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Based on 375 reviews
See all**Property Location**.With a stay at California Suites Hotel in San Diego (Clairemont), you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Hotel Circle and Balboa Park. This hotel is 7.8 mi (12.5 km) from Old Town San Diego State Park and 7.9 mi (12.7 km) from La Jolla Cove. Distances are...
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One of my worst experiences ever
The service at this place is abismal. Good luck getting ahold of the front desk between 10:00pm and 8:00am. Couldn’t even get a fresh towel. Old, run down. Put us in wrong room to start with. TV didn’t work. Would not recommend this place if you are looking for any kind of real service. Definitely cheap, but this time I got what I paid for — cheap.
Renovated in the 1990's!
We used this hotel/motel as our accommodation in February 2020. The key here is that I asked for a renovated room. The renovation must have taken place in the 1990s. We were here for only 3 days and that was enough. I also requested a handicapped bathroom - perhaps this was the renovated part of the room because this met the requirement. The breakfast was mediocre at best. If this will be a thing of the past because of the pandemic, you will not be missing anything. The location is right off the highway, down the street from a nice shopping area, and is convenient. You can stay here but don't have great expectations.
Stay away
This place wasn’t clean and it was old and outdated. The beds weren’t comfortable and the AC didn’t work well leaving the room extremely hot. The area and people staying there were sketchy. We just needed a place to sleep for one night but I would and pay more for a better hotel and avoid this place.
Had a lot to offer but was extremely outdated
PRO's: Price, location was very close to shopping,food & the highway, kind & friendly staff, no bed bugs, room was a good size, locked facilities after 10 pm, no funny business with the room rate or with my credit card, no issues with theft, free parking, heat & A/C in room, WI-FI, cable, microwave,frig, pool, sauna and small pond. Less than 2 hours from Disneyland & Universal Studios. CON's: 1) extremely outdated and in need of a deep cleaning. The carpet was ragged/dirty, old scratched furniture, shower sprayed water from the top of the pipe, wallpaper was peeling, drapes & blinds were dirty, tiled floor was sticky, weird stains on walls in some spots, cabinets and light fixtures were rusted. Sprayed the room down with lysol, did a thorough scrubbing with my own cleaning materials and wore flips flops in the room. 2) The breakfast was very basic (bagles and a banana or an apple) 3) could hear my neighbor snoring This hotel had so many great amenities and the front desk staff and housekeepers were all very nice. However, the condition of the hotel lowered my rating to a 3. If you are looking for a hotel to only lay your head and safely store your belongings... this will definitely be the place for you. Thank you :)
Nice stay
I chose this hotel after going through Airbnb properties and found this hotel almost the same price. In addition to that room is clean, fridge, microwave, some rooms have kitchen as well, breakfast is not bad, since it's free nothing to complaint. Overall it's a nice stay, would like to stay again.