Stay 1 night while driving up the coast. I'm familiar with Microtel, as I had stayed with them before in other cities.

As usual, Microtel came through with a safe, modern, clean, and functional facility with comfortable bedding, a mod room layout and furnishings, and the amenities I cared about, such as free wireless high-speed internet that worked well in the room, computer stations with printers in the lobby (all good because I was still planning apects of the rest of my trip), and the free basic breakfast.

Only complaint was that when we checked in the room had a strong amonia odor. Mentioned to the front desk. Since hotel was sold out, there was no other rooms available were available except for 1 next to elevator. I would have been okay with that, as I checked it out and really could barely hear any noice from the elevator, but my travel companion was uncomfortable with that; so we opted to stay in the original room and have it aired out and deoderized. The front desk staff did this for us, while we went out for dinner.

When we returned, the smell was mostly gone, and by morning we didn't notice it anymore.
So it was okay afterall.

The rate was reasonable for the area and time of year.

Hubby and I rented a room here for his 28th Birthday and had an awesome night out in the town until we got back to the hotel room. Even when we checked in it was unpleasant. They totally ignored us as we'd been waiting for a while and even entered before others had and they checked them in before us when we were clearly waiting and standing up front, i couldnt believe my eyes when they skipped us, then when they did help us, they were so rude about it.
When we came back from being out, we decided to relax and put on a nice warm bath in the jacuzzi, well we get this knock at our door from security stating that we needed to keep it down because we walked in very loud and disruptive and were being extremely loud and others were complaining.
I was so furious i couldn't believe it, really, i mean, who said that the night clerk we weren't loud at all, we were just trying to enjoy our night relaxing in the water and they come to tell us this, i felt like i was being punked, except i wasn't! NEVER AGAIN will i ever in my life rent from there again nor do i recommend anyone to rent there!!!

Since this was the 1st motel we came to in Seaside after a long days drive, we decided to take a chance since we were only looking for a place to sleep. We paid full price for a TINY room with an uncomfortable bed, minimal amenities, and plenty of road noise from the highway. And this was during off season. We also weren't enticed by the breakfast offerings and left early. On the plus side, the staff was pleasant, the room was clean, and even though we were booked in to a room right next to the elevator, ice machine & vending machine we noticed little noise from them. I have never given a negative review before but this place just didn't make the grade.

We stayed at the Microtel in Sept 2011. Compared to other places we had stayed on our tour of the North West of America this was really inexpensive. The room was fine, the location was on a major road but obviously because of this was easy to find. We got a good nights sleep and had waffles for breakfast!! Seaside itself was really busy as it was a weekend, reminded me of UK seaside towns, quite commercial. The beach was huge but the wind was really blowing so we couldn't get near the sea unless we wanted three layers of skin scoured off our bodies (I should be used to that I have been to Blackpool and Southport enough times).