Harborview Inn and Suites

I hated everything about this hotel, after finding a crack pipe in my room I left as quickly as possible. But it seems that since then the person who took my credit card info at the front desk has used the numbers to go on a shopping spree. I wouldn't let anyone I know stay at this hotel.

My family and I stayed here for a couple weeks last year after going through some tough times. Now we knew the place wasn't the Hilton when we pulled up on the street so we didn't expect much but with less than $100 in cash and two hungry kids that had been stuck in the car driving around all day, we had to do something. We walk into the office and the Indian lady behind the counter tells us $50 a night for all four of us. In a market of at least $100 and less than that in the wallet, we gladly paid up. Yea the place was a dump, and it was a little creepy with the whole bathroom window looking into your next door neighbors room thing, but the room was huge and didn't feel like a motel at all. It almost felt like a little home. The furnishings, bedding, carpet, ect weren't near new but we made do and though the room looked pretty clean, we rolled up our sleeves and cleaned things up to be sure for the kids sake. You can't ask for too much more in the way of location. The one thing we couldn't deal with though was the managements way of pricing. You almost need a ticker like in the stock market to keep track of the changing cost of your room. I wouldn't bring your date here unless she's that kind of girl but if you need a place to stay, this could be the place. Just be sure to settle on a price first if you plan to stay for more than a day.

I wouldn't even give it a 1 if I had the choice. There was garbage in the parking lot & smashed cockroaches in the parking lot. The front office was filthy dirty, the woman that ran it could not speak English and was impossible to understand. The website says newly remodeled rooms, but they are NOT! It was so gross we left and paid triple to stay somewhere else!

"Suites" is a gross exaggeration.. Did NOT meet expectations. My wife booked the room WITH HER CREDIT CARD yet was not allowed to check in??? Once I arrived we found a rickety old elevator so decided to take our bags up three flights of steep stairs. The hotel itself seems to be a slightly renovated tenement building. The "Suite" we had booked was on the corner, which means LOTS OF NOISE from the street, and the "full kitchen" seemed to be in the middle of renovations (smoke detector ripped off the wall, blinds not attached, etc.). The bathroom had a pedestal...TOILET. Seriously the toilet was up on this stage with an odd little closet??? The bathroom also featured a louvered window which opened into a common open-air area. If the person in the next room had THEIR window open, you could look from our bathroom directly into their first double bed! The bed had dead gnats in the sheets. There was a huge bow in the floor and the furnishings in the room looked like they were circa-1991 with wear marks and glitzy brass trim to prove it. It is a somewhat "convenient" location if you'd like to go to little italy or walk to the cruise ships. Close to the freeway though getting on and off proves to be a challenge due to many one-way streets. Nearby Denny's got my breakfast businesss as I didn't want to risk the "free breakfast" after seeing the room. Parking was expensive and the lot is hard to get in an out of, luckily we have a small car. All in all a disappointing and thoroughly odd hotel experience. I can't believe we spent [...]bucks on this place.