Motel 6

Windows stuck or sealed shut on multiple rooms hence no ventilation. Management never fixes. Check in cleak doesn’t speak coherent English so he can’t tell you where your room is, etc.

Do not stay here my husband healthy 40 year old stayed a couple of nights and is complety debilitated with Legionnares disease from dirty nasty air conditioning
this is deadly disease june 2016 he was hospitalized for 5 days this is sever! no stars given the place should shut down by the city

There is no heating cold dead, very bad wash the bathroom no bathtub, rotten.

This is going to be one of those «wish I could give them no stars» review, from someone who used to consider Motel 6’s a go-​to when finding cheap accommodations. This place is unacceptable, even by the lowest of low Motel 6 standards. I would be a complete fool to ever consider this location again, and now I will question whether or not to go any Motel 6 in the future. Where to begin?
The thermostat was broken when we arrived, making the room an icebox. When we switched it over to warm, nothing changed, all cold air. Upon calling the front desk, a very slow and dim employee stammered to lie to us, saying that it was unfixable and that they didn’t have any maintenance employees. We came down to ask about a discount, since the nonsmoking room we were placed in reeked of smoke, and the thermostat was unusable and making the stay very unpleasant. After denying us a discount due to no authority, and denying us access to a manager with authority, the employee proceeds to produce a maintenance employee he claimed didn’t exist 20 minutes ago.
The maintenance guy looks like he just woke up from a drunken binge, and clearly disgruntled he’s being asked to do any work at all. Forgetting his ladder and his manners, steps barefoot on the chairs and counters to open the ceiling pane and fix the thermostat. He leaves the pane open for us to fix, and the counters and chairs for us to clean. Once the room starts warming up we turn it off, to no avail. The thermostat is now broken the other way, and only spews hot air the rest of the night. Calling the front desk went so well the first time I decided to skip it this time.
For about an hour I am attempting to cool the room by leaving the door open and standing outside, waiting.
All of this grief took hours before we could relax and get some sleep. It was quite late, so we asked for complimentary late checkout. Unlike any other motel I’ve stayed in, they didn’t alert cleaning staff to do not disturb. They are simply incompetent.
I sincerely hope the employees were high on the marijuana I could smell everywhere in the area, because otherwise I can’t explain away their utter incompetence and reluctance to do anything that could be mistaken as their job. Unfortunately, the security guard had way too much interest in jobs beyond his paycheck, and kept butting in to our conversation with the front desk, trying to explain away all the problems. I thought his job was to secure, but I guess it’s to run the motel, too, in the absence of competent employees. He could not have been more patronizing, condescending, and basically unhelpful.
I usually go cheap when I travel, and that is most true when it comes to lodging. Motel 6 has upgraded their prices but not their accommodations. Raising your basic rate to $ 80 so we can have «free wi-​f-​» and an extra Spanish television channel is ridiculous. I was told the flat screen TV in the room was rare for the rooms, yet it was obviously an ancient piece of crap, judging from the weathered quality of the audio and video. A handful of channels weren’t even accessible due to whatever poor connection we were getting (I’m talking basic channels like CBS). Still no fridge, still no microwave, and I was laughed at by staff when I asked if this had changed. This place is embarrassing even by the lowest of standards. Be smart and find somewhere else, because since they jacked up the price you can definitely find something of equal price but far greater value and service.

Needs new baseboards. But room is okay for a quick night stay. Shower is a stall with a thin curtain so when you’re done all the water you used to wash yourself is on the floor outside the shower. Make sure you put a towel down outside the stall so you won’t slip and fall. The price is reasonable. The road can be hard to get to. You have to cross the road through cars on the street and freeway exit.

The one start goes to the housekeepers, they were polite, but the management is a disaster, the typical middle eastern rudeness, phone service is horrible, and if you go to the office to get customer service this Filipino bald guy name Tim screams at you like you are his son or something, don’t go here to waste your money for this sloppy service, I wasted 1,300 just to have this kind of service, if you do have an issue with this people when staying there, please don’t hesitate on contacting the headquarters and sending a complaint, this is unacceptable and perhaps have this people removed.

Okay… I saw no bugs… and I looked! I spent the 3^rd and fourth of July here with my dog to escape the fireworks of Newark Ca.,. It was soooo quiet you could’ve heard a pin drop. Even the ‘Other guests’ were quiet. I saw the manager policing the grounds numerous times checking to be sure BBQ’ers and visitors weren’t getting drunk and out of hand.
I don’t know where the complaints come from on this site. As we all know, there are people out there who complain and bring their ‘Own Problems’ with them.
As one reviewer remarks…‘It IS a Motel 6,’ not fancy and no extra amenities. I believe the pictures on this site are not what I experienced. My room was VERY CLEAN! The manager very attentive. I will visit EVERY ‘New Years’ and 4^th for the sake of my dogs sanity!
The wifi is a bit weak but free.

There were some bugs in our room.

You can’t come to a Motel 6 with high expectations, you’re paying for what you get. No pool, hot tub, gym, or continental breakfast. But I didn’t experience any problems and it looked like the rooms had all been recently remodeled with wood flooring and new paint.

The place may be re decorated but has roaches and the manger is a complete prick! Now! I will never go there
and my wife used to go there all the time years ago when we first got together or with friends just hang out. but now the place is digisting. and white Stains on the curtain I almost puked. Never again!!!

To me this place was ok for the price giving it 5 stars because staff was so friendly and helpful. Overnight front desk and security where great helped with my lockout on my vehicle best way they could.

The property is clean and the staff are very friendly. I was more impressed with this property than that of the Corporate property I stayed at earlier.
There is not a swimming pool, in fact this is nothing fancy, just clean and ready.
I would suggest that all properties do something about the wifi $ 2.99 per day is pretty steep given everything else we were trying to do.

The bad: access from the 680 freeway, going northbound, is difficult, at best. You must contend with traffic exiting the southbound 680, on to Mission Boulevard, in order to make the turn onto Brown Street.
The Bay Area notoriously has no place to park a big rig, so when I called to ask if they have rooms, I also asked if they had truck parking. I was told that there is no truck parking on the property, but that trucks parked on the street, but that they could not guarantee I would not get a ticket. I asked if parking on the street was illegal, and was told no. The fact is that there is no legal parking on either side of the street.
The room I was provided had no heat. The unit just blew cold air.
The water never got more than lukewarm temperature.
The good: I got nothing.

WARNING: THE MAIDS DON’T CLEAN THE SHEETS OR PILLOWS YOU SLEEP ON SOMETIMES. I’VE ALSO SEEN MANY BLOOD SPOTS ON THE MATTRESSES AND THERE ARE BUGS IN MANY ROOMS!!!
Oh my goodness where do I begin? The staff is super RUDE and don’t know how to CLEAN. I know it’s a Motel 6. you can’t expect much, but keeping places clean and having good customer service is always mandatory!
The INDIAN MAN who looks like a manager and works at the front is THE WORST. I was a customer that used to come about 2 – 3 times a month because I visit often. Out of nowhere, the Indian man gave me an attitude (as ususal) and randomly put me on the NO RENT list. I asked if he could at least provide me a reason why, he says «I don’t know, you just are» rudely. I SAW HIM QUICKLY PUT MY NAME ON THE LIST BTW. He knew me by then cause of the check ins I’d do often and seems like he was having a bad day or something.
Whatever though, there are so many nicer cheap places nearby. Not being able to rent a room here was no loss for me. I’m so glad I changed my motel location.
If I wasn’t on the no rent list cause of that guy for no reason, I probably would have still ended up changing my motel because of the customer service.

I stayed here for a few days and was not impressed. It looks nothing like the photos on the corporate website; it’s a bit rundown and is also right off the freeway and pretty noisy. If you’re getting here by GPS you will find that the most logical route will be a pain (Mission Blvd) traffic-​wise since you’ll have to wait for all the freeway traffic to let you get over to the street you need to access the motel.
The management sucks, first-​off. The main guy who checked me in is nice, I don’t know his name but I only dealt with him the one time and every other time it was someone else who was very rude to me so I have to average out to extreme sucktitude. I had several problems with my stay (and I honestly usually just deal with shit and don’t voice it til I have to) but when I complained, nothing was fixed. One member of staff overcharged me when I had to extend my stay a night and then when I caught the mistake he said I was wrong and refused to fix it. Not cool. When
sent out the «how’d we do» follow up e-​mail after my stay I told them exactly what I thought and the main manager basically said sorry but there was nothing done to fix anything. In my opinion they could have at least adjusted the billing error, all things considered. Moving on…
I reserved a room with *one* queen bed and was placed in a room with two twins. Not comfortable or ideal. Both beds had cigarette burns all over the comforters, were hard, and one of them had spiders on it so it became clear which would be for sleeping.
There is no sound-​proofing on the windows/​doors/​walls, per your usual cheap motel standards.
The first really unnerving thing was finding a cockroach in the room. The maintenance guy was sent over to «inspect» the scene. I not only showed him a bug but a photo I took of one. He told me it wasn’t a cockroach, but some other nasty bug that was a less disgusting sort and not a problem. Erm, ok? I am pretty sure it was a cockroach. I *could* (and still might) be an ass and post that photo here on Unilocal regardless of wtf kind of bug it was. But somehow it was decided I should cozy up with the bug and get over it.
The tv had zero reception even though it was advertised there was satellite tv newly installed. I told the maintenance guy the first day. He promised to come fix it. He never did.
The wifi (which is actually *free* there) went down a lot. A whole lot. Even the phone line oddly went down. The wifi was also super slow and randomly blocked internet sites like THIS one (seriously) and Craigslist. Way to hate, Motel 6.
Their housekeeping is one that is enforced pretty nazi-​style. They expect you to let them in daily on a rigorous (and very early) schedule, regardless of whether or not you’re checking out. If you don’t, they’ll be all up in your business investigating. I had a maid and some other member of staff collecting personal info on me to try to figure out why I was not wanting housekeeping one day like they were in the CIA or something. It’s pretty rude. Once they got in, I did notice some mild theft of hygiene goods thanks to that eager housekeeping staff.
Their ice machine barely works yet is severely over-​taxed by the construction workers who seem to largely populate the motel with their daily hauls of ice. I never once was able to get any ice out of that machine. There is only one set of laundry machines here, and every time I went into the room someone had just left their stuff in there to sit. so the choice was to either not-​so-​politely set it aside or to not wash your clothes.
There is NO a/​c here at all and the windows do not open more than about an inch so even if it’s not actually hot, you will start to feel warm and it gets pretty muggy in the rooms.
There seem to be a lot of down-​on-​their-​luck/​scammer sorts who try to hop into open rooms as they are being cleaned. It’s not as bad as some other motels I’ve seen. But I did notice a fair share of people getting kicked out of rooms or stealing going on. It’s not exactly the *safest* place in the world.
Overall, I’ve seen worse but I’ve definitely seen a helluva lot better. It’s cheap but I think you should still get better for your dollar.

Poorly maintained. No hot water this weekend and they said will not call the repairman to fix it since they would have to pay overtime.

The room and service was pretty much what one expects from a Motel 6. But I needed wifi which was advertised. I paid for it then found that I could not connect from either my Iphone or my Android tablet. I was told to call a tech support number which I did several times. Never could connect. I suspect that this room, way in the rear had only so so connection. Then to get a refund of the wifi payment took nearly 15 minutes.

We will never stay here again. Rude housekeeping, judgmental management, and apathetic customer service. Dryers don’t work, rooms are small. Worst Motel 6 we’ve ever stayed in.

It was nearing midnight and I needed a room to stay. Found the closest cheap hotel i could find. This was it! Everything is what you could expect from a Motel 6. Bathroom was kinda gross though, the tub floor had rust on it. Accidentally took a smoking room thinking it’d be a good idea to smoke, but the smokey scent is so strong it stinks your clothes up so bad and its leaves a thick musky smoke scent in the room. But it served its purpose as a room with a bed, so really I can’t complain much else. If thats all your looking for and at a cheap price, this is it :) ($ 40 for the room I had)

Located in a Industrial park area – Quiet, Near shopping center and Chinese Restaurant. The better Motel6 than the one on the North side of town on Fremont Blvd.