The hotel is decent at around 100 USD per night, especially bearing in mind the horrendous quality of all the other properties you can glimpse along El Camino all the way to Palo Alto. However:

1) There seems to be Internet only in one room in the hotel, the VIP business room, which houses a newer TV, DVD player, and a router.

2) Unfortunately, this room faces El Camino and is really noisy - though you can drown the noise with the ancient air-conditioner. The walls are also paper-thin, of course.

3) We had problems with cigarette smoke from staff smoking often right under our window and from the guest(s) in next room who stenched up the whole corridor.

4) After being served for breakfast for a few days, the boiled eggs finally got rotten - taste carefully before eating!

5) They use some weird washing powder to wash the sheets - they had a nasty greasy-hair smell, even after I asked for them to be changed. I could tell they were washed and cleaned, but they did not smell good at all.

6) The carpet and the curtains were quite dirty and shabby, and I can assure you this is so throughout the hotel because we spent some time checking out rooms in the hope of finding one that was quiet (that is, did not face El Camino) AND had (any) Internet, which turned out to be impossible.

Overall, good shot considering the area.

I had a bad feeling about the hotel upon my arrival! But it was after 11pm when I arrived and the front desk clerk was nice. I can't say for sure if this is where I was bitten by bed bugs as I stayed at three hotels that week - This was the first one. But I definitely saw and killed one on the bed at this hotel after I had slept in it! It was approximately 5am when I saw and squished it. The bug was big, dark brown, and when I squished it between the sheets it left a blood spot. I didn't realize it was a bed bug because I didn't have any bites at that time and it was bigger than I would have thought they were. Anyway, within days, and even a week later bites were showing up on my arms. Ugh. I stayed the night of October 23rd.

Rooms are clean and comfortable, most are set back from El Camino and quiet, though not overly large. Breakfast is more than the cold roll and coffee: egg patties, waffles, fruit, cereal, and for Asian tastes, miso soup and instant noodle bowls. "Hospitality hour" M-F from 6 gets you a free drink and very substantial snacks (not quite enough for dinner), either in the dining room or around an attractive, solar heated pool. Free (but slow) wi-fi. Don't know why others have found the property problematic - I was quite pleased. And MANY good restaurant choices within a couple miles up and down El Camino.

OK, the people who worked the front desk seem very nice. I'll give them that. But I'm reading these reviews and wondering if these people actually stayed at the hotel. Old, musty, rundown, small rooms, cold, bad bed, no water-pressure, spotty wi-fi...do I really need to go on? Inexpensive? I guess...but there have got to be better options in the area.