EZ 8 Motel

Worst hotel I’ve ever stayed at. The power went out for hours. The toilet seat handle was broken. The shower took waaayy too long to turn hot. The towel were very small. The workers in the office were rude

Do not stay here. Hands down worse place I’ve ever stayed at. Roaches everywhere, walls, bathroom, dresser, between sheets. Foul, very foul odor hits you when you open door. Mini refrigerator, yea right, not working. Guard at lot entrance, for good reason. Very shady happenings after the sun goes down. Night hours receptionist is in locked room with teller window for transaction. All this for $ 70/​night. Pretty sure we can all find better for that price.

Roaches in 90% of the rooms not comfortable at all need to get a exterminator down here or shut down motel. Always having to look over my shoulder to see if a roach is crawling by me or on me do not go here no matter what!!!

This was by far the absolute worst hotel I have ever booked. I arrived at the hotel and the counter boy was nice enough. There was really loud drilling going on in the parking lot and I knew immediately this would be a problem. Even though I had a reservation for a non-​smoking room, the counter boy advised that there were only smoking rooms available. I was exhausted after a four hour flight and exasperated by a terrible experience with my rental car company so I acquiesced and accepted a smoking room with a small discount.
When I got to the room nothing could have prepared me for how bad it would be. The walls were yellow, the seats had burn holes on them, the shower was missing the shower head, there were stains on the bedding, no mattress pad, and the bed wasn’t suitable even for sitting. See pictures below.
I stayed at the room for just a little over three and a half hours most of which time I spent on the phone with the car rental company. After I was able to get that taken care of I had the rental company come and pick me up. There were apparently people living in this hotel as well. The crying baby next door did nothing to help the situation and the housekeeper vacuuming upstairs was much louder than most other hotels. To round out the experience the noise from the freeway even with the crying baby, the housekeeper and the guy working on his car outside of my door, was absolutely unbearable.
Never ever stay at this establishment. Again, never stay here. See pictures below.

EZ 8 is a fleabag motel but it used to be $ 35 a night. Now it is $ 70. I stayed one night anyway but swore to never return when I realized that $ 70 does not include Internet.

The city is attempting to shut down this hotel. It averages over 30 police reports per month for the past 5 years. Many criminals from surrounding cities come here to hide out after robberies or such. At this location alone over the past several years there have been murders, drugs shootings, arson, kidnapping, and likely many other things not reported.
Check out the City Of Newark’s Projects Under Review section if you want to really understand this place. If you aren’t running from the police and don’t care about your own safety then you might as well stay there.

I was pretty disturbed by one of the employees. My social needs are simple– leave me alone while I’m standing in line with a bunch of strange men. Don’t try to psychoanalyze me/​bond with me when I’m waiting patiently for services and avoiding eye contact with you, as you are not serving me or even intending to at that moment, being that someone else is being served on the only register. Why do I have to punctuate the already unpleasant experience of standing in line with worrying about how you feel?
This guy (like the staff at Motel 6) looked at me like I was a psycho, all bug-​eyed and vacuous just for me, and was disrespectful initially. He seemed to think there was a need for some kind of loving connection between us, and since that hadn’t happened there must be something wrong with me. See that’s the thing, I don’t care about strangers personally… It’s kind of healthy… I like to be left alone in strange motels, like most young women do.
Also, the room did not feel private. There were people outside my door constantly in the morning. Because of that and the rude experience I had with one of the long-​term staff (basically mocking me and insulting my intelligence consistently), I won’t be coming back. I was literally avoiding going down there because I didn’t want some hipster disco era dude/​misogynist treating me badly. I’m sensitive to other people actively disliking me, even though I don’t care about strangers personally. I think that’s normal.
Regardless, it’s a sleazy motel, and behavior should have been better if they want to expect return customers. I have money, and could have spend hundreds of dollars relatively easily, but because I was treated like a stupid and crazy homeless person I’ll spend my money somewhere else. It was a substandard experience for that kind of money, which is a lot of money. That’s 1,500 a month we’re talking about– at least– for roaches and shitty customer service, and shitty accommodations. I could easily get a really nice rental in Palo Alto for those rates.
It was still better than the Motel 6, which seemed to be actively a den for prostitution with what seemed to be highly unsanitary rooms.
By the way, my bathroom literally STUNK at E-​Z 8. On my 2^nd day here I think they cleaned it again and it stopped stinking. They sprayed the living hell out of the room with this chemical formula that’s supposed to be safe for pets, despite my chemical sensitivity issues, which I was trying to inform the staff at the desk about while the housecleaner went through and sprayed the living hell out of the room. The room smelled like the spray for at least 48 hours and was probably unsafe to inhabit. That’s the problem with chain-​smoking housecleaners, they can’t smell. Maybe give a few more guidelines for the housecleaners, and preferably have them start preparing their rounds at eleven, which is check out, because it feels like they are standing in your rooms. Otherwise it’s just a terrible experience overall, you can’t even sleep in.
I was choking in the room because of the down pillows and dust. I am sensitive however. It still seemed like a room that wasn’t very friendly to allergies. Obviously people smoke in the non-​smoking rooms, and that’s probably a part of it.
I gave it 3 stars because it was a «real» room in a sense. Still not coming back. The experience was too miserable and undignified with people staring and acting irrationally plus no personal space in the morning.

Well according to news reports they may actually shut this hellhole down. GOOD RIDDANCE.

WORST Corporation EVER!!! Stayed at Newark, CA location for three weeks (always paying in advance) and this place is FULL of scumbags. Although the «manager» was somewhat approachable, the rest of the staff was surly and could not care LESS about the guests! Housekeeping is FORCED on anyone with pets — and the lazy non-​English speaking housekeepers UNPLUGGED MY ACTIVE COMPUTER to vacuum because they were TOO LAZY to walk the ten steps to the open electrical plug in the bathroom! When I got back two hours later my computer was DEAD! Dozens of calls to the Executive Offices’ «Guest Services» have gone unanswered and unreturned… I am going to have to go through Better Business Bureau and a lawyer to get compensated for my damages.

Worst motel. Dirty, Bed bugs, rude clerks have no idea what is going on and say no to any request just to be difficult.

I booked from overseas, when I needed to find a cheap place to stay quickly for a few weeks while I was moving. This place looked ok online.
The staff is not helpful or responsive and they treat everyone like trash, they also charge your credit card upfront in full even if you booked in advance for an extended stay which is super classy.
The only real positive I can give is that you will get a mini-​fridge. Oh, and there is a laundry room you can access, with a ghetto/​half-​busted microwave. That’s about it. The vending machine is not worth your money. They charge $ 3 for just about everything.
Wi-​fi — which was one of the main reasons I booked here — is NOT free (falsely advertised on several sites) and is VERY slow and goes down OFTEN. When this happens, the staff WILL NOT do anything to fix it. It will be up to you to call the internet company to fix it and hope someone at the front desk feels like responding to the IT guy when he asks them to reset the router or whatever it is that they have to do. Usually the answer is no. i.e. A girl at the front desk lied to me and promised to call the IT guy back when I handed her the trouble-​ticket I created, one night after the wi-​fi had been down for 12 hours and they’d done nothing. Great customer service.
The beds are ROCK HARD, sheets are paper-​thin. The plumbing sucks. The sticky thing they use on the floor of the shower is questionable & just collects mildew so I wouldn’t advise bathing barefoot. Walls, windows & doors are *VERY THIN WITH HUGE GAPS AND YOU WILL HEAR EVERYTHING AND FEEL A HUGE DRAFT ALWAYS NO MATTER WHAT* And yes you will freeze by California standards, so bundle up with your own blanket (their nasty one will not suffice) or crank up the noisy-​ass heater unless you want to catch a cold.
Housekeeping will wake you up every single day non-​stop from 8am on in 30 minute intervals depending on their whims if you don’t happen to need to be somewhere, opening your door wide open screaming «housekeeping!» endlessly and tell you they want to clean the room regardless of what your preference is. There is no option to put a placard on your door or get service like a normal hotel. They barge right in and sometimes will start going through your stuff while you’re still in there and pretend not to notice you’re in the bathroom, etc. They’ll do the reverse as well and wait til as late as 5pm, so if you get back at 4:45pm and your room is dirty they will kick you out at 5:00 and demand to clean the room. The housekeeping staff (in my experience) also stole items multiple times. I had to take the time to pack ALL my stuff up EVERY day and that was a really annoying process to have things locked up tight because I couldn’t trust some maids to not swipe my stuff. I’m not just talking about harmless theft, I mean missing prescription drugs in addition to smaller items which is when I began locking everything up. Not cool. Oh, and then there are the maids that like to shut off the mini-​fridges randomly. WTF? Thanks for ruining my groceries. Obviously if you are staying here you aren’t exactly rolling in dough… so maids stealing from clients here are pretty cold-​hearted.
There was also extremely loud construction right through the extremely thin walls from very early in the morning almost every day, through a large chunk of my stay. I don’t know what the hell they were «improving» but I saw nothing change. It was just super loud and started around 7am which seemed mighty inconsiderate. I had to take important business-​related phone calls at 8am and the only place in the room that wasn’t deafeningly-​loud with the sound of every motor you can imagine directly outside my door was the bathroom. This was not an expected time for such an annoyance.
Then you have the less than trustworthy or appealing neighbors. Most people will be screaming at all hours of the night. Or roaming. Or lurking next to your vehicle. Or pan-​handling *right* outside your door. Or simply eyeballing the hell out of you. Oh, and there are also the prostitutes and their gentleman callers. You can especially tell when the truckers roll in and keep their loud engines rolling down the street for the prostitutes to climb in. That was fun to hear from my room. I could even hear the bargaining happen without getting out of bed.
I also found it pretty lame that my keycard would deprogram itself probably every other day. I’d get locked out with a bag full of groceries and have to truck on over to the front desk and show ID.
And last but not least, if you are there for 21 days they will tell you to GTFO for vague «tax reasons» but to please come back in 48 hours (with zero notice). Um no thanks. After doing a bit of digging, I found out this is because it’s the law that if you stay anywhere for a month you have to be refunded the room tax for the entire stay because you’re considered a resident. Every other hotel apparently happily obliges — but this one kicks you out. Shady, much?

Its mellow for gutter surfing standards.
This is not rowdy skid row.
It is also not The Hyatt.

This motel is alright. There are some people living here that some may say to be unsafe but if you’re going to stay in a motel where all you have is cash and no cards at all or one where age isn’t really an issue then it is expected. Most of the Employees here are very helpful. Although, there is just one employee that needs work on, «Jack». First of all, your timing in doing things have to be faster. There were multiple times when a couple of customers plus myself not including the one being serviced have waited in line for a long time because your typing skills are about 10 wpm and when one wants to make a reservation on the spot because maybe they don’t have a phone to use nor do they have any computer access you tell them your busy and to come back at a later time. I mean come on, you’re working in the sales/​hospitality business. You have be faster then that.

I stayed here for almost two weeks when I got kicked out. They let me check in even though I was 18 at that time. The bed was pretty comfortable. It’s about 40 dollars a night.

I think this place charges by the hour…
It is also across from the Motel 6 mentioned in a previous review…