I have stayed on a few hotels and motels near the Tijuana border and this is the best value and extremely clean.

Watching TV, sitting in bed, something tickling my leg. Hmmm, maybe a loose thread on my shorts. Look under the sheets... An earwig about half an inch long is right there wiggling around!

The good points of the Economy Inn are:
- Free wifi which works well
- Cheap rooms
- Free parking out front
- Clean (other than the earwig)

The downsides of the Economy Inn are:
- It's about a half-hour walk to the trolley stop and then about an hour into San Diego, quite a long journey. I ended up driving and paying for parking in the city instead (there are carparks for about $10 per day).
- The walls are really thin: I could hear when other people had the TV on, when they were talking, when they turned on the shower, when they had trouble switching from bath-tap to shower-head, and when anyone was walking around in the room above mine. The hotel didn't seem busy so it would have been a good idea to space the guests out with empty rooms between, rather than put them all next-door to each other.

I'd recommend it as an overnight stop or as a base to visit San Diego if you have a car. San Ysidro has some fast-food places, lots of gas stations, and lots of money changers, it's a place to spend as little time as possible. If you are planning to use it as a base to visit San Diego, I'd recommend eating in the city before returning to the hotel.

I really enjoyed my stay at this motel after a long, rain-drenched ride from Kern County, California. It was clean and well-tended, and I got my room for less than $40, tax included. There was a nice tub for a relaxing soak after a long trip. Ask at the desk for the nearby Denny's restaurant, which served a really good and inexpensive meal (and I am not one that is particularly fond of chain restaurants). The TV had a whole range of channels. My only problem was hearing the very faint sound of a neighbor TV during the night, which I'm sure I could have remedied with call to the front desk, but it really didn't bother me that much.

Well you get what you pay for....and with a name like Economy Inn, thats what you get hehe. I was tired from a long drive, and jumped on Essentravel.com, mapped out the nearest hotel and got this one. Rooms were a bit dirty, and the walls were thing, but I always bring my earplugs....always!! And I managed to get a good nights sleep.

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