Ocean Palms Motel

--The room was mostly clean -- stray hair in the sink. Otherwise looked clean. --Comfortable bed. Got extra pillows. --Fridge worked great -- kept canned drinks cold. Small nuker was great to have for reheating coffee. --Close hop off and back on to 101 freeway. -- Easy parking available on site. --For the price I feel this was OK -- but prob wouldn't stay here again -- I'd rather spend sl more and get fresh ocean air into the room and hear the waves when I stay at a beach town.

--No walking or orientation maps of the motel, ice machine location, restaurants, the neighborhood, etc. I couldn't find my room (numbers too small to see from parking lot) but I knew it was upstairs b/c it started with a 2__. --I asked how to get to the pier and was told 'just go down the street'. No idea what street, how far, uphill or downhill, etc. Indian guy did not understand me very well. --If there were walkable dinner/breakfast places nearby I didn't know about them other than my phone GPS. --There was no breakfast that I could see -- if there was breakfast somewhere, was not explained at check in. --King bed was short-sheeted at the bottom. --Room was noisy from 101 freeway, but not so bad if you closed the window. I like fresh air, but freeway air is not fresh -- even if you are only a few blocks from the beach. --Other than volume and +/ -, the TV remote did not work from the bed.: you had to stand right in front of the TV. --Picture was stretched horizontal (I call it "the fat people setting") and ratio would not reset. --Dark carpet = impossible to tell if the floor was clean. Kept my flip flops on. It's a beach area motel: = sand.