Red Lion Hotel – Redding

I used to love this place, but the last few stays have been terrible. I’ve finally learned my lesson and won’t be staying again.
Turns out I won’t be getting any sleep again due to the extremely loud music coming from the bar (yes I’m on the other side and can still hear it as if I were sitting in there). Not to mention lots of loud and drunk guests slamming doors.
The plus side (the reason for 2 stars) is that it is clean and in a good location.
If you want to sleep, I’d go somewhere else.

After driving all day with a two year old, we needed a room. I did some research online and this place had everything I required, a bed, a shower, a fridge, coffee, dark, quiet. The front counter lady was really nice. We were checked in really fast. I didn’t like the parking lot, it seemed really dark and creepy, I was pretty paranoid about leaving my car there overnight, but nothing happened. There is a restaurant/​lounge on site, we were able to order dinner and go pick it up. The food was basic bar food, nothing too great, but it was food. The bed was very comfortable, my daughter fell asleep pretty fast. The shower was good, the room was dark, and for the most part it was quiet. The room across from us was having some work done on it so it was noisy from all the maintenance workers talking really loudly in the hallway until about 8, but after that, it was quiet. I didn’t get to experience the breakfast because we left at 4 the next morning. I am not sure that I will stay here again, the parking lot was very scary. Maybe if it was better lit it would be better, it was just way too dark.

Dot of Blood on my pillowcase. Roach in the bathroom in our folded towels. Quiet place great staff.

Got this room at last minute while traveling back home to Washington. Perfect stay, room very quiet, very clean and no noise at all. Loved the grounds and would like to come back in summer to enjoy the pool. We arrived late, went in to bar area had a meal which was huge and very good and reasonable. Best waitress in town, think her name was Kera, have her tell you the story about whiskey… so very fun.
Got up and did the breakfast buffet which has to be the best buy in town, also very good. Hated to leave but had to get back on road for travels.

Dirty, disgusting place! Stopped on the way back to CA. Red Lion Hotels are usually nice ones. This one is an embarrassment to the company! I can’t believe how dirty the carpet was! Room was filthy! It looked like they didn’t clean the carpets, the chairs were really dirty and stained. Bathroom fan didn’t work. It smelled terrible! Don’t stay here!

Arrived very late — a few minutes after midnight. The night clerk at the front desk could have been more jovial but again, it was late and who knows what he might have had to deal with already. Got a room around back within view of Interstate 5 but noise was not an issue. Shortly after getting into bed I did hear some noise coming from the parking lot. Because of the late hour and having had our vehicle broken into a couple of summers earlier, I got up and tip-​toed over to the window for a look. Some guy was opening and closing HIS doors. He then got on the phone and was having a heated discussion with somebody-​perhaps his ex or his drug connection. At one point I heard him say «Don’t threaten me!»
I then noticed that his room was right below ours. I was hoping that we wouldn’t have bullets coming through the floor before daybreak. (That can make it very hard to sleep.)
Our room was was well appointed and everything worked properly and I don’t think a single bullet flew that night.
Lowlifes can show up anywhere so I won’t mark this hotel down for that.

I thought the hotel was a great value for the money. The beds were comfy and room had some size to it. I really liked that the slider opened up to a green area with lots of trees and a yard like setting. It was also close to the pool so my son enjoyed that. Customer service was friendly and overall experience very nice.
The only downside was that the hot tub was spraying water from the jet and leaking all over the pool area and the shower could have been cleaner.
I would highly recommend this hotel to anyone with families, business or single.

Room was large and comfortable.
A few issues: There was dried pepperoni on the floor between the beds – yuk. The tissue (decorative) ones on top of box were dirty. Again – yuk.
Bath tub was older and outdated, but clean.

Got the room on the 2^nd floor.
Pros: Front staff is nice. Was able to get a 30 min later checkout no problem. Basic internet wifi is free.
Cons:
1. The main problem I have with this hotel is that the doors do not block sound very well. I can hear people walking/​talking in the hallway very clearly. What’s even worse is that the ice machine is right next to our room so every time someone gets ice we hear it clearly.
2. The vents in the room makes a ton of noise which is annoying.
3. While the balcony is a nice add, it is very tiny and carry sound very well due to the way they are laid out. There were about 3 kids 2 doors down playing on the balcony and woke us up at 6:00am in the morning. Again, we can hear them crystal clear.
Long story short, if you need a quiet night of sleep, don’t go here.

No. Just no.
You sign a waiver you won’t smoke in your room or patio yet when you walk in, it’s like an ash tray.
The door we actually have to hit with out backside to open.
Shower floors?! We wish we brought shower shoes — we laid towels down to stand on.
Morning breakfast? Ew.
I took a can of disinfectant to every surface. We can’t handle it & just say SKIP IT! Sleep in your car!

The front lady was nice. That is what got me in.
However… I should have Unilocaled it first. Don’t let my mistake also be yours. Listen closely.
Once inside this place, here I lay at 0115… Wide awake and unable to get my brain to stop and relax. I keep telling myself, We are only passing thru. Just one night. I can do it.
Got into the room. Hot and stuffy. No biggy. Hit the thermostat down and headed to dinner. Came back and it feels hotter. Husband called down and the front desk explained a compressor I’d out and if the thermostat is set at anything below 72 it won’t run right. Ok… Stripped the bed literally down to the sheets because we both run hot at night. BUT that is when I found long hairs in the bed, stains and black specks. I brushed and dusted the bed until I could breathe a bit better. I checked their «nugget» pillows (super small and super «loved» pillows) and all was ok there.
Then the shower… I turned on the shower and spotted long black hairs everywhere. I have brown thin hair not long black thick hair. Even on one of the towels and by the toilet.
So here I lay. Completely clothed. We were on the road today for 7 hrs and will be out there again tomorrow for 5 more… But my mind won’t relax as I am creeped out. Just a few hours of sleep will get us to the next place which I will tour first before agreeing to stay…
I will post photos.

This should be a NEGATIVE 5-​Star Rating if possible.
Dirty. Disgusting. A/​C Broken. Horrible MEAN Front Staff.
GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
We had to let them know a member of our party had asthma and there was reeking cigarette smoke in our room, along with NO circulating clean air that was causing them to use the inhaler to no avail, almost had to go to the hospital. That’s when they refunded us and let us cancel our rooms. We threatened legal action as well. The rooms were in no shape for people to live in.
Read everyone’s reviews about the rooms being dirty and disgusting. They are all true. It seems like some folks have a good experience but I did NOT see that in the three rooms we had booked there. First off– their Air Conditioning was broken in 90 degree weather, in the rooms FACING the sun (on the side of the freeway). This could be akin to leaving your child in a hot car on a summer day. It’s pure murder. We were not notified of this at al by staff, the air blows warm air circulating you to a slow cooked death in that horrendous room.
I have photo proof. The room I was in had BLOOD stained lampshade and the seat next to it had a pool of dark blood red stains as if… and this is merely a theory: somebody had sat in that chair and done something horrendous, causing blood to spray up to the lampshade and the wall. The room reeks of dead animal. I took anatomy laboratory classes and they smelled floral compared to the Red Lion.
The bathroom. The tiles are missing in the shower. Hair was on the shower curtain, lots, both long and short… like an accumulation of a Jackson Pollock with none of the flair. One towel I had was encrusted with brown stains (I ended up using my sweater to dry myself off). The top of the shower has stains and one heat lamp was blown out completely. This could have been a scene from Breaking Bad for where Pinkman’s associates lived.
Ground. The carpet is ridiculously grime filled and spotted. I’ve seen dive bars with cleaner floors than the Red Lion. See photo attached. The whole place is a bit run down. The hallways smell worse than the 24 hour gym during peak hours. The gym itself though I’ll give it some credit, it’s alright but probably because nobody ever uses it.
Overall, everything reeks, everything is dirty, your health is in jeopardy and you know what? The Front Desk lady, by the name of Christine, will moan and actually complain IN YOUR FACE that this is a inconvenience to her! She will actually mutter under her breath the entire time and show you just how horrible customer service can be. This was the dealbreaker for me to leave a review. I could not believe how much she would say under her breath to our family as if we could not hear it and then just say, «Thanks» and pretend it was all okay. We were tired and the asthmatic child was almost dying (we considered taking them to the hospital) and we just wanted OUT of this horrendous nightmarish hotel.
If this was a haunted house, I think it would not be for the faint of heart.
As a hotel, it’s probably the worst place I’ve seen besides the Motel 6 next door. Heck, that might have been nicer than the Red Lion. We wouldn’t know, we took our cue and got the heck out of dodge.

Very nice! Room was large, clean and the staff was very friendly. Big parking area great for trailers.
Not far from freeway off ramp.
Breakfast was nice good selection of foods

This place is a joke and absolute disgusting! Red Lion should be ashamed. Visible blood and what appear to be semen stains in the room. A receptionist who did a drug deal in front of us. The halls smell of dog urine and were dog owners. The bar is more of a nightclub for the locals with dirty food plates staked to the rafters behind the bar. We actually considered leaving when we found what we thought was a potential bed bug in the room. Still have yet to confirm what it was but we slept 6 hours and left immediately. The motel 6 next door actually looked better. This is not a 3 start hotel. Buyers beware.
We were so uncomfortable we wore flip flops around our room and wouldn’t touch our feet to the carpet. It’s that gross

Our car broke down en route to Portland, and the Red Lion happened to be the closest hotel that wasn’t a Motel 6 (I’m a princess).
We rolled in around 9 and the front desk staff was incredibly friendly and accommodating. The room was big and clean with a comfy bed and sliding glass doors that led to the courtyard. We went down to the hotel bar to have a drink and there was great live music. The bar staff was nice, but we felt a little rushed. My only other complaint is that they tried to charge us an extra $ 20 for their breakfast. It seemed excessive to us, especially with restaurants in walking distance.
Overall, a great find for our unfortunate circumstances. If I ever need a hotel in Redding again the Red Lion will be first choice.

We stayed at this hotel during the thanksgiving holiday weekend and it was wonderful. They are friendly and the rooms are clean. You can tell its a little older but nothing is painfully dated. Plus if you have a problem, the staff is always willing to help. The beds are the best. I’ve known menu people that have stayed at this hotel including a past employee and they’ve all asked what type of beds thru yet because terry are so comfortable. It was so nice to wake up without back pain. The curtains SERIOUSLY block out all light (I’m about to ask where they get their curtains too lol) and the short has amazing way pressure. Lots of plugs everywhere for your electronics and the little couch in there is also surprisingly comfortable. It’s close to anything you need and they have a mini fridge, microwave and coffee maker.
I’d definitely go back.

Had an excellent stay here. Yes, it’s a slightly older hotel, but in my opinion, very clean and presentable. Front desk reception was top notch, friendly and informative. Got a free upgrade to King room near pool. Breakfast Buffett was much better than most hotel chain food… Just fresh and good. I would absolutely stay here again when traveling through Redding.

Wow. From reading the reviews, I feel like there might be two different Red Lion hotels at the same address. Or one group is having a Twilight Zone experience.
I stayed here August 16^th on my drive from Tacoma to Monterey. While a former colleague warned me that «the longest week I ever spent in my life was an afternoon in Redding», I found au contraire that it’s a nice place to stop over.
The check in process was smooth, and the person said to be sure to check out the Craft Beer festival going on. I asked about biking, since I’d been in a car for 8 hours to needed to clear the cobwebs out. She pointed me to a trail that was only 1 – 2 minute ride from the hotel. A bit trafficky for the 5 blocks to get there, but unless you’re totally freaked by cars, you’ll be fine and there’s a side lane. The trail itself is delightful, the best I’ve ever biked on. Hilly, banked turns, dipsydoos etc. Even though it was 95 F, it was fine as the trail was mostly in the shade. (I am a serious biker BTW, cycling over 5000 miles each year).
The hotel room was fine. Clean, and the air conditioner both worked well and was not noisy. I didn’t eat at the hotel since I woke up at 6am, and no food service until 7am on Sunday. I would commend the Alehouse, a 5 – 10 minute walk south of the hotel. Excellent tap list (no food) and friendly people.
I’d stay here again if I was in the area.

It doesn’t feel right to complain when you get a room for cheap last minute off of an online website.
Pros: We arrived around 1:30 Am after driving all day from Cannon Beach, OR. Despite this, the woman behind the counter was VERY nice. She answered our questions with a smile.
Refrigerator in the room was a nice surprise.
Cons: There is NO ELEVATOR in this hotel. How do you have a three story hotel without an elevator?! My mom had recently hurt her knee, so I carried our bags up the stairs. It just seems like an oversight for a hotel that has clearly just upgraded their work out room and boasts a pool.
The air conditioner was loud all night. It rattled and kept my mom up.
In comparison to other Red Lions I have stayed at this seemed to offer a small room and just not be as nice.

We booked a room for a one-​night stay on Thanksgiving Day at Red Lion Hotel (RLH) through
. We booked one of their «Premium Rooms» which included coffee/​tea maker, refrigerator, microwave and a balcony. The final price after taxes and service charge was just under $ 130. The price seemed a little high for me considering the area, but it was a Holiday and the place seemed nice. Here is a my take:
Amenities– The fridge, microwave and coffee/​tea maker are all nice touches. Unfortunately we didn’t really end up using any of them except the fridge to store a small bottle of Apple Juice. The hotel also includes a pool and a workout room. Again I didn’t really partake because we were only there the one night, but I could definitely see myself taking advantage if we stayed here longer. 4*
Room– The room was nice and clean albeit a bit cramped. We ended up having to get a Queen bed because we needed a roll out bed for my son and apparently it wouldn’t have fit if we had stuck to the King bed we originally booked. The patio had a lovely view of the well-​manicured back garden and pool. 3.5*
Bed– The bed and pillows were the absolute worst part of the room. The pillows were so lacking in substance I might as well have not had anything there and the bed was hard as a rock. I did not have a good night’s sleep. I really should’ve asked for more/​different pillows but by the time we got in to go to bed it was late and I didn’t feel like dealing with it. But I wish I had. 1.5*
TV– Beautiful 40″ Samsung LCD TV in the room, but none of the channels were HD. Why even bother? 2.5*
Bathroom– Clean and comfortable with a nice big shower. The water was plenty hot and they give you tons of towels! 4*
Wi-​Fi– The Wi-​Fi was very fast and had a nice strong signal and came free with the room. My only complaint is I wish they would secure it with a password. They leave their network open for anyone within signal’s range to use and that doesn’t make me feel very safe. 4*
Service– The front desk staff during check-​in were very friendly and accommodating and the check-​out person interaction was minimal. 4*
Value– I feel like the value of the room was just OK. I think I should’ve gotten the room for a bit cheaper, but like I said it was a Holiday so maybe that was cheap. I don’t travel much, so what do I know? 3*
Overall the RLH is a nice place to stay with lots of amenities. I would suggest bringing your own pillows and maybe shopping around on a few other websites to see if you can get it for cheaper than what I paid. I feel like $ 100/​night would be a great value and I would definitely stay here again next time I’m in town; if the price is right.