Best Western John Jay Inn

Friendly service, nice room and good breakfast. I came here for a work trip and I will be coming here every year

Clean, great ac, nice breakfast for the money, quiet, close to the border, no funky smells, reasonable rates, felt safe staying there and we booked two rooms for one night. Nothing super fancy, flatscreen tv, fridge and microwave!

This Best Western is a good option in a town I probably wouldn’t stay in again. Calexico was fine, but there just wasn’t any reason to stay here over El Centro or somewhere else nearby.
This is the last review of a hotel I’m writing for this trip and I’m getting pretty tired of it. Let’s just throw up a four-​star review. If you want to stay in Calexico, this is a solid choice.

«Great hotel wonderful friendly staff free wifi and lovely continental breakfast. Rooms are very clean with mini fridge, microwave, pool and safe parking»

Following up on Jessica A.‘s review, the hotel does now have a router. Not particularly fancy, but it was very clean and the front desk was very helpful. The breakfast had a good selection, and is included. A bit far from downtown Calexico, but still a nice place.

Made reservations for 2 nights and wanted to stay an additional night so I just went down to front desk and was setup for the night in about a minute. She was friendly and professional. Didn’t catch the ladys name but she gave me an additional discount on top of my AAA 10% for the extra night. On one morning I went down for breakfast just before 9 (brkfst is from 6−9am) and there was hardly anything there but within 5 minutes or so they brought out some hot fresh omelettes and sausage. They also have pastries, yogurts, juices, etc. Room was clean like in my prior stay there. Will definitely go back when having to stay in the area. Theatre, applebees, and retail stores within walking distance. Like other reviewer said this is probably the nicer hotel in town other than maybe the holiday inn express down the street, but im a BW rewards member.

Nice hotel for Calexico. They do have wireless internet and Ethernet if u rather use a cable. Rooms are clean and the maid staff do a good job. Overall the staff is nice and helpful. Breakfast is good. They have omelets, sausage, danish, muffins, cereals, make ur own omelets, juices, coffee. One thing I didn’t care for is the laundry room is accessed from outside and cost $ 1.50 for each machine.

Great hotel. Best in town. I won’t stay anywhere else in calexico. Very clean with a great breakfast.

The rooms are nice the service was great.

–ZERO Rating. for this hotel… 1 st off… they charge the wrong amount and didn’t ask for a id… a lady by the name of ana (anabel) who was the most rudest person i have met… she was a older lady… poor lady at her age still working minimum wage! the point is that the customer service was horrible she was disrespectful. I would have driven extra 15 miles and stayed in El Centro. I won’t ever use there services again. For the price it’s not worth it… I’m really disappointed in Best Western and there staff… this hotel is the most expensive one in Calexico and to have a customer service like that… I don’t think so… I tried calling the Manager by the name of Rosario Villareal and she said she will follow up with me and never did… Really?
Anyhow overall –ZERO no rates from me. or my family. Please don’t waste your money in this place.

For being a relatively new building, the owners should really consider maintaining this hotel better. I haven’t even checked out yet but I’m so exasperated that I’m already writing a Unilocal review.
First of all, while the hotel does have internet service, it’s not wireless. C’mon guys, it’s 2011, set up a router for crying out loud. Oh, and if it’s going to be wired, leave an ethernet cable in the room or at least ensure the ethernet jack in the wall is functional. I had to borrow an ethernet cable from the front desk, only to return to my room to find the a pointless gap behind the jack plate on the wall –that’s just ridiculous!
I changed rooms due to the internet issue. Room #2 appeared to have a somewhat more modern television set but it didn’t work very well. The picture was so dark it was nearly impossible to view. I attempted to adjust the screen settings only to realize the remote was a universal remote not intended for the television. I was relieved to find the television was old enough that it still had function buttons on the faceplate, however these were so worn down and non functioning that the buttons didn’t work consistently for their function (i.e. nearly every button would occasionally work as the power button and shut off the tv altogether). I finally just gave up.
The hotel does have some redeeming qualities however: The hotel staff is friendly and competent (I hope they are better treated than the property is) and the fitness room appears to be rather nice — though I haven’t tried the machines yet and am skeptical that the machines will work well given the other two incidents. I’m here on business and this will likely be my home all of next week — if I wasn’t trying to drum up Best Western Rewards Points, I wouldn’t return at all — in fact I may just go to the El Centro location and face a longer drive every day.
**Update** I’ve upgraded the score from one to two stars based on the hotels complimentary breakfast being better than I’ve had at some other places (not the greatest, but it did earn some bonus points for having multiple juices, pastries and hot food including omelets and sausage) and based on the fitness room working out better than I expected (no pun intended). If I actually manage to get a room that is fully functional during my stay next week (i.e. internet, television, fridge and microwave), I may even upgrade them to three stars… but I still wouldn’t bet on it.