Nisei Inn

Scale not low enough! The woman at the front desk is AWFUL! She is a disgusting person. Both my husband and I got our car broken into and all of our belongings including both of our wallets stolen and I tried to ask her if my father in law could pay for it because of what happened and she stopped me mid sentence and told me she doesn’t care about our situation and she would not accommodate us or even try to help us! She is a pitiful person, and extremely cold hearted! I have no problem with them having a certain policy but for her to interrupt me mid sentence explaining to her how we got everything stolen from us and her to say she didn’t care about our situation was absolutely DISGUSTING!

The lady with glasses at the front is SO rude beyond words. I stayed a night here with a family of 11. We got two singles and one double. I am 34 weeks pregnant and the lady said a maid told her my boyfriend and I were smoking in the room, I told her «No, I am pregnant and there is no smoking IN my room or around my room.» Ever since then she has been giving attitude. I told her that I wanted to speak to the maid who said that but, because there was cigarette buds around our hotel room door they accused my boyfriend and I. We were planning on getting another room but, the lady with the glasses said they were booked over the phone. As we were leaving she booked two people. I just thought how rude this lady is for lying continuously and her staff lying as well. Worst experience I have EVER had. Plus, the bar in the bathtub in 307 isn’t glued in properly so be careful coming in and out. The front door doesn’t close all the way and there are also BED BUGS. The maids don’t change the sheets neither. I would give 0 stars because they are so AWFUL but, there is no option.

This place is dirty, nasty and the walls are stained. The carpet was so gross and the floors were sticky, just very disgusting. Also anyone can go in as they always have the front door unlocked and he clerk doesn’t ask for proof of identity they just let you go in the elevator. Not safe at all. We booked this room for the price, sure not worth it, do yourself a favor and pay the extra $ 20 or so a night somewhere else. See pictures. BOOK AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! Don’t say that you weren’t warned! If I could I would give this a –5 stars.

this is the worst hotel i have ever stayed at. do not stay here! i have the expensive «suite» right now and i am miserable. the lights don’t work because most of the lamps are broken and wires are exposed. the carpet is filthy, bedsheets have holes in them, and the wallpaper is peeling. and that is just a few of the issues. this place is a dump and horribly managed.

Rate: –5 stars
Horrible experience! Rude staff and rooms are discusting! Everything has been vandalized, there’s graffiti on the furniture, burn marks from cigarettes, etc. This looks like the type of place men take hookers to, completely unsanitary. I went with a group of friends and got a total of three rooms and ALL OF THEM WERE GROSS! We requested non smoking and they gave us smoking rooms even after we complained. My friend started to get rashes all over her arms after sleeping on the contaminated bed. The receptionist got upset when we were in the lobby she yelled for us to go back to our room. Just do jourself a favor and dont stay here!

Checked into room to study for big upcoming state exam, do homework and heal from an arthritic type episode. The first room I stayed in was a single non-​smoking room with no frills. It was descent and fairly clean however the first problem occurred when they told me I could not use then bathtub because there was no stopper. What?! If I pay for a room, I expect to be able to use ALL of the advertised amenities. I bought my own stopper at Target because the one they screwed off and brought from another room did not fit. The next problem came when this one particular front desk employee (petite Asian woman with glasses, black hair and pony tail) knocks on my door (once while I’m in the tub and once before I was ready to come downstairs and talk about it… was indisposed) and tells me the bathtub is leaking downstairs and rudely demands that I must move in the middle of several projects I’ve got going on without an apology and in a tone that is indicative of one you use with a child when they’ve done wrong. I told them, for the second time, that I must use the tub for health reasons, she continues to rudely complain and I told her that I would agree to her demands and use the shower only, however I was not going to move. She goes away and I don’t hear from her for the rest of the day.
In between these occurrences, I had to tell one of the front desk employees that I didn’t appreciate her rude tone and way of speaking to me and a guest that came to work on a project with me. This lady was also rude and condescending when I added her name as a guest in my room (as I could add 1 more person to the room) and would only give me a room key for her AFTER I had to ask her for it several times. Every time I went to the lobby and this one particular woman was working there, she was embroiled in some type of argument with someone because of poor treatment and customer service. I digress… back to the room situation… so the next night after the bathtub leaking incident, I go to pay for another night as I wasn’t finished what I went there to do and the gentleman says he cannot take my money and I have to wait for the lady (who kept harassing me about THEIR LEAKING TUB) to come. I asked him what I had done and who is the manager and he said he DID NOT KNOW WHO THE MANAGER WAS. So when this woman came, SHE LIES and tells me that the hotel was full and she had no vacant rooms, not knowing that the other guy just told me he couldn’t take my money. So she continues to tell me all kind of lies as to why she couldn’t let me stay one more night until she finally offers me a double smoking room and was surprised and annoyed that I agreed to take it. SHE OFFERED NO APOLOGY OR ROOM PRICE REDUCTION for the inconvenience and time wasted for moving me from a room I was comfortable in. I told her I had a condition that would make it difficult for me to do all that moving around and she could care less judging from her body language and unintelligible comments she was making under her breath. She was even annoyed that I asked about the condition of the room I was moving to… at a higher price due to no fault of my own!!! UNACCEPTABLE!!! She moved me to a RAT TRAP ROOM! I won’t even disrespect the English language by trying to describe how horrible the room was… just LOOK AT THE PICTURES BELOW!!! Come to find out, there were other vacancies that were NOT AS BAD but she moved me to that god forsaken room for revenge and to be MEAN AND EVIL! She was still upset that I admonished her about her tone and rude behavior in the early days of my stay!!! No matter how cheap the price, this kind of treatment and disrespect is uncalled for! I could’ve overlooked the graffiti in the elevator and the shabby décor but disrespect, lies and poor customer service is not acceptable. I’ve been a travel agent and worked with hotels on customers’ behalf and this is by far the worst hotel, when it comes to customer service that I have seen. DO NOT STAY HERE! They have other hotels in the area within the same price range. Go to Gardena Terrace Inn across the street. Both myself and another disgruntled Nissei Inn customer recommend this hotel instead. Check out their Unilocal rating… pics are AWESOME!

horrible experience!!! avoid the chinese woman with long hair who sprays fabreze at 2 am in the morning. she just told us to leave the parking lot because we werent going down the car. wtf. we were about to get a room but from what she did they will surely lose customers. she must be fired, so rude and unforgivable. return the older lady who works there. so much nicer and friendly.

I would give this place 3 stars being lenient, but I believe it’s about 2 stars.
I liked that it was a quiet place (apart from the shower pipe/​noise I can hear when other rooms are using it — and doors slamming) and I hardly encountered anyone else staying there. It seemed like it was just totally deserted even though there were a lot of rooms and cars in the parking lot.
It’s an indoor parking garbage (if you’re coming Northbound on Western Ave then you can’t make a left-​turn, as there is no turn lane to enter the location/​garage/​parking lot — you have to go further and make an U-​turn)
To access your room, you have to take the elevator or stairs. It’s not like some motels where you can just park right up in front of your room and walk in; it’s better, I guess, since weirdos, who aren’t even staying at the place, can’t be loitering around easily. Let’s just hope you don’t end up in the elevator with some weirdo at the same time. Awkward. The rooms are card-​entry. The light should turn green when you slide the card, but the first card the lady gave me didn’t even work.
The elevator feels ghetto and worn-​down (there’s some graffiti); while you’re going up the floors, there is a glass window to look outside so you can see the floors and garden landscape in the center, which made it feel less creepier.
This place seems like it has potential and could be nicer if they put a little more effort and renovate things, but the owners clearly don’t really care anymore. It shows.
I asked the Asian old lady at the frontdesk (owner?) if the room had a fridge and microwave and she told me it didn’t. I said I needed it, and her response was I didn’t need it. Haha like what? How can she say what I need or don’t need? And then I asked her if I could check out the room first before paying, and her response to that was, «the room is really nice!» Um… best salesperson of the year? (that was sarcasm if you couldn’t tell) Anyway, maybe I’m weak towards old Asian ladies or was too lazy to look for another place, but I just took the room anyway. Was the room «really nice»? No. haha. But I’ve stayed in some really crappy places, so I didn’t have major high expectations. And some places, the room itself could be decent, but the types of people staying there can ruin everything. As far as people staying there goes, I didn’t encounter anyone there.
The room actually had a mini fridge (Sanyo brand), even though the lady told me it didn’t. It’s cheap but it worked.
I’m pretty sure there was supposed to be some tacky picture frame artwork above the bed, but all I saw were the bolts left behind… clearly the frame was taken down. The bathroom towel rack was also missing with part of the support just still hanging there… Yeah, the place is rundown.
There was some nasty stain on the side of the bed… wonder what that could be… I don’t want to know. Oh, I know alright… disgusting yes? I hope you’re not eating something sticky while you’re reading this. There was a couch in the room, but I’m betting they don’t clean those… and I’m sure the sofa had a lifetime experience… I chose not to sit on it.
Pros:
— Quiet place when I visited; hardly saw anyone staying there.
— One channel from Japan (not the UTV Japanese channel that airs in the US, but the actual Japanese channel being aired in Japan)
— OK price
— Offers free WIFI
Cons:
— Only two pretty flat pillows
— No microwave
— No hairdryer
— You can hear the shower pipes going on from other rooms
— The hot water ends up getting cold when some other rooms are using the shower too
— Ok, so there is a stereotype of Asian people being short, and this being a «Japanese» motel; the shower head is pretty low! Good for short people, but awkward if you’re average height/​tall and need to wash your head.
— The bathroom flush is like SUPER loud — it seems really powerful more than it needs to be.
— You can see that they’re not putting much effort into this place, like they gave up.
If you want to experience a «ghetto Japanese motel», this place is it. I didn’t feel like I wanted to get the hell out of there, like some other places I’ve been to before; but at the same time, it doesn’t really make me want to come back either.
2 stars — «Meh. I’ve experienced better.» (exact words from Unilocal).

My husband and I stayed at this motel for the 2013 Memorial day weekend. This motel is for the type of people who just wants a place to shower and sleep and that’s what my husband and I did. We only used the motel to sleep because we had a lot of activities during the day.

As for the motel I have to agree about how usanitized it is just by the smell of the towels you can tell they use cheap laundry detergent. You get what you pay for, but I have stayed in cheaper hotels in Mexico with breakfast included and a cleaner environment.
The hotel staff was nice even when my husband and I checked out they let us leave our vehicle in their parking lot for 4 additional hours while we ride around with our friend. I am sure if the motel owners were not cheap and work on improving this motel their reviews will go up. This is for sure not a 5 star hotel so if you are the type who likes to relax in a hotel room this is not the place for you.

Poor rating for this one, dirty unsanatized disgusting place! Just stayed here because it was convenient and we tried to avoid driving after a party but, will never be back. Mattress had a bad smell, we looked under it and it was stained like blood (see pictures) the smoke detector was pulled out, not safe!

After a month’s stay here, I am choosing to change this rating from 5 stars to 1 star. This motel is cheap, but that’s about as good as it gets. Did you not see my cockroach pictures from here!!!
Because they knew i had pictures of the roach that kept coming back to the room whenever the door opened (it was NOT a shy roach! wtf) they became rude. You’d figure it’d be the opposite, right? NOPE!

Omg!!! Don’t even know where to begin. This is the worse hotel I have ever and will eve stay in. Don’t know what that other review is talking about it was the loudest noisiest hotel ever. Found it online and thought the price was great but I guess you get what you pay for. I had surgery and thought a hotel would be quieter than my apartment unit but not this one. Online it said it had a microwave and it didn’t, all the furniture is rusted or full of cigarette burns, just awfull!!! Don’t stay here, your sleep will be interrupted every hour, the doors slam so hard it’s unbelievable. Everything is out dated and the sheets stink like theyve been stored in my grandmas closet. Housekeeping is just one lady who brings her 3 year old with her in his stroller and cries cries cries while she cleans, not to mention that she woke me up with her knocks and walked in the room since I couldn’t get up quick enough for her… Hello!!! I just had surgery and we told the front desk to not bother us. On another night one of the other guests in the middle of the night starts yelling like a crazy drunk with another guy. This went on for a couple of hours and I can’t believe the front desk couldnt say anything. Super disappointed with our stay, we definitely checked out early and still the front desk lady hesitated to give us our money back because they charge everything when you check in, they don’t wait till you check out.
Don’t stay here cause you also will have a book to write.

I’ve come here to just get away. IT’S always quiet here. free internet is a plus. The little lady at the front desk is always so nice .I once made reservations online in which they charged me more and she adjusted it .I also made the mistake of booking on the wrong day. again she corrected the prob, no extra charge. There are some paint peeling in the showers but that’s small potatoes compared to the value .I deff will return again. keep up the good work.