The Mountain View Motel

Horrible service! The first day we arrived we were told we could not have ANY guests of ANY kind come to the room. We were not told why when we asked. Only that is was the rule.
Upon entering the room we were astonished that there was urine all over the toilet and the bathroom floor. We asked immediately for it to be cleaned up. It took them about 30 min to arrive to clean it up, while my kids were waiting to use the bathroom after a 3 hour car ride.
On the second day we inquired about the deposit fee and was met with hostility. The guy behind the counter started berating us for the questions we were asking about the facility. He stated that we had been a problem since day one because of our questions.
We immediately left the facility after that. Thank god we had family to stay with in Flagstaff.
Would definitely not recommend to ANYONE!

It’s the definition of «no frills».
I got a room on a Saturday night for $ 75, including taxes via
. Headed to mammoth, and wanted to crash the night before somewhere cheaper than mammoth village, but close enough to hit first chair. It’s about an hour from the lifts.
Simple, clean, straight forward. The room is slightly beat up, but it’s not like a paint chip in the wall actually affects sleep or really matters.
Quite soulless, but also .5 mile walk to «town», ie the grocery store, cafes, restaurants, etc.
Might try somewhere else next time, but it really is good enough.
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Woke up in the middle of the night, and found a little blood filled bug cruising around the bed. Not positive it was a bed bug, I uploaded some pictures. Really gross, never coming back.

Smeared boogers on the sheets! Had reservations for 3 nights. Checked in about 11:30pm. Pulled back covers to find boogers on the sheets. Went to front office to complain about sheets. The manager who’s name is Marco got all crazy and psycho and told us, «I don’t like your attitude! Do you want to stay or not?» I asked, «Are you going to change the sheets? And he yelled, You don’t ask the questions! Do you want to stay or not? I said, do you understand there are boogers on the sheets. He yelled, „Get Out!“ The friend I was with said, just give us our money back and we’ll leave. He said he would give us 2 nights payment back because we didn’t cancel the room in time. She said, we are here, checked in, you refuse to change the sheets and you are throwing us out. You owe us 3 nights refund. He kept going on about not liking my attitude, so I said, because you don’t like my attitude your not going to give her her money back. Then with a weird calm he said, „You’re right“, and then he went back to rude and ordered us to „go get your stuff out of the room NOW! and hurry up!!“ We cleared the room and went back for the refund receipt. He handed us the receipt, came out from behind the desk opened the front door and yelled, Get out!!» My friend, without her glasses, was trying to verify if the amount was for the 3 nights. As she kept trying to focus and read the receipt. Marco the psycho kept yelling to «Get Out»
She confirmed the amount for the 3 nights and we left, it was about midnight.
The next day, however, we discovered that we were charged again, after given a refund, for 1 night. This was a fraudulent charge without our knowledge or consent.
We happened to bump into someone from the Chamber of Commerce and told them what happened. This person said what happened to us was not an isolated incident. They had 12 – 15 complaints about Mountain View Motel in the last couple months all very similar and all with this ignorant, rude and obnoxious Marco. We were told to go to the police.
At the police station, the officers told us they too were told very similar stories from 4 separate incidents just recently. We got an incident # from the station.
Gave it a 1 star because I couldn’t give it any less

Great little place to stay. This was out second time here. The rooms are exactly what you pay for: older furnishings and no frills; however, we don’t need the frills. Hotels for us are just that… a place to lay your head because the real thrill is the location. It is perfectly comfortable and clean. The staff is extremely friendly and welcoming. If you want a clean and comfortable place to stay that doesn’t overcharge because of location… This is the place for you.

Ein bezahlbares Motel zwischen dem Yosemite National Park und dem Death Valley Nationalpark zu finden ist nicht so einfach in der Hauptsaison. Eine Woche vor Anreise konnten wir das Mountain View in Bishop zu einem annehmbaren Preis buchen.
Der Check Inn war problemlos und wir waren überrascht von der Größe unseres Zimmers. Bei unserer Ankunft war man gerade dabei, die alten Röhrenfernseher gegen Flatscreens auszutauschen. Das Zimmer machte einen sehr gepflegten Eindruck auf uns und das WLAN funktionierte gut. Vom Zimmer konnte man kostenfreie Ortsgespräche führen, was ich noch nie in den USA genutzt habe und es war ein Föhn und Kühlschrank vorhanden.
Der Pool war leider geschlossen, allerdings hatten die Kinder beim sehr heftigen Sandsturm sowieso keine Lust auf baden. Parkplätze standen ausreichend im Hof zur Verfügung. Im kleinen Garten gab es die Möglichkeit zu grillen und zu sitzen.
Das Hotel liegt sehr ruhig ein wenig abseits von der Hauptstraße. Allerdings ist man in kürzester Zeit im Zentrum, wo sich ein Supermarkt und eine große Anzahl von Restaurants befindet. Ansonsten kann ich hier keine nennenswerte Sehenswürdigkeiten empfehlen.
Das Frühstück wurde im Poolhaus serviert, das von der Auswahl überschaubar war. Gut um nicht mit leeren Magen und ohne Kaffee in den Tag zu starten. Im Ort sollte man auch unbedingt das Auto nochmals volltanken, wenn man in Richtung Las Vegas unterwegs ist.
Für eine Nacht kann ich das Motel absolut empfehlen.

With this motel, you get what you pay for and for $ 90, my experience was not bad. I had to stay in Bishop for one night before driving back home and needed a place last minute. The room was very clean and quiet. The bed and furniture was okay. If I had to, I would stay at this place again. It is doable, just don’t have high expectations.
Don’t forget… it is a motel, in the middle of nowhere…

You get what you pay for, folks. For the price, it was great. AC unit was struggling a bit. The breakfast was definitely not much you should rely on, but more of a «I just woke up and I’m starving and need something to hold me over until I go out to breakfast at a restaurant» kinda breakfast.

We pulled up, went into the front desk to inquire on availability and prices etc. My husband asked if he could take a quick look at the rooms (too make sure it was not gross etc) and the man said «No, we do not do that!» My husband said you must be joking, he said no and then we left and found a much better place in town with professional, nice staff. We learned our lesson, any place that is unwilling to show you their rooms, must have something to hide or not be proud of.

Don’t stay here. I had a reservation and called them twice from the road to let them know we would arrive after the front desk closed. They said just use the phone outside the office and they will come out and give us the key. THEY NEVER ANSWERED THE PHONE OR DOORBELL OR KNOCKING.
Here is some of my correspondence with
Thank you for the response. I know that
is not at fault here. No apologies from you is necessary, yet very kind.
I could not be more disappointed with the Mountain View Motel experience however.
I have not heard from them at all. My two attempts (in person) to get information as to why no one came to the door or answered their outside phone, produced no answers.
I do hope they respond to you as the staff seemed to care less about what happened.
We cut our hotel nights short because of Mountain view. It was difficult finding accommodations but we did at two different locations because they could only give us what they had left for the day. We did not spend more money as we found cheep motels. Just inconvenience. Having to pack up each morning and not have the room to clean up in before we headed home at midnight was quite in convent.
Thank you for your efforts on this matter.
P.S I think Mountain View is charging me $ 75.00 for a no show. Could you look into that also?
Again, thank you.
Sincerely, Barry

I hadn’t been here in years and was brutally DISAPPOINTED with the condition of the room, but most of all how I was treated by the THUG behind the counter who checked us in! He tried to charge us $ 20 more a night than we were quoted over the phone. When I questioned him he was a total SMART ASS! Then I told him to stop being a wise ass and just fix our bill, he stood up, puffed his chest out and went all GANGSTER!!! Yelling profanities, threatening to kick us out, dropping F-​BOMB after F-​BOMB! He must be the owner, because he acted like those decisions were all his to make. He forced me to apologize or he would kick us out, I did only because I didn’t want to ruin everyone else’s day by searching for a new place. If I had been by myself or with my family I would have left in a heartbeat! I was blown away and a little FRIGHTENED! The room itself was a DUMP! Stains on everything, mold and mildew all around the bathroom window, toilet ran, shower didn’t drain so you stand in your own filth the entire shower, no where to set a bar of soap or shampoo in the shower, so it just floats in the dirty water! The hot and cold were reversed at the sink! I was fishing with buddies and wasn’t expecting a whole lot, but this was bad and I was EMBARRASSED I brought five other guys to stay here! NEVER AGAIN!!! I AM OLY LEAVING A ONE STAR RATING BECAUSE THERE WASNT A ZERO!!!

I’ve stayed in most of the low cost motels in Bishop over the last 4 months. I must say that this place was the least attractive.
There were fresh stains on the carpet that was already filthy. There was a sack of half empty beer cans in the waste basket when i checked in. The room smelled of sour beer. There was no coffee machine in the room and coffee is only available in the morning. The courtyard is all cement; no greenery — no garden. I found the staff not professional. They did not respond helpfully to my comments about the room.
This critique is unfortunate since my room was large and had a desk and suitable chairs for the work I needed to do. The wifi connection was fine. A real manager could sort this place out. In the meantime I would suggest that you avoid this motel.

The shower is pretty clean, the mirrors and floors are decent and I would have given five stars, but the internet was very poor. I was not even able to search the web in my room without having it lag for five — ten minutes. Maybe i’m too far from the router or the internet is just spotty. I wish that the Tv’s were a little more updated because these things are giant boob tubes, they probably waste more energy then the new efficient LCD/​LED ones. Now I know i can’t expect the world from a «motel» but these are some of the small things that could make the experience more enjoyable. I rated this place 4 stars because we stayed in room 217 it’s huge and has a fire place I can’t argue with the price but I really hope they invest in their wifi and Tv’s would make this place a 5 star place while your shredding the mountains.
thank you mountain view & look forward to seeing these changes in the near future.

The worst hotel experience I’ve ever had. The head of the bed was 8 – 10 inches lower than the foot of the bed, not fit to sleep in, the pool was not fit to swim in, the stairs to the second floor are a safety hazard, will notify the proper city dept on this matter. Camping at the local campground would have been a better experience.

We stayed here on a family getaway when we booked our rooms we asked for rooms next to each other. Unfortunately they were unable to accommodate this request. Second prior to booking we asked if they had a pool and explained we were coming with kids and wanted to stay we’re they could swim. We were told yes we have a very nice pool. What they neglected to say is it would be closed during our whole stay. We booked a room for four and had to hunt down the house keeping everyday for four towels. The continental breakfast was good but there were no cups so you can Look at
The coffee but can’t pour a cup. The shower sprayed out all over the place making it hard to shower. Last we got bites all over I thought maybe from our hiking later to find out it was bed bug bites which made me come on Unilocal for the first time to read if there were any previous complaints and there was. We won’t stay here again

A very worn and somewhat dirty motel that’s maybe charging too much for the average person. The bed was clean and comfortable to sleep in but there were no small pillows. Please, scrub the bathroom walls! The pool was cloudy so I didn’t bother.
What could make this worth your stay: Pet friendly, horses eat plants outside your bathroom window in the morning, and there’s fish cleaning area.

First of all, the young couple managing this place are terrific. The continental breakfast was good. Thankfully, since the rooms do not have coffee machines. Everything else is not. Mismatched tiles, ants, dust, windows that don’t lock, too much furniture for the room. And one of the beds was concave, a valley in the middle that made for a poor night’s sleep. When we went into our room the handy-​man not only kept working with power tools outside our door but kept his stereo on until we complained. Then he mad dogged me. We’ll stay somewhere else next time.

I was surprised when I saw the other reviews on Unilocal,I was instantly impressed with my room and the front desk service. Newer tiled bathroom, large room, heat lamp outside the shower, very clean… and this was all for $ 52 by the way. That’s half the price of the average room in Bishop. I’ve stayed in a decent amount of the hotels in this town and this is the nicest I’ve seen yet. For the lowest price…
Maybe it’s after the renovations mentioned, but for the price, this place absolutely deserves 5 stars.
For the record, there were zero bedbugs during my stay :)

Price: very good price. As cheap as America’s Best Value Inn,
value: okay, you are because they have good price but not the best value. America’s Best Value Inn has more value.
Cleanness: okay, blanket i had had a hole. It’s not going to kill me, but felt really cheap.
three star is for the owner and i had some chat, had a relationship built which is nice.

The Mountain View Motel is old, falling apart, not well maintained, and not clean. I suppose that the owner/​manager, or whoever it is that disputes all of the low Unilocal ratings will come on here to dispute this, but during our stay last week I did take pictures of mold in the bathroom, the remnants of a torn screen in one of the windows, and a bathroom towel with a previous guests hair on it… not posting those pics, and what I didn’t photograph were the stains on the upholstery, or the really dangerous crumbling stairs leading up to the 2^nd floor.
If you’re staying in Bishop, stick with one of the chains (Best Western, etc. — they’re all here), or the Creekside, which looks really nice and gets good reviews.

BEDBUGS ALERT!
All I wanted was to shower and get a comfortable night’s rest after a very long and strenuous trek up White Mountain. Instead I woke up in the middle of the night itching my skin. Half asleep and hesitant to go back to bed because I was itching like crazy. When I woke up in the morning I was covered with bedbug bites from head to toe. My face, arms, feet, legs, back, neck, and hands were covered with bedbugs bites.
When I told the Mgr. about the bedbugs as we checked out, instead of apologizing, he defended the motel by saying, «We never received a complaint before.» That doesn’t mean you’ve never had bedbugs. This motel needs some serious upgrades. The window we opened fell off of its so called track and almost fell on top of my friend. The shower is incredibly small and dated.
The owners need to put some reinvestment back into this motel starting with bedbug extermination. It’s really unfortunate we stayed here as we also paid too much for such an experience.
With the recent bedbugs epidemic, this place should be renamed The Bedbugs Motel.

Considering the price, this is a good cheap choice.
Off the main street, but located right next to a police station. Not sure if I should feel safe, or stop speeding. :P
Rooms are clean, although not very new. Showers had hot water and good flow. Bed was decent, and the heater was working — no temperature control tho. So half way thru the night it was soooo hot that I had to go turn it off. In the morning, it cooled back down, I hoarded the blanket and sheets (unconsciously) and my poor boy was shivering in the corner and wondering where his blanket went…
Don’t expect too much, it’s good value for what you pay.