I stayed here two nights in two different weeks. The first night I had a pretty good room. Everything was clean and well equipped although it was a pretty typical budget motel room. There was a bit of noise but around 11:00 p.m. things quieted down. Based on this stay alone I would have strongly recommended it for budget-conscience travelers.

However, my stay a week later was quite different. When I got to the room at night the window was completely open. After a bit of work I was finally able to close it. The phone in the room looked like someone took a sledgehammer to it. What's worse, there was so much static I had trouble understanding what people said. The cabinet below the TV was full of old and smelly clothes. And unlike the room I had the previous week there was no coffee maker and no alarm clock radio.

So, my advice is that I can give a limited recommendation based on the fact it's inexpensive, close to the freeway, and at least one stay was good. However, I'd say you're definitely taking you chances and you may very well get an unacceptable room.

We stayed in this motel while travelling from Yosemite to Las Vegas. It is a basic motel - good for one night stay. Room was of a standard motel-style, decorated with some nice posters. It was clean, the shower was hot. There is Walmart and some eateries just a few hundred meters away.
Breakfast was a rather poor - a kind of typical motel style - sweets, cereals and waffles.

We stopped off for one night on our way up from Palm Springs to Monterey via the Mojave. After the wonders of the Vagabond in Palm Springs, it was a no-brainer to check in at the Vagabond here. Well..... it was different :-)

It's a truck stop between an Interstate and a 4-lane highway (a lorry driver's motel between two motorways, if you prefer). That said :
- the room was impeccably clean and comfortable, although spartan (no coffee machine, no alarm clock)
- the truck drivers were impeccably polite and quiet (they need their sleep).
- the trucks themselves should be considered a tourist attraction. How can they keep those rigs, however old, so beautiful and shining clean ?
- you get to have dinner and breakfast in Denny's, and that is surely part of the Great American Experience.

OK so ther is some highway noise, but that is a constant, so you soon forget it.

And all that for 45$ per night !!!!!!!! (mid-November rates).

If only I'd known that Bakersfield is the Country capital of California, we could have enjoyed an evening downtown, and the whole experience would have been grandiose.

OK so there was some highway noise. As this is a constant, you can forget it

This hotel is next to US 99 in Bakersfield South. We chose this hotel as we're traveling from Sacramento to Las Vegas & we needed a hotel which is near US 99 so that we can take a rest at night & resume our journey again early morning towards Las Vegas. The best thing is, the breakfast starts at 2 AM so you can just have a breakfast early morning & straight head towards your destination. The hotel as such is not a great place to stay if you're looking for luxury, leisure & cleanliness.