E-Z 8 Motel San Jose II

Unfortunately everything else was booked and I settled for this place. This place was really bad. Very outdated crappy room which literally smelled like poop. Also, the carpet was damp and I was greeted with the A/​C blasting on full heat. This created the awful smelly humid hot room I stayed in. Somebody probably shat the floor in this room and they tried to clean and dry out the carpet for their next guest. It was also over $ 100 for the night. Do yourself a favor and take the extra 25 minute drive down to Santa Cruz and get a great ocean view room almost anywhere for half the price.

this place is a joke, it seems to me they only like to rent to drug dealers, they let there guest party all night and if you do not make sure your car is locked it will get broke in to and to top it all off the bald headed manager does not care.

The worst place to possibly get a room. I’ve been staying here for years loved everyone, had one bad experience with the «new manager» she claimed, she cussed me out for no apparent reason and told me I had 15 minutes to get out and rudely hung up in my face. Called back several times from multiple phones and not once did she answer. Went into the office and was demanded to leave before I said anything. Place is too crapy to pay 120 a night anyways… The worst hotel experience yet!

Do not book this motel. Signs posted everywhere about prostitution and suspicious activity. The room was disgusting. Mold all over the bathroom ceiling, and the room was musty and just felt dirty. We had this place booked months in advance and didn’t end up staying there a single night. Disgusting.

Pros include that it is the cheapest place in town and it is clean enough, but we still paid $ 75 per night, which sadly, is cheap for this area. However, it is missing essential amenities. There are far too few outlets, no microwave, and no blow driver, all of which l thought all hotels had until now. The water pressure in the shower is far too low and it doesn’t get above luke warm. And, it is sketchy here. People hanging outside at all hours of the day, and prostitues on the streets.
I usually go for cheap hotels, and though it was clean enough, it was just too lacking in amenities and in a sketchy area, so l will not be returning.

So my husband, his friend, and I stayed there for 5 days last week for Wrestlemania 31 and although the staff was friendly, they didn’t seem to know much about the area. The room was really gross, bugs in the shower, on the bathroom floors, spider webs on the hanging lights right above the bed. You k ow how most hotel housekeeping leaves small bottles of shampoo/​conditioner, lotion, and some soap? They didn’t do that, and when we asked for some, the guy said he had some, gave it to me, but said he was supposed to give it out. Not sure what that was about.
We are on a budget, so it was decent for a place to sleep for less than $ 100 a night. A good thing is that the light rail is directly outside the motel, which led us to the convention center and Levi Stadium.
Would I stay there again?
More than likely not.

Let me start off by saying that I travel quite a bit. Unfortunately, the purpose of my travels usually has to do with a job interview, as opposed to an actual vacation. And let me tell you, I’ve stayed at some pretty crappy motels/​hotels in my time… all in the the name of employment. Motels in the middle of West Oakland with signs on the windows claiming «ABSOLUTELY no hookers allowed!»? Yup, I’ve stayed there. The motel that hosted Milpitas’s very first murder of 2014? Yup, I’ve stayed there too. Needless to say, I’m not looking to stay at the Waldorf Astoria when I’m on the road.
With that being said, I can say with confidence that this might be the only motel I’ve ever actually stayed at where I truly felt unsafe. If the E-​Z 8 were a finer establishment, I might upgrade it to «hella sketchy» status. Trust me, for the $ 87.00 I spent on this place, I could have found better… and you can too.
I checked in last Wednesday around 2pm, and was greeted at the front counter by not only the desk clerk (who was pretty cool, to be fair), but also by a lady who was at least 6“1 in flats, and had a bleached blonde afro wig. She kept looking over at me while I was getting checked in, all the time complaining to her friend on the phone about how she was tired and needed a place to stay but didn’t have any money and didn’t know what she was going to do. Yea, that old hustle, lol. So she gets off the phone and proceeds to ask me if I would get her a room for the night. When I refused, she just brushed me off and stared out into space, no doubt thinking deep and complex thoughts. The clerk told me there was a security guard on duty at night that patrolled the perimeter, but I honestly didn’t know if I felt better or worse knowing that info. Why did they need a security guard here in the first place?
So the clerk gives me a room on the back side of the motel, on the second floor… bummer. So as I’m driving around to the back of the building, I notice this scruffy little guy in Elton John glasses and a Fubu shirt kept looking back at me like I was following him. All of a sudden he ran up to a fence that surrounds the property, jumped it, and took off running. My keen intellect told me he probably had crack hiding in his heavy coat he was wearing in 75 degree weather, or based on the way he ran away from me, he could of hid it in his ass. Either way it was amusing.
So I get up to my room and find pretty much exactly what I was expecting. No coffee machine, no iron (or ironing board), an old school Magnavox TV that was probably considered substandard before Bill Clinton was elected president, $ 5.00 a day for Wi-​Fi, and a bed that was so hard it could find new life as an English Oak coffee table. And as of now, I can be sure of three (3) things in life, and three (3)things only. Number 1: I’m going to die someday. Number 2: I’ll have to pay taxes. And number 3: there was a cat in this room, and that cat pissed on this bed I’m about to sleep on tonight. You can’t fool me, I grew up around cats, so I know cat piss when I smell it.
On the bright side, however, the clerk said there were irons and ironing boards available, but that they were behind the counter. It was being used at that moment, but one of the other employees actually brought it to my room later on, so that was really cool of them.
As for the area itself, it made me really uneasy. There was broken glass, trash, and a pungent smell of refried ass, malt liquor and weed that surrounded the buildings like an invisible force field. But the only thing worse than the smell were the people responsible for it… straight ghetto. And I don’t mean that in the way some people do when their latte wasn’t made to perfection at Starbucks. If you’ve ever seen the movie Training Day with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, you’ll know what I mean. Any time I left my room, which I did three times total, I was getting sideways looks that clearly were meant to convey to me that I didn’t belong here and that I wasn’t welcomed. Women yelling and cussing at the top of their lungs in the parking lot, random cars coming and going at all hours of the night blasting music at full volume, and people who would stop and stare at me if I walked anywhere near their vicinity while they were having a conversation. Yup Scott, you picked another winner.
I got up three times in the middle of the night to make sure my car was still there, and in once piece. It was so loud till about 4 am, I only got about three hours of sleep total. Great way to start the day when I’ve got an interview at 10 am. I got dressed, threw my stuff in the car, got more dirty looks from two guys next to my car who were smoking weed infront of a 7 year old, and took off as fast as I could. If you need a place to crash for the night in San Jose, TRUST ME… you can do better than this place. Don’t be cheap like me, you deserve better. The service was cool, but that’s like putting a band aid on Ebola, it’s just not enough.

Sketchy as hell.
Had an overnight layover @ SJC, needed a bed for about 7 hours.
This place enjoys —
People creeping around all night.
No joke — used condemns outside the rooms.
Hookers passing through from time to time.
Room reeked like someone dumped bong water on the carpet.
I’d guess you have a 7 in 10 chance of getting an STD from the comforter.

This is the most inexpensive motel in San Jose. It definitely looks a little sketchy, but the bed is comfortablesnd the room has a mini-​fridge and air conditioning. Anyone complaining about the place not being nice enough should have expected that from the beginning because of the price. it’s 30 dollars cheaper per night than the motel 6 across the street so don’t have high expectations. I stayed at the motel 6 across the street the night before and the rooms here are about 2 times bigger, but the rooms there were remodeled to look modern. If you want much more space stay here, but if you want a tiny remodeled room, stay across the street.

My friend stayed here while she was visiting from Oregon. This is your typical cheap motel. The area isn’t the safest, and my friend told me she could hear people next door to her fighting almost all night. Amenities are dated, rooms are tiny, but it gets the job done.

So far, I’ve been here off-​and-​on for about 6 hours.
This is not a high end hotel. If you’re expecting that, you’re looking at the wrong prices.
This is a good motel for someone who will be out and about the city and Bay Area. It’s very close to the Valley Transit Authority’s Karina light rail station. You can see it from the drive way. It can take you down First Street to the center of the city where San Pedro Square Market and dozens of restaurants are. If you’re unwilling to do that, you can find a McDonald’s next door but there is so much good food in San Jose, that you should go find it.
For $ 60.00 a night, I don’t think you’ll find any place else as good, and I think the big names were charging $ 75 – 100 for slightly better accomodations. It all depends on what you want. I don’t plan to stay in the room that much, so this is fine. I can use the extra money for food and travel.
Although it’s not right there, you can use Caltrain to get to San Francisco easily for $ 9.00 (4 zones) each way, if I understood correctly. That’s cheaper than parking.
The fridge is not working (electrical outlet is very loose), but the air conditioning is. They have an older-​looking TV with the old CRT tube, but if you want TV, it’s there. I appreciate that the plumbing seems fine, although the fiberglass bathtub seems to show its age. Functionality is a good thing, though.
I have a second floor room and there is a plus, a vaulted ceiling, if a bit of unusual style matters. It’s an unusual touch, and I’m surprised that there isn’t a skylight.
The internet was down so he was only accepting cash at the time. The motel’s internet connection did recover and it was an extra cost thing. I’m not sure how much that’s worth to anyone. I was talking to someone on the train and her mother was staying nearby at Motel 6 for less than this motel’s advertised $ 69.99 and they offered free WiFi from what I saw on the sign. I’ve had really bad luck with Motel 6, so it really wasn’t an option for me.
Update 2015.02.28: I really meant to finish this and the trip was so busy that I did not.
Getting to San Francisco was easy from here. For $ 6.00 you can buy a VTA day pass, and get to San Jose Diridon Station using a Winchester (–Mountain View) train. From there, get a Caltrain day pass to San Francisco (4 zones), for $ 18.00 – all of West Bay, all stops, for $ 18.00. When you get to San Fran, you can get a MUNI day pass, which was quite a bit.
In any case, I rarely needed my car, and since they had security stationed at the motel’s entrance, I never was concerned about safety at this location. Getting food generally required my car, and I couldn’t find any convenience stores within walking distance, although there are a number of businesses available, including some great Korean, VietNamese, and Mexican food in Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and East San Jose.
Even though I live about 75 miles away now, I’ve considered staying at this motel in order to have an easy trip to San Francisco for a day or two without driving.