Foothills Motel and Bowling

This place is OK, not very welcoming. You don’t get a feeling that your business is appreciated at all and is defiantly overpriced for what you do get. The weekly rate helps for extended stays. At first the front desk lady was rude and not helpful. We were told at one point that we needed to switch rooms because they had a group with reservations for the rooms with sliding glass doors that we were in. We planned on moving to a new hotel. The day we were to check out we were told we can stay. We have been here long enough and were settled in and our dog loves it here since there are lots of dogs around to play with.
There was an issue with parking since they have assigned parking, but they have parking available in other places.
Don’t stay in room 101, doors don’t secure well. We found a needle in this room in the decorations also. We switched rooms.
I bring my own sheets towels, bleach and vacuum since we travel all the time. (All it takes is one bad hotel to ruin it for the rest).
I hope the housekeeping was having a bad day or blind to explain the piss spot on the bed protector covering the larger piss spot on the bed… we flipped the mattress to the surprisingly clean side, sprayed bleach… use their 2 sheets as barriers… spayed bleach… put my thick protector cover down… added 2 fitted sheets and my own blankets… sprayed bleach on surrounding areas.
No Guest Laundry. not sure I wouldn’t use it anyways. Going to Mrs. T’s I think… will let ya know how it goes.
Breakfast??? oh the other review must have been talking about the plastic wrapped pastry and old coffee in the lobby! (Pastry is ok… one of the few times I approve of using plastic in such a disposable manner.
THE AIR CONDITIONING IS ON ALL THE TIME!!! IT IS HORRIBLE!!!
The pros:
1.I like the patio a lot. Good for dog… but old critter poison= bad for dog
2.Little fridge and Micro
3. The rooms have a slight charm to the decoration
4. PET FRIENDLY
5. Hot tub is always open
ALL IN ALL… the price is way to high for the return. I hear there is a Motel 6… or a Holiday Inn. If you stay here and need internet make sure you are in the right room. No breakfast offered. No Guest Loyalty. Very few outlets.

Don’t waste your dollars on this place. Spend a little more and upgrade to a better motel/​hotel. After 40 years of staying here I will never stay here again. Loud guests, rude front desk woman, poor maid service and poor room maintainence.

For the price it is quaint. It seems to be straight out of the Dirty Dancing era and I am sure in its hayday it was quite the charmer. The people behind the desk are a bit creepy but you only have to deal with them for a few minutes. There seem to be some long term folks who stay that are also kinda creepy but again… I am not living there. We found our room to be sufficient and super close to our meeting spot for White Water rafting. We ended up staying two nights with no realy issues.

If your driving down 80 and your first reaction upon seeing the retro-​ish Foothills Motel sign is that you would love this place, then you probably will. Pull over and stay as needed.
The woman who checked me in was efficient without being friendly, had that single mom, small town look to her. If this was a movie she might have a late night tryst with a ruggedly handsome Kevin Costner playing a sensitive bad boy trucker just stopping by to rest up on his way to mete out some vigilante justice. Well this isn’t a movie (and I’m no Kevin Costner) so it’s remote and a key for me, and the window slides closed again.
The hotel and rooms have that kitschy, run down – but not too run down – 50’s nostalgia, with a better tv, feel. Something in your room might be broken and the outlets are few, but you won’t feel terrified of the shower – or have nightmares of bed bugs. Each room has a parking space right in front of it, so packing and unpacking is easy peasy. The beds are cozy, and the tv has tons of channels.
A quick walk around the property and we see a pool, barbecue, and small patio for each room. The pool looks like a dead slug, but no points off since it’s winter. The entire property is one story, and the room has a small back patio where I can watch the freeway, the dead slug, and see a few restaurants.
I couldn’t help but feel like this is one of those hotels that has some «residents.» You know the type of dudes I’m talking about – you’ve seen them around, old single white men, with beards and limps, wandering back and forth with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths. I call these people the triple P’s. The Potentially Postal Profile. These guys don’t feak me out though, they just remind me of home.
This, however, brings me to my last point. If you’re driving down 80 and your first reaction to the Foothills Motel sign is, um – no. Then you probably won’t dig it. Don’t stay here. Between the triple P’s, and the lights being off on most of the property at night, it feels a little Bate’sish. But just a little.

4.5
Using my fifties motels based on fifties motel merits rating system.
Great property, quiet, well loved, cared for and well maintained. Big rooms, comfortable beds, clean bathrooms with restored tile, fiftys mirror light fixtures. At least one employee comes here on her day off to relax. Clean white linens, moderately fluffy, decent sized towels. Wi-​fi spotty, dsl connection in some rooms. As usual in these places, a bit light on electrical connections. You could do business from most rooms with their table, chairs and nearby electrical outlet. Bring a multi-​oultlet/​power strip if needed. Hot tub with a view, sparkling pool in the holler, a bar-​be-​que gazebo and picnic area.
The coffee in the front desk air pots is brewed really strong. You might consider other coffee. Plastic-​wrapped vari-​flavored sugar bomb danish for night guests.
We’ll be back. With bathing suits and sweet corn for the bar-​by.

Don’t stay here unless you truly, absolutely must. Really. For $ 70 a night this place is absurdly overpriced, unclean, and definitely not worth it.
I ended up here because it was the only place on I-​80 with a free room on the Saturday of labor day weekend. We checked all the other hotel/​motels in Auburn before coming to Foothills’ half-​lit sign. The only rooms they had were smoking, but it was 4am and that sounded better than sleeping in the car. It was, but only just. Here’s what was wrong, roughly in order of how much it horrified me:
1) Door to our room didn’t close. It did lock, kind of, but it was too big for its frame and stuck out a full inch into the room (read: making the room totally unsecure and easy to break into.)
2) Many large holes across the bedspread and the sheets (maybe cigarette holes?)
3) Unfolded a bath towel to find a large, rust-​colored stain covering half of it (I’m going with rust because the alternatives are too gross to contemplate.)
4) No control for the temperature anywhere in the room, which was so cold we finally put a stack of magazines over the air vent so we could sleep.
5) Advertised wifi, but then were told there’s only wifi in some rooms, specifically not ours.
6) Threatening note in the room informing us (which the desk guy had not) that check-​out is 11am and we’d be charged $ 10 for each hour later we checked out.
7) Further threatening notes all around the reception/​office telling long-​term guests not to eat the breakfast or bug the desk guy at night… not classy.
I’m pretty sure there were more issues I’m not remembering right now, but you get the picture. Now, I’ve stayed in some grubby $ 25/​night hostels in my time, and I’m comfortable sacrificing style for a great price, but for $ 70 I expect clean sheets and towels and a door that closes.
I’d like to give this 1.5 stars, since so far as I know there were neither roaches nor rats, but I’m erring on the side of 1 star so the next exhausted Unilocaler driving down I-​80 won’t be suckered into a bad deal. There’s a cheaper and cleaner Motel 6 right around the corner.

We have been staying here for years when shopping the Auburn area.
All I can say is I love this place, it is always clean and has everything one needs for a pleasant stay. The rooms and grounds still have the feel of years ago with out the wear and tear so many others like have.
SO if you are in Auburn and want a great place at a super price, this is the place for you.

I totally loved this hotel… but then again, I do tend to love cheap places! It was clean, the rooms were cute and nicely taken care of and it definitely had the retro feel to it. Why stay at the Best Western when this place has so much charm?!

It’s snowing down to 2500 ft and it looks like Donner Summit is gonna stay closed until morning. You’ve already waited 2 hours and drank an 18 pack in the rest stop near by.
You. Are. Fucked. Or are you ?
Hurry over to the Foothillz where every room is a non-​smoking-​smoking room. You still want to make a night of it and ask the front desk person what Auburn has to offer.
Guess what ??? What !!!
FREE BOWLING AND KARAOKEE to all Foothillz motel guests.
BOO YA !!!
Who knew a friday night in Auburn could be like New Years in Vegas?