Rainbow Motel

Great low budget motel! Clean, comfortable room (bed and pillows great by my standards), WiFi. Right near safeway, main road in/​out town. And only about ½ mi to river area/​old town, brew pubs.

I stayed here in 2010 with a friend who was having surgery at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend. I loved my stay here. It was a true vacation, my first time on the Left Coast, and this place hit the spot! It was simple, unpretentious accommodations, with a small shower, but the rate of $ 41 a night at the time was perfect. The Indian owners were just fair to deal with, though, and they had prepackaged danish (with kosher symbols!) available for grabs in the morning. The room was clean, comfortable, and safe, for the most part, although one unexpected touch was a half-​empty bottle of cheap moonshine/​vodka kept on the closet shelf, presumably left behind by some redneck couple shacking up, or by a john and his hanky panky the night before. Eww. The room did have a mini refrigerator and a microwave to use, and it was only a few blocks away from the Bend bus station.

OK, it’s not the best accommodations in the world but you get what you pay for. There’s plenty of free camping around Bend, so if you want cheap, go pitch a tent. But, if you want a hot shower, a functional ice machine, clean linens and a short walk to downtown, you just found your home away from home. The staff is friendly, the rooms are quiet, and there’s free wifi. What more could you want?

My boyfriend and I were driving through bend and were in need of a clean motel at an affordable price. This motel fit the bill. For the price we got a really nice big clean room and it was very close to the downtown area.

If you are looking for a clean place to stay this is the perfect stop.
You get exactly what you pay for, a clean simple room, friendly staff, cable TV, AC, and kitchenette in some. It’s conveniently located, and you can’t beat the price!

Be SURE to ask for a room in the 200 building as it seems a little more updated! Room 215 is a good room to ask for! For $ 129/​night and it’s clean, functional and looks pretty updated. we had 2 queen beds and the room was pretty spacious. A round table with a chair in the corner. A microwave, coffee maker, pretty big mini frig and 32 inch flat screen TV. we needed a room just for one night while driving home from Idaho. It’s close enough off the freeway but, not noisy. Easy one block walking distance to a Walgreens, Safeway, Starbucks, 7 – 11 and CVS. It’s comfortable enough for a night and the price is right. Friendly front desk, they don’t allow pets in the building we stayed in. They have snack machines and the building is secure so you have to have a room key to enter. Beds seem clean and pillows are decent but mattress might be a little on the firm side. Not bad overall. Don’t expect a lot it’s just good basics.

This place SUCKED expensive ass! Not at all worth the price! $ 129 a night for a crappy little shithole w/​obviously lazy staff– our room was disgusting. They made a big fuss when our friends stopped by for a quick second & treated us like we were trying to hide them in our room & pretend they left including reminding me they had security cameras! And all the other guest were spying on us thru their windows like we were freaks or something?! About the only thing my husband and I were happy was to have a bed to sleep in but when I could’ve been discriminated against after paying alot less for a room at motel 6 instead! STAY ANYWHERE ELSE BUT HERE!!!

Don’t stay here if you can help it. This place is terrible. They put us in a smoky room with holes in the wall and stains on the carpet. I’m okay with crappy motels but they charged me the same price that I’ve paid to stay at a Four Seasons. The owners are grumpy and not interested in making sure their clients have an enjoyable stay. I don’t think they should run a business if they don’t like their customers.
UPDATE: If this place wasn’t bad enough, I now am covered in bed bug bites. This place really sucked.

Delivers everything it promises! Clean, yes. Quiet, yes. Best rates, yes. Free Wi-​fi, yes! And in a great location, walking distance from downtown. There are certainly fancier places in Bend, but for a night or two you can’t go wrong with the Rainbow Motel!

A quintessential rat hole. A fleabag is an upgrade by orders of magnitude compared to this shitstained, dirty, sewage receptacle. If you like smelling stale cigarettes, showering in other people’s hair and sleeping in hole-​filled linen, this is your perfect hell.

Great find.
Clean room. Kind owners. Parking garage is covered and below rooms. Felt my wheels were safe. It’s a block or two from the police station so I felt pretty safe there. And quiet.
The rooms open to an atrium which is open. Unusual set up but it seemed to make it even more cozy.
Walking distance to downtown was a big plus. Stayed an extra night because it was a pleasant experience.
And the price was great.

This place is cleaner than most hotels I stay at. The owners are very nice. The location is perfect for enjoying everything downtown on foot. You won’t find a better deal for the money.

This motel is located close to downtown, walking distance even. The rates are cheap. The rooms are clean. The carpet did feel a little sticky so wear socks. There is also free wi-​fi although when we arrived, we had a hard time getting connected to it. The front desk is nice and accommodating. Our room was on the second floor which is towards the back of the drive.
It was quiet and I slept very well. I will definitely stay here again when I am in Bend.

No complaints. Was clean, quiet and comfortable. We stayed in a new room and thought the other reviews were underrated.

Really clean! Everything was perfect– hot water clean bed, television the wifi was great! And only $ 59 on Labor Day weekend while everything else was booked! Will definitely come again!

I just lucked out and found this place by accident, I arrived in town without any room reservation, and several other places I looked into were full, and/​or 3 times more expensive! La Quinta quoted me $ 152, and as I was driving up Franklin, I saw the sign for the Rainbow Motel… the front sign was accurate, clean rooms and low rates! Since the purpose of this trip was to enjoy Bend’s numerous brewpubs, the location was perfect. I was in a back, upstairs room and the bed was newish and really comfortable, bedding and towels were clean, the room had a microwave, mini fridge and a new 30″+ flat screen tv. Free wi-​fi, a hot shower, AC worked well, and an excellent location close to downtown… next time a trip takes me to Bend, I will simply call these nice people first!

Price = 4 (54.00 with tax per night)
Experience = 4 (The owner was very nice and accomidating, Grounds are well kept. Rooms need work… not in the best condition, but passable. Linens need a lot of work, sheets were very old and dingy. Location is great… easy walk to downtown and shopping on hwy 97)
This cheap hotel gets a 4 mainly because of it’s location to downtown bend. Not bad for 54.00 per night.

Motel is modernized, has a home-​feel to it. Very cozy and «nookish», clean, very friendly staff (all of them)… and for the price, you can’t beat it with a stick!!!

Clean, cheap place to stay. Easy to find off the main drag. Bed wasn’t super comfy, but it wasn’t much worse than the next place we stayed at 3x the $$. It served the purpose and was worth the cost.

If you’re looking for a nice, clean, inexpensive place to stay, this is it. Rooms were small, but had queen bed, TV, fridge, microwave and coffee service. Some rooms are designated smoking and even some for dogs. Family owned, and the owner was nice. The Motel 6 is just across the street, and they wanted $ 25 more per night!