Crown Lodge Motel Oakland — Hotel in Oakland

Well, I booked for an impromptu trip to Northern California, and arrived for a 9 PM check in with my Expedia print out in hand. Simple I thought.||The manager scoffed "There is no registration for you". He appeared puzzled to see the confirmation number I had in hand, staring first at it for what seemed like 5 minutes and then at my ID for another 5, then back again. He then asked me repeatedly if I smoked, then yelled "No smoking here!" Eventually his confusion led to him giving me a room key, and reminding me again not to smoke. He murmured something about his daughter fixing the credit card. I had to ask for a room number, and where I could find the room||So....I grabbed my bag from the car, and realized the stair case emptied out into the street. Travelling alone, I did make note of the pedestrian activity. I would suggest walking past your room if you are watched like I was. When the pedestrian traffic moved on, I went back to my room and realized I could block the door with the chair and suitcase. ||Maybe this helped me feel a little better since the outside of the door seemed to be ....umm.....fragile.||I nodded off , and the phone rang after 11PM, and some woman was asking for my credit card. She then identified herself as the managers daughter, and asked again. After I encouraged her to confirm the number she had on my reservation ( that Dad couldn't find ), she told me she needed the actual card to charge it and asked me to come downstairs. I asked her to come upstairs.....Ha.....She wouldn't even go outside at that hour in that neighborhood. She agreed to have me bring it down in the morning.||Morning comes, the heavy trucks begin rattling by, and the phone rings again at 7 AM. It's Dad. He wants the credit card, and to know exactly what time I'll be checking out. Really? 2 calls while I try to sleep, just because they can't retrieve a reservation from on-line?||I packed up, and he ran the charge, as I remember if you book online, the hotel never charges you directly. I'll be contacting my bank to check for...

Overnight and found this place via web. Actually started at the other end of this mini-strip of motels and rejected that place as too scary. This one looked okay from the outside. But still, talking with the clerk thru a bullet proof window and one of those bank sliding drawers should tell you something about the neighborhood. ||||Room itself was typical, functional. There was a mini-frig and flat-panel TV. No alarm clock. They have smoking (really?!) and non-smoking rooms. Couldn't get the Wi-Fi to work, but seeing the (visual) quality of the place, I'm not sure I'd trust their network.||||We were lucky. Our room and neighbors were quiet; as in the evening and in the morning, we saw what could be some, ahem, solicitations going on in the other wing of the motel.||||If you really need a place to stay, try the place across the street, or keep going on to San Francisco or Berkeley.||This is not the type of neighborhood that you want to be out and...

The price is kinda a bit overpriced and the deposit is extremely over priced for the motel being located in the hood of Oakland. Also the rooms are not small but it also depends on what room. Some rooms are clean and nice , but some rooms bedding are clean and some bedding not so much. I have stayed involved a one bed and a two bed and I believe the one bed number 22 was clean and the bedding was clean as well but yesterday number 25 the betting made my boyfriend itch. This motel brings up bad and upsetting memories for me. I do not dislike but the hotel can do way better and the Internet a little slow and upsetting because it disconnects a lot . I would recommend this to anyone that has a low income but can pay at least come up with $94 or so for a 1 bed room, and $110 for a two bed... also including the...