Stardust Motel Redding

Amenities provided were good: coffee pot, refrigerator, microwave, toiletries. The bed was clean and comfortable, the water in the shower was hot and had good water pressure, the wifi was good, and the air conditioner worked well.

I really do not know where to start. This is the filthiest and most unwelcoming motel I have ever stayed in and I have been traveling the US for a while. It all started with the check-in. I arrived in the early morning at 3 am, which is why I had emailed the motel beforehand to make sure a check-in was still possible in the middle of the night. They responded that it should be fine. So far, so good. When I actually arrived, however, the person (manager?) at the night window told me that he had not gotten any reservation from me and that there were no vacancies. I told him I had booked my stay on booking.com and he kept neglecting to know anything about it. He did not even want to see my booking confirmation or listen to what I was saying. Just when I was about to give up and was coming to terms with spending the night on a park bench (as a 21-year-old female traveling alone with two heavy pieces of luggage and no car), another man showed up in the office and told me he HAD gotten my reservation. After the initial shock was over, the next one followed when I unlocked my room. It smelled like nicotine, the armchair in the corner was not even good enough for the garbage, literally everything in the room was stained or broken. The AC (yes, there is one!) was so loud that it was nearly impossible to sleep while it was on. Even getting to my room made me feel unsafe with a couple of shady people hanging around the motel spitting on the ground and glaring at me. In sum, the pricing is ridiculously high for a motel that YOU should be paid to stay in. I would have moved to a different motel in the blink of an eye if there had been any vacancies.

I am spending one night at this hotel, 29-30 May 2021. If there had been any other hotel available, I would’ve left. This place is filthy dirty, cockroaches, doesn’t even have a shower curtain! Ugh....

I stayed here for a weekend getaway and was pleasantly surprised at what I got for less than $60 a night. Yes, it's an older motel and definitely could use some upgrading but the bed was comfortable, the shower had excellent water pressure, coffee maker and fridge in the room, good wifi - can't complain. I'll stay here again with no hesitation.

That is the worst place I ever stayed. And I was all over the world, and I roughing it sometimes. Downtown, fire station, the room stinks, so is the bed. A filled in swimming pool, with old mattresses, ugly, ugly, ugly. I can't believe the authorities don't close it down. I hate to write this bad review, but they also charged over $100 plus tax. The owner was nice, but that's the only pleasant thing here. It's a total nightmare.