The L Motel

The L Motel is an incredible value. 30 bucks when it’s all said and done for a comfortable King bed, 50in” TV, mini fridge, and microwave. The rooms are the nicest 30 dollar rooms I’ve ever stayed in and they’re clean and warm. Breakfast is basic but at least it exists. Free wifi, location is fantastic, staff was kind.
Would definitely stay here again.

The rooms are decent looking but very outdated. I find myself staying awake bcuz of the carbon monoxide coming from the old flame heater. The toilet wasn’t flushing n there are stains on the walls n beds. The place is affordably cheap but for someone on a budget I can not afford to switch hotels as they will not refund you. I made my complaints aware to management n he kindly switched me rooms but the same problem persists.

Complainers will complain. Maybe they thought they booked a room at the Hilton instead.
This is the second time I’ve stayed at this motel while road tripping. The value is hard to beat — $ 30 for 2 people in a king room.
Facilities are clean. Management is courteous and welcoming. Location is excellent. Breakfast is nothing special but at least it is offered.
This motel has exceeded my expectations not only once but twice now. Highly recommended for any travelers out there.

This was a very affordable hotel. It’s very close to everything in flagstaff. It’s on a main road that’s located very close to downtown flagstaff. The rooms were clean and very comfortable for the price. I recommend everyone to choose this hotel. You can’t beat paying 29 $ dollars for a room. It’s was a very comfortable stay

We are traveling with dogs and do not have a lot of choices in the $ 60-​$ 80 a night category. We booked this room on
. The front office was neat enough to give me hope the room would at least be clean. At first entering The room stunk of some sort of cleaner that smelled like gasoline. A Stained arm chair that I barely felt comfortable to put a bag on. The bathroom looked clean at first glance, but after actually using it, the floor was as sticky as a college bar at 2:25am. It was very clear that no one with any maintenance skills what so ever works on this building. The tile work was very bad with huge gaps and cracks to hold all the stickiness. There was a very shoddy ‘wiring’ job on the floor next to the bathroom sink. My boyfriend had a look and assured me that he felt it was just the phone line badly taped together. The towels were very thin and stained. I did not look closely at the bed because I may have freaked. We just had great food and plenty of drinks at the Beaver St Brewery and I was buzzed enough not to worry about it!
The one front desk man that helped us was constantly around. He had to come into our room to try and fix the tv in the next room. He was deathly afraid of dogs. It just shocks us to see people take such lack of care in their business. If something is clean you can look beyond the imperfections. We paid an extra $ 25 for the dogs. The state of the room made us feel not as bad about the dog hair left behind.

Booked through Priceline as a last minute place to stay. The motel was filthy and the toilet was clogged. One of the employees unclogged the toilet and carried the plunger back out with the dirty poop water dripping on the carpet of our room. Rooms wreaked of smoke and I wouldn’t even dare sleep under the covers of the bed. Everything was old and damaged… even the toilet seat had the white paint chipping off. I would not stay here again, but if you are just looking for something last minute and cheap to rest for the night and you don’t have children, then I guess it will do.

Okay, this isn’t fancy, but… here goes, staff very nice, room is clean and outdated. Honestly, for the price and location it works for the night. They’ve obviously tried to make an old motel accommodating. Don’t expect the ritz, be open and it’s fine. Dislikes, poor paint jobs and bad renovation. A bit scuzzy in spots. Oh, and apparently, long term tenants? I noticed a man on a bike «looking» around and a young family possibly living here? Good for travelers. Cheaper than the local hostel. It’s a ³⁰⁄₇₀.

Do not stay here! When I checked in they gave me a key to an already occupied room. Rooms way over priced.

If you want a cheap room and don’t have high motel expectations then hit this place up. This is one of the worst places I’ve stayed in awhile. Location is fine, it was just needing some major cleaning. Bed was at least clean.

3 days later after spending a night in this motel I still feel very gross. I found this spot for cheap and being half a sleep we decided to book it. Needles to say it was the most dumpy motel I’ve been in a very long time. There was hair in the bathroom, the toilet was very loud during the night (?) and our beds wouldnt stop shaking (??) Not sure if this place is haunted or if I was losing my mind from being on the road, but I would NOT recommend this no matter how cheap it may seem to me.

Seemed like it could be OK from the street– part of the renaissance of older motels I’d been staying at on a x-​country drive, and not a local hourly joint. BUT… The air conditioner barely worked to cool, just re-​circulated hot air– a problem I find in many older places. In general, poorly maintained, electric sockets way over-​loaded, etc. Opening the window was a chore that only let in traffic noise from a busy street. Charged me $ 15 dollars for my dog (which was cleaner and better behaved than many of the human occupants.
The «free Wi-​Fi» Internet” took 5 minutes to load a page– so I gave up. The «continental breakfast» was mini-​muffins a la plastic wrapper. I walked next door to a fabulous local diner instead. The bill was $ 80. Real rip-​off. Several other nicer-​looking places are nearby. Check them out first to compare.
The employees are real nice and positive, reminding me of «The Best Exotic Marigold Motel.» They just didn’t get it that syrupy promises do not substitute for the real thing.

If I come to Flagstaff again, this is where I’ll be staying. The cute old-​school exterior with blue doors, a white picket fence circling the property, and vintage signage makes this spot a road-​stop gem, but the recently-​renovated interior with comfortable beds, flat screen TVs, and truly massive bathrooms make this spot worth a splurge!
Booked online*, check-​in (3PM) and check-​out (noon!) was easy. Housekeeping started coming by around 9AM, which was a little absurd. I realize a lot of people leave early for hiking and such, but perhaps just visit the rooms as they are checked out rather than waking people who are taking advantage of the late check out.
Great location, easy to walk to several drinking and dining options, as well as a grocery store. In-​room amenities include a mini-​fridge, microwave, and coffeemaker.
NOTE: Booking online with a «new property» special got us the single king room at a total rate of $ 53/​day. Website (
) indicated that this was a special price at a great discount, claimed the «regular price» was something like $ 150, which is outrageous. This was a great price and great value for a room, but I wouldn’t pay much more than that.

This hotel is nasty! There were holes that were hardly patched all over the walls! Lazy pain jobs, tile placement, ect… Everything was hardly put together! The front desk guy looked like he just rolled out of bed and was confused. The «free breakfast» was dollar store prepackaged donuts, and muffins. I refused to take a shower. Yuck. There was one tiny mirror over the sink, a 100 year old couch, and a 30 year old microwave. The only good things I will say is the bed seemed clean and there was a huge flat screen TV. It was in a good location. Pretty close to downtown. But they need to lower their rates (116 dollars) or they need to remodel! There’s only like 15 rooms. Come on people!

Room was clean. One window didn’t lock but when reported they fixed it immediately. Not enough towels for our group of four. Not worth the money. Management was freindly.

«You can’t take photos here,» The man working said.
«In the office?» I asked.
«Yes,» he snapped. This was right after I absently took a photo of the L Motel sign hanging in the upper left corner of the office – and incidentally captured the large video camera right above the sign.
(As a brief explanation of what I was doing at the L Motel in the first place: My boyfriend and I live in Flagstaff; our oven ended up having a carb monoxide leak so we had to stay somewhere else for the night. I chose this place because I thought it’d be an adventure. It was an affordable-​priced motel on a popular area of Milton in Flagstaff, and we could walk downtown.)
The office person was gruff.
After about five minutes of being in the office, both my boyfriend and I verbalized that we wanted to cancel our reservation without checking in at all. But he refused. He was still going to charge us.
Since we made this reservation on
, we hadn’t been able to see this place in person. Feeling a bit wary of the service here, we wanted to see the room.
After seeing it – we noticed the window was bent and broken into.
The room appeared to look nice, but upon inspection, we already spotted major red flags. We came back to the desk and said – again – we wanted to cancel the reservation.
He again said he would still charge the card.
That was «the policy.»
He checked us in. Since another goal of mine was to write a Unilocal review for this place (I try to review local independent businesses in Flag mostly to support them) I decided to keep on with the goal, because maybe we were just jumping the gun.
But as I investigated the space and the room itself – two double beds and one bathroom – snapping photos, peering at things closely, I saw shoddy paint jobs, cracked walls, crumbling edges, and grossness in the bathroom.
The appearance of this motel room was like an illusion. Aesthetically pleasant, color coordinated, four pillows repetitively placed on the bed, a neat bed spread, a flashy digital television screen, and a sleek, black fridge and microwave.
After an hour of investigation and talking items over, we realized we were going to be staying at a place we still, really didn’t want to stay at. Essentially, we were being forced to buy something we didn’t want.
It was the stains on the pillow cases that made me wonder what the state of the pillows inside were like, and the state of the mattress. Red stains, like blood stains, and other spots, were on the pillow cases. The pillows themselves were more stained – one pillow beholding very questionable dots imbedded in the cloth. Both mattress looked bad, really bad.
This all made us not want to sleep on the beds or use these pillows.
This all also made us question the point of staying in a motel room when we’re not trusting the very sleeping materials being offered, as the undertone of our unwillingness to trust this place, was also from the attitude of the office attendant himself. After an hour, we decided to really put our foot down. We wrote up a list of these items, the main ones being the broken-​into-​window, the pillows and mattresses. And, we decided to request a refund.
Here, I will admit that I didn’t make the beds or put the pillows back to their place because we were in a rush to leave. And I was pissed.
Anyhoo, walked back to the motel’s office, feeling very serious.
This time, there was another guy with the first dude who checked us in (also in pajama bottoms) and with the list, and my camera, we requested to have a refund. I showed them a few of my photos, even though they didn’t want to see them, and they finally gave us a refund.
A few minutes after we left, my boyfriend got a call from the motel. One of the office attendants who we spoke to was yelling at him because this cost him 60-​something-​dollars, and he kept asking, «Is this the way?»
Here I will have to admit:
I snatched the phone from my boyfriend’s ear and started yelling back at the man, dosing him with a slaughtered mess of phrases like: «This is bad business,» and «We’re going to report you to the Better Business Bureau!»
My boyfriend parked and calmly called the motel back. The man answered the phone – I could here a little shaking in his voice and I felt bad – and after the man was done lecturing, my boyfriend ended up repeating that he better not be charged for the room. In the end, the man said he wouldn’t.
We got off the phone with him, took a couple breaths, bought a meal at Burrito’s Fiesta, chuckled at the experience and let it go. Yet, I decided to write this Unilocal review only because it was my intention to do so before the drama.
I wasn’t planning for this to be a negative review.
But that’s how the cookie crumbled.

On my drive across country from NC to California I stayed in 3 different motels. The L Motel was the cheapest but also the nicest out of the three. Great value.
Pros — Large, comfortable bed. Huge flatscreen TV. Large bathroom. Everything clean and tidy when I entered. Front desk staff very polite and friendly both at night and in the morning.
Cons — the room itself isn’t very big, the bed takes up most of the space. I was by myself so this wasn’t a problem for me but it could be for a family. One of the pillows had a small stain (not recent) if you care about that sort of thing, I sure don’t.
All in all one of the best values for the low price. All the negative reviews I read seem to be from people who just like to complain and be negative and are never satisfied. If you aren’t like that you will love this motel.

First off this the customer service was excellent! I called a couple days earlier for pricing. Wasn’t looking to spend a whole lot just for one night. We had a total of 4people and the front desk let us know they had a «family size room» which was three queen beds so it was Perfect for our group. The room was pretty spacious, three beds, large table, computer chairs, mini frig, coffee maker, clock, the basics. Bathroom was okay, but watch out for the handicap bar/​handle in the shower, all of us either bumped our heads, or bumped our elbow while getting out. Oh and if you’re claustrophobic the toilet area might not be fore you. It’s like weirdly proportioned. Haha. But all in all our stay was great! The weather was excellent everything was in walking distance or a short drive away. I’m one satisfied visitor. Thanks for the stay.

JUST NO!!! We just needed to stay for one night and it was a cheap price. It’s a great deal if you want to be disgusted and have a headache for the rest of the day after being in the room for 5 seconds with the MOLD. There was enough dust in every possible corner and under/​behind the bed to know that it hadn’t been cleaned for a VERY long time. The door frames were covered with I’m going to say was mud. A mouse trap, bloody tissues by the bed, blood stains on the bed, an unwashed coffee pot. Everything was gross and falling apart (walls, window seals, ect.) JUST NO!!! One star because I had to.

Price is the ONLY reason I would ever return.
The bathroom is unreasonably cramped when using the toilet.
The WiFi did not work well.
The price was low enough, and the rest of the experience was decent enough that I’d possibly return.

Just checked in, so first, the logistics.
Unilocal map shows the motel on the east side of Milton further up, but it’s actually on the west side (left) as you come into Flagstaff from the airport. Traffic at 4pm can make turning left into the motel tough, so just keep going, under the bridge, then turn left in the left turn lane and pull a u (or make 3 lefts), to get you’re going back the other way on Milton.
The motel is in the process of being renovated with some of the work being carried out during the day at a reasonable time. My room had a big flat screen tv and the décor matched the nicer rooms on the website. I would imagine that at some point all of the rooms will look this way.
Service at the front desk was prompt and friendly.
The location itself places it very close to town and campus. Take the time to explore the breweries while you’re here. You won’t be disappointed.
Parking seems adequate in front though I can’t tell if they were full.