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Motel Santa Cruz

2.0 star property

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Beach nearby
Exterior
Exterior
Reception
Reception

Reviews

4.6 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Laundry
    Laundry
  • Pet friendly
    Pet friendly
  • Air conditioning
    Air conditioning
  • Parking included
    Parking included
  • Free WiFi
    Free WiFi
  • Restaurant
    Restaurant

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Map
370 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
  • Ocean Street
    1 min walk
  • Pacific Avenue
    12 min walk
  • Main Beach
    14 min walk
  • San Jose, CA (SJC-Norman Y. Mineta San Jose Intl.)
    42 min drive

Room options

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Room, 2 Double Beds, Non Smoking | Free WiFi, bed sheets, wheelchair access

Room, 2 Double Beds, Non Smoking

  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Double Beds

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Room, 1 King Bed, Smoking | Free WiFi, bed sheets, wheelchair access

Room, 1 King Bed, Smoking

  • 215 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Room, 2 Queen Beds, Non Smoking | Free WiFi, bed sheets, wheelchair access

Room, 2 Queen Beds, Non Smoking

  • 291 sq ft
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Queen Beds

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Room, 1 King Bed, Non Smoking | Free WiFi, bed sheets, wheelchair access

Room, 1 King Bed, Non Smoking

  • 215 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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About the neighborhood

Santa Cruz

With a stay at Motel Santa Cruz, you'll be centrally located in Santa Cruz, within a 5-minute drive of Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. .This motel is 3.7 mi (5.9 km) from Mystery Spot and 5.8 mi (9.3 km) from Capitola Beach.
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What's nearby

  • Ocean Street - 1 min walk - 0.0 miles
  • Pacific Avenue - 12 min walk - 0.7 miles
  • Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk - 15 min walk - 0.8 miles
  • Santa Cruz Wharf - 19 min walk - 1.0 mile
  • Mystery Spot - 8 min drive - 3.7 miles

Getting around

  • Watsonville, CA (WVI-Watsonville Municipal) - 18 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Pizza My Heart - ‬11 min walk
  • ‪Jack in the Box - ‬8 min walk
  • ‪Woodstock's Pizza Santa Cruz - ‬10 min walk
  • ‪Los Viejones - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Sesame Korean Grill - ‬11 min walk

About this property

Motel Santa Cruz

Motel with free parking, near Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Motel Santa Cruz offers 62 accommodations with air conditioning. Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels.

Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 62 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms with shower/tub combinations are provided.
Make use of convenient amenities, which include complimentary wireless internet access and a vending machine.
At Motel Santa Cruz, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant.
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, multilingual staff, and laundry facilities. Free self parking is available onsite.
Motel Santa Cruz has a restaurant on site.

Languages

English, Hindi, Spanish

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • A restaurant

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Limited-hour front desk
  • Safe at front desk
  • Vending machine

Guest services

  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Multilingual staff

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Grab bar near toilet
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Wheelchair accessibility
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel

More

  • 1 building
  • 3 floors
  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Private bathroom
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV with cable channels

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Phone

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: midnight
Early check-in subject to availability
Early check-in is available for a fee
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM
Contactless check-out available
Late check-out subject to availability
A late check-out fee will be charged

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open daily from 9:00 AM - midnight
Front desk staffed during limited hours
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 28.00 per pet, per night
Service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees
Welcoming dogs and cats only

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • Deposit: USD 200.00 per accommodation, per stay
  • Breakage deposit: USD 200.00 per stay

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

Optional extras

  • Pet fee: USD 28.00 per pet, per night
  • Service animals are exempt from fees
  • Early check-in is available for a fee (subject to availability)
  • Late check-out is available for a fee (subject to availability)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Cashless transactions are available

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

Motel Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Motel
Motel Santa Cruz Motel
Motel Santa Cruz Santa Cruz
Motel Santa Cruz Motel Santa Cruz

Motel Santa Cruz Reviews

Reviews

4.6
Rating 10 - Excellent. 97 out of 1028 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 112 out of 1028 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 173 out of 1028 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 221 out of 1028 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 425 out of 1028 reviews" "

4.8/10

Cleanliness

5.6/10

Staff & service

4.6/10

Amenities

4.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

5.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Abiskar

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Daisy

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
smelt bad
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

4/10 Poor

Tim

Traveled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Don’t do it! It’s a dump.
Old old structure. Questionable condition. Rotten and rusted banisters and balcony. Room was tiny. Tiny! Barely enough room. To walk around the beds. Absolutely no sound deadening from room to room. Totally sketchy people and activities in the parking lot. I’d not recommend this place to anyone.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

4/10 Poor

Laleina Jae

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great and friendly place to stay at. Close to numerous amenities and lots of parking.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

4/10 Poor

Mark

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room very small. Not much room to walk in front of the bed. Strong smell of marijuana.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Buyer beware.
The room was basic. TV didn’t work, but I didn’t report it. Blankets were thin. Motel is in a sketchy part of town, lots of street people. My family was concerned for my safety. Two towels only, no wash cloths. For the price, not adequate. Almost $600 for three nights. Won’t go there again.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

NELSON

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Beatrice

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Would not recommend
Smelled like smoke, felt dirty, lightening was too bright. Asked where our dog could relief himself, was told to walk to the beach. The beach is not close, not very helpful front desk person.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Tayler

Traveled with partner, Traveled with pets
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
It was a decent spot. Friendly staff. My only complaint is that it smelled like smoke throughout the property.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Joshua

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The customer service is outstanding no issues very smooth or easy
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Hector

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

2/10 Terrible

Alicia

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Overall was dirty
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Charles

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Sophia and her son were excellent hosts always pleasant, considerate and helpful. Price is Right and the location is excellent I will be staying here again. Thank you so much for your hospitality I truly appreciate it.
Stayed 11 nights in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

2/10 Terrible

Robert

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This was by far THE worst place I have ever stayed. Then they asked for a security deposit, I cleaned the room but I feel that the clerk was trying to find a reason to keep the deposit. I took several pictures for protection, lousy place.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Roger

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

2/10 Terrible

Jennifer

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Unsanitary place with brown stained bedsheets, walls, bath tub, and towels. Smelled very bad like urine and cigarettes when we walked in. Smoking outside smell went inside non-smoking room. Bathroom was worst of all— very dirty. Was only provided with 2 small stained towels.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

debbie

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Room stay
The front desk was great but the room is old run down and the floor felt likenit had sand on it.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Erika

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect stay passing through Santa Cruz.
Place was close to boardwalk, service was very nice. They accommodated the extra pillows needed for our family and they were super nice during check in. The only downside to this place was some of he other guests in the motel. Loud music and a lot of unique guests made it a little uncomfortable for our children. On a plus it is totally a great place to stay overnight on our trip through Santa Cruz. If you’re passing through. The rates are good, clean rooms, nice family management and close to walk everywhere. The front desk gave us a great room and there was enough space for our family. The couch pulls out into a bed so that was an extra nice perk. Also windows open we asked for a 3 rd floor room and we got one of the best rooms on the end. It was nice to see that a family can run a motel and take pride in their service and cleanliness of the rooms. We would stay again if we were passing through. Again it’s a motel not a hotel so it was what I expected and in many ways exceed our expectations. Only other suggestion to add would be if they had coffee makers for guests in the room.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Adriana

Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Beds noisy
The room seemed new and upgraded. The two queen beds sat on metal bed box frames so any adjusting on the bed came with lots of metal clanking. Which was pretty disruptive to sleep.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024

4/10 Poor

Martin

Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

4/10 Poor

Yesenia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

2/10 Terrible

Tressa

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stay anywhere but this place!
My family & were guests for a weekend. From midnight to 4 AM there was a very loud disturbance from the guests in the rooms on each side of us. It first started with them blasting music at midnight, then escalated into a gigantic fight between the two parties because I guess they were a family. They were screaming and fighting and then it got physical as my boyfriend and my daughter woke up to the sounds of a woman being beat in the room next to us . There was also a physical fight outside the door because they were drunk and running back and forth across the balcony and slamming doors. Someone finally called the police and they came around 3AM and they had to come and de-escalate the situation, but that only partially helped because they were still being extremely loud and even the threat of arresting someone did not help. my family came to Santa Cruz for a mini vacation but this has ruined our trip, we woke up very restless and exhausted from the chaos that occurred the night before . I would also like to add that whoever was working that Night downstairs did nothing to help de-escalate the situation or even come up. I don’t recommend stay at this hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Avimael

Traveled with family and small children
Disliked: Amenities
No pool not enough towels door got stuck in bathroom I was stuck needed help opening door
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024