My husband and I stayed here for 6 nights over Christmas and it was a thoroughly delightful experience. It was like having a mini-apartment and made being away from home over the holidays much less impersonal. The staff was very friendly and helpful, the public spaces immaculate, and management even provides free laundry detergent for the washers! The suites are quiet, conveniently located, right off one of the many freeways; a huge Safeway is right across the street, and numerous restaurants within walking distance.

I have been staying at this hotel for a few years now when I travel on business. It is a great hotel and always cleam. The kitchens are greatspecially since I like to make myself dinner at night. And it's across the street from Safeway and other stores. Would also like to mention that the new room furniture is a great addition to the hotel. I will definitely keep coming back to this hotel when I am in the area.

I stayed in this hotel for 3 weeks while consulticing a big company, and my son joined me (went to a day camp in the area). Overall I was satisfied from the rooms, but given the high prices they charge for the 1-bedrooms and 2-bedrooms, the hotel has too many problems:

- There is a used-car garage in the back of the hotel which is very noisy, they started loading trucks at 6:10 am one day.

- My wife and daughter joined us in the last week of our stay, so we moved to a 2-bedroom apartment. The hotel management refused to give us the extended stay rate for this room, although I spent 21 nights there and reserved the rooms well in adavnce. I don't see why the refused to do that, this is the way to lose satisifed customers. I should have left to another hotel at the same day they refused to give me the lower rate.

- The breakfast served is hectic and unorganized. It is served in the lobby, with 3 tiny tables and it was crowded and messy in most days. Although there is no problem to take food to your room, you still need to stand in line and they are out of essentails (eg, regular milk and coffee) many times.

- The pile of US TODAY was gone everyday at 8am. No newspaper if you wake up later than this.

- One of the reasons I booked this hotel is the option to use an external fitness center (the one they have at the hotel is really poor). But when I came there, they said that they have problem with the contract with the gym so I couldn't use it. Can't they pay for another fitness center in the meanwhile? This shows again how the management do not care too much about their customers. (Towards the end of the stay, after the 5th time I asked, they told me that now I can use the external fitness center - no one thought of course that they should tell the customers - but it was too late for me.)

- The "full equipped kitchen" in the rooms have 3 spoons 3 forks and 3 knives.

Overall, although the rooms are okay, the noise from the garage in the back, the unhelpful management, the messy breakfast and the high prices make me unable to recommend this hotel.

I'd like to rate the rooms higher but in this case I'm comparing TownePlace Suites to other Marriotts I've stayed at. The two-bedroom suites are great for a couple of reasons, the main being that for a long stay there's something settling (for me) in buying some groceries and making my own meals. When I'm going to business meetings during the day I feel less like I'm living out of suitcase. Also, the free wifi was easy to connect to and fast. But if you're looking for luxury and plan to eat out every night these rooms probably won't meet your expectations.