The hotel is average but the staff is super nice! It's in a business park kind of area, nice enough. My biggest complaint was the thin walls. I had an end room and still the noise from rooms on one side and across the hall kept us from sleeping. You can hear every door shut, every shower, every TV. It didn't help that the people next door had an argument about midnight one night. if you are a heavy sleeper, not to worry.
As for Bakersfield, I couldn't find a single 5 star rated restaurant in Bakersfield and after visiting I know why. I don't mean fancy, I mean by satisfaction. Try Momma Roomba's "downtown."

This hotel is ranked by Tripadvisor as #10 of 58 hotels in Bakersfield. It is rated 3/5 stars by Priceline and would seem to deserve a higher rating. However, according to Priceline there is only one hotel with a higher rating in all of Bakersfield.
The location is excellent. It's in a newer part of Bakersfield, surrounded by good restaurants and shopping malls. There's an Arco nearby on California Avenue and pretty much everything else you would need. A park on the river is 2 blocks away, if you like walking or running.
The hotel design is quite unique. It's low rise with several separate buildings all surrounded by very nice gardens. The hotel's restaurant is a good one, -- we've eaten there on New Year's Eve and enjoyed ourselves very much.
The rooms are larger than average and extremely well equipped as far as desk space goes.
The staff is efficient and friendly and everything is clean and comfortable. Your will have a good, quiet sleep here.
The only reason I didn't give this hotel a rating of 5 (excellent) is because there was no fridge or microwave in the room and there is no complimentary breakfast. I'm not complaining, however, because at $58 (all fees and taxes included) on Priceline, the hotel was a bargain.

Bakersfield is about as far south as one can drive from my home town in Walnut Creek if leaving after work and heading to LA or Vegas, so I've stopped at a few hotels here through the years. This was my first stay here, and I must admit to being a bit surprised. First of all, it's one of the few chain hotels which is NOT near the intersection of CA-99 and CA-58, the major highway interchange in Bakersfield (the two highways run together for a couple of miles). Of course, that could make it a bit harder to find if you don't have a GPS, and I don't suppose they get a lot of people finding the place by accident as they drive down the freeway. The good part of this location is that you don't have to worry about being on the side opposite the freeway since it's far from the freeway in a quiet area.
We drove in here a week before Christmas, and they had parties going on in the ballroom. Being SPG Gold, we were given a room near the back, so it didn't affect us. A note in the room said all parties had to be over by midnight, so even those units near the ballroom should have been quiet by then.
The landscaping was surprisingly handsome, what with fake creeks running through the property, complete with mini-bridges and fountains. Having stayed at the Doubletree and Hilton Garden Inn, I was expecting more along those lines and was especially pleased by the grounds. The restaurant, although its entrance was a bit hard to find, and it's a bit of a trek from some of the rooms, also had surprisingly handsome (and modern) decor.
The rooms were fine, although I prefer the Doubletrees' or HGI's rooms. Some of the furniture was a bit scruffed up, and they had baskets instead of drawers. The free internet worked well, though. Two other dings for the room included some dried pee next to the toilet, and there were no bath towels when we came in (a phone call fixed that up pretty quickly, though). One needs a key to get into the corridors to the rooms. When choosing a room, bear in mind that the first floor rooms, but not the second floor rooms, have balconies with balcony furniture, so they might actually be a bit more desirable (although slightly less private).
Our rate came with breakfast, and it was fine, although not as nice as the Doubletree's or Hilton Garden Inn's (but the restaurant here is more attractive). We were the only guests at the restaurant, yet I had to interrupt one of the waiters in order to get his attention away from the TV. It wasn't such a big deal that he was watching TV, but couldn't he glance at his only table every minute or so? Unlike the other two places, the restaurant does serve three meals a day, though.
This hotel is a solid choice in the 3/3.5* category, along with the Doubletree and HGI. The landscaping, the restaurant, and the quieter location are pluses here. The other two have slightly more comfortable and modern rooms, and I have to give the other two the advantage for cleanliness and service. I don't see major distinctions among them, however, and would stay according to where you need hotel points and whoever offers better rates.

We arrived at 9 PM and checked in to the hotel. The room was nice, until you went to the bathroom. The bathroom looked horrible pipes showing everywhere and a cheap tile floor. It was worst than the bathroom at the Holiday Inn we stayed in the night before. The location was nice though, very convinent, not like St. Regis. The decorations were also nice. At dinner on the first day, one of the members of the family saw a guy that looked like a drug dealer or ganstar. He had a backard hat and looked like he was going to kill someone. they did give us a lot of things free. Over all the hotel is very nice, but the docaration in the room bring the stars down. The drawers which are not really drawers look like a shoebox.