Motel 6 North Palm Springs, CA - North — Hotel in Palm Springs

What do you expect from a budget motel?

I booked at ten o'clock at night and just need a place to rest my head for the night. I actually was just across the street in my car at the gas station until I seen the light of the sign for motel six. So I checked the price and booked it.

I need to shout out a rave to the lady at the counter on night duty sept 7th, 2025. On this particular trip, I'm gonna be in so many hotels and i've already been in quite a few..... that being said, this was the quickest and most simple check in I have ever done. This lady was very friendly and very helpful and even very accommodating. I'm sorry I did not catch your name. I'm sure they can figure out who you were and give you the praise. THANK YOU!

When I first walked in, I was a little bit confused because they have the old thick ass security glass for nighttime bookings, but even at almost ten o'clock, it was just the regular office. Although I was slightly confused with no signage, I definitely preferred this over the "fear for your life/ you might hear shots" ( how I feel every time I see one of those windows) security window. Again kind of raving about the check in lady, she was attentive and already ready when I decided to open the main office door. So she was paying attention, and I didn't have to ring some stupid bell (never seen a bell).

When I got in the room, I got exactly what I expected with a budget motel. A cheap, small room with a simple bed and simple cheap pillows, Slightly outdated overly used furniture, and a slightly stale funky smell. The outside sheet was bright white while the inside sheet looked and appeared clean although may have needed to be retired being how it was pretty well a different color. (may not show up very well in the picture). But the room, it's pretty clean for a budget motel.

The hallway..... I know this is an open air hallway. I do not expect it to be sparkling or any sort of perfect, but that hallway looked like nobody had vacuumed or even swept it in quite some time.

The ac.... the filters are pretty clean...... but it took forever to get the room cool and even though I set it at its lowest possible setting at 68°, i still never got cold and it was cycling, like it was hitting temperature. But the room was comfortable.

The hot water...... the hot water at this place is pretty amazing. It was better than Harris casino in Las. Vegas, where we left from the night prior.

So, back to my previous statement, what do you expect from a budget motel? I think this one well deserves the rating it already has at four stars. Most of the time, if I'm just meh on the place I stay I don't write a review, but I felt this review needed to say a little bit to the people running the motel and also to give that shout out to the night clerk.

What did I expect from a budget motel? Exactly what I got. A decent price for a last minute booking and a clean room that could have used a little bit of air freshener.

(Not perfect, but I would stay again not going out of my way but...

“Special thanks to J…”

I requested a double room with a fridge. I did not receive a room with a mini fridge. In addition, there are no microwaves on the property so they tell you to go to Denny’s next door or to one of the nearby gas station mini marts and use theirs instead.

Motel 6 can’t even afford one lousy microwave for its guests in an area where THERE IS NOTHING ELSE AROUND NOT EVEN A CVS OR WALGREENS OR A MOM & POP’s MARKET, NOTHING BUT 3 GAS STATIONS, A DENNYS, and the Motel 6.

The rest is highly personal so as Densch according to Ferrell might say.. YOU… GET… OUT!!!! 🫵🥸

This review was five stars before but unfortunately after having my privacy violated and treated like criminal, threatened to be asked to leave should I have any guest in my room, when all I was doing was providing a bed for the nephew of a very famous cello teacher in Northern California (who like my own very famous Suzuki cello teacher, Richard W. Mooney) both of whom recently died.

Just because someone is or looks like a homeless person who lives on the streets does not mean that you should treat them as if they are going to STEAL FROM YOU OR MAKE YOU LOOK BAD when you are already doing just fine in that department. Motel 6 is not the quality budget motel that it had become in the 1990s, like so many other brands who charge too much for so little but if you don’t pay the premium that they really want then you can expect to make sacrifices you would have never been asked to make in the past. But what I experienced this afternoon was traumatizing to say the least.

The experience made me afraid to leave the room and terrified of living anywhere in Southern California if this is the way we treat people with DIRT UNDER THEIR FINGERNAILS. There is a REASON why New Yorkers tell the ENTIRE WORLD that LOS ANGELES (and its neighbors, apparently) suck at taking care of their homeless population and are making the entire country (not to mention the EAST BLACK FOLKS AND THE MINORITIES OF COLOR) LOOK BAD! Oh, but if he’s ASIAN AMERICAN, WE DON’T CARE AS LONG AS HIS GUEST WAS NOT WHITE (WITH PENTAGON AND DC CONNECTIONS and an IQ of 212, higher than ANYONE I KNOW AND ANYONE WORKING IN AMERICAN TECH THESE...

Checked in May 5th, 3:00PM I am disabled and I have to ride a mobility scooter. When attempting to enter the front desk area my scooter clipped one of the door trims because the angles entering the area are hard to maneuver around. The female associate there said I would have to wait for a shift change. She went to click the door trim back on and said “you are breaking my door”. First thing, that is rude, especially since I am a customer and it was clearly an accident. She locked the door and worked on her shift change with another associate. I was shocked by what she had said about the door and repeated it to my son since he had not heard it. The female associate must have heard me through a speaker and looked at me and was saying something I couldn’t hear. After a back and forth of not understanding, she unlocked the door and said “yes, that’s what I said”. I told her, yes, I know, I was telling my son. She then said “I said it loud enough for everyone to hear”, implying that I didn’t have to repeat it. She must have taken offense that I didn’t appreciate her saying that I was breaking “her” door. She then told me that she knew I had a reservation but she was going to refuse service for me. After a discussion, she did agree to let me have my reservation. I believe her behavior was very unprofessional and rude. Unless she owns this location, I don’t think she owns the door in question and she fixed it anyway. When a guest/customer has an accident you do not accuse them like they were doing anything on purpose. If this is the customer service your company gets from this associate, you may go bankrupt. I do not recommend booking here if you have to deal with this person. Otherwise the room was adequate. Also the gentleman associate was professional...