Awesomeness!
We were so pleasantly surprised by our stay, it is such an awesome little hotel. Because it's only rated as a 2 star hotel, (which is very misleading,) we weren't expecting much, I was just hoping for a clean place to sleep.
First, the front desk manager, Karla was super friendly and accomodating. She checked us in early with no problem. She was super busy between customers at the desk and the nonstop ringing phone, but never made me feel ignored. Also, my daughter came into the lobby after a 3 hour drive from Arizona and really needed to use the bathroom. Karla was sweet enough to let my little girl use the employee bathroom, which saved an eight year old from any embarassment. Thank you Karla!
Second, our room already had the pack n play set up for our toddler. The hotel did not charge us for this, which is fantastic. Our room did smell faintly of bleach, which other reviewers had mentioned, but it only made us think that our room was clean. I would much prefer a faint bleach smell than a faint dirty smell, so not sure why that's an issue for others. Once you open the bathroom window and the front window, the breeze pulls out any smells. 
Our room had two clean, comfy queen beds. The decor was nicely done, a flat screen tv (I do have to admit the picture was not the clearest), a fantastic and clean tile shower that my toddler absolutely loved and a large closet with a mini fridge and microwave. Just to put this into perspective, Hilton's charge $20 a day for a microwave and here it is included. If you have kids, this space is the best. Our two girls played in there because it was small enough to become their secret hide out. We had parking directly outside of our room. 
Our upstairs neighbor had an older child that was constantly running back and forth across the room at night, so we called the front desk to ask them to call to their room and let them know their kid was being disruptive, not the hotel's fault, but they did take care of it. Also, we were able to get a late check out so our girls could have one more rendezvous with the water. Ask for this early because only one room per block of rooms can be given a late checkout.
Lastly, it took about two minutes to get to the beach! You can't ask for a better location. This hotel is the last one on Mission Blvd before it becomes residential, so it's much quieter than the others. We paid a fair price for a summer hotel, it was well worth the money and it's absolutely where we will be staying for anymore trips to San Diego!