Holiday Inn Express Delano Hwy 99

Was very pleased with our stay. The staff was polite and we had complimentary breakfast which was pretty good. Only reason I gave them 4 stars is because they only had one cart for luggage and another room had it so we had to carry a bunch of bags down the halls and elevator. The hotel was clean and comfortable. With free tooth brush, hair brush, and basically all toiletries if you forgot yours and also free water bottles if you ask the front desk. It was over all a pleasant stay.

Unrelentingly average. Not hideous, but a little run down (the carpets are dirty) and a little smelly. Whoever said it smelt great must love the fragrance of industrial deodorizer, because that is the top note trying to cover up the well used feeling that this place has.
Still — Delano — what are the options?

Damn, this hotel smells nice!
We rolled in after 11 last night, exhausted and hoping that this would be the place where we could lay down our sleepy heads.
As soon as we passed the lobby doors, we were hit with a lovely aroma. Vaguely floral, clean, fresh, comforting… really, really nice. It immediately gave me a good feeling. If this is their «secret scent» for luring in guests, it sure worked on me.
Check-​in was quick and pleasant. I think we got the last open room (not surprising considering the parking lot was full, forcing us to park creatively), so were relieved.
Still, I wouldn’t be able to relax until I had performed the requisite bed bug check. We parked our bags in the bathroom and I went to work with my flashlight. Checked around the headboards and electrical outlets. Opened up the nightstand and examined all around it and inside of it. Pulled back the bedding and checked the mattress and box spring seams and the mattress and mattress pad surfaces. Checked the pillows.
Spotless!
By the way, that same nice scent was in the halls and in the room too. It truly was a non-​smoking room… we have zero «hotel room whiff» on our clothes today.
Bed was comfy, bedding was crisp and white, pillows were fantastic. Other than the non-​bothersome occasional sound of a nearby train passing (I found it oddly soothing), it was quiet and peaceful.
The next morning we were pleasantly surprised at the quality and variety of the breakfast offerings. Eggs, ham, sausage, biscuits and gravy, cereal, muffins, fresh fruit, juice… so much to choose from. I reverted to childhood and became inordinately excited over the magical pancake-​making machine. Push the button, and two pancakes come out… who is the genius who created this wonderful thing?!
The charming and funny ladies at check-​out were icing on the cake. We left feeling happy and relaxed and ready to take on the day. As we drove off, we were already planning our next stay. We’re looking forward to breaking up the normally hellish drive south for Thanksgiving with an overnight stop here.
At our $ 99 room rate, this place was more expensive than the budget inns we spotted along the highway, but after our nice experience, I understand why they were full on such a random night, off-​season: When you get your money’s worth, you don’t mind paying for it!
Random facts:
*Rooms have the usual blow dryer, iron, and ironing board
*Rooms also have a mini fridge (no freezer compartment) and small microwave, and a 1-​cup coffee/​tea brewer
*They use real wood hangers
*Snack vending machines on each floor
*They say breakfast runs until 9:30, but try to get down closer to 9:00 because they’re pretty swift about getting things cleared and put away
*Central Delano is one easy highway exit south, where you can find an AM/​PM mini market and a 24-​hour McDonald’s drive-through…other than Denny’s, there’s not much else to choose from if you arrive as late we we did
*There’s a small pool in the back, but it didn’t look very inviting… I feel like they need to grow some ivy on the fence or something, to further insulate it from the parking lot

This hotel is a real gem in Delano. First, the staff is fantastic. Everyone is super friendly and makes you feel at home. Anna Rosa is extremely sweet, and my man Anish goes out of his way to accommodate his guests. Second, the rooms are great — comfy beds, lots of furniture to make you feel at home, new TVs (with Direct TV), great water pressure, etc. The hotel has free wifi, which can get spotty, but still better than nothing. Overall, staying at this hotel is a wonderful experience!

Spent the night at this hotel when on a business trip. Room was clean and relatively nice and updated.
Great free breakfast in the morning. They also had a machine which made pancakes in 1 minute. Also great cinnamon rolls, biscuits and gravy, and eggs.
Hotel has a pool (did not see) and a small workout room with 2 treadmills and a tv.
Staff was nice and made it easy to check-​in.

Comfortable stay, sad we missed the continental breakfast. Staff was nice but we waited too long for extra towels.

It’s a holiday inn express in Delano.
Do you really need to consult your fellow Unilocalers? I repeat, you’re in Delano.
All kidding aside, the public areas of the hotel are slightly more rundown than your typical holiday inn express. Little bit of an odor, and just not well-​maintained. The room itself was standard, with no issues. Breakfast is also standard, with the automated pancake machine.
Overall good for the price and location.

Needed a room along the route from LA to Sacramento, called around 12:30 am an told her I’d be there in a few hours. She was able to accommodate my needs AND gave me a slight discount. My car was full of everything I own but she assured me upon check-​in that the parking lot was safe. The hotel was clean, she was actually mopping when I arrived @ 3:30 am! She even went in and turned on the lights in my room prior to my arrival so I wouldn’t walk into a dark hotel room. Room was super clean and quiet. Bed was pretty comfortable and the AC worked great. Hot breakfast served in the am. Didn’t eat there bc I was running late but there seemed to be enough people eating, so it must have been ok. Will probably never travel that route again, but if need be I would stay here again.

While visiting Delano we decided to stay here at the Holiday Inn express. The building looked nice from the outside. As we pulled Into the parking lot I noticed that the cars are watched by multiple security cameras which adds a nice sense of security for my vehicle.
As soon as we walked in we were greeted by Alex. Alex was very professional and courteous. He explained our different room options, the fitness center, and the hours of their breakfast bar. For a room with to beds we were quoted roughly $ 100, but my brother and I decided we would upgrade for a 2 bed suite which was about an additional $ 40. As we walked up to our room I noticed the hallways were clean and odor free. The suite was very roomy, the bathroom appeared to be clean (one of the first things we check for). The room had all the basic amenities that I expect from a hotel such as flat screen tv (direct tv service with movie channels), mini frig, microwave, coffee pot, and disposable plastic wrapped cups. The beds were very comfortable with soft pillows and linen.
Our only complaints if any would be the view out of the window was virtually non existent. This didn’t bother me to much because there really isn’t anything worth looking at in Delano. My only other complaint would be a VERY slight smell in the room, we called down the the front desk to ask for someone to spray our room with air deodorizer and within minutes someone was at our door with the spray. We cracked open the window and the problem was fixed.
Both my brother and I are late sleepers, so when we came down in the morning the holiday inn kept the full breakfast bar open 30 min later so we could eat. Their breakfast bar in my opinion is hands down the best I’ve had in a long time. Stocked with eggs, bacon, blue berry muffins, toast, yogurt, various types of cereal, biscuits and more. We were very amused with the pancake machine that made fresh pancakes to order at the push of a button.
If I am ever in Delano again I will be staying here. I will recommend this hotel to my family, friends or anyone looking for a Clean, Quite, and Comfortable place to stay.

I got my reservation by prepaying online first with Orbitz, which was super easy. The first problem was that when I tried checking in, the woman at the desk tried charging my card twice. She then attributed this to the fact that they had never dealt with an Orbitz reservation before, which was hard to believe but I accepted it and moved on. I showed her my emailed receipt proving that I had already paid, and she looked online saying that my credit card information didn’t match. She read off the card number, and I just had to point at the card on the desk and tell her the numbers did in fact match. She then asked if I lived in Madison, but I confirmed that I was in fact from Minneapolis (as my billing address showed). Unfortunately my ID has my permanent address at my parents’ house, which was in another zip code, which defaulted to the closest major city of St. Paul. Somehow after 15 minutes of trying to explain this all to her (this has never been a problem at any other hotel I’ve stayed at in my life), we were checked in. The room was nice with the exception of the television advertising its own sound system literally every five minutes by flashing boxes on the left side of the screen for 20 seconds each time. I can’t blame the hotel for the child screaming bloody murder in the room next to us though — that’s just bad luck. The best part came the next morning when I had to print out a few documents for work from the business center. You’d think that with a hotel that advertises its business meeting room capabilities that they would 1) have a printer with ink 2) have a computer with enough memory and processing capability to open up my email and download a few documents within 20 minutes. I sat down and turned on the computer and was hit with my first obstacle: the password needed to login (which is totally fine). I called the front desk and got the password and proceeded to the next obstacle: waiting 5 minutes for the web browser to load. I eventually got to my email and opened the first couple documents. The printer was out of ink. I walked to the front desk to ask if they had anyone who could help me out. The manager was a really nice guy and after looking around said there was no ink. I asked him if I could email the front desk and get him to print the documents, which he said he would do. After I emailed him the documents from my own laptop (wasn’t going to deal with that business center computer), I waited awhile by the front desk as he tried opening the PDFs. He said his computer wasn’t working, and then he handed me a black ink cartridge in a pack of three that had magically appeared. This was all about 30 minutes after I initially tried using the business center. I walked back to the printer, which was also one of those scanner/​faxing types (so nice for needing those two uses but bad if you had to install a printer cartridge having never dealt with one of these). I figured it out eventually and the printer used up the remaining paper to do test prints. Fearing the front desk shame for my third trip down there, I called the front desk asking about paper, which was met with an annoyed woman who had seen me up there. A few minutes later, her friend who had been sweeping brought me some paper. Adding another 10 – 15 minutes to download, print, and exit out of the documents, it all eventually got done, and I got out of there fast. :(

Nice place. Heated pool, hot tub and etch.

4 stars since its Delano. The property is holding up pretty well (I travel for work extensively, so pretty judgemental), but the rooms could use a TV update. I’d imagine a bulk buy on cheap LCDs wouldn’t be too bad.
The exercise room only has 2 treadmills and a recumbent bike that seems to be falling more apart every time I stay here. The TV remote is sometimes there, sometimes not, may have working batteries, may not (same TV as the rooms, so check first and grab the one from your room if its gone). The A/​C may be on, may be not, the remote for it has been gone for quite a while now.
Funny that someone mentioned the smell in the hallways — its always been there, just something about the cleaner they use. I had someone mention it in the elevator once. No big deal, no smell in the rooms.
Comfortable rooms, micro/​fridge, Internet has always worked, decent TV channel selection, good bathroom/​amenities.
Pretty decent breakfast, but this seems to be the only HIE that has rock hard biscuits every time I’m here (maybe I should just have fruit anyway…)

Very nice for the money! Not $$$$ as shown! Great comfy beds, spacious room, up to date bath. Nice breakfast included every morning! Great value! PS TRY THE CINNAMON ROLLS! (Hallways are kind of smelly, but not the rooms!)

My family, boyfriend, and I are from Pasadena and we were in Delano for my grandfather’s funeral. I went on Unilocal to find a hotel for one night and decided to go with this one because of the 4.5 stars. There aren’t that many hotels in Delano that have been reviewed by Unilocalers. Four of us stayed in one room with 2 queen sized bed for one night for $ 110. I don’t know why it got $$$$ sign. $$$$ sign is for the Ritz Carlton Hotel, but not for this hotel.
Cons:
— no flat screen TV in the room, just a regular one
Pros:
— friendly customer service
— clean hotel, especially the rooms
— bathroom was clean, no mold (thank god because I’m scared of mold)
— room was spacious and very clean
— very comfortable beds and pillows
— complimentary continental breakfast (buffet style)
The best part of our stay was the free continental breakfast because it was a buffet style. They had a little breakfast dining area with a couple of tables and chairs, a couch, a small fireplace, and a flatscreen TV. I thought they were just serving danishes, toast, fruit, and juice/​coffee like most hotels. We love food and I was so excited because they had:
— 4 types of cereal
— cinnamon rolls
— scrambles eggs
— sausage or bacon (I guess it depends because they had sausage patties when we went)
— biscuits
— gravy
— bagels, toast, english muffins
— blueberry muffins
— fruit
— different flavors of oatmeal packets
— yogurt
— milk, OJ, cranberry juice, apple juice, coffee, decaf coffee, hot chocolate, hot water
— tea packets with different flavors
— small containers of half & half, irish crème and hazelnut creamers for your coffee
— small packs of jelly, cream cheese, butter, and peanut butter
Breakfast was great, especially the bagels, eggs, blueberry muffins, and OJ (which was not watered down, it also had the pulp). I don’t eat meat, but my boyfriend, mom, and brother liked the sausage patties and gravy. We took some extra blueberry muffins home and they didn’t mind. There was a lady from the kitchen who kept coming out every 10 mins. to make sure everything was organized, stocked, and clean. I posted my pics, but I forgot to take pictures of the room.

Nice! Spacious room worth the money!

If you happen to be travelling to Delano and need a place to stay, this is probably as good as it will get. The place is brand new as of January ’07 and the «newness» shows. The bathrooms are spacious & updated… ditto for the pillow top beds and room furniture. The room sizes are also pretty generous. Their lounge area where they serve their continental breakfast is also worth mentioning… comfy couch and seating area with a nice fireplace. Overall, a lot more than you would expect, especially for a H.I. Express. Oh, and the rooms also have a microwave, fridge and free wireless internet access.