Super 8 San Diego/South Bay

Wish there was a ZERO star option. Looks like renovations started 3 years ago and just stopped mid-​project. I booked a smoking room on
, for a quick stop over. The lady behind the desk was pregnant and obviously tired. She was pleasant nonetheless, but it became painfully obvious that she did not know how to work the computer well. While she fumbled to check us in, I noticed a sign on the computer that said no smoking. I asked about why I was able to book a smoking room when they clearly posted that there was a $ 250 fine that will be assessed for smoking in the rooms. She went on and on about how there were people who trashed the room, and they were smokers so they no longer have smoking rooms. It was late, and I just wanted to shower, and figured we were only going to need the room for a few hours so we could make it work.
Walking toward the room was like walking through a nightmare — a long white-​walled hallway with blue doors and hardwood floors… and nothing else. We should have known to turn back when we saw room numbers on the doors were POST IT NOTES! Now… when we got to our room, the room number was a «Hello my name is…» STICKER. Yes… a STICKER.
I opened the room door, and was smacked with the god-​awful stench of putrid death. Had I had any amount of food in my stomach, it would have forcibly shot out of my mouth from the gagging this smell caused. I couldn’t bring myself to turn the light on because I was scared of what I was going to see. I was able to get them to cancel the room relatively quickly so for that I was grateful.
Moral of the story: if the room number on the door is written on a «Hello my name is…» sticker… DON’T OPEN THE DOOR! What’s inside is every bit of the nightmare it seems to be.

beware! my boyfriend and i stayed there a few months ago and caught scabies! scratched non stop and it was horrible do not stay there

Okay, so first bad thing we noticed was the motel was under construction. Old broken mattresses, garbage and nails scattered over the parking lot. That we could have dealt with but when we went in it was too much to bear. So I’m just gonna list all the negatives.
Unfinished rooms being rented.
No threshold covers at the end of sharp tile.
No covers on the pot lights.
Painters tape on the painted door.
Main door not painted and dirty.
No closet — wasn’t built yet.
Dirty, moldy, frozen and written on refrigerator and microwave.
Lament floors in unfinished rented room not swept or mopped.
Bed had sand in the sheets.
Pillow cases had holes.
Hall and old room carpets were so gross they looked like someone did an oil change on them.
Old microwaves, refrigerators and tv’s stacked in the hall.
Exit signs dangled from the ceilings by the electrical wires.
Stairway entrances didn’t have door frames on them.
Stairs were dirty, dirty.
The breakfast area on the website didn’t exist. Fake picture
The office wasn’t even the same office on the website… at all! It was old and dirty with two ugly little tables. Fake picture.
The pictures on the website of the rooms, pool and hotel have either been photo edited or were from along time ago because its in horrible shape compared to what is shown.
James was inconsiderate of our bad situation.
The positives
Sid was nice and tried too be helpful with the crappy hotel situation.
So was the nice young girl named Kayleen who had to deal with all the upset people checking out in the morning.
Lastly, once the hotel is COMPLETELY remodeled with all the door frames, threshold covers, closets, and light covers it could be nice… as long as they CLEAN.
But until then STAY AWAY!!!

We found this hotel online at a discounted price. It still ended up being $ 150 per night which I thought was a little expensive for a super 8 but considering it was in California I felt that the price might be higher just because of location. We stayed at this hotel July 17^th and 18^th 2015. When talking to the front desk clerk after arriving I found out that the nightly rate was $ 330 and after staying there I don’t think someone could even pay me to go back let alone have me pay my hard earned money. Within 5 minutes of checking into our room I was calling the front desk to ask for a room change. The hotel happened to be under new ownership and half of the hotel was under construction. Our first room wound up being directly across the hall from the majority of the rooms that was currently being renovated. There was dust from the renovation covering the majority of the side that was being renovated including the rooms that were being sold. Our first room was covered in dust, it had hair all over the bathroom, the sheets and covers have multiple stains on them, and there were bugs in the bathroom (I saw at least four crawling around on the floor). When I called to ask the first time about switching rooms the front desk clerk completely ignored everything I said besides the fact that I was upset about the construction to which he told me in about an hour they will be done. I then called the travel company to try to see about getting a refund and switching to a different hotel and they said that it was up to the hotel’s discretion as to whether I could change room change hotels or get a refund at all. I then called back up to the front desk let them know that I had called the travel company and what they had said and insisted that I get a new room or be moved to a a sister hotel. They moved us immediately. The new room that we were put in was one of the new renovated room. The features were updated and it had new flooring. It looked great, in comparison to the first room. The new room had potential and that is the best way to describe it since it wasn’t even ready to technically be stayed in. The lights weree all still uncovered and the metal insides were showing. The floor was unsweetened and covered in dust and with hardwood floors you could feel everything. It was like we were at a beach. The microwave did not work properly and the room still had old bed sheets and covers. Our room was also across the hall from what should have been a door but was just an unfinished opening. There wasn’t even a phone in the room which meant I couldn’t call up front and let them know and at this point we were just ready to get to the REAL beach. The 1^st morning we woke up late and left right away. The 2^nd morning we woke up to our leftovers that were inside of our room COMPLETELY COVERED in ANTS!!! I took the containers up to the front office to show the front desk clerk about the ants as well as reiterate all of the problems that I had again and ask what could be done because I was highly unsatisfied. She apologized profusely and said that was really gross and she could understand why I was upset. She said I wasn’t the only one to complain about the bugs and that most of the old rooms were terrible. SHE WORKS THERE AND SHE TOLD ME THIS! She said she’d make a note of it and let her supervisor know. I still haven’t heard from them. Disgusted, I threw away the food box in the trash can and decided to eat real quick before we hit the road since the leftovers I had were obviously not edible. Just like the rest of the hotel the breakfast room was a joke too! The juice machine was out of order and the make your own waffle section was covered in waffle batter. The tables all shifted anytime someone would move in the bathroom had dirty rags on the sink. This place was terrible and I highly recommend that until it is completely renovated and the service improves you find somewhere else to stay.

This is a terrible place. DONOT BOOK! I am in San Diego for the weekend and booked on
for $ 265 per night. Everything else was booked out… However we could not stay over 5 minutes before we left feeling itchy, whizzing, and feeling overall disgusted. Smoke detectors are broken or non existent. The carpet is filthy. The exit signs are hanging by a thread. The bathtubs are filthy rotten and our room even had mold.
was gracious to refund the money since this hotel should have never been open. There is construction but I am not sure why the owners decided to keep this rooms open. I will post pictures as soon as I get home.

Don’t do it! Don’t make the reservation! I thought too, «How bad could it be?» ITS BAD! This is mainly a hotel for people who do drugs, or are hiring an escort.

No way stay away from this motel inside the room all kinds of insects welcome to motel California this is really bad place I hope they go out of business this place is very dirty I couldn’t stay in this place to get the hell out of here.

1 major good thing: LATOYA IS AMAZING.
And she’s not the one to blame for the state of this Super8 property.
She just does her job with her heart.
Anyway, If you want to see a horror movie in real life, you should go here.
This hotel is fully worn and never kept up clean. Usually lobbies look nice, and then the rooms are crappy. But this one is from top to toe terrible.
Definitely, this place needs a million dollar upgrade or get shut down by authorities.
We gave 3 times a shot to check out a room, but the ”upgrades” are not visible.
The new owners are sooooooo bad by not taking care of this dump.
How do they even dare selling their rooms for standard prices?
GREEDY GREEDY GREEDY management!
I wouldn’t even stay here if I get paid to stay here.
I just feel bad for Latoya, a wonderful lady that has to suffer by working at this hotel.
At the end of the day, she’s the one facing angry and dissatisfied customers. SOO NOT FAIR!
Man she deserves SOOOOO much better. She should become a general manager at a 5-​star Hilton!
GO LATOYA!!!

This place is fucking disgusting… I should have saved the 70 bucks and slept in my car… My pillow had blood on it. Really. Wtf assholes. You can’t change the fucking pillows in a room after someone bled all over it. You have to be kidding me… The motel 6 I stayed at in El centro was 5 star compared to this fucking place…
The room smells like smoke hookers and blood.
Why didn’t I just drive into tijuana… Probably would have been nicer

We stayed here a few years ago it was barely ok then. It is now beyond that now to the point of … don’t stay here. Unless you enjoy ants and no wash cloths.

Two floor motel, with no disability access and a super loose hand rail on right side to go upstairs. Making it even more difficult for people with mobility issues. Hand rail in the shower then crumbled in disabled family members hand! The air conditioning is terrible, so if you’re heat sensitive beware (checked in at 2am, and its cool outside). The bed has two flat pillows.
There is a coffee maker, microwave, refrigerator.
Offers military discount.

It’s super 8 so it is what it is. I had four hours off on a 55 hour program that I was instructing and it was one mile away and available for my only three hours of sleep. The staff was very courteous and paid attention to parking lot and our vehicles. It’s in a bit of a sketchy neighborhood so this is important. As always with this level of hotel the beds are barely a step above sleeping on the floor.

This place deserves 0 stars. The place looks decent in the photos. It is DISGUSTING. We just wanted a clean place to sleep after going to a concert at Sleep Train Amphitheater. We weren’t expecting the Ritz, but we were not prepared for total squalor and filth. We had to cut our labor day trip short because of our experience here.
Warning: the photos they advertise are NOT of the actual motel. The floors are stained brown and everything is falling apart.
We woke up covered in bed bug bites and sure enough, when we pulled the sheets off, the mattress was covered in them. You’re telling me the maids would not have seen these when making the bed?! The mattress was so old and gross. It had tears in it and was stained.
They did give us a refund, but that doesn’t cover the doctor visit I needed for the bites, the time and hassle of having to sanitize EVERYTHING before going home plus the things I had to throw away to make sure I did not take them home with me. We also did not get to see our family and friends we were planning on seeing in San Diego for fear we would have the bugs in our stuff.
The floors were filthy. The comforter was full of cigarette burns. The A/​C unit was falling out of the wall and barely worked. The bathroom shower was nasty and had pubes in it. We didn’t even use the bathroom.
I haven’t slept a wink since because I am horrified and still am scared of finding them in my own home. Stay far away from this dump. It should be burned to the ground.
When we told the guy at the front desk, he didn’t even seem surprised. I got an email from corporate after I told them about our experience and they said, «We refunded you. Sorry.» Apparently no one that works for this chain is surprised at the filth. I will never stay at any Super 8 ever again.

This place has incredible potential. The rooms are huge, they have free parking, breakfast and wifi. And given that imperial beach is being built up, if they can remodel, they can definitely make a higher profit and get better reviews. The front desk staff were also very courteous and polite. I had no problem with them.
Now the rooms on the other hand are atrocious! I don’t know how long this place has been opened but It looks like ZERO Repairs have been done since the hotel was opened.
The rug was a complete disaster. I refused to walk barefoot. I laid a towel down in the tub to take a shower so my feet wouldn’t touch the tub. By the way there was a hole in the tub. When I stepped in, the bottom of the tub gave in a bit and revealed a hole in the tub.
When I would get out the tub, I would IMMEDIATELY put a pair of socks on. I threw my loofah away because I felt like it got contaminated in the bathroom.
There were ANTS in the room. I had my 7 year old daughter with me who ate dinner on the table in the room. I guess she dropped a grain of rice on the table as well as a small piece of mushroom on the bathroom floor which I hadn’t noticed until the next morning where there was a large trail of ants over both items.
The newest item in the room was the coffee maker. The microwave was a samsung microwave, which is a dial microwave. When was the last time you saw a dial up microwave? Probably grandma’s house in ’89. And samsung products now a days are so sleek, and beautiful. That’s how you KNOW that microwave was from the year I was born (I’m now 30).
This is by far THE WORST hotel I’ve stayed at in my whole lifetime.

Ok so I wanted my first review to be for a Piece of crap experience and let’s just say this is it! As a last minute trip to San Diego I go on Expedia or Travelocity not sure which one but one of those travel hotel sites so I end up with the 1800 for this dump as all other hotels are booked or just to pricey for 2 nights any ways so we book the damn room feeling happy that we got somewhere to sleep for the 4^th of July! As we arrive (me and my family total of 6) here to check in we are greeted by a girl who has piercings on most parts of her face! Very poker face! Any ways at that moment I knew what we were getting ourselves into. We walk in to our room I notice a smell of mold! Second thing I notice is the dirt on the walls looks like they have never been bleached let alone wiped down. The walls are not sound proof so you can hear everything I mean literally everything. There is patched up holes from what I’m assuming is crack heads or drunks punching the wall at that point I wanted to leave so bad but I felt so bad that my husband had to pay $ 400 for 2 nights with absolutely no refund! If we had decided to walk out we would of been out $ 400 from our trip so I tried to make light of it all but I just couldn’t the bathroom towels had stains of make up on them YES! Every single towel in that bathroom. The bed sheets had stains of blood so so gross! We were not surprised when we went to go eat near by and one of the bums told us they stay there for $ 300 a month! WTH?!! Ugh I can keep going on about this place! We stayed at a non smoking room but the hallways had a stench of cigarette disgusting! Never ever again next time there is nothing available in SD I would much rather sleep in my car! Ugh! Rant over.

Don’t stay here. ur vacation will be spoiled. it’s waste of money. no cold water in this hot weather .AC not working properly and lights sucks .and the bed is worst of everything. u can feel the spring on ur back. omg. it’s a bad experience. never ever going back to this hotel.

We were on our first trip to California and needed to get some rest from driving for hours so we called around and this motel was cheaper than the ones we called. we checked in and went to the room just to find a stinky mothball smell and broken beds. then we proceed to investigate a bit furthur and we find a dirty syringe and someones clothes in a drawer really! The sheets were stained as well. then we go immediately back to check out and there is an issue with the girl at front desk and refunding my credit card. ridiculous! !! Finally that was taken care of 15minutes later than we had to go find a nicer place which we did find one at comfort inn:)

This has to be one of the cheapest and nasty hotels. If I could I would give this hotel 0 stars, I stayed here with my two boys and I truly regretted it. The sheets look dirty, they are stained, they have hairs on them, the mattresses are stained and they are nasty … I will not be staying here again …

The thing is, if none of your coffee makers work, just get rid of them. Just don’t even bother having in room coffee and save everyone the trouble. Don’t put an ironing board in a room without an iron or an ice bucket if you are out of cups. While I am exaggerating on everything but the part about the coffee maker I am sure you get the general idea here.
But the worst part is I asked one of the house keeping staff for a coffee maker (one that I could actually brew coffee with that is) and they said to call the front desk. I called the front desk. She said she would let housekeeping know. I waited maybe 30 minutes. So I go down to the front desk with the coffee maker and she said that housekeeping were on their way. They were not as I have been waiting another 25 minutes already while I write this review.
You see in someone’s reality it is probably cute when the two pieces for the coffee maker can never go together, never make coffee because somehow someone got these two coffee makers wrong rendering each other totally useless. Did anyone wonder about this in the logic department at motel 8? I’m thinking no.
I actually like the way this building and the parking lot is set, it has a fair feng shui vibe. There are a lot of doors to enter the building and security cameras so that you feel safe. But the rooms are in terrible need of updating immediately. I mean essentially everything. Blankets have strings coming undone, walls have obvious stucco issues and unfilled nail holes, table chairs with random graffiti, carpet that is comparable to sitting outdoors, dirty light switches, etc. And this is just what is obvious to an unobservant onlooker.
A few good things: the rooms all have a refrigerator and microwave oven as well a TV if you are into that. They have the usual toiletries, clean towels, large rooms.
They serve breakfast from 6 – 10 which is later than some places but to have more variation to the mostly high sugar high fat options would be ideal.
Unfortunately the noise carries from room to room and through the hallways as the walls are thin, and the building shakes apparently upon a good jump or slamming door. One of the windows wouldn’t unlock and the bed had a lingering of what I thought was recently sprayed cologne but I think they just use very musky deoderizer.
Anyway, this night staying here someone was having a wedding party so add additional noise to make it a perfectly horrible experience and absolutely no sleep at all.
Its possible I wouldn’t have bothered to write a review because I am sure there are not health inspection issues pending, employees were nice in general, it is in a location where there is a comfortable breeze and the parking lot is spacious which is relevant, especially on a Saturday night, but there are much, much nicer places to stay on a budget. While there is a certain charm to the place I would be lying if I didn’t make mention of the shabbiness/​drabiness which you might not expect at a franchise.
This all being said, hopefully they find the time to update this motel, it is certainly one of the worst places I have ever stayed in my life and will never stay again.
An hour later waiting and still no coffee maker…

When I travel, I spend very very little time at the hotel. Mainly just to shower and get a few hours sleep. So I usally go cheap on hotels. But this was too cheap!
1. The room had a wierd, hooker and blood smell
2. The towels were kinda scratchy
3. The mexican drug dealers beating on my door at 3am screaming in spanish. Now this is kinda funny… I’m not able to conceal carry in California because this state is full of liberal assholes. But with my wife and kids in the room, I had to react. I grabbed my 6″ diving knife and ripped open the door and yelled, «What the FUCK you want?!». Very surprised, and realizing they were at the wrong door, they apologized in spanish and walked down the hall like nothing happened.
This makes for a great vacation story. And it’s an experience the wife and kids will NEVER let me forget.
The one possitive… The lady at the front counter was very friendly and proffessional! You’d expect her to be working at a 4star place, definately not at the Super 8!
I would recommend this place for sigle guys and Marines who are partying in Tijuana but want to stay stateside.