This place was the absolute worst place I have ever stayed. Filthy, filthy, filthy. Distgustingly filthy. Did I mention that the place is absolutely filthy? The manager and staff were incredibly rude. Needless to say, we will never stay here again. And I am telling everyone who will listen to JUST SAY NO.

Stayed here one night in room 108 it was unclean hair in bath, empty cups behind safe general feeling of being uncared for, wall paper and carpet was stained and dirty, would not stay again..
Pool and Spa was best asset.

We spend a couple of ours to fins a place which will fit our budget on a saturday night in Santa Cruz. After it got quite late we made a good deal with the manager of the Travellodge.
When we came in to the room we saw that, even at a good rate we didn't made a good deal at all.
The bathroom was disgusting, brown spots on the towels, dust all over the room, wallpapers came down, there was a sheet pinned to the window, cause there where no working curtains.

Watch out for bedbugs.

Even if we just wanted to sleep we checked out after half an hour, it was to disgusting!
The only good thing to say is taht we got a full refund!
We can't recommend this place, its horrible! If you like to keep your health go somewhere else.

We selected this motel primarily because of its proximity to the Beach Boardwalk. Although completely aware that it would not nearly compare to a 5 star hotel, it did seem sufficient enough to accommodate our basic needs for a two-day trip. Shortly after our arrival, the problems began.
About 30 minutes after checking into the room, the toilet would not flush, which prompted a call to the Front Desk. The woman at the Front Desk, who appeared to be one of the owners/managers of the motel, unempathetically invited us to come down, ourselves, to the front desk to get the plunger. We were a bit thrown back, and she sent her husband up. Before walking into the bathroom, he started griping about the problem and blaming it on us; claiming tht we likely used too much toilet paper, that the previous guests had no troubles. He fixed the toilet, left the plunger and we called it a night.
The following morning, our child awoke with welts over her body, on her arms, legs and neck. We inspected her bed and found nothing. I did notice a small red spot on our bed, however. After returing to the room from a day out at the Boardwalk, we found that our beds had been made, with entirely new linen. The little blood stain was no longer on our bed.
That night, we saw a small bug on our bed and immediately searched under the covers of both beds. Although we found nothing more before falling asleep, we were awoken by our daughter at 5 A.M. because she and her friend were bitten by bed bugs. We found numerous bugs on our bed and theirs. Disgusted, we took pictures of everything and called the Front Desk.
No answer at the Front Desk; not even an answering machine! For 2 hours, we tried calling and calling and eventually decided to contact Travelodge Customer Care, who opened a report of our incidents. Meanwhile, we had gone to the store to purchase plastic bags for all our belongings and raid, and packed everything up. At this point, we simply wanted to leave and did not want to be charged for this stay.
When I called the Front Desk at 7:45 (nearly 3 hours later) and told him we had bed bugs, pictures and welts as proof, and that we wanted to check out and be compensated, he said to come to the Front Desk.
We went to the Front Desk and calmy voiced our concern, the man quickly became very rude and defesive, raising his voice and telling us "what did you expect?! This is a low-end motel, not the Hyatt! Go to the Hyatt, whaere you belong!!........" I was shocked. He only reversed one night's room and tax from our 2 night stay and even threatened not to refund anything. He addressed the problem extremely unprofessionally and inappropriately. He never denied our bed bug claim, he did not wish to see it with his own eyes. This pretty much acknowledged his awareness of the problem.
We realized that the motel was no Ritz Carlton, but there is absolutely no excuse for bed bugs, nor the horrific service we received!!! We spent hours in the laundry matt on our "vacation" to ensure the bedbugs would not follow us home. Please consider this before staying at the Travelodge Riviera. Check under your mattresses and along the bedboards.