Melody Ranch Motel

Classic charm, excellent accommodating staff, and honest folk: I left my iPad behind at checkout and wouldn’t you know, they packed it right up and asked me where they could ship it to. THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH! If you’re in town for wine (especially solo) there is no better place to stay. The AC will kick your butt, and you’re within walking distance of a fantastic night life. The price is always right.

Another clean CLEAN economical super inexpensive stay. Almost every wine fest I stay here. The only honest fair place that doesn’t double the rates during event weekends. Family owned and run for decades, Frank makes sure things are running smoothly.
Good new mattresses and all the cable TV channels too.
One request… When changing out toilets in the future please get them with larger bowls and elongated seats. My BEEhind is getting too large for the 1960’s small toilets LOL

Very accommodating. They called us to let us know when our room was available, earlier than expected. Rustic interior but within walking distance to the park, shopping and dining. Great value.

Old building, but family run business is great. New beds, nice quality beds. Called me two days early to confirm and see if I wanted a refrigerator. Very clean, good rugs, bathroom is old style, but clean tiles, clean grout, spotless toilet.
For the price and cleanliness, its a great deal.

This is a small motor lodge. Family owned, quaint and convenient to all that Paso Robles has to offer. Great people. Book a room today There is a pool.

Hi folks! Just wanted to write a quick review before I stay AGAIN at the wonderful Melody Ranch Motel this coming weekend. We stayed here for the first time 2 months ago and what a surprise! Super friendly staff, very clean room, comfy beds (new mattresses), crisp sheets and towels, AND your own assigned parking space right in front of your room! The place was booked and those of us lucky enough to stay there were hanging outside by the pool in the evening having drinks and socializing about the wineries we had visited during the day. Excellent value… won’t stay anywhere else in Paso! See ya this weekend…

Very old but clean motel. There are no amenities. Thin small bar soap. Shampoo in little packets. We brought our own. There are only 2 outlets in the room area and one in the bathroom. They are all 2 prong outlets so we brought adapters, and a power strip for all our phones and other things. Beds are comfortable. In a room for 3 or 4 people they only have double beds. If you are not tiny people it is to small that it why we got the roll away. The roll away and it was not comfortable. Very small closet and no dresser. Small TV mounted on the wall not flat screen. There isn’t a blow dryer and the very small coffee pot on the very small bathroom sink. The shower is very small. I liked the yellow old fashion tiles.
The pool is very small but very clean. This is a family owned business and they do maintain the property. They have a soda machine and ice and snack machine. I would much rather stay here if I was on a budget then a Motel 6.
If your visiting Paso Robles it is within walking distance of downtown and all the restaurants and the movie theater. I would stay here again when passing through. Although its right off Spring St it is quite. It seems to book up very fast. We did have a pleasant stay. We would stay here again. It was very clean ! So if you want no frills this is the place for you.

What a charming little motel… very clean and super friendly owners and staff! A hidden gem close to town!

Priceline gave a decent deal here, and since we’re trying to save a little, it helped. Cute little motel in nice setting right off the road, which can be noisy. Just keep the windows closed and a/​c on and you won’t hear anything. Didn’t try the pool but it looked clean and appealing on a hot day. Small room but it had a desk and three sitting chairs, two which were ok. But one was really dirty, so I hesitated to put anything on it. Bed linens were crisp and clean, as was the bathroom. Reading lights over the chairs were a plus.
However the floor/​rug was just plain. Filthy. Dirty. I had white socks on when I entered the room, by the end of the evening they were dark brown. Never step foot on a carpet that dirty. oh my!!!
(As for the other reviews, there was only a Gideon Bible on display with a small tract, and if you can’t handle that, where have you been? Practically every room I’ve ever stayed in has a Gideon Bible placed there. You must have other issues and are taking out on this mgmt. it was no big deal. Seriously.)

The Melody Hotel is great! The staff is so kind and the place looks fun. We showed up around midnight (past their closing time) and Barbara opened the door for us. Unfortunately they had booked our room for the week after (a rare occurrence she assured us). We were slightly disappointed but Barbara began calling other hotels in the area and found one close by. She said to come back in the morning and they would pay the difference.
We showed up the next morning and everyone was so nice about the whole situation, apologizing and they payed for the difference like Barbara said. They even recommended a great local spot for coffee! We will definitely come back to stay next time and recommend it to everyone! It seems like a great funky little original motel with a cute pool and definitely lots of character.

Stay here if you love cute motels! Super kitschy and adorable! It’s like taking a time machine to the 60’s. The rooms are not modern, but are super clean and have fast and free Internet access. The only issue I had, (which really wasn’t even much an issue), is that the motel staff was never in the office. Twice I went to the office and was only able to talk to a staff member once, and even then I had to wait about 5 minutes before someone finally came in. I would definitely stay here again and even recommended it to my mom.

Welcome to Pleasantville! Really, though! The Melody Ranch Motel has an old timey feel and a comfortable vibe. We weren’t in the mood to drive all the way home from Bradley, CA to Los Angeles so a stop in Paso Robles seemed almost natural. We got the hotel day of for about $ 60 and I couldn’t have been happier. Don’t get me wrong, you get what you pay for — but a hot shower, hot coffee and a comfortable bed is all we needed: and we got it.

Welcome to 1958. Frank, the current owner said this place has been in his family since 1960 and it was already doing business.
I recognize the yellow bathroom tile, porcelain sink from my childhood. The 1960’s, flowered paneling on one wall I wish I could forget.
The beds are firm. Good for me. The bath soap wont win any awards. This is plain and simple… probably what the kids these days would say was camping out. It’s charming and nostalgic and well kept.
AAA discount on a room that is already only $ 68? Humble thyself, this is a great place and couldn’t be any closer to all the happenings in Paso Robles than the $ 200+ rooms at other fancy schmancy places.
We’re hooked. Thanks Denny B for the enlightenment!

We stayed at this cute little place last summer when we attended the Olive Festival.
It is perfectly located. This little family owned business is wonderful. We already have our reservation for this year set.

Hard to convince people in this world that you can rent a SUPER-​CLEAN, well-​kept motel room two blocks from downtown Paso Robles for under $ 70/​night (with tax). This place is totally retro. I don’t think the management is trying for any particular «look», but they have a motel whose décor is from three decades — the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. I should have packed my bell bottom jeans and tie-​dyed t-​shirt. If «The Fonz» or characters from Saturday Night Fever were walking around, it would not surprise me.
Saving money on a room provides us more money to spend at the local wineries and at Il Cortile restaurant. If you rather spend $ 300/​night to be one block away from downtown and get fashionista toiletries then Hotel Cheval is for you.
The beds were firm and well maintained. The bedding was clean and without any damage. Since people normally rent a room primarily to use the bed, this place was as good as any Hilton or Marriott I have used.
Amenities here include tiny bars of soap, shampoo in those tear open envelopes, a fridge, a non-​flat screen TV and plenty of religious reading material in the event you are considering converting.
The shower is smaller than the closet (not a problem) and the water pressure is strong enough to strip paint (also a good thing). There is a metal box imbedded in the wall that has Kleenex and there are plenty of extra towels in the desk drawers.
The A/​C works and doesn’t blast directly on you. The heater is a 5 foot wall heater of the kind I have not seen in decades. It can cook a turkey in 15 minutes, so no worries on those cold Central Coast nights. I did find one electric plug that wasn’t fully used, so it you are the typical Unilocaler who needs to charge multiple devices or risk painful social death, bring an extension cord of your own. There is no hair dryer in the room, unless you consider the wall heater.
You get not only free parking, but assigned parking which is your room number painted on the spot directly in front of your room. (awesome when unloading in the rain). No more worries about the a-​hole with the monster dually truck taking the spot in front of your room.
They have free Wifi and a pool. Didn’t use either. The staff is super polite and genuine.
You can reserve this place at a great rate through
. If you call the motel, they give a great rate for AAA members. For the typical soft-​headed Unilocaler, that is the Automobile Club Card that your parents pay for you.

First off I’ll start by saying… DON’T judge a book by it’s cover! Give this place a chance. (It is VERY old, but has been well preserved… certainly not modern décor). However, if you’re used to a fancy hotel with all the works, this place isn’t for you. If you’re looking for a CLEAN motel, well-​maintained, walking distance to nearly everything in downtown Paso Robles, AND you’re on a budget… this place is perfect! I am somewhat of a minimalist, so I do not expect much out of a motel other than to be CLEAN and have basic amenities.
I stayed 2 nights here with my husband and toddler, and we had a great time. Your parking space is right outside your room, for easy unloading. They do not offer breakfast, but you can walk to many breakfast places, etc.
(The park was across the street where they were having a Saturday morning farmers market so we did some shopping and walked to the doughnut shop and to a local breakfast restaurant.)
They include a packet of shampoo and conditioner (but I would bring your own), I also brought my own hair dryer. There was a Tv in the room and WIFI internet access. The bathroom was very clean, as was the room, which is my biggest deal when looking for a 2-​star hotel. They gave us an iron and board when requested.
The only downsides I could find were that there were very few outlets (to be expected from an older place) and there was no mini-​fridge. However I have heard that the owners will let you use theirs if you ask. The bed sheets were not my favorite, but most motel or hotel sheets are not.
My advice: Bring your own shampoo/​conditioner/​hair dryer, bring an ice chest if you plan on storing cold food, and bring your own pillows and a comfy blanket.
The owners are SUPER kind and their staff is very helpful and accommodating. Definitely some of the nicest people I’ve ever encountered in the motel business (they are a family-​owned business, and they continue to keep the motel in good condition). So honestly, you could stay at a nicer LOOKING super 8 motel for close to the same price (that is DIRTY and has staff that are pretty rude and not helpful in my experience) OR you can give the Melody Ranch Motel a chance and see that just because it LOOKS outdated doesn’t mean ANYTHING because it is very clean and well-​maintained and worth the stay if you’re on a budget and still want to explore the downtown Paso Robles area. Thanks Melody Ranch motel, my family and I will definitely be staying here next time we are in town! :)

I’m going to start this off my saying that my fiancé and I don’t usually stay in nice places. Hotel rooms to us are strictly a place to shit shower and sleep. This place was just terrible. The only reason I didn’t give it a single star is because the owners/​employees are SUPER nice. Expect the rooms to be very basic. Just the necessary amenities, not at all bad. Now on to the bed. We ended up sleeping with a single sheet because there were crustables on the blanket. I’m taking like other people’s bodily fluids crusted on the blanket as if they forgot to wash it. Secondly the sheets were like sandpaper. No joke we woke up with raw, scratched up elbows. We couldn’t wait to leave. Apparently the owner didn’t have our info on file because SO MANY PEOPLE CANCEL WHEN THEY SEE WHAT THIS PLACE LOOKS LIKE. His. Words. I’m pretty sure they go right next door to the Paso Robles Inn.
This place has a ton of potential. Really all that needed to be done was cleaner slightly nicer sheets and maybe a not so sticky shower.
This hotel was a bigger disappointment than the Paso Robles reds. Skip over.

This is your no frills, standard motel, comparable to a Motel 6, but cheaper, in this case. We stayed here on a Monday of Thanksgiving week. I asked around and this motel had the lowest rate. Seeing that I’m frugal, I was sold. Of course, reading other people’s positive reviews did help in the decision making process.
As I said, this is a simple motel. There are only 21 rooms and 21 parking spots. You park your car next to your room. There is also a small pool located in the front of the motel, near the street. The office attendant was friendly and check in was simple. Our room had a double bed, small bathroom and closet, an old TV, and wi-​fi access. The décor was definitely a blast to the past. It was rather quiet here, perhaps due to it being a Monday.
The motel is centrally located near Downtown Paso Robles, so it was easy for us to find a restaurant. There is also a park located nearby in case you wanted to go for a morning stroll or run to preemptively burn off the calories that you’ll gain from wine tasting.
To sum up, I would definitely stay at Melody Ranch Motel again next time I go wine tasting in Paso Robles.

Clean and comfortable, and everything in the room works perfectly.
It’s not a Hilton, and they are not trying to be! You can walk just about anywhere you would want to go in Paso from here, and the square is less than half a block.
My room had a mini fridge that I did not use, but you may need one… its a bit larger than your basic mini.
There are extra towels in the drawers of the desk, and they have been there each time I have stayed there.
Enjoy! You only need a place to sleep, the fun stuff is at the town square, and at the wineries.

As long as it doesn’t bother you that Melody Ranch has more bibles and crosses than a cheesy vampire movie, then the motel is a solid choice for those on a budget.
Here’s the 411:
— Three blocks away from the main downtown area in Paso Robles.
— «Amenities» include a fridge and oddly positioned tv.
— Tiny ass shower. I mean tiny… but it does the trick!
— Pool
— Free parking next to your room. That’s YOUR spot. Damn!
— Pool (Didn’t use it. Sorry. Could be filled with leaches for all I know.)
— Free wifi with an incredibly hard password. (Must be related to the vampires!)
— Nice, accommodating staff. Let us check out a bit late on Sunday. Mucho appreciated!