Americas Best Value Inn

I tend to visit this little town a couple times a year and still have been staying at this great place. It’s been a while since my last review of this place but the staff is just as awesome as always and the rooms are better than ever. Slowly, I have seen management upgrade the rooms over this past year and it looks great! They now have wood floors — which feel much cleaner than any other place with carpet, and they have a good sized flat screen TV also! Most importantly, it’s the cleanliness of the rooms and the caring feeling you get from the entire staff — everyone from the front desk to housekeeping.
Yes, they still have HBO (attention fellow Game of Thrones fans).

VERY bad customer service at front desk! They are liars! Don’t stay at this hotel!
When I checked in, two indian guys told me that Priceline assigned me a smoking room. I requested to switch to a non-​smoking one. They said they would do so but with extra fee $ 10. I called Priceline and the representative told me Priceline would not be able to assign a room prior to arriving at the hotel. The hotel assigned the room.
They lied to me for wanting to charge extra $ 10 (with tax they charged $ 11)!! I’ve never had such an experience with getting a non-​smoking room.
The room was old, unclean!
They are liars! Be careful!

Clean and inexpensive. Checking-​in was quick and easy, the clerk was very helpful recommending a few local restaurants and driving directions. The building is a bit older but you can tell the staff has maintained it very well. The room was updated — it had a newer tv and wood floors with some nice decoration touches. Near the bed, there were USB wall plugs which I thought was pretty cool and convenient. Overall — definitely a place to come back again!

Vey inexpensive. Internet connection was horrible. The building was old, but the room was clean. The towels were really ruff. It was located on a really busy street so there was a lot of traffic.

Great place to stay and cheap! Owner is very friendly and the rooms are nice and clean, complete with hardwood floors, computer desk, mini fridge, and microwave. What more can you ask for? Definitely recommend!

RESERVATION ONLY
Came here with my boyfriend as a rest stop on our trip up to San Fran. Online it showed there were rooms available when I arrived the man in the front said there’s rooms available but not for online price. Then when I asked for a room without reservation ok with online price he was very rude and denied the room, when asked why he said that he didn’t want to give us the room he wasn’t specific on his reasons.
Wouldn’t recommend it. We left and got a better room down the street.

Loved my stay here, room was very inviting, and very well kept. It was also a nice size. The man in the front was very nice and always ready to help us with whatever we needed. We stayed here for five nights and we slept great each and every one of them! Would definitely stay here again!

If you’re tired and can’t make the drive home stay here! Comfy beds, clean, inexpensive, easy to get in and out of, and helpful staff. Got a great deal on hotels tonight.

My family and I were driving up to SF late at night but we needed to stop to rest, everything was closed and nothing was around so this was our only option. This motel was probably the cleanest, nicest, and cheapest motel I’ve ever seen or stayed at. I come from the Los Angeles/​OC area and for a cheap motel over there is nasty, has roaches, looks like it’s from the 60’s, and there prostitutes outside or drug dealers.
The gentlemen that helped us was very nice! We came in around 1am without reservations and the guy was still fully awake and helpful. When we checked in on Unilocal for our first visit he gave us there coupon offer of 15% off. So our room came around $ 65 bucks for a with 2 full beds and a couch.
At first we were kinda skeptical of how the room would turn out to be, my dad wanted to jump back in the car to find a Hilton but when we entered the room everything was very nice, clean, and upgraded. The only downfall was the AC was keep on turning off in the room in the middle of the night and it was on ‘low’ not ‘auto.’ So after a while we just put the fan mode on the AC and everything else turned out fine. Still a great stay though! I think I’ll come back whenever I drive super late to SF again! (:

Last minute reservation & they accommodated us. We arrived quite late from the Bay Area and driving over 152. The room itself had 2 Q-​beds and basics. It was clean, safe and had AC. It was very hot arriving on LB. They were kind to have the room cooled down for us. The AC is the only complaint that I have. It’s loud & kept turning off & on through out the night.

Guy at the front desk was courteous and helpful. Television is a 19″ zenith TV from the 90s picture is awful. The furniture is old looks like something from a garage sale. The walls are thin, as I write this review I can hear the tv in the next room. The cleanliness of the room is 6 out of 10 not because it’s dirty or smelly but theirs a lot of dust that is visible. Refrigerator in room was not connected. Needs more outlets if you are trying to charge a laptop, iPad, and 2 cell phones. Bathroom is clean. Room needs better lighting… For $ 70 a night it’s not bad.

Nice guy at front. Room was clean. Good price. Quiet except for one guy listening to music. I’m stayed there with my new puppy and took him for a walk around the block. Neighborhood was quiet and clean. Nothing too fancy but certainly not bad.

Tradeoffs:
I stayed here a few times and it’s always been pleasant, well-​budgeted for its location, and with excellent Wi-​Fi that’s typical of most ABVI’s. There’s one interesting tradeoff though and the manger explained this to me in a real-​person manner rather than in a typical customer/P.R. style. There was no premium channels because he chose to spend his budget on linen and cleaning services while keeping the room prices low. I totally agree with his reasoning because he can certainly charge more for this location as well as the remodeling he’s invested in. He dose however, have even fancier rooms if you care to spend a minimally extra fee. I totally appreciate his approach as well. I’m noticing a growing number of hotels say they have premium channels only to find out they’re not available after checking into the room. Or, many times the channel guide no longer matches what’s actually available. But that’s not the case with the manager here. That is, he was up front with the info rather than letting me find out on my own. Obviously, he was raised with excellent work ethics and is very conscientious of the environment he wishes to project. He’s also very patient as well. The last time I was there, as I was checking out on catching up on the latest Turlock CA. event, another customer came into the lobby with his pet dog. This customer said something quickly then left. After talking with the manager, I too went to leave then noticed the dog had urinated on the floor near where I was standing. Told the manager and he said that this is the third time his dog did this in his lobby. Now, that’s patience. With me, there wouldn’t been a second time. So, yes, this ABVI does allow pets, so far.

My wife and I stayed here for two nights while we took care of some business we had in town. The room was clean though the furniture looked a little on the older side with some dings and such. We could tell that the room had been painted not very long ago but the smell of paint was no longer in the air.
The Good:
Everything was clean.
The room included a microwave and a mini-​fridge.
WiFi was available for free and much faster than I experienced in other hotels.
The staff were friendly and professional.
Parking was available right in front of our room so we did not have to tote our bags across the parking lot or up a flight of stairs. (we were in a first floor room)
The Bad:
For some reason the TV and Cable box was tied into the light switch near the door that also controlled a wall mounted light fixture. To watch TV in the dark required that I unscrew the bulb. The TV also reset when the switch was thrown so we had to change the channel back to the AUX channel it we turned the switch off.
The digital control panel was disconnected and as such made the AC, fan and heat unassailable as there were no controls on the unit its self. I had to reconnect the control pad back to the base unit mounted on the wall and straighten some damaged pins in order to get the control pad operative again.
The heater and AC were loud. My wife and I normally sleep with a fan on for white noise so a little bit of sound from the unit was perfect. The noise from the unit was so loud that it woke us in the middle of the night believing that unit had malfunctioned.
The bed was the most horrible thing that we have ever slept on. We both awoke in the morning with sore muscles and general body aches. Due to the tossing and turning we did all night trying to get comfortable neither one of us had a restful nights sleep.
The pillows were so small and thin that they were almost a joke. I thought that they were throw pillows. Oddly there were only three pillows and not the normal four I would expect.
The walls were also thin and allowed us to clearly hear the conversation in the room next to ours.
Sadly, this experience was worse than another motel in this chain we stayed at where we found loose prescription medication in the center of the floor and a pile of dried up dog poo on the floor beside the night stand.
I wish that I could give them more than one star but i simply can not. This place was better than another we stayed at in Los Banos where my wife was offered meth by one guest of the hotel. So, stay here if you hate yourself.

I stayed here one night on our way back from LA. Although it’s about 20 minutes off the fwy, this is offset by the kindness of the manager and the clean and comfortable rooms. We arrived at around 3:30 a.m. The manager offered to let us check out late at no additional charge. Also, I left my pillow, and the manager mailed it back to me twice (The first time the post office returned it for no reason before I could pick it up!) I cannot thank him enough and I recommend this motel highly for service above and beyond!

This place is our usual stop on our way down to Southern California. The rooms are clean and simple, you can’t beat the price (under $ 60 with the Unilocal discount). Nothing new here, but does the job for an overnight stop.
There is a liquor store next door for the after drive cocktail and snack re-​ups and a decent family restaurant right across the street. Never tried the pool, wrong seasons. Walls are thin, so have earplugs (I always do) in your overnight bag in case you get a late night arrival next to you. Front desk staff is always soooo pleasant. Have yet to try their «breakfast».
Again, this is just a nice place to rest up for the next days drive!

For the price, this place was great. The bed was clean and comfy, the frontdesk guy was very nice and helpful, and the room was nicer than I thought it would be. At the same price as a motel 6, I’d pick this place wothout a doubt.

Looking for a place to sleep before LA and Viola! Discount hotel.
Pool, wifi, cable, king bed. Nice. Plus adorable folded towels, Kleenex etc. Some things weren’t as stellarly clean as I would hope– but nothing filthy. Plus the guy at the counter was so darn nice! Just wish I had looked it up on Unilocal first to get the discount.

price was good, but otherwise not much to recommend the place.
had roaches in room
cooler only worked on HIGH, and was much too loud
bathroom smell was outside acceptable range.
breakfast coffee bad, OJ okay.
1.5 stars. I would not return.

KEEP ON DRIVING!!!
SUMMARY: CLEAN, INEXPENSIVE, ROOM SMELLED OF PAINT, UNCOMFORTABLE BEDS = you get what you pay for…
The price is pretty good, but other motels in the area are around the same so keep on driving and stay at a friendly, cleaner and overall better motel.
We made our reservations directly with the motel. They didn’t mention any discounts although after wards we found out they offer AAA discounts — we missed out on that.
We arrived late on a Friday night and their front desk called us on our cell phone when we were a mile away to see if we were still coming. That was strange!?! When we arrived, they seemed a little annoyed and tired. It was 11 pm, so my guess is we kept them up?
There was no parking in their tiny little lot. There were cars in the lot and furniture all about?! Yes furniture. They were remodeling their motel — something else they didn’t mention when we made our reservation. So there was a stack of mattresses, desks, chairs, beds hanging out in the lot. It was hot enough, we should have just slept out there.
We got into the room and they were nice enough to turn on the air conditioning. The room smelled badly of fresh paint. But the room was clean so we appreciated that. Beds were very uncomfortable. We didn’t sleep well at all. Windows were paper thin, you could hear everything outside. But it was hot so halfway through the night we turned the air-​conditioning back on… which was so loud we had to raise our voices to talk let alone get any sleep. That coupled with the uncomfortable beds equaled an annoying breakfast amongst each other.
They have wireless although they don’t offer it to you when you check in. We had to ask afterwards and then had to walk to the office for them to give us a little piece of paper with the information/​key written on it. Not very good wireless reception for those of you who need it.
All in all — not a GREAT place — not the WORST either though. If it weren’t for the rooms being cleaned I would have given it a 1 star. However, we will not be going back to this motel.