Stayed there for two weeks in October 2007. Nice spacious room... friendly reception staff. If you know the area / have transport this is a convenient place to stay.. if not... hope you like walking / using Taxi cabs.

Real lack of local information in room... i.e. nearest restaurant / family restaurant / convenience store.

When I returned home I realised that I had been charged $108.95 for a twenty minute call to Ireland - talk about an utter rip off !!!!! Hotel information pack utterly devoid of any reference to telephone rates - now I know why!
Gerry

Thanksgiving brought us down to Orange County and the Candlewood Suites were the closest to our son's home. The rooms were spacious, the place was clean and well furnished. We spent 5 days there. We were treated well, and supplies were available when needed. It was quite quiet as it is off the main freeway. We'll be sure to go there on any return trips. There is no daily maid service but we saved money using the kitchen for breakfasts which included a dishwasher for cleaning up. Replacement towels were available from the staff. A great value, particularly for Orange County accommodations.

I spent 9 weeks here (May-June-July 07) on an extended business assignment. The hotel was clean and quiet and was ideally located for my work. As others indicated, this is extended stay so room cleaning is once a week. Rooms have a full sized refrigerator, microwave, 2 burner range, sink and dishwasher. Utensiles, cookware and dishes are provided. There is a free laundry on site which is a real bonus for extended stay. The drawbacks are there are no restaurants within a mile or two so if you're not cooking in the room it's a little drive. Given the southern California climate the real shortcoming was not having a pool. That would have made the weekends a little more enjoyable while away from home. In all a very good value if your travel has you on an extended stay.

I've stayed at this hotel a number of times this year, always one night at a time (even though it's designed more for extended stays).

I've stayed at other extended stays hotels in the past (like Studio Plus, etc), and this is roughly similar. The front desk is not open in the middle of the night (tho there is provision for check in or check out then), the linens are only changed once a week (or once per stay if you stay less than a week), there is a kitchenette (including microwave, full size refrigerator, dishwasher, and stovetop ranges, and but no conventional oven) and a small pantry of food for sale (honor system) but no "breakfast" (other than what you may put together from the pantry). On some stays, however, I find the pantry to be poorly stocked.

The rooms are clean and reasonably spacious but purely functional in appearance. There is a VCR in every room and some (older) movies available for free rent at the front desk. The TV has most of the local channels (though on shuffled channel numbers) and HBO, HBO Plus, and HBO Signature (the latter two from East Coast feeds!).

It's a convenient location just a couple minutes from the 55 freeway, and a nice spacious parking lot in front. Only business parks immediately around, tho, so it's a short drive (in any of several directions) before you start finding restaurants.

The front desk staff are courteous, but all too often they're not there when you walk up because they're dealing with a guest in a room somewhere else in the hotel. So sometimes you have to wait 5 or 10 minutes until they come back. Also, check in and check out can be slow during busy morning or evening periods since they can only do one at a time.

One very nice feature is free washers and dryers (you can pay 75c for a box of detergent or you can bring your own if you want).

Internet is free via ethernet cable (I bring my own, I'm not sure if they supply one on request), but you have to re-login every time you wake up your laptop, and the pesky toolbar it brings up sometimes messes with the size of your browser window.

(If you've stayed at other Candlewoods before, this is very similar. I'd rate this a bit better run than a couple of the other Candlewoods I've stayed at.)

Be aware that because some guests extend stays unexpectedly and the hotel is often fully booked, there's more chance that they'll "walk" you (send you to an alternate area hotel at no charge to you for the night) at this hotel than at most others in the area. If you want to save money, that can be good, but if you wanted a specific feature of this hotel that night, it can be less good.