Bay Bridge Inn

stayed here a few times, good place nice rate good clean room

Great price, nice staff and really clean! Solid motel to stay at in Oakland, would return. Also, bed was surprisingly comfortable. Bring your own shampoo and such, but it’s a cheap motel! That’s to be expected.

This place sucks dirty do not come here the people here are rude I want to punch them in the face

If I could I would give zero stars !!! First of all my husband was on business over here and I came to visit him and then to see my fam the next day we’ll the manager kicked me and my kids out and cussed at me in front of them very rude and disrespectful! !! So I left but very horrible place to stay at

Not the best or luxurious but why would one go to a cheap inn with high standards?
For a not so well off college student that is visiting the bay area, this hotel is great! The ac works, the fridge and microwave worked too. No complaints here.
Bathroom was newly remodeled, had a sliding glass shower door. No hair dryer so bring your own! Keep in mind this is family run so maybe they can’t afford extra towels or Kleenex… No complaints here about that.
The workers are friendly, just don’t be a d*** and things should go well during your stay.
Extra star for triple A discount :-)

Booking this hotel, I knew it was (almost) the cheapest in the area and to not expect much from it. However, it was a little more bare bones than I expected. It was clean which is obviously most important, but very minimal. We stayed in the smallest room I’ve been in in awhile. The bathroom was very basic, but like someone else said, it looked newly remodeled. However, they only gave us 2 towels and 2 washcloths. No hand towel or floor towel. There was a spot for kleenex, but none in the room. We only stayed one night and the proximity to the bart system was really convenient. But I’m not sure we will stay here again. The area was pretty scary and I was hoping for a little better area. For how much we paid, I expected a little more.

This motel is actually quite nice. It’s really clean inside, slightly remodeled with a nice shower and fancy counters in the bathroom. It’s very small, though.
Not nice: super sketchy area. Completely non-​functional phone. No extra toilet paper.
It was still overpriced as the cheapest place in the area. /​sigh
EDIT: I kept coming back to this thinking that a non-​functional phone is much more serious than three stars, so I lowered the review to two.

I give it three stars because you gotta know what you’re getting yourself into. I think the people who’re complaining on here are obviously not aware that they’re staying in the middle of not-​the-​nice-​part-​of-​town oakland. The area itself isn’t nice. Walking to and from the bart station, especially at night might feel unsafe. However, it’s one of the cheapest places to stay (which yeah means no towel racks and not best accomodations).
The place is clean, the beds are clean, the bathrooms are nice (newly remodeled i think). The heater/​ac works well. TV works well, has good channels. Wi-​fi worked perfectly and fast for us. The staff (family that runs the place) was nice, you just gotta make sure you communicate well from the start exactly what you want/​need. Called in to make sure a ‘late check-​in’ wasn’t a problem. The lady said it was perfectly fine since they’re open 24hrs. No fee charged. They have security cameras to watch the parking lot areas and I’m not 100% sure but I feel like her sons patrolled the area at night to make sure everything was safe/​in order. After we checked out at 11am Sunday, we still wanted to go into SF for the rest of the day, so they allowed us to leave our car parked in the parking lot for the rest of the day for no extra charge and they just asked to let them know when we were leaving so they wouldn’t think the car got stolen. Nice people, considerate.
Things I didn’t like: only one roll of toilet paper… had to ask for more. And the room was kind of small.
Things I liked: it felt safe and it was 2 blocks away from bart.

Definitely get what you pay for. Ask for smoke free room. You get people partying in parking lot smoking WEED till 2am outside of room. No remote for tv, less then ¼ roll of toilet paper. Gap under room door, gap between bathroom window and wall. Room was freshly painted. Had to leave windows open after check in to air out room.
Positive: cheap room, nice shower and heater works great. Oh, leave tv on as not the QUIETEST place to stay.

Absolutely the worst experience I have ever had! First of all, I called easily, over 13 times in a row!!! NO ANSWER!!! My family was early and lost and we could not even get someone to pick up the line. When we finally arrived there was trash all over the parking area, bags full of trash falling out of the garbage bins. We walked up to the «cave» which is where u check in. It’s literally a drive up window to check in, the man was not even at the window and we waited for him to attend us for a good 10 minutes, once we checked in he stated it was a single bed only and we had our kids with us, we asked for a refund due to a simple mistake at booking and without hesitation the very, very rude man stated «no, it was not possible». How can a business charge u for a service that was not even rendered?! Believe me, it wasn’t as if the hotel was completely booked and they lost out. It was completely empty!!! I made sure to tell the man that I would make sure to leave a review on Unilocal,he seemed completely uninterested! Please believe me when I say STAY SOMEWHERE ELSE!!! (I only gave it a star because I HAD to)

Budget, but clean. 2 blocks from Bart. Service was good. I’d stay there again.

Careless management, broken furniture, no hangers in closet, no bathroom towel bars or shelves for toiletries. Poorly operating plumbing facilities. Erratic housekeeping. Never answers the telephone. I had to go to the office to request towels, toilet paper and housecleaning service.
Management sent subsequent statement to
that billed me as a no-​show despite my CC charge on checking in.
Over a month later, after reporting this error to Booking/​com, I still have that mis-​charge on my AmEx account. It seems impossible to get the Bay Bridge Inn or
to remove or credit back this erroneous charge. Needless to say, I will never use either again.

Good value for the price. 2 blocks from the BART (who mercifully ended their strike a day before we got there) means you’re just a couple hops from most of San Francisco for a fraction of the price of a San Francisco hotel room.
Standard caveats for cheap rooms all apply: there’s street noise, less-​than-​flawless housekeeping, tiny, blurry television with no remote, and marginal, no-​frills service at the front desk. Also, hope your smartphone has tethering — their complimentary wi-​fi reset its connection every few minutes, making it useless for most (forget anything streaming, like Netflix or even YouTube, where I struggled for 10 minutes to load a 2-​minute video).
That said, the bed was decent, shower wasn’t bad, and considering Oakland the neighborhood could’ve been a lot worse. Close to some decent spots on Telegraph and a friendly coffee shop a couple blocks away. Know what you’re getting into, and you’ll like this place just fine.

Good and inexpensive, but make sure you book ahead of time to get better deals.
look on craiglist for bay-​area, thgis motel places discounts there for week long stay… its cheaper then standard price… and you dont pay on craiglist…, you call them or pay when you arrive

Since I last wrote my last review, I have a quick update. Perhaps this may be seen by the many nice folks who have stayed at the Jack London Inn. I checked out the reviews thinking myself that it might be a good place for me. Sounds horrific. Good Unilocaler, I love smart and rewarding traveling, San Francisco, California and everywhere else. Your money is far better spent at the Bay Bridge Inn in Oakland. Check out my review. For the price, and the super-​awesome family that owns and runs it, it’s a great place. Get to know the locals! Say hello! They’ll love you for it. These people are awesome around here. Love it, good place, good people, good price.

It’s super cheap to stay here so you get what you pay for. My boyfriend wouldn’t allow me to leave the room at night because the neighborhood is so scary. They did seem to have security come through the parking lot several times at night but I wouldn’t leave anything valuable in your car. The wireless Internet worked well which helped you ignore the hole in the bathroom ceiling.

It’s okay. The neighborhood is really scary. I heard people fighting all night in the parking lot. When I turned off the heater it stunk so I had to turn it off. There is a hole in the bathroom ceiling where the fan used to be.
The internet does work well. The TV is big and it works great. The bed is big. The towels are small. There was no toilet paper in the room when I arrived. The dresser has big drawers. The key card locks are new. It is very close to bart and a bus stop. You can take a free shuttle from the bart to emeryville so it is nice for shopping.
No one has really bothered me, but it is really scary to walk just from the BART to the motel. A lot of homeless people stay here. But it is only 299 a week.