Super 8 Los Angeles / Culver City Area

Having just had an absolutely awful hotel experience before staying here, this place was a great relief! The room was clean, and there was hot breakfast available in the morning. It’s also conveniently located my the airport.

Good friend from out of town came to visit, so I drive an hour and a half to see her in Culver city. We get ready to swim as were entering the ppol area a worker comes up to us and says only the guests registered may swim. We explain I drove far and am staying with them, she then says i can sit in the pool area but may not swim. There was NOT ONE person in the pool area! So for almost $ 200 a night your telling me your not allowed to have ONE guest come along and swim with you, they have to sit an watch?! Its vacation you visit people and they come visit you! Ridiculous! I will never stay at this chain ever!

We were surprised and pleased to at how nice this place really was. It’s a Super 8 folks so keep your expectations realistic, but really, the décor and cleanliness were nicer then some «boutique hotels» I’ve visited! Good value for LA!

Worst customer service I have experienced in a very long time the lady behind the counter was very rude and didn’t offer any help, she could not get off her chair to show us a room before we paid and wound not honor their online rate and she was more worried about watching her show! She was a short Hispanic lady and wasn’t pleasant to deal with. Instead we went 1.5 miles away to the ramada and got a way nicer room for $ 10 a night cheaper and they had amazing customer service!

Very clean for this price. They have swimming pool and breakfast. Grill bar across the street. Good place

Stayed on xmas night. Was happily surprised by the room, bed and overall quality of this Super 8. It really did it for me. I would recommend this place!

Overall enjoyed my 2 night stay here. Much cleaner and nicer than I expected.
— clean and sizable room with modern décor, super comfy bed, mini fridge, good working A/​C
— free onsite parking with lots of avail spaces
— free wifi (tho a bit slow)
— Decent neighborhood
— Friendly, helpful staff
— Clean pool area

Surprisingly nice for a drive-​up. Lady behind the counter was cool; also a surprise anytime you have to stumble into the first motel you find at 2am ’cause you’re in no shape to drive anywhere else and you’re too prissy to sleep in your car.
…uh, not that I would know about that last part.
Wanted to pay about $ 20 less though; this place would be ¹⁄₃ of the price if it was outside the city limits.

Kinda hard to find, small overall with a pool. Room was very nice and clean. Refrigerator and toaster over. very nice

Stayed there for 2 nights. The woman at the lobby was friendly. We got a clean and big room containing a fridge. The price was okay for a Super 8. Breakfast was okay (Yogurt, toast, coffee, milk, waffles, juice,…)
The pool, which is near the parking area we didn’t use because we prefered to go to Venice Beach. We were happy with our motel choice, because the cheaper ones are mostly near unsafe areas or have other negative points

It was much cleaner and more modern than I expected. Air conditioner worked really well. Clean bathroom and bedding looked nice. Bonus was the mini fridge, microwave and coffee pot – we weren’t expecting that! Flat screen tv was nice too. I didn’t have any of the problems the other reviewers wrote about, but I went through
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We just got here and got attitude from the receptionist at the front desk. Tried charging us extra for a one year old. They automatically charge you $ 250.00 for smoking in the room even if you haven’t smoked. This is an independently owned Super 8. NEVER EVER STAY HERE. Looking back we lost $ 150.00, because we left as soon as the lady started giving us attitude. She treated us like we were staying there for free and she was doing us a favor. It was better to leave because to get treated as if your a freeloader is a horrible feeling. My wife and I always look back and get upset to think we lost a vacation day here, because we had to go home a day early.

IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE ROBBED AVOID THIS PLACE!!! We booked a double queen room online and paid our money. When we arrived to check in the girl at the front desk told us that we would be staying in 1 king room. They also tried to force us to pay an extra $ 40 per night to «upgrade» to a double queen bed room (which is what we had already booked and paid for). Unfortunately they have a strict no refund policy no matter if it is their mistake. The staff was completely unhelpful, cold, and just downright ridiculous. Not to mention the area that the hotel is located in does not seem very safe at all. It is in the ghetto, run down part of the city, and they force you to pay an arm and a leg upon arrival. STAY FAR FAR AWAY!

I’m giving this motel the lowest score possible not merely due to its being a crappy place to spend the night (with what may be the most rude and unattractive staff of any hotel or motel I’ve ever stayed in) but, more importantly, due to the fact that they STOLE $ 250 from my boyfriend’s bank account (and tried to do the same to me, but I smelled something fishy was going on and decided not to stay there a second time). DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES STAY AT THIS HOTEL (unless you pay in cash)! THEY ARE RUNNING A SCAM!
Here’s what went down:
A few months ago, after having [more than] a few drinks at a local bar called «The Cozy Inn» in Culver City, my boyfriend offered to spring for a motel room nearby, since we both had roommates we didn’t want to disturb back at our respective abodes, off we went.
We inexplicably failed to notice the massive Travelodge located directly across the street from the bar (??!) and ended up at the Super 8 instead (it’s a few blocks west of «the Cozy» on Washington Blvd). When we walked into the «lobby», it was (super, haha) late, and my boyfriend was visibly intoxicated (me = invisibly intoxicated). Behind the bulletproof glass that encloses the check-​in counter stood a thin, pale, 20-​something kid whose vacant, wall-​eyed stare made me grateful for the security glass that separated us. His affect was so flat and gaze so remote that I was quite certain that, at any moment, the unquenchable thirst for human brains would overpower him and transform him into an grasping, snarling, teeth-​gnashing, diseased and zombified killing machine.
We had no idea what the cost to rent a room was, we’d done zero research or preparation and were at the clerk’s mercy, so were relieved at the price he gave us for a non-​smoking room with a single king sized bed: $ 120.00. Then he asked us if we’d ever stayed there before. We had not. He informed us that, since it was our first time staying there, that there was a $ 250 refundable! deposit required «in case we smoked in the room». I balked. «What are you talking about? $ 250 deposit for what?» The clerk explained «it’s in case you smoke in the room. If you don’t, it will get returned to your card in a few days. But we need to take the deposit whenever someone stays here for the first time to make sure they won’t smoke in the room, because if they do, we can’t rent the room out for like, 2 or 3 days.» My boyfriend said, «So, if we don’t smoke, you’ll put the money back, right?» «Right,» said the clerk (okay, unlikely a zombie – too articulate). «And it’s only required the first time you stay. We keep your info and if you don’t smoke you won’t have to give us the deposit next time. We’ll have your info saved.» My boyfriend, magnanimous as only the super drunk can be, pulls out his credit card, saying, «I’ll be pleasantly surprised when my balance gets increased by $ 250 in a few days, just when I’m least expecting it. No worries. Let’s do this!» I nodded my head reluctantly; I wasn’t happy, but it wasn’t my decision to make.
We watched tv, got freaky, took a shower (water-​pressure = weak/​nonexistent, towels = thin/​nonabsorbent), scoffed at the size of the complimentary bar of soap (slightly larger than a first class postage stamp) and went to bed. Notice how I didn’t say anything about us smoking any cigarettes? That’s because WE DIDN’T SMOKE ANY CIGARETTES! We woke up in the morning, got dressed, ate breakfast and left. Again, notice how none of the things on that list includes smoking?! Why? Because NEITHER OF US SMOKED during our stay at this motel!
A few days ago, we again drank more than we should at the Cozy Inn, and feeling nostalgic, decided to return to the Super 8 motel. When we arrived, the zombie was replaced by an obese, even less friendly middle aged woman with surly, unfriendly attitude. I asked her about renting a room, and then let her know that we were returning customers who therefore should not have to pay the 250 «deposit.»
“Please look up our info, you will see that we didn’t smoke when we stayed here before.” She shook her head. «Sorry, everyone pays that deposit. It doesn’t matter if you’ve stayed here before.» «What!?» I said, «That’s ridiculous! And that’s not what we were told when we stayed here last time.» She gave me a blank stare. «If you want to stay here tonight, you’ll have to pay the deposit.» We turned around and walked out, disgusted. I told my boyfriend to check his bank account to make sure the $ 250 had been returned from the last time we had stayed there. NOPE. They had taken $ 120 for our room plus $ 250 for the «deposit,» and not returned the deposit. Too much time had passed for my boyfriend to dispute the charge with the bank, so we were SOL.
I just wanted to let people know who are thinking of staying at this motel that they are running an expensive scam. Stay at the Travelodge down the street instead!

Unless you want to go upscale – and foot the bill – this motel fills the bill. It’s clean, well maintained, spacious room, TV, free wifi, free parking, fine bath, fine bed – and a microwave and small frig with freezer. It is located on a main drag that is just a few minutes away from a major cinema/​restaurant area of Culver City. Book it online and you save over calling them directly. They even serve a little bit of unhealthy food for breakfast – but the milk was good! This is not a posh or leafy area, but it is near such places! And it’s seemingly safe. I wouldn’t expect reliable travel info from the desk, as our clerk tried to send us miles away for a cinema, when there is a 12-​plex a couple miles down Washington Blvd, and one surrounded by restaurants and bars. But that’s why we have smartphones. BTW, when you’re there, don’t miss the Getty Museum (for its architecture and grounds, best in spring) and the canals of Venice.

Writing care much for this hotel about a bit dirty and dingy. I stayed there back in March 2013. Staff. The front desk would rather unfriendly and uncooperative. I booked this room because of said at the pool at the hotel and paid extra for that aspect; however, the pool is closed for the «season» which rather irritated. Overall served its purpose.

This place is a great value. It is surprisingly large and set up like a business hotel room. I would stay here again.

Only 2 stars because this place fell short of expectations.
The establishment seems fairly new with clean, well decorated and furnished rooms. The coffee maker in my room didn’t work properly. We later found that the carafe was the wrong size and didn’t let the coffee drain from the filter. Also, the maid didn’t clean the carafe — possibly fortuitous, or we wouldn’t have found the filter full of stale coffee.
The continental breakfast was pretty basic. Coffee, juice and a selection of cereals (only rice crispies were unsweetened), bread and pastries. Not a protein to be seen!
The location is a bit out of the way for walking anywhere. It is on a decent bus route for Marina del Rey and Culver City but is a long walk to nearby restaurants. There are a few I have enjoyed previously on Centinella, about a mile away.
The biggest concern was over the room rate and changing prices on the internet booking system. They advertise a 20% discount on 2-​night stays which would have saved almost $ 40 on the $ 96 per night rate I was quoted. The discount didn’t appear on my online reservation so I called to check what I needed to get the discount. They basically said they would take care of it when I paid. I’d checked the price for a single night on each of the nights I was staying and verified the rate was not discounted ($ 86 for Sunday, $ 106 for Monday). When I checked out, the bill was more than my reservation quote. I asked if they had given me the discount and they said that they had. When I looked at the bill, my room rate had gone up from $ 96 to $ 120 per night. I didn’t have my reservation with me, so couldn’t argue it, but I checked the internet and they had indeed changed the room rates to what I had been billed. The entire pricing structure had changed and when I checked again later, it had been changed again.
So, if you stay here and expect a certain price or discount, be sure to have your reservation in hand to verify the room price and also check (and save or print) rates for a single night to be sure you get the multi-​night discount.

I needed a room and was hoping to have it under $ 100 a night. Little did I know that when I was looking into hotels, it was also the NBA all star weekend (or something to that affect) and Presidents week, so most hotels were booked up or costly.
Then I found this hotel through Priceline. I booked it for $ 89. When I finally came to check in, the neighborhood wasnt the best, and hotel looked somewhat new, but nothing spectacular. It was about as much as you would expect from a «super 8»
But when I checked in, it was probably like the nicest room ever! It was a mini extended stay suite with its own living room and couches, a kitchen, two beds, a bathroom, and this huuuuge like vanity area with a mirror, made perfect for dancing in front of when you hop out of the shower. Cue Whitesnake song!
There were tons of great food places nearby, and the breakfast in the morning was great! Probably one of the best overnight stays on the cheap in a long while.
If you are looking to stay in LA, but don’t need something fancy, and don’t mind the 15 min drive into the more bustling parts, I TOTALLY recommend this place!