RODEWAY INN HUNTINGTON BEACH

great little hotel. rooms were updated, clean. new floors - no carpet... i love hard floors rather than carpet. new tVs with cable. Refrig that kept my stuff cold. little microwave. bathroom was newly updated. quiet... i heard no noise through the walls. i heard no voices outside my window. comfy bed. it was a great bargain. I travel a lot, stay in a lot of hotels. I ended up at this hotel by chance. I was bothered by no one and had no problems. This is a budget hotel, the kind where you park outside your door. it was a very good bargain for the price.

I was not planning to stay at the Beach but after I was stung by 2 stingrays I was not able to drive safely. I found this place at a fair price and breakfast was included. Very close to everything and nice comfortable beds.

I was in Huntington Beach on business, not pleasure, so I wasn't looking for a luxurious hotel or to be on the sand, just a nice, cost-effective place to stay for two nights. I found this motel to fill the bill just fine--the price was quite quite low, it was located at a kind of crossroads, on Beach Boulevard that makes a bee-line from the 405 freeway to the Pacific Coast Highway and the ocean, and on the same block as the diagonal Main Street, so it felt like all of Huntington Beach was easily accessible. Despite being on a "main drag", I felt that the room was very quiet. Every reference calls this motel "Starlight Inn", except the sign in front that says "Rodeway Inn". I can only guess that maybe Rodeway bought the motel, but the transition to the new name is proceeding slowly. My room looked repainted and had a new bedspread, and the carpet seemed new. Everything was spotlessly clean and smelled clean and smoke-free. There was a large flat screen TV on the wall with lots of satellite dish channels, but I could not find a movie channel (there may have been pay for view, but I didn't investigate further). There definitely was free WiFi and it worked extremely well and I definitely used it. There was free parking, of course, and I was always able to park right in front of my room door (I was on the ground floor). Some little things that they didn't have that would have been nice, in-room coffee, a soft drink machine that seemed workable (It maybe was, but it was in a dark corner and didn't seem like it was reliably functional), and a swimming pool, but I don't fault them for those things (there was an in-room refrigerator). One can easily get coffee and soft drinks (or any kind of food) from somewhere else close by on Beach Boulevard, and I hadn't booked a motel with a pool so THEY can't be blamed for that (but the weather was 99 degrees and so a nighttime swim suddenly seemed appealing!). (Even with this heat, the air conditioning kept the room delightfully cool.) But hey, there was the ocean not too long of a drive away and I did go swimming at the beach in the late afternoon after the business I had come to do was concluded, so I'm not complaining at all.