Howard Johnson Express Inn – Redding

This is the most disgusting hotel. I DO NOT RECOMMEND. Passing through redding California needing a hotel. Saw Howard Johnson express. I’ve never had problems with a Howard Johnson and price was reasonable, checked in left bags in room and went to dinner. Getting ready for bed, I notice something brown on my pillow. My husband took a picture of it so we could complain to front desk but the brown thing started moving! IT WAS A BED BUG! found bugs all over the room including spiders! Our traveling friend’s room smelled like poop. Room 110, and 123. When we went to get our money refunded, the guy at front desk acted as if he knew about the bug issue already and didn’t even apologize, just told us to leave the keys in the rooms and refunded us. Never ever stay here! Zero stars! I’ve never been so disgusted

To be fair, the guy at the desk was nice. Other than that, this place was a complete sh**hole! Filthy, dirty, rundown. Wish I could have seen the room before I paid. even though it was cheap. The bed was horrible and hub and I were scared we might wake up with scabies. I should have taken a clue from the meth head looking characters who obviously live there full-​time. We laugh about it now, we just needed a sleep before continuing our travels. We both agree this was, by far, the crappiest place we have ever stayed!

This was the most disgusting hotel I have ever stayed at in my life. Spiders all over the place, I dont think the room had been cleaned in months. And when we told the front desk, they really didn’t care. Horrible experience!

The hotel has not been updated in years. The advertised free wi-​fi worked a minute or two the most and that was only if you held your device in the correct hand, in the correct location of your room and even then it was iffy. The rooms are not properly cleaned (we found fingernails and dry dog poop on the carpet — gross, I know.) One little slice of soap and a tiny shampoo for three people — that was ridiculous. The doors are old and rotten. The furniture is chipped and peeling. The towels seemed washed but spotted and they would seem to work better for exfoliation rather than drying. You can hear everything through the walls. The ice machine broke or was not filled nearly every day, so we had to go to the stores nearby and buy ice. There was no fridge although it had shown in photos online (up to 110 degrees outside, daily, and about 85 – 90 degrees during the night.) The power supplies were broken and poorly secured. The wall paper was peeling off in the bathroom. The shower curtain bar had been rehung several times as you could see by the repeated patchwork. Try not to leave anything on the sink as it had a pitch of about 5% to the corner so anything that could roll, would roll off. «Free Breakfast» consisted of a few doughnuts, some bread, breakfast cereal and coffee.
I’ve stayed at some dives before hand, but this is one that I would never even consider again.

By far the most filthy disgusting hotel I have ever stayed at ever! I layed our blankets on top of the beds and told my kids to sleep on top that’s how bad it is!
All repairs they have done to the rooms are a joke. and you can tell! Molding tearing away from the wall… furnishings a total piece of crap!
Not to mention breakfast is a joke! It starts at 6. and consists of stale donuts. .and stale bagels and English muffins. Juice was gone by 7:15.and wasn’t refilled!
The crowd of people the have staying there are nothing but cracked out criminals. Stalking the parking lot all night… I was scared to fall asleep and wake up to my car gone!
Do not stay here it is honestly the worst I have ever seen not worth the money! I’d rather stay in my car!

Yikes! I should’ve paid better attention to the reviews before staying here. Super-​sketchy crowd of guests, some of them obviously living in their rooms. The check in guy was nice enough but seemed harried. The other workers were nice as well and the room was relatively clean but that’s where the good ends. We were on the 1^st floor and the people in the room above ours stomped around literally all night. I heard people walking around in the parking lot outside of our room all night too. The beds were squishy and lumpy, tiny bathroom. It was not a good stay or night’s sleep. Bummer!

WHOA! I’ve always loved a dive motel– even as a punk rock teenager when I couldn’t get dirty enough, but this place is a different animal. Even my dog (who I had to pay an extra 10 dollars to put up after I read a threatening note about hiding pets) was afraid. She literally sat by the door looking like she lost all respect for me. This morning she skipped breakfast and skipped going for a pee just to hop into the truck and hide.
On the upside, the party of heavy, slow-​moving flies gave me something to do; They dodged my swats as they came steaming in the screen-​free AC unit. I’m actually a bit disappointed in the great state of California, to which I am usually devoted. The health department needs to seriously get haz-​mat on this place. So, unless you are specifically seeking tetanus, Stay away from Howard Johnson’s express in Redding, Ca. It’s a black hole of civilization.

This place needs upgrades so bad! Place was quiet to sleep at. Staff was nice. Room was clean with the old stuff they had to work with. I did find a small rock roach under the old heavy TV the next morning. FYI. There is a $ 10 fee for any pets that stay with you in there pet rooms they have. $ 100 fine if you don’t tell them you have pets and they find out. I won’t be staying there again.

The owner was very nice and we arrived quite late in pouring rain. It was ok for the amount of time we spent. But was not very clean, extremely noises, meth addicts living in building and apparently people in Redding don’t pick up after their dogs because the pet area was gross land mine area. Pets are put in smoking rooms sorta felt like I needed a Silkwood shower after our stay there.

I stay in the Howard Johnson express inn this last weekend because i need a place to stayed in during my travel from Washington to California and i made reservation on the phone so i didn’t see how it looks like and at the time a made the reservation it was little late in the evening I can’t cancel the booking. So when I get to the hotel I realized that the hotel was a night mare, i cant believe the things that i saw in just one night. It is incredible that a hotel rooms is in that condition. The room was filthy, smells bad as dust, the beds has hair on the pillow cases, the bed clothing has stained like grease, the bathroom was awful the bathtub was tanning. The bathroom was nasty in overall the whole room was nasty… For your health I don’t recommend to stay there. They even deserve to be called a hotel they had to be call the dumpster. Never in my life I will stay there again, if I have to better I stay in my car… Oh! I forgot the breakfast was disgusting…

Me and my husband checked in and checked right out!!! I was scared to sit on the bed, it had so many stains on it! On top of that there was police activity going on when we were trying to find our number. Ended up calling around at 1am to find another hotel. Please do not stay here!

The room was clean and the check-​in and check-​out were both quick. It could use a little bit of updating, but it wasn’t bad. The bed was rather hard, though, and there was a snafu in my check-​in. I don’t recall what room number the person «said» when she checked me in (having just traveled 400 miles in hot weather with no AC) but on the paper holder for the card key she wrote 224. After my 3^rd try at accessing room 224 it was brusquely opened by a large man inquiring whether he could help me. I showed him my 224 holder and he suggested I try 225, since he knew that 223 was occupied. It worked. I called the front desk to notify them (and let make sure that they didn’t double book 225). I was cheerily told that the room was booked to me, thanks and goodnight. So, aside from the mix up and the guy who scared the poo out of me, it was all good.

I travel a lot, so I always look for decent inexpensive places to stay. That being said, I’m still asking myself why I stayed here. Just chose another hotel. Not sure why I had it in my head that Howard Johnson was going to be better than a motel 6. Because it wasn’t. Just pulling up to this run down place I immediately regretted booking this online. It’s just gross. My pictures make it look good actually but it’s all about the details. Where do I begin?
Cons: funky smell. It smells like a funeral home air freshener. The heavy fake over perfumed floral smell. You could almost taste it. When we left to go to dinner I still ha the smell in my nose. Really old chipped furniture. Stained chairs & carpet. Comforter is stained. Old dirty tub w crooked sink. Dirty old microwave. Coffee maker doesn’t even have the right pieces & you have to balance the filter on the pot or it will flood all over (happened to me). Cobwebs. Why are there cobwebs in the room? Shall I go on?
Pros: lady at the desk was nice. It’s cheap. The fridge was clean. Sheets were clean.
It looks decent on the surface but if you look closer, like in the corners you will see that they really don’t pay any attention to details when they clean. I was actually embarrassed for even choosing this crap hole and apologized to my husband. But I booked online & it was too late (and we were too tired from a 6 hr drive) to look for another hotel. Pay the extra $ 20 and go somewhere else.

My wife, Leesa Dunn, stayed in the Howard Johnson’s hotel in Redding, CA for two weeks to attend a church workshop and here are the bullet points from her stay at your property:
–The bed slid off the frame almost every evening.
–When she took a hot shower that created steam, the fire alarm would go off. This happened multiple times and she was told to «just take colder showers».
–The room door safety latch was broken and the room key card worked on multiple doors!!!
–Her room key would stop working every day and she was required daily to walk to the front desk for yet another room key.
–The room’s appearance was overall dirty, with multiple stains in the carpet, curtains and linens
–Two of the three lamps in the room were broken
Shampoo, conditioner and coffee refills were forgotten by cleaning staff every day.
–Garbage cans weren’t replaced daily and often replacement plastic bags weren’t used at all
–Other guests room keys worked on her door. A couple who wanted to look at a room before staying there was able to unlock her door and walk right in. Imagine the liability on this one!!!
–The staff there was constantly on a ‘smoke break’, at guests inconvenience
–For the first 3 days of her stay, the pool was so cloudy and dirty you could not see the bottom of the pool.
–The electric outlets in the room were loose and items like phone chargers regularly just fell out of them.
Clearly, this property has a tremendous amount of work to be done in order to compete in such a beautiful area as Redding. Someone should consider either making the necessary changes to uphold your brand’s reputation, or take your name off the sign. I could not recommend this property to anyone, for any reason. It was money poorly spent and I consider myself defrauded, as the published information on this property is in direct contrast to the reality of the situation. Beyond that, once an issue was pointed out, no effort was ever made to correct it. The staff there simply doesn’t care and the state of the property reflects that attitude.
The multiple reviews I will be posting online will reflect the information I have shared in this note.
Thank you.

Worse place ever filthy rooms filthy pool and management is a thief. If you give credit card to them you better watch your account after you leave. They have druggies and prostitutes the motel is horrific will never stay at Howard johnson motels again

STAY AWAY. We decided to stop and rest in Ridding after driving from Seattle, WA. I stop at various places but they were booked for the night, I call the # for Travelodge spoke to a rep that inform me that Travelodge was no longer in that location but they had a room available here. Not wanting to miss the option to get a room for the night, I booked the room over the phone when we got there and saw the place I was nervous but I had two girls that needed to rest so I went in to do the checking. The man that was there took my payment cash didn’t bother to ask for an ID, and gave me my room clean. STAY AWAY, we found a cockroach when my daughter move the pillow, to get in bed. We put our shoes on, and got the heck out of there. We got our $ back but our daughter was beyond freak out.

disgusting, filthy and very shady area, bed had recently been «used» and rude management refused a refund, we left and payed for a second motel. Was eventually reimbursed through VISA.
MOST DISGUSTING MOTEL EXPERIENCE EVER!

What? I am on the HIGH END of the ratings? I typically assign stars by value and service for the genre.
This is a typical warm weather area motel with exterior corridors practically fronting the freeway and centrally located in Redding CA. It looks like it could have been a Motel 6 that was bumped up to HoJo standards, but maybe not. I have stayed here several times, as it makes for a sensible halfway stop on a Portland OR — California trip.
For one thing, the price is reasonable. It’s reasonable if you’re an AAA member or have some other discount. Also, they typically have a billboard or throw-​away travel coupon book that shows an even better rate. For the «qualifying rates,» they offer Wyndham Rewards points, which aren’t that many, but if one of the airlines is doing a «multiples» promotion, then it’s usually better. Then, they offer a continental breakfast with pastries, which Motel 6 does not. Lastly, the front desk staff has always been pleasant.
Again, it’s quite cheaper than the higher end of the Wyndham, Choice, or Best Western motels, and slightly higher than a Motel 6, but definitely ok if that billboard or travel coupon price is employed. I’ve never had a problem here.

We stayed here for the cheap price and convenient location for the road trip down I-​5. I’m warning you though, DO NOT STAY HERE. Here are the biggest reasons: (1) there are BED BUGS. this is confirmed by pictures we showed the exterminator. There were so many in our room that they were climbing all over the walls (2) it was very evident that our room wasn’t cleaned at all. There was a Smirnoff ice bottle in the corner, no fitted sheet, stains on the sheets, fresh stains in the towels, and grease on the table.
They at least gave us a full refund after we looked through the room for ten minutes. The bed bugs were the last straw. Then when I called the next day because we saw a bed bug on our luggage, the lady told me that they have never had this problem before, therefore they cannot give me the number to their exterminator for advice. She also told me to put dryer sheets all over my bed and that if they ever bite me, it’s ok because bed bugs don’t carry disease.

Terrible experience from the start! Booked cheap through priceline. Got here and said reservations were for last weekend!
Place is dead, rooms are 50 a night and i have now paid twice because theres no refund on priceline.
The put half are part into a double bed room. No power, so the switch them next door. Door is slightly open so the go in and the room hasent been cleaned yet! Remember There are only 3 cars in parking lot! The maid comes an trys to accuse us of dirtying room!
For what reason so we can wait longer to sleep in this bed bug forsaken place?!?
Dont stay here… Check pictures of our room
Note to Owners: spend a little money and remodel this dump! I have stayed at other chain locations and the’d be pissed at u!