Stay the F(amily) away
We booked anonymously last minute on hotwire and checked in around midnight. We needed an inexpensive place around San Jose, nothing fancy, just a basic, clean room for the night. Our impressions:
- FILTHY: Our "non-smoking room" stank like a bar and had cig burns in the comforter. The bedding and towels also reeked, we had to use our t shirts as pillow cases. My white socks were showing dirt just from walking on the carpet. I'd hate to see what a blacklight would reveal.
- UNSAFE: I know prostitutes when I see them, and there were a few working the parking lot. And some dudes were really watching us closely and if they weren't gang members, they sure looked the part. I know it sounds judgmental, but that was the reality.
- LOUD: There was some thumping bass music that could be heard all throughout the hotel courtyard, and very loud in our room. It could not be drowned out no matter how much white noise we had on. The front desk clerk said he'd "look into it" but it went on another hour well after 2 am. THEN at 5:30 we were awakened by some unexplained thumping (not rhythmic enough to be coitus) and could not go back to sleep.
- BAD SERVICE: The front desk clerk was a cliche for every sleazy hotel worker you've ever seen in a movie. Rude and CREEPY to the max.
This place should be condemned. Worst $80 I've ever spent, we should've just slept in the rental car.