Rodeway Inn

This motel is rated as a 2-​star motel and I think that is fair. We made reservations for a weekend in summer and paid almost $ 375 for the 2 nights, but this was in line with the other 2-​star motels we were looking at.
The interiors were nothing to rave about. The pictures on Unilocal are pretty representative, although you don’t see all of the details that make it look a little more aged, which it is. The place WAS clean, and moderately convenient. The managers were pleasant and helpful. The «continental breakfast» is the minimum that could still be called that: juice, coffee or tea, and pastry. One unexpected feature is that our room DID have a refrigerator and microwave. I don’t know if other rooms do.
All in all, I’ve stayed in (much) better places, but given the location and the time of year, I think what we got was fair.

I realize that this is a budget motel and not the four seasons and when writing a review one needs to keep ones expectations in check. That said I think that this place is a poor choice grading it against other budget motels. Our room was dirt and reeked of cigarette smoke. The hotel service was rude, and the room walls are paper thin. It has all the mold, stained carpet, pealing paint and dirty bed sheets that make it stand out as among the worst in its class. The room has no amenities except for an ancient and small tube TV. Our wifi did not work.

First stay at a Rodeway Inn and am not planning to ever stay at another one if I can successfully avoid it!
Monterey is understandably a popular place to visit for out-​of-​state and international tourists, but $ 200/​night for outdated rooms? No way, Jose.
The bedding and sheets did not appear to have been updated since the beginning of time. Room was remarkably cramped. I think there was a gap of only a foot between the two beds and two feet from the foot of the beds to the dresser and TV, meaning the walkways were tiny and hard to get by without hitting furniture or someone’s body part.
Furthermore, the sheets were thin and uncomfortable to sleep in. Pillows not much of an upgrade. Suffice to say, we did not get a good night’s sleep here.
Avoid staying here if you can help it. If you plan to stay in Monterey overnight, plan it MONTHS in advance (at least 6 months) and choose a better hotel. You’ll be paying more no matter what because it’s Monterey; you might as well enjoy it!

One star is too many. Read the rest of the reviews. Beds are horrible. Service is horrible. Extremely noisy. Dangerous place to stay. If I could leave a minus 5 stars I would. When I talked to the staff about the problems all they did was argue with me. When I asked for a different room they lied to me and told me they were booked. The staff on duty the next morning told me that they had extra rooms available and if I was not satisfied I should’ve been put in a different room or another hotel that they owned. But he made it sound like it was my fault that I didn’t know all that even though I had talked to the staff the previous evening about it. I would’ve gladly went somewhere else but there were no rooms available in town. No coffee in the room. No continental breakfast just some cheap pastries. STAY AWAY!!!

Can I leave a no star??? This place was gross … Stayed here for one night because we booked on
a stay at the Econolodge which is directly across the street but we were sent here because apparently they were overbooked, even though we had made reservations weeks in advance. We had two rooms, one was on the first floor and the other one on the 2^nd floor. The one downstairs smelled like pee (yuk) and there was mold all over the bathroom along with gigantic spider in the tub. The other room had no working air condition, which we went to the reception and the gentlemen advised us that we would have AC working by the time we came back from dinner… Go figure, it never worked the next morning we had to go to the hotel across the street for breakfast, and the same thing if we wanted to used the pool, which was disgusting as well…
You get what you pay for… NEVER STAYING THERE AGAIN

The beds are HORRIBLE!!! Dont underestimate this!!! The beds are dipped in the middle and sound like they’re gonna break when you get on.
sold me a room here for $ 67 on a thursday with 2 queen beds. When we get here with 3 people they decide to charge us for the third person!!! What did they think 2 people were gonna sleep on their own queen bed?! More to come!

Great little place. Me and my fiancé stayed the weekend here. The price is cheap the manager is very friendly and helpful. It is really close to any of the monteray attractions. It’s not a luxury resort. It is perfect for those who need a place to shower sleep and go explore. I’ll definitely stay here again.

Stayed here after our originally booked hotel (on same street) was extremely nasty and rude,
Hotels were packed because of music festival at fairgrounds.
Fortunately, my husband found this place.
The first thing we noticed is that the room smelled clean! *already an improvement from original hotel!
Sure, it isn’t fancy.
Is a little run down.
And bed is hard.
But, the floors were clean, sheets were not stained, and the front desk help was polite.
We paid a lot ($ 225!) for a mediocre clean room… But it is Monterey on a busy weekend, so that’s what you have to expect.
And compared to the Embassy Suites room down the street at $ 450/​night, this was a bargain!

I stayed in Rodeway Inn for a night. Clean room, washroom & linen. Very good speed of wireless internet. The breakfast is limited but the coffee is very good. I was with my wife and 3 year daughter. They enjoyed to stay here. Sid, a tall, handsome and helpful Front Desk Manager is very nice and decent young man. I will stay here again. All negative reviews are because some high expectations.
«Tips for visitor:
1) Tell the Front Desk Manger that you hate smoking room and u want non-​smoking room (if u really want non-smoking)upstairs rooms are better.
2)Always check the rates on internet and tell the front desk Manager that u want internet rate if he tells u more rate. You can avail coupon rates too which is 20% to 50% less of actual rack rate. U can get the coupon from
magazines free of cost in public places and Dennis Restaurants.
3) Better talk to Hotel management directly for reservation instead to go to third party reservations.
4) Always ask for Sid. he sounds good and is very helpful. He would advise you better and he gives better deals.
5) Third Parties take 20% of what u pay and give 80% to Hotels. Ask to the Manager that u would book the room with them directly if the give u 20% discount instead to the third party. Hopefully he would agree to give u 10% discount.
6) Be nice and you would be dealt nice. The Old Manger (owner) is nice but if u would challenge him he would be stuck on what he wants. (Age factor;-)
7) Mange you trip and enjoy. Its very reasonable motel in reasonable price. So never expect more than the price.

Junk and dirty hospitality is garbage. The rooms were filthy. Restrooms were backed up and dirty cloths left behind.

I am going to be brutally honest… worst hotel ever! we stayed here because we decided to extend our vacation an extra day and realized it was spring break weekend (bad on my part yes) ended up paying $ 189 and this is what we had wrong: room smelled so bad like weed and had people smoking it in the parking lot (personal choice im aware but not around kids) holes in the comforter the seaboard were falling off the wall dirt and scuff marks on the door and walls very hard to completely close the door water stains and wallpaper coming off the walls as well as multiple holes window screen not all the way on AC didn’t work top hinge of bathroom door was off so we couldn’t close the door light in the bathroom didn’t work at all there were spider webs in all corners in the bathroom tack strip on carpet to tile had nails actually sticking out that we didn’t notice until i stepped on one and was bleeding tv remote was melted somehow cigarette burns on curtains faucet in sink had no hot water and had to figure out how to get it to work at all NO WALL OUTLETS WORKED no matter what we tried to plug in… toilet was new and nice! i didn’t have a problem with the staff in fact i found them to be nice but considering i stayed at the deer haven inn the previous 2 nights and paid less was terrible…
and we had to pay for ice…
please don’t stay here even if you can’t find another hotel… sleep in your car

Total dump and it cost me $ 100 to stay there. Holes in the bathroom door and wall, pieces missing from the TV remote, no drink glass, public drinking outside, trash and liquor bottles ten feet from a room. Parking lot is cramped and I will never put myself in the position of being in a strange town and needing a room. The lobby was tiny and the owner was as slovenly as the rooms. How does it stay open? I commented on the
room and was told that the next night they would get $ 150 for my room. Terrible
experience. If there was a minus one star, this hotel would have gotten it.

I’m going to be completely blunt here with this review.
THIS PLACE SUCKS ASS! We were just looking for a place to crash on our way to go camping, and we decided to go for the cheapest one. Booked this Inn on Expedia for $ 80 a night which isn’t so bad. Walked into the room, a really small, dirty room that is and it was reeking of cigarette smoke. We just felt uncomfortable even sleeping on the bed because everything was just so filthy. In the morning when we went to checkout, an old, rude, creepy guy at the front desk charged my friend an extra $ 40 for having another friend over for a few hours. I confronted him, and he started yelling at me and calling me a liar.
Excuse you, you Pedo, but why were you staring at my friends and I when we were going up the room to begin with? The customer service here is shit. I have never despised a place more in my life. Please stay away from here. Go to travelodge instead; it’s right across the street.
I wish I could give this place negative starts.

My sister and I stayed at this place and the staff could not have been nicer! Sid was especially accommodating and was very kind. He gave us directions several times and he wasn’t even annoyed when we kept asking him questions. Room was great and the price was extremely reasonable. We will always stay here when we are in Monterey. For Monterey, it is an exceptional deal and very clean. Very sweet people that make you feel like you are their main concern-​very rare to find these days.

Usually stay here or across the street. Managers are nice, convenient to fairgrounds and they give me good deals. Looks like hotel is always upgrading rooms. Now off to some great Chinese next door

I have so many choice words about this hotel that I don’t even know where to start, whether it be the EXTREME amount of disgusting stains everywhere, especially the chairs, to the BUGS we had crawling on us during the night,. Yes, i’m not kidding, BUGS. not roaches, THANK GOD, but still, creatures that should not have been in my hotel room. I used a towel as a blanket because i was afraid of the bed and overall, i think i need to be quarantined after this stay for ONE NIGHT. and of course, they’re «direct tv» (which i think it was a fake box) didn’t work at all, whatsoever. Not even basic cable worked, nothing.
Basically, THIS PLACE SHOULD BE BURNED TO THE GROUND!!!
And don’t get me started on the rude, A-​hole management and his even RUDER wife. He brushed me off so hard that he didn’t even tell me which room I was staying in!!!
AND BE CAREFUL GIVING OUT YOUR CREDIT CARD # TO THEM!!! the guy spent almost ½ hour on the phone trying to convince me to cancel the online reservation that i made through
and to give him my credit card # to make the reservation directly. umm, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? not to mention the fact that the website charges $ 25 to cancel. The reason I’m warning you is that it seems a bit fishy when he can spend over ½ and hour trying to convince me to give him my credit card info, yet when I arrive, he was the rudest person i’ve met and snatched my confirmation out of my hand, handed me a key and motioned for me to leave!!! WTF??? I had to come back in and be like «ummm, what room is it???» Total JERK.
DO NOT STAY HERE!!! A few extra bucks is worth not catching syphillis from the sheets, chair, sink or any other surface you may touch!!!
Oh yeah, BY THE WAY, some people on here commented on how the room was clean and good enough for the price… I realized while i was there that there is a strip of rooms directly behind the office that looked much nicer. I think that they keep those rooms up so that they don’t get bad reviews or complaints and they just put people in those «nicer» rooms when it’s not full. We got LUCKY enough to stay in what seemed to be the «overflow» section where all the bugs, mold, stains, herpes, syphillis, ghonorrhea, etc. were… u get the picture. Let’s just say, i think even a hooker would have too much class to stay in a sh! thole like this one!!!

Oh where shall I begin? I guess I will say that first off, if I could leave a half of a star rating I would — what a disgusting hotel — and I am not very picky when it comes to a place where I will only be sleeping for about 6 hours.
I found this hotel online — I read reviews and saw some photos, so I was expecting just what the reviews and photos showed — simple, nothing fancy, the basics. I was to be in Monterey for 3 nights for work, and planned to spend no more than 7 hours a day in the hotel — just to shower and sleep.
We walked into our lovely room 116 — smack into a still lingering cloud of cigarette smoke. Can’t beat that right? The room was about 100 degrees (no exaggeration) and felt like a tropical jungle it was so humid. I reached down immediately to turn on the AC. It made a bunch of noise but did not blow more than a spritz of cold air — maybe because it is hanging 2 inches away from the wall and trim?
Here are some other lovely perks:
Crushed, empty Budweiser can on the floor
dirty fingerprint smears on every wall, door jam and light switch
an un-​flushed toilet
the bathroom light switch was not screwed into the wall
mold in the light fixtures on the ceiling
1 pillow on one bed, 1 and ½ pillow on the other (it was literally cut in half and stuffed in a pillow case).
Mattresses and box springs from 1960’s with tears and rodent holes chewed in them
Floors that had not been vacuumed — ever.
A6 plug power strip with no safety switch plugged into the wall with all 6 plugs attached to it — but don’t worry — that’s not flammable or anything…
Outside:
overflowing dumpster with rotting food all around it on the ground
moldy carpet piled with a rusty ironing board and an old baby seat
Don’t park you car by the balconies — you might wake up with cigarette butts on the hood of your truck, like I did.
We checked in very late after an even longer day of work so we decided to rough it for the night. The front desk girl was super nice and tried her best to help, telling us the manager would be there first thing in the morning so I figured I would talk to him about it.
7:30 AM the next day: all is packed, in the truck and I go down to talk to Mr. Manager. There is no one in the office, but the door that goes from the office to the little attached managers apartment was open. I got to listen to a man brush his teeth and hawk up about 10 luggies before he finally came to help me. When he came to the front desk he was in a shirt and his boxer shorts. How professional of him. I told him of all of our troubles. He told me that there was nothing wrong with the room, that I should be lucky to get this wonderful gem for 99.00 a night because he usually charged 199 a night on weekends. I also told him about the amazing woman who was standing on the balcony from 11 PM until 3 AM yelling on her cell phone about her baby daddy and on and on. His reply was ‘I can not control people — if she wants to yell, she can yell — not my problem’.
I ended up paying cash for the night and immediately calling choice hotels. They are sending me a refund check (which takes 7 weeks) for my nights stay.
So — yes I will get my money back, I will never stay anywhere near this rat infested $hit hole and I learned my lesson — pay a little more and stay someplace where you won’t catch funky diseases!

I have to agree with most of the reviews here folks.
I stayed here 2 nights (sat & sun in aug) and was on a budget and because it was close to downtown, fisherman’s wharf, and cannery row (about 2 miles and a 3 – 4 minute drive). This entire Fremont St. (or N. Fremont St.) is filled with chain hotels like Comfort Inn, Quality Inn, Ramada, etc.
I had reserved a non-​smoking, one bedroom online under my AMEX card. When I arrived, the guy asked me if I had a Mastercard? I said I reserved on your website with my AMEX and No I’m not giving you my Mastercard so you can save some $ when your room is crap, lol.
And yes, the room was crap. The end of the carpet touching the tiled bath area shrunk and when I accidentally stepped barefoot over it, I got stung by the mini nails. Not cool! The water in the shower turns from warm to cool to warm again every few minutes. The sink is clogged so the drainage of water is extremely slow. I had to wash my face in the tub spout a couple of times. And seriously, I had only like 6 inches of walk space between the end of the bed and the tv dresser.
Wi-​Fi was on and off and very slow! No iron or ironing board.
Yes, they had microwave and mini-​fridge, which I never used. And, they had a/​c, which was nice to use to mitigate the smell of carpet.
About $ 150 for 2 nights.

On a recent road trip Rodeway Inn Monterey was our first stop. It was dark cold and late when we checked in so a nice warm room was the first item on our checklist. The room has 1 very small old fashioned wall heater… that works amazing well. It takes some time to warm up but I felt I was in the desert in the middle of the night. The room also featured a coffee machine with coffee, microwave and fridge. It was perfect for that quick trip to 711 to get a microwaveable burrito and some beer. The place is dated for sure but was pretty clean, the bathroom was very large and welcoming. I paid about 70 bucks with AAA discount which is the only downside to this place. Its a little pricey for what they are offering but all in all a good nights sleep can be found.

On the bright side:
Clean linens, plentiful hot water, and an absolutely amazing tile floor in the bathroom area — seriously. This is tile that stepped right out of 1972, glorious browns and oranges, and polished to a mirror sheen. It’s almost worth paying to stay the night just to experience this tile. The price is also reasonably cheap given the locale, and the charm of being greeted by a bleary eyed man behind the counter as you check out, clad in an a-​shirt, scarcely deigning to turn his sleep-​tousled head from the television to grunt a reply can’t be beat.
The downside:
No fire alarm, bugs in the room, mold on the walls, fractured mirror and light fixtures, broken ac, broken refrigerator, drippy bath faucet, holes in the walls, and carpet looks like it was the battleground for world war three.
If you’re just looking for a cheap place to crash with a shower and coffeemaker, you’ve come to the right place. If you’re looking for anything else, head elsewhere.

Ein sehr einfachens, dafür auch sehr billiges Motel in Monterey. Ich würde es nicht wirklich einen Tipp nennen: Das Rodeway Inn ist nur dann empfehlenswert, wenn man sehr auf’s Geld achten muss.