Hotel was a good value for the price. Beds were comfortable, TV was fine, restroom/ shower was clean. We stayed two nights and they cleaned our room very well. Nice location by the highway, close to fast food restaurants. Short, quick drive to the beach.

I complained and even asked for another room due to a lounge chair and ottoman with several stains. The second room had the same dirt and stains. The maintenance guy tried to replace it with another but even the replacement was stained. I could not believe any hotel would present disgustingly dirty and filthy rooms. The carpet was dirty with stains as well, walls and doors dirty with a window that did not lock so they put a wood bar in it. Could hear every car on the freeway as windows were old and not insulated. Few TV channels available and the remote was missing the back so held together by masking tape. I was put next to a very loud family who was yelling at their kids at 7am! There were plenty of empty rooms and the front desk chose not to spread customers out but should have due to noise issues. Could not get any internet service in the room. Even in the reception lobby the signal was weak. I felt dirty the entire stay and would have left if it hadn't been so late at night. This hotel needs a total remodel starting from scratch but I find it very insulting that the owner gets away with presenting such a filthy place to customers.

I have been enjoying staying with the 'Vagabond Inn' chain up & down California, for years w/ no complaints. I am a frequent Traveler therefore the perks the chain provide add a bonus 'incentive' (10th nite free) and have been consistently a good, solid econo-option. Having to be in Costa Mesa over-nite on business, I decided to stop at the local VI. Now, I wish I had slept in my car...! 1st of all, this property compared to other VI's I visit regularly, is a poorly-maintained dump. Unkept inside and out, I couldn't believe the delapidated condition of the entire upper wing's interiors! The doors had been left open to all rooms from housekeeping (to air out, my guess...) In and out, I wove through each one, to select @ least 'one' decent room - NO luck! Furniture run down, carpeting thread-bare and stained as well as the upholstery on the grandfather chair & hassock. Travel-weary, I finally 'settled' on one of them - the lesser of all evils offered. Later in the evening as I was going to sleep, I looked at the fresh bed-sheets, and there were multiple heat-set old blood-stains, which while sheet was laundered, Housekeeping should've had the common sense to bleach stains o-u-t before washing! Or better still, throw away altogether!! Bathroom shower-head rusted, and didn't pulsate properly. The VI (customary) Internet service was broke down and Guests were forced to pay 2.95 to 'Time Warner' (if ) you wanted to use your Lap-Top in the room. This is outrageous! The Vagabond's all elsewhere go instantly Online w/o fail. I have never been inconvenienced this way plus, the service was down I was informed, till beyond even after I checked out! That following morning's 'Continental Brkfst.' was meager and low-budget. NO surprises there.....I say, this location falls desperately short, of the cleanliness and normal standards of operation I am accustomed to, from this chain. The Motel sign is the single ONLY common-denominator this property shares, with the other locations. Do yourself a favor - stay AWAY! (Or, spend the night outside by the pool on one of the lounge chairs - it looked pretty nice...)

Although this place is close to beach cities, I'll do my best next time to shop around.
pros
- decent prices
-exceptional continental breakfast
cons
-non smoking rooms aren't really non smoking. They smell like smoke and the scars of cigarette burns in the carpet show the truth.
-their "premium cable channels are a joke. you get like 10 channels maybe (none of which are espn which is a big problem for me=)