Ramada San Jose Downtown Near Convention Center

The highest I can give is 2 star… Probably nice enough. We were here for three days for our company convention and all other hotels are booked, had to stay here. But they never cleaned the room! Didn’t even take out the trash. Don’t know what the housekeeper are paid to do. They do provide simple breakfast.

Not bad. Rooms could use updating and the prices are high $ 160 for 1 night on a Saturday. Worth more like $ 99 There were noisy people walking past our room all night. But it was a pretty safe place to stay over all. Not sure I would stay here again.

Well this hotel has seen its day. The room was clean but smelled of heavy air freshener. Really strong. The bed is the only thing that’s new which is a good thing. For 130 a night they really need to update this place. Has a refrigerator and a microwave. The front desk people were friendly and there is free parking and wifi. I might stay agin but probably not unless they upgrade their place.

My apartment complex was redoing our stairs so we had to stay at a hotel for a night. Our max was $ 125 a night (before tax) and this was the best option I could find at a weeks notice. They had given me a smoking room even though I had asked for a non-​smoking room. Upon check-​in, they told me that when I had booked, the only room left was the smoking one. One of my housemates booked way after I did and he received a non-​smoking room. I was not too happy about that. The staff was very friendly and gave me a device to help with the room smell. It only helped a little. These rooms are in desperate need of some upgrading. The beds are loud and squeaky (I know what the couple upstairs were doing all night), the carpets are stained, and the bathroom was in need of a repaint. Overall though it was decently clean.
Pros:
–Free Parking
–Free WiFi
–Free Breakfast
–Friendly Staff
–Mini fridge/​microwave in room
–Close to downtown
Cons:
–Run down
–Dirty carpets and walls
–Squeaky beds
–Smells
I would recommend finding a different hotel or at least make sure you don’t have a smoking room!

This is probably the worst hotel I’ve ever stayed! My husband booked this as it was close to the airport, and we had a very early flight out. Upon arriving, the hotel smelled awful! There was a very strong scent of air freshener, which was probably trying to mask the smell of the rug which was also horrible. It was very run down, and I commented to my husband that as a «AAA approved» hotel, they should have better criteria for rating it. I would never stay here, or ever recommend staying here. The fact that we arrived at 9pm made it almost impossible to find something else last minute. The restaurant choices nearby were not even open or unacceptable choices for us. At $ 159 a night, this place should be closed down, or at the very least, a complete overhaul!

Stayed one night on a Thursday with a late check in the front desk reception was very helpful we requested a late check out that was at 12 noon. Housekeeping kept knocking and tried to open the door several times I let them know we had a late check out and told front desk we said we’re staying another night. Super annoying.

Stayed here one night. The front desk male was unfriendly and nonwelcoming. He was very slow to process our check in and appeared upset. The rooms appeared cleaned but my collegue found dirty underwear in his room. Nothing fancy about this place. The walls are thin and you can hear surrounding guests speak and everything else.
I’ll never stay here again.

We stayed at the Ramada San Jose Downtown motel /​motor lodge (this is not a hotel as advertised).
We paid over $ 300 for a 2 night stay. It isn’t worth half that. We were ripped off.
My Advise: FIND ANOTHER HOTEL.
The Positives:
The staff was very friendly and professional. All that we met.
The beds were clean.
The included breakfast was better than some. No hot food.
Parking was free and easy.
The Negatives — in summary, the place is rundown.
1) The hotel is a very old motor lodge — not what you would expect with the Ramada name.
2) The rooms are very small and have an odd smell
3) The WiFi didn’t work — it kept cutting in and out.
4) The TV remote had semen on the side of it. This should of been cleaned prior to the room being rented.
5) The elevator barely operated.
6) The lights in the rooms have motion timers on them.
7) There was suppose to be a night light built into the wall. It was burned out.
8) The toilet wouldn’t stop running.
9) The air conditioner didn’t work right. The red «Change Filter» light was on. We looked, the filter was so dirty it was disgusting.
10) The refrigerator had food spilled all down the side of it.
11) The carpet was sticky.
12) The furniture was coming apart and felt dirty.
13) The neighborhood is sketchy at best.
Overall I would never want to stay there again. I really feel I was ripped off based on the price they charged. It is not what I’d expect the Ramada to be.

Second time staying here. The first was not so great, everything was run down and old and just didn’t feel clean.
Since then, there have been some nice changes to the hotel. The rooms have been updated for the most part and everything feels clean. The pool is nice, too. My favorite part of this hotel is that it offers a steam shower room and a sauna in the fitness center. The price is pretty decent for downtown San Jose, and the location is close to everything.

Amazing honesty on the part of the manager, Wendi and staff. I left my expensive jacket in the room and realized it shortly after checking out. I called and she found it and set it aside for pickup the next day. It would have been very easy for it to have been misplaced but she had it when I went the next day to retrieve it. Thank you Wendi, it gives me faith.
The hotel is clean and convenient and the price is good for free parking, complimentary breakfast and proximity to local venues.

The rooms aren’t bad! The cost of the room was kind of expensive for what you get. But the surrounding area is super sketchy, I suggest staying on the nicer side of town.

Stay somewhere else — unless you are looking for a party hotel or get down with being treated like shit by a night clerk.
We booked this hotel for a Sharks game. We usually stay at the Four Points Sheraton down the street but since that hotel had no vacancy, we thought — eh why not?
I will tell you why not —
We paid $ 152 for a tiny ass room, BUT the real issue is the way we were treated by the night front desk clerk:
We came back from the Sharks game around 11:30pm. We were extremely tired and just wanted to sleep. Apparently there were 2 concerts going on that night in the area. 1 was a dub step concert, and another was a hispanic banda concert. We were worried about the dub steps kids coming back and being loud. But let me tell you — we didn’t hear a peep out of any of those kids. We were however woken up and over run with extremely loud, unruly, disrespectful «adults» around 1 am when the banda concert was over. The amount of aye yay yayes being shouted in the parking lot and surrounding rooms were ridiculous. The whistling and screaming, and general loudness was out of control. Car stereos in the parking lot were being played with loud bass and souped up engines were being revved. It was like The Fast and The Furious 52, Mexico City was being filmed at our hotel. Our neighbors were the absolute WORST. There were 6 people in a room for 2. Shouting, laughing and carrying on with zero volume control. So as you would think — we called the front desk to complain and ask for a noise check on that room.
The front desk clerk said that he would tell them to be quiet. And he did. Then as soon as he was gone they’d start right back up. This happened 4x. He told us that he would call the police and have them kicked out. He never did. By this time it was 3:45am. And we receive a phone call in our room. It was the front desk clerk. Who told us —
«Perhaps if you don’t want to be disturbed anymore, you should pack up your things and move to another room.»
Read that sentence again. The front desk clerk told US at 3:45am that WE should pack up all of our stuff in the middle of the night and move rooms because our neighbors are being loud. Instead of kicking out the people causing the problem, who received complaints from multiple people, the clerk essentially wanted to kick us out into another area of the hotel — because we wanted to sleep. Which is why you usually get a hotel room is it not?! To SLEEP?! We refused to move, which why in the hell he thought that was even something to suggest is beyond me. The clerk informed us that because our neighbors weren’t playing music — the cops wouldn’t show up, and he knows what he’s doing so he’s not even going to call the cops. The noise next door carried on until 5:30am. We got zero sleep all night.
At 10am we finally checked out. I demanded to speak to someone in charge and told them what had happened and how shitty the front desk person was. I demanded a refund on the room. They said they would refund the charge, and it’s still showing pending on my bank statement. So I have yet to be confident they really reversed it yet.
I have stayed in some shitty, shitty run down hotels by accident before, but i have NEVER EVER in my life been treated so poorly by hotel staff.
So like i said, If you are into staying at a party hotel and don’t care to get any sleep, or if being treated like shit is your thing (no judgement), this is a perfect place to stay. Otherwise, I suggest staying at the Four Points Sheraton down the street.

Ok. So I was here for a convention this past weekend. My group and I stayed in the Ramada Hotel for 3 nights and 3 days.
Pros:
— Close to the Convention center
— Free Continental Breakfast with a variety of food and drinks (my favorite part)
— Even though we checked out at 11 am they let us park until we left later in the day after the convention.
Cons:
— the carpets are really really dirty! omg.
— the doors to the bathroom don’t lock.
— there’s no closed closet so you just hang your stuff out to the open air.
Extra major info that was just horrible:
— the sewage backed up and it filled the sink!!! OMG!!! That’s a big NO NO! it was nasty!
I just gave it a good 2 stars because of the pros.

This Ramada can be described in one simple word, rundown. It needs to be remodeled, cleaned but not cleaned with the harsh chemicals that fill the air in my room. Additional needs: new carpet, new drapes, new furniture, new everything!
The only reason I am occupying this room is because I could not find anything else under our company maximum rate in San Jose.
I give this Ramada two stars because the gentleman who checked me and was nice.

Booked this hotel because I was in town for a tournament. And this place was walking distance to the convention center. Score!
Many many pros
+ FREE parking! Marriot, Hilton and other hotels near the convention center charge around $ 23/​day just for parking
+ Complimentary continental breakfast and the choices are pretty good. Includes: hard boiled eggs, yogurt, milk, coffee, bagels, bread, cereal
+ Literally 0.2 miles away from Convention Center
+ Super close to a variety of restaurants and food places
+ Excellent customer service at the front desk
+ WIFI works really well!
+ Even though we checked out Sunday morning, they let us park the car in their lot till Sunday night
For the price and location, the value is superb. Two thumbs up :)

This is the second time I am staying here. Very convenient location. It’s only 2 blocks from the San Jose Convention center. The only down fall is that on a Saturday night it can get a little noisy around the area because most of the clubs are located right behind the hotel.
Continental breakfast is served and it’s not bad at all. The rooms are clean.
Pool is closed from October to May that’s bizarre since San Jose tends to be pretty much warm. And that means that the pool is only open for 4 months. Boo!

Convenient for the convention center that we were at for a volleyball tournament. The breakfast was mediocre, but had the coffee and banana combo I needed. Shower wasn’t too clean, but the towels were.

This hotel is pretty lame. I stayed here this past week on a band field trip with 50 other college students from my university.
LOCATION: It’s within walking distance to all of the places you’d probably end up going to downtown, such as Caesar Chavez Park (where Christmas in the Park is!), The Tech Museum, California Theater, Convention Center, all of the nicer hotels downtown like the Fairmont, Marriott, Saint Claire, Hilton, etc. However, everything directly surrounding this hotel is pretty ghetto and rundown.
APPEARANCE:
Exterior: Rundown, all of the rooms are accessed outdoors; no hallways or anything like that.
Interior: Very dated and old. Has basically everything you need, but it’s definitely an old, cheap hotel. I thought it was weird how the closet was in the bathroom. Very limited sink space. I shared the room with three other girls and we could barely fit all of our stuff on the counter.
COMFORT: Meh, not that comfortable. It’s just a place to go to if you really need a place to sleep. Then again, I wasn’t even able to sleep well because 1) The beds sucked and I could feel every single movement my bed partner made, 2) WALLS WERE SO THIN! I could hear my neighbors talking AND watching TV! It was so annoying to deal with!
BREAKFAST: It’s located in this TEENY little area on the bottom floor near the lobby. They didn’t have much… just pastries, hard boiled eggs, bagels, cereal, juice and coffee. They only had probably 2 – 3 tables which was annoying to deal with since I was with a large group of college students. I ended up going back to my room to eat my food because it got crowded in there really quickly.
Overall, I really don’t think I’ll be staying here. It had a pretty decent location that made it walkable to pretty much most of the attractions in downtown San Jose, but the hotel was pretty crappy and uncomfortable.

Affordable, but you get what you pay for.
Perks:
— within walking distance to the convention center
— much cheaper than the st. claire or fairmont!
— free continental breakfast & wi-​fi
— free parking for the duration of your stay
Cons:
— doors/​windows are paper thin! if you have trouble falling asleep or are a light sleeper like i am, this is not the place for you. you can hear EVERYTHING…
— mattresses & pillows are hard as rocks
— very few channels on the TV
If you don’t want to break the bank on one of the ritzier (and quieter) hotels in the area, don’t care about the TV channels, and can handle the uncomfortable bed and noise, I’d definitely recommend staying here. It’s very convenient and is much gentler on your wallet.

After reading the reviews on Unilocal and TripAdvisor, I was a little scared to stay here.
But it was close to both the convention center and Dakao, and cheaper than the other places, so I gave it a chance.
I’m glad I did!
I was in downtown San Jose for work, and walked to Dakao then the convention center everyday.
The guy at the front was very courteous, fast, and helpful.
The room was okay. I mean, it’s a motel.
Draft coming in from the front door while I was on my computer made me catch a slight cold, but it’s not a big deal.
I had the «do not disturb» sign up the whole stay, so I can’t comment on the housekeeping.
But when I bothered the maid to take my trash, she wasn’t rude.
Not friendly either, but it’s okay.
The room has an empty fridge and a microwave!
This was great because I was able to eat half a banh mi, put it in the fridge, and microwave it the next day.
The breakfast room next to the lobby had donuts, bagels, white and wheat bread, muffins, danish, fruit, milk, cereal, hot chocolate (yay), tea, coffee… A lot of stuff.
You can eat in the room or take the food back on a tray.
I took it back to my room to eat.
On Friday I got garlic naan at the Farmer’s Market and toasted it in the toaster (sorry for stinking up the room, other guests!) the next morning.
Free wi-​fi, but all of San Jose gives that.
There’s no bath tub, but I wouldn’t take a bath at a motel anyway.
Shower is good enough.
The TV is a small, clunky one, but it’s fine. I wasn’t watching much TV anyway. Some ESPN.
At night, the 1^st St side has some clubs that will cause some noise, but they didn’t bother me.
The room would be small for two people, but it was perfect for just me.
I’m staying here again next year.