whether each one worked, in guests and in rupees.

What a full reading adds

We've already done 3 of the 6 readings your first look is built from

Everything above came from what anyone can see: Google, Google Hotels, Google Maps, an AI assistant and your own website. Your hotel's own reading fills in the rest and turns each finding into a figure you can act on.

The readings your first look is built from
  • Your price on booking sites13 sites for one night
  • Google and Google Mapsrated 3.9 from 66 reviews
  • Your websiteit didn't answer
  • What AI assistants say5 questions about Ames
  • Your reviews, week by weekonly on your own hotel's reading
  • Your price every night aheadonly on your own hotel's reading

Your own reading takes about half an hour, and nothing has to be connected to your systems.

What this page doesn't cover at all
The guests who never come through a booking site

There is no commission on any of these, and this page says nothing about them. We haven't looked at any of them for you.

  • Weddings and events
  • Conferences and company travel
  • Travel agents and tour operators
  • Events that publish a list of hotels
  • The nights your town fills up
  • What your competitors charge, nightly
  • Weddings and events

    The planners and families booking weddings in Ames, who fill your rooms for three nights at a time and never touch a booking site.

  • Conferences and company travel

    The companies running meetings and incentive trips near you, and the firms whose staff already stay in Ames every week.

  • Travel agents and tour operators

    The agents and operators selling Ames to guests abroad, who send the same rooms again and again once you're on their list.

  • Events that publish a list of hotels

    Festivals, matches and conferences in and around Ames that name hotels to stay at. Being on that list costs nothing, and most hotels never ask.

  • The nights your town fills up

    Which dates Ames runs out of rooms months ahead, so you price them before your competitors do, rather than after.

  • What your competitors charge, nightly

    Their price for every night ahead, not the one night on this page, so you know which nights you are leaving money on.

Stop losing $118 to $221 a month for each room

OneHorizyn finds where your hotel loses money and tells you what to fix first, every week:

  • Booking sites
    When they sell your room for less than your own website, so more guests book you direct
  • Your competitors
    Their prices in Ames for the nights ahead, so you price every night right
  • Google and AI
    What they tell guests about you, and how to get recommended first