Econo Lodge Inn & Suites Santa Rosa — Hotel in Santa Rosa

We stopped only for an overnight sleep while driving though (we were not staying for a resort experience). The motel is convenient to I-40, but well off the highway so there is no interstate highway road noise. Mostly one story (it appears there are a couple of rooms on a second story at the far end of the building) U-shaped building around a large parking lot. We parked right in front of our room, and the well-marked parking spaces were generously wide so we had plenty of room to unload and reload the car. Building is obviously older. Exterior paint looks fresh. Stucco and brick façade do not show cracks or breaks. Flooring in the room is wood-look vinyl planks (no carpet). Bathroom is at the back of the room (away from the door). Room (including bathroom) is small-ish by the standards of many newly built hotels, but decent (at least for the two of us) with a king bed and a sofa. Furniture shows signs of age at the edges, but bedding is fresh and clean, mattress firm and comfortable. I was not able to get the water at the shower or sink as hot as I would have liked, but it was warm enough. The tub/shower surround was a modern solid surface material with clean caulking at the edges and a well-placed grab bar. The bottom of the tub had a very effective anti-slip coating. Some fine points can be nitpicked (a baseboard was loose at the edge, a lamp shade was cracked), but overall the room presented as clean and maintained. The air conditioner / heater was conspicuous by its loud fan, but that seems to be a universal feature of motels in general and even hotels several rungs up the luxury scale, to my wife’s frequent annoyance. The breakfast buffet is modest with a “make your own waffle” station alongside yogurt, packaged donuts, and two...

We stopped only for an overnight sleep while driving though (we were not staying for a resort experience). The motel is convenient to I-40, but well off the highway so there is no interstate highway road noise. Mostly one story (it appears there are a couple of rooms on a second story at the far end of the building) U-shaped building around a large parking lot. We parked right in front of our room, and the well-marked parking spaces were generously wide so we had plenty of room to unload and reload the car. Building is obviously older. Exterior paint looks fresh. Stucco and brick façade do not show cracks or breaks. Flooring in the room is wood-look vinyl planks (no carpet). Bathroom is at the back of the room (away from the door). Room (including bathroom) is small-ish by the standards of many newly built hotels, but decent (at least for the two of us) with a king bed and a sofa. Furniture shows signs of age at the edges, but bedding is fresh and clean, mattress firm and comfortable. I was not able to get the water at the shower or sink as hot as I would have liked, but it was warm enough. The tub/shower surround was a modern solid surface material with clean caulking at the edges and a well-placed grab bar. The bottom of the tub had a very effective anti-slip coating. Some fine points can be nitpicked (a baseboard was loose at the edge, a lamp shade was cracked), but overall the room presented as clean and maintained. The air conditioner / heater was conspicuous by its loud fan, but that seems to be a universal feature of motels in general and even hotels several rungs up the luxury scale, to my wife’s frequent annoyance. The breakfast buffet is modest with a “make your own waffle” station alongside yogurt, packaged donuts, and two...

March 1999, I think this may have been where I stayed overnight, 1 of 2 nights, the first here, only one night here. I was there going westwardly in travel, from Tuttle, OK., U.S.A., to Bakersfield, CA., U.S.A.. I was asked to show the other person the way to Bakersfield, my home. The other person was my then age 23 nephew, the driver, of his own vehicle. I was then age 31 at the time.

What else might I remember about this lodging site when I was there? There was others lodging nearby, I noticed a woman being there with a dog, preparing to be hydraulically outset from a transport van, as she was likely handicapped, but at ease enough for her peace to be there inside her own nearby room, with her canine.

So, what else, about this place, might I know?

It was calm, quiet, settling, and easy-to-like, and fit adaptingly to.

The next night was almost Flagstaff, AZ., U.S.A., but it was 32 miles west of there, for my nephew and me.

We made our known stops and whereabouts still known to me, before we ever got through Flagstaff, to our next night destination, 32 miles west of there.

The next morning came, we went onto Old Hwy. 66, The Mother Road, and a first time ever stop for either or both of us at Grand Canyon Caverns, AZ., near Nelson, Arizona, U.S.A.

Next, we connected Interstate Hwy. 40-U.S. Hwy. 93-Hwy. 68 westbound and down through Golden Valley, AZ., U.S.A., we may have stopped there at the Sonic Drive-In restaurant, then continued up to Union Pass, pulled off westbound for a camera picture, and into the downgrade we went, taking off some miles, going through then around Bullhead City, AZ., U.S.A..

Bakersfield, CA., U.S.A. was our destination, and we...