Monterey Fairgrounds Inn

I felt compelled to leave this review. Looking online for a room to rent during Car Week was crazy. Astronomical numbers!!! After reading reviews of this place I had concern, but more importantly I had a budget. I rated this place a four because it's a 2 Star hotel (not a 5) and during a major event in our area I believe I got a deal compared to the prices online for other hotels. Check the pics. Furniture is out dated, but it was clean, basic and safe. More importantly it was affordable when I compared. If you're looking for a 3,4,5 Star hotel, this is not the place for you. The Fairgrounds is a solid 2 Star hotel.

I am going to put everything in points to be CLEAR: 1.- I explained to the "manager-receptionist" that I needed a room at the bottom because my mother could not climb stairs and she did the opposite, giving me the 2nd floor... 2 .- When changing rooms, the door does not work, the handle is all broken and the cards are sometimes recognized and sometimes not, the room was not clean in general EVERYTHING was dirty, even other people's underwear was under the bed, it smelled a lot of chlorine because the "cleaning" lady added a lot of chlorine and half mopped the floor with a SUPER DIRTY mop, and when I finished I took out an air freshener and to "mitigate" the smell of chlorine I added too much of the aroma spray. The facilities are terrible, super horrible, in poor condition and its staff is the same as the place, TERRIBLE! 3.- There is no place for you to hang your clothes, the sink and shower faucets are in poor condition and poorly installed. 4.- Disgusting walls and windows. 5.- The dirty sheets and the blankets are worse because they were even stained with who knows what. 6.- I claimed all this and more with the "manager-receptionist" and he promised me a 25% discount that "supposedly" I would receive by email advising that it was done; but it was all a lie. 7.- The toilet had drained urine and puddles behind and to the side of the bathtub. 8.- There is an atmosphere of insecurity in that place, since the handle of the door and the window are broken and it gives the impression that someone could enter the room to steal. 9.- In the Laundry area it looks like a junkyard and the parking lot has old cars full of things (garbage) and with flat tires. 10.- You meet people who take drugs because it even smells like marijuana and you find syringes outside in the parking lot. 11.- They charge as a 3 or 4 star hotel and it is a pigsty. 12.- I read the comments on different sites, and people tell about the terrible experience they had in that place. 13.- I had to carry all my valuables during my stay for fear that they would be stolen