National 9 Motel

Stayed here about year ago the worst motel I have ever stayed in. was run down holes in the blankets dirty bathroom walls were paper thin can here the people next door please take my advice horrible place!

Really nice little motel right at the entrance of Santa Cruz coming from San Francisco.
The owner and his wife are super nice and the price is more than fair for Santa Cruz.
We stayed at a room which was actually a own little house.
We can recommend it to anybody who is travelling through.

Stayed here on a motorcycle trip. You get what you pay for. Prolly one of the cleanest, best cheap motels I’ve ever stayed in.

Worse experience in a hotel ever. My friend and I took a last minute road trip up north and booked this hotel. We had a friend visit us and we had plans for dinner and drinks so we asked if we could leave her car as we would b takin mine. We returned at 130 am with our friend only go meet up with the manager yelling at us stating we had used up 2 parking spaces and that we had only paid for 2 people to be in the room instead of 4. We only had ONE other friend with us, he stated she had to move her car and she had to leave and how dare we show up at 130am. All three of us are over the age of 21 and he felt the need to tell us we were not allowed to show up so late. Our friend moved her car and while she was doing so he threatened to call the cops. We told him to call them as we did nothing wrong, at that point another customer came out of her room and he stopped with his yelling. I didnt think this matter before but before writing this I read a similar review where a gay friends were involved. I now feel the need to mention that our friend is visibly gay and it now feels that this had a lot to do with our treatment.

I used this motel a few weeks ago as I’m moving back to the area. While staying here, I brought in take-​out food and ate it there.
Imagine my horror when I stop by a few days ago to check in when I was told that I had brought cockroaches with me. Ugh! A. This motel has cockroaches. B. They blame it on their customer! I’m down with most animals, except cockroaches, and with many other clean places available in Santa Cruz, I’ll never have to stay here again.

Everything was ok with the place. My boyfriend and I decided to go get dinner and a few drinks. We met some friends and offered them to visit with us for awhile at our room. Them being a male and female, visibly gay individuals. We got out of our cab and was immediately greeted by the tyrant manager. He stated we could not have these people there and kicked us out of our room with no cause. He ranted and raved about BS that would never have made sense to any other place of overnight stay. We stated that we were owed a refund and he only offered half. This is when matters were taken to the front office and we demanded a full refund and a possible lawsuit for discrimination. He then threatened to call the cops which I encouraged him to do so since we had done nothing wrong. He then stopped arguing.
His wife gave us confirmation that a full refund was issued. I have never, ever been kicked out of a hotel in my life and had never experienced such ignorance.
Their intolerance is barbaric.
Don’t stay there.

The first room, the toilet was not bolted to the floor AT ALL. The second room toilet overflowed. The manager suggested I should eat less protein. Beyond that he was miserable and uncaring. I asked for a refund but they said no. They cleaned the room with bleach and left all the windows shut. Paper thin walls so I could hear the couple next door. Cars running at 3:00 AM. STAY AWAY!!! When you think of sleazy motels, this is the place.

Great little place, great price, very clean. Very friendly about my service dog. :]

I’ve been meaning to review the National 9 for years now it seems. My first visit to Santa Cruz, I had booked a hotel elsewhere and we got there around 8pm and the lobby was already closed (what kind of hotel is that?!) so we were screwed and homeless for the night. Panicking, we called several places to see if they had rooms available that night and we ended up staying at the National 9. It was well priced, the room was clean, and the owners were really friendly and understanding. Every time I go to Santa Cruz, I always think of the National 9 first.

For $ 75, I got what I expected with the only exception being how thin the walls are and how horribly I slept. With the freeway noise, ice machine and the various sounds made by my neighbors I basically didn’t sleep at all. No bueno.
Otherwise hotel is fine. Rooms are small, and you need to bring your own shampoo, but overall good for the money. Just bring earplugs and Benadryl.

Thanksgiving night, got a two bed room for me and my three kids and three dogs for a great price. Loved the wall heater and the rest of the retro feel. The door opened with a real key… I really miss that. Also had a nice large bathtub which was greatly enjoyed. The staff was friendly. I don’t regret the choice to stay there.

The lady working at the front desk quoted $ 65 for a single bed over the phone, then $ 99 when I got there. She was discriminatory to me and beyond rude. Fuck this place.

I didn’t expect much, but I’m sad to say I was disappointed nonetheless. The paint was chipped on every wall, and our non smoking room smelled like an ashtray. Even with all of the windows open all night, I still woke up struggling to breathe. The bathroom floor was sticky, as was the carpet.
For $ 150, I at least expect a clean, non smoking room that doesn’t smell like an ashtray.

My boyfriend and I went on a 5 day road trip to explore potential colleges. We were coming down from Humboldt and were stopping in Santa Cruz to visit the UC. My boyfriend found this motel and decided to book it based on the good Unilocal reviews. I don’t expect much when staying in a motel, but this was actually pretty disappointing. The entire motel was supposed to be nonsmoking, yet when we walked into our room, we were greeted by a huge blast of smokey air. We left the window open for hours but that didn’t even help. What made it worse was when we let the man at the front desk know that whoever stayed in the room before us was smoking up a storm, he acted like he didn’t believe us and said «The maids would have told me that.» Right, because we have nothing better to do than make up a story about a smoke infested room. Alrighty then. No apology and didn’t even offer to switch us to a different room even though there were several vacant rooms. Strike one. So we go and grab a pizza and come back to the room to eat. Since we had leftovers we went to put it in the mini fridge only to find out that it isn’t even plugged in. Really? Good thing we didn’t buy anything perishable. After that, I decided to hop in the shower. There weren’t any packets of shampoo or conditioner. Most motels usually have at least the little combo packets. On top of that, there was only one washcloth. You would think they would throw an extra one in there since two people are staying in the room. Strike two. We got an okay night’s sleep there. The bedding was clean but the matress sucked. My boyfriend’s back still hurts from sleeping in that bed and it’s been 3 days! What really took the cake was being abruptly woken up by extremely loud pounding on the floor above us at 7am. The noise lasted for at least 10 minutes. It was housekeeping cleaning the room upstairs. I don’t know what the hell kind of «cleaning» would cause THAT much noise or why they were doing it a 7am. Strike three. One good thing I can say is that the lady at the front desk when we checked out was extremely nice and was much more customer service oriented than the guy we had checked in with. One star for the clean bedding and one star for the nice lady at the front desk. Overall, I would not recommend this motel.

First of all, this is 4 stars for what it is, not a 4 star hotel. Now that I’ve made that distinction, here goes:
The motel is clean. Not fancy. Not impressive. Just a clean place to sleep and shower.
The front desk person is NICE, professional, and acts like she’s glad you’re there.
It’s cute in its own way. If you were a kid who grew up going to Motel 6 and other Motor Inn type places on family trips, it will bring back good memories.
It’s tiny. The motel. The rooms. The pool. But, for the area, so is the price. And you can walk to Marianne’s Ice Cream. Yay!
The walls are a tad thin and you could hear the dull roar of the freeway, but we were still able to get a good night’s sleep.
There aren’t any coffee makers in the rooms (or irons, or hair dryers) but there is free coffee at the front desk in the morning. The rooms have small microwaves and small refrigerators (you have to plug them in if you’re going to use them.)
Free wifi too.

This place is pretty awesome for the money. No frills (just a cute lil’ bar of soap), but it’s clean, smells fresh, there’s HBO, wi-​fi and friendly managers.
Location is convenient too. There’s a local coffee shop (Fin’s) and Marianne’s ice cream down the street and it’s a 5 minute drive/​20 minute walk to Pacific Ave/​downtown.
They have a tiny pool that’s pretty adorable and probably kind of fun on a super hot day if you don’t mind the sound of freeway traffic.
Not a bad place to crash at all. Bonus: it’s pink.

I am officially addicted to Unilocal.Without it, I never would have found this motel. My boyfriend and I are young and poor so we planned to camp on our way from the Bay Area, back to our home in So Cal. But when we heard it would rain while we were in Santa Cruz, we decided we needed to suck it up and drop some cash on a room. This motel showed up on my Unilocal search and it had only three ratings but they were all good, citing that this was the most affordable place you could get while still being good quality and clean. We checked in and were pleasantly surprised to find that it was even cheaper than we had expected and even cleaner than we could have asked for. There was even a refrigerator and a super spotless, marble shower. I will continue to give my money to this motel whenever I come through SC in the future.

Can not be beat for the money! I have stayed at many different places in SC. In this price range everything else is dirty, but not National 9. The couple who run it are respectable and trust worthy. Highly reccommended if you are on a tight buget.

Not the hotel you want to stay at for a romantic weekend in bed, but a great place to stay if you plan to keep busy w/​activities and just need a place to crash. Our room and the entire hotel for that matter is very out of date, but the entire place is well kept and clean. Everybody we encountered working here was very friendly. They even turned down our sheets in the evening! Our room was very musty and smelly, but that was quickly remedied by leaving the bathroom window open.