Name: Americas Best Value Inn-El Cajon/San Diego
Address: 1274 Oakdale Avenue, El Cajon, El Cajon, El Cajon, 92021, United States of America
Rating: 4

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Art World Western Heritage Gallery

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala

San Diego Air and Space Museum

Copley Symphony Hall

San Diego Opera

Petco Park

Westfield Horton Plaza

San Diego Repertory Theater

San Diego Convention Center

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Port of San Diego

Maritime Museum of San Diego

Seaport Village

USS Midway Museum

Presidio Park

San Diego International Airport

Old Town San Diego State Park

Coronado Beach

North Island NAS

General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport

Belmont Park

Mission Beach

Ocean Beach Park

Torrey Pines State Beach

McClellan-Palomar Airport

Americas Best Value Inn-El Cajon/San Diego

El Cajon

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I’ve stayed in tons of hostels and budget motels in my lifetime. This one was for the books. It looked like it’s was from the 70’s and not in a cute way. The parking lot was full of sketchy people and rvs. Our room was so bad we just laughed at it. Sink was cracked. Bathroom filthy. No screen or lock on the window. When you open the curtains there was a broken exercise bike and a hideous view of the nasty pool, which I’m sure no one uses. It’s obvious that people live there, mostly of the tweaker kind. When we got there no one was even in the lobby. We had to ring the bell 5 times. Dude was semi friendly though. At night the place was totally infested with roaches. Tons and tons of them. I slept with all my clothes on. It was so disgusting. I’m surprised my car didn’t get broken into. Hotels.com wouldn’t even give me a refund. This place was $100 per night and honestly it should be like $20. Revolting. Please don’t stay here.

Repulsive roach infested homeless camp

*sigh* Okay where do I begin. Well for starters when we got in our room it smelled horrible like someone had just smoked a bunch of cigarettes in the room. I had to go to the store and buy a bunch of air fresheners and candles. Then I go on the bed and it’s stained with what looks like pee and blood.... Yea gross right! Then later as I decided to shower the water would only go from extremely hot or intensely cold, no in between. On top of that the faucet to the sink broke and the pipes underneath leaked water into the entire room. If that isn’t bad enough our tv was super outdated and had static all on it. Later come to find out the housekeeper smokes cigarettes in the rooms as she cleans them. Plus our towels had hair and still were stained. The lobby smells bad and the manager is not all that friendly. You also have to pay a 50 dollar deposit but with how bad the stay is, I feel like they should pay YOU jus to be in that horrible place. I didn’t take the reviews seriously and I payed the price. So hopefully someone reads this and doesn’t think it’s a joke. DONT STAY HERE!!!!!

Literally the worst Hotel Ever!

Went there on valentine's tired just wanted to get away and spend time with my husband not roaches. We spent 108$ used a hole can reach spray and woke up with one crawling on my eye. The room was filthy the worst I've ever seen.

Roach city

On our way back to Canada after visiting Arizona & Californian, we stopped at the America best Value Inn in San Diego, California. It was a very nice place. The rates were very good. Better then other places we stayed on our trip at almost twice the cost. Staff from Manager to Housekeepers were friendly and helpful. Rooms are clean and quiet. You can walk to anywhere you need to go. It is a block off the freeway. We'll be back.

Happy to be there

THis place is by far the worst hotel I have ever stayed at! Terrible customer service! Both the lady and her husband were incredibly rude! We paid for late checkout and the latest was at 11:15 that they allowed us to stay. I hope you take these reviews seriously and do not spend your money on this terrible terrible location!!!

DONT STAY HERE!!

I already went to the Red Lion website and provided a full review. I was told when I got there that I had to leave a $50 CASH deposit. Couldn’t charge it, had to be cash. Total surprise. Finally got them to let me stay. Room was dirty, remote didn’t work, people were living in a nasty rv, a car and a van in the parking lot. Their belongings, chairs, etc. were in the parking lot! See my review on your website. I realize it was a $77 room. Cheap. But I wouldn’t stay there again, or risk it at any Red Lion. Even if it were $27! 

I’ll never risk staying at a Red Lion property again.

Room was not clean, Room was very smelly and the Carpet floor is wet and sticky.
The room facing the main road is very noisy. The front desk staff did not keep their promise to clean up the room after our complaint.The Hotel's internet has very poor signal wifi.

There are no good rooms in this hotel.

Room was not clean, feces still in the toilet bowl and when flushed there was still a ring in the toilet bowl.  Phones do not work so in order to complain to the front desk, you have to walk outside and around the building to the front desk. When you do, they simply respond with a memorized apology for the inconvenience in a tone of voice that says "go away". Soda machines on the property are empty. No daily housekeeping (no one came the next day, even after a complaint of a dirty bathroom). Shampoo and body wash dispensers located in the shower are empty.  As you exit the shower, you can see that the rear base of the toilet is caked in urine and dirt, hasn't seen housekeeping in months. Floors dirty throughout. Old clothes found in the drawers. At check-in, you must speak through a plexi-glass window.  There is no other opening except the pass-through at the bottom, so you have to shout to be heard. No effort was made to give information like wifi instructions, location of soda/ice machines, nothing! Took forever to get the AC going. In-room fridge froze our items solid. The rooms to our right and left were occupied by full-time residents, with all sorts of refuse piled outside the sliding door. A room above us sported a shopping cart hanging off the patio. If we had had time and not due at a wedding, we would not have stayed for half the price.

Sleazy hotel, and management doesn't care!

One of our girls went missing at this establishment. The owner has been uncooperative and even told us to "call the Russian cell phone." They are under investigation but our girl is still missing!!!!!!!! PLEASE DON'T TAKE YOUR KIDS ANYWHERE NEAR HERE!!!!!! Amber if you read this, we are waiting and looking for you baby girl!!!!!!!

Missing persons

The lady and her husband in reception were incredibly rude. They shouldn’t be in the hospitality business if that is their way of treating people. They called me 3 times prior to my checkout. First at 10:30 am to remind of checking out, then at 10:45 am literally to ask me... are you staying or leaving?.. and finally at 11:00 when I was on my way out (perfectly on time). When I got to the lobby with all my luggage I had to wait for someone to pick me up, but both the lady and their husband told me that I had to wait outside... why are there couches in the lobby then?? I couldn’t believe they had a problem with me sitting by myself in the couch of the lobby. I’m never ever staying here again!! Absolutely the worst service I’ve had in a long time. 

Americas Best Value Inn-El Cajon/San Diego

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