Glendora Motel

I had to live here for a week due to my house remodeling. And ill tell you I don’t ever want to stay at this place again. We had no sleep whatsoever, the walls are super thin you can hear everyone on each side of the room. The room was smelly old furniture, uncomfortable pillows, dirty carpets, tagging on the walls, fixtures falling apart, and you can hear the passing traffic all night like if we had the window open. We where originally staying for 3 days and we paid $ 55 a night, since our contractor didn’t finish within the 3 days we ask the Indian lady to give us a weekly rate for the rest of our stay and she refused telling me I should of got that in the beginning. let’s just call it a close to be a roach motel.

We used to use this place a lot for their $ 80 jacuzzi room including taxes and fees. They had 2 and it was a full 8 person jacuzzi. The room was not too horrible, the bed was super hard, and once we found a cockroach in our towels. Even still we would still go several times a year to get alone. We went today and were told that the jacuzzi’s have been permanently removed. So sad, we will need to find another place. There is free internet and an adult channel. Also, there are usually cops parked in the lot which made us feel safer.

Anyone who knows Bookman knows that Bookman likes to hit the road, whether it’s a sluggish waddle or a breezy belly slide, Bookman knows how RoadDog. So when business took me to the LA suburb of Glendora, CA (a town seemingly frozen in 1958) I looked for budget lodging along good old Hwy Route 66.
How fitting that I would write my first review on Unilocal – a modern concoction of internet, mobile phones and social (read: «I like you, just not in person») networking – on something so steeped in nostalgia.
The architectural genre reflected more of a late 1980’s South Florida drug fugitive schadenfreude than anything from Happy Days, but the check-​in office was predictably filled with the heady spicy aroma of Bangalore and the staff was unusually cheerful, especially since I showed up without a reservation. But how many people reserve a room at a $ 45 motel?
Once inside I found the décor to be… pretty much the same as the outside. However, Bookman’s giving this baby 4 stars because:
This is not Park Hyatt Pudong in Shaghai, or the George V in Paris, or the Jaipur Resort in, Jaipur… it’s a MOTEL!
The bed was freaking FIRM… a major plus for a guy like me who is used to sleeping on ice.
The air conditioner in this tiny room was working at industrial strength, bringing the enclosure’s temp down to pro standards within seconds.
The room/​towels/​bedding was clean, blah blah blah… who cares, so what… but check out this little shelving situation (see pic)…
It looks like Piet Mondrian teamed up with a poorly-​trained third-​world carpenter, but for a motel NOT BAD, and that’s what it’s all about right? Expectations.
Rock On
PS-​The shower was freaking powerful