Howard Johnson Stockton

AVOID AT ALL COSTS — SAVE YOURSELF
The room smelled like urine when we walked in the room, gnats gathered in a cobweb in a corner of the room, underneath the beds was a horrific sight, the toilet was cracked, the main light in the living room did not work, the bathroom light turned off in the middle of my shower (surprise a motion detector light doesn’t work through a shower curtain), hair fell out of the shower curtain when I opened it for the first time, towels were paper thin and practically useless, the sheets were dirty and stained, the blankets were cheap fleece and were very uncomfortable, and the breakfast just felt unsanitary.
Only things I can’t complain about: climate control worked, TV worked, and I only woke up 3 times throughout the night wanting to peel my skin off while sleeping on top of the blankets.

I tried one more time to have some faith but NO hotel 6 got you beat the contenital bteakfast comd pasteries whatever I would habe rather went to Hotel Six

Well after a late midnight arrival to Stockton we checked in here. The bed had stained sheets. Toilet seat had a curly pubic hair on it. Room door knob mechanism had an alarm that decided to go off and not shut off. So we were given another room. It had a trash can with nasty old trash in it with flies. Smh. Sheets were cleaner tho. Towels were more like rags. A/​C unit had no display just two knobs, from the previous room, I recalled the cold settings were on the far right. Smh. Never staying at a Howard BrokeAss Johnson again.

Horrible… Bed Bugs, worn down, smelly rooms, dirty pool, dirty towels and bedding sheets was not clean. I will not recommend anyone staying here. Staff is ok. Was offered a 10% discount after reported bed bugs and the staff even took pics when I wanted my money back from what I had paid for the room. I was there for about 5hrs until I noticed while getting ready to rest. It really didn’t matter how long I was there that’s a automatic refund that’s a health and safety issue. Very disappointed, sorry.

I knew this wouldn’t be the greatest place to stay, but having a family emergency I was left with no choice. The staff was friendly. The room I asked for had 2 queen beds which was $ 87 with taxes. Price was fair, until I got to the room. Floors are FILTHY! The beds are very worn and in desperate need of replacement. I checked for bed bugs after reading the Unilocal reviews. That was clear. I checked out the bathroom area, seemed ok until I got to the sink. There were several gnats flying around and made me question why they were there. There’s several burn holes in the bedding, and the curtains were cutoffs from what it seems like an old shower curtain. Moving on… after getting dropped off at work my husband and children went back to the room. My husband opened the door for fresh air because the room stinks of a very odd stench. After a few minutes the manager came to the door and accused him of smoking marijuana and then saying the room smelt like it as well. He was very offended seens as our neighbors were the ones who in fact, were the ones with the «smell» she smelt. Fast forward to around 8:30, we come back from dinner and I go to run my children a bath/​shower. Water ran for about 10 minutes before I discovered there was NO HOT WATER! I called the front desk and I was told that everyone has the same complaint. The staff told me the maintenance guy would be here in about 30 minutes, and it would take about 1 hour for him to fix the pilot light and the water to reheat. Needless to say, I can’t bathe my kids and I’ll be calling back to speak to a manager. Unless you are in an absolute desperate need, I recommend going elsewhere. This place needs to be demolished.

This is one of the Worst motels I’ve ever stayed at! If you don’t care about someone possibly kicking your door in to rob you, ghetto people talking loud and cursing outside your door, and guys riding bikes on the platforms with boom boxes blaring rap music, then this is the place for you! Don’t be fooled by the good reviews and nice pics on HJ website, this place is a serious dump. I couldn’t take a shower because the water was ice cold (even after letting it run for 5 min), there was only one towel, there was a weave piece under my bed, the tv didn’t work and phone wasn’t working properly. so if someone did decide to kick the door in (patched up door jam revealed someone had before), then there would be no way of quickly dialing 0 for help! I decided not to spend the night there. After just being there for an hour, I started to get really freaked out. I was literally timing when I would run out the door and to my car. As soon as the loud noise outside my door subsided, I was out of there!

I had low expectations of this place and was merely after a shower & bed after a full day of driving from Oregon… but I am here now and it is disgusting and surpassed my imagination!
It does seem to be cheapest in area, so there is that factor, but the neighbors are super shady, I feel nervous my car may get broken into tonight.
The room is dated! It does not feel clean and sink is already clogged from washing hands.
If I live through the night & drive away safely in the am, I may visit the doctor when I get home to ensure I don’t have an infection!!! I slept in my sleeping bag on top of the bed.
I am so exhausted that I am staying, but if I had the energy and it was earlier (it’s 9:30pm) I would immediately head to the office & demand my money and blaze! As it stands, I am soooo tired and have many more miles to drive tomorrow.
Here is a list a few of the BIG issues besides overall, dirty dated space:
*Door– my handle stuck and I had to push very hard down on it and also put my weight into it to slam open. The good news was once inside and door closed I did feel that with the door jamming issue this may be useful in case someone tried breaking in!
*Microwave– I had zero use for it, but I checked it out, not only was it gross, but unplugged, sitting onto of a gross refrigerator with no way the cord could be plugged in, this means, if you wanted to use it you would have to pick it up and carry it to another outlet.
*Refrigerator– the inside was not clean.
*Coffee maker– again, yucky and old piece of an appliance and the package of coffee items with it had the plastic opened. I threw this all away!
*Bathroom– the shower leaked at base and the floor was sopped as soon I took a shower.
*Carpet– cigarette holes and stains all over! No walking barefoot there!
\Finally– on my way out I did drop in the «continental breakfast room» for a peak, merely just to see– how much worse could this be…
Stale cereal and 3 oranges were what was offered along with beverages. I declined all and asked for water, the young clerks offered to fill my water bottle up in their sink… UM– NO THANK YOU– this is California water, not mountain water from Oregon or Colorado!
Lesson– I paid $ 60+ dollars for a shower that did not make me feel that much cleaner than before and some shut eye in order not to kill another on my road trip back to LA from Oregon.

I didn’t expect anything amazing for the location/​price, and I was right. While the staff was very helpful and attentive, there’s only so much niceness can cover. We booked a «two bedroom suite» which is just two hotel rooms with a wide doorway between the two rooms. A small table and chair were in front of the previous hotel room door.
The queen beds were longer than the walls and stretched a foot past the wall opening to the sink.
The rooms were generally clean, but the tile in the shower were (poorly) painted white near the ceiling, which made me wonder what the paint was covering.
Continental breakfast consisted of white bread and plain bagels, a toaster, cream cheese, jelly, Frosted Flakes, Cap’n Crunch, milk, coffee, tea and Sunny-​D.
Again, very attentive staff, easy access to the Stockton Arena and home field for the Stockton Ports (could hear the game from our room), but you don’t stay there for the amenities.
Like I said, the staff w

We needed a quick place to crash for the night and chose the closest place despite the horrible reviews. Wish we had just drove home that night. When you first walk in the room you’re hit with this god for saken stench. The beds are itchy. And the door lock was apparently ripped off. I can’t be sure but there was little red drips sprinkled throughout the room, which we assumed was blood? We didn’t know what else it could be.

We checked in and it was 80 – 90 dollars a night. The first room we got did not have a hair dryer and the AC was broken plus we saw a broken window taped up with duct tape. The second room we got was a little nicer and it did have a hair dryer and the ac was working but once we checked in and laid down, I started itching. We think it’s bed bugs but I’m not sure. Also the carpet was very dirty and the place is so sketchy. Luckily we got a full refund thanks to the good customer service.

Ok, should have trusted the 2 star rating. The room has an indescribable smell, it can’t be healthy, and the bedding is really bad with questionable stains (bring a black light). My first reaction when entering the room was, hhhmmmm I wonder how many people have shot heroin here? If you have super low standards and don’t mind risking your health, then this is definitely the place for you ;)

Whoever rates this place higher then one star (zero stars, really) has VERY low standards. This is the WORST place I’ve ever stayed. Was it clean? I can’t really be sure… but I’m sure as hell not sitting on the left-​on-​the-​side-​of-​the-​road couch or walking on the carpet barefoot. And I’m hoping there aren’t any bedbugs. And I’m seriously thinking of sleeping in my car instead. And the non-​smoking room smells of sickly sweet cover-​up room fragrance. The sheets are covered in stains and other people’s pubic hairs (sleeping on top of the sheets, fyi). And the shower has hairs all over the walls. Soooo disgusting all around.

Sorry to say… this is a shyte hole. Postage stamp towels, thrift store interiors, one block from skid row… all this to save $ 10? My bad.
nothing here to see folks, keep moving…

Nice and clean room with good service, already stayed for one month. The rest room is pretty good. For that price, it is good enough.

I wish I could give it a no stars. Walked in my room and smelled bad like the sewer. Very nasty

Disgusting run down hotel that needs to be shut down before it is open for business. The staff are lazy and let the homeless run around and scare the guests while they break into rooms and squat in there. A homeless man broke into #118 and broke everything in the room… saftey issues. The locks are obviously faulty and they are because otherwise how did they get in and squat in there. The asian lady manager Karen is very rude and rented room #220 when the lock on the door did not even lock. Karen does not care and that is a saftey issue and illegal. A mexican cherry picker family was denied room service for two weeks… Karen the manager refused with no actual reason until finally giving in.

Originally posted from my duplicate account July 2013
If I could give zero stars I would, this has to be one of the nastiest hotels I’ve ever seen! The pool was green and had slime floating on top, upon opening the room door there was trash on the floor, the quilt had not been washed since Jesus was in Pampers, and it smelled like wet sticky feet! We checked out 30 seconds after checking in. If this is the only available hotel, then sleep in your car!

Seriously, if you haven’t booked here yet, do yourself a favor and stay away. I had a late arrival, but i called ahead to make sure i can check in late. I arrived at 3:20am after driving 7 hours. There was a «lady of the night» milling about. There was a sign on the door that said «Come back at 3:30» so I waited in my car, alone for 10 minutes. Luckily, they re-​opened at 3:30. The clerk was friendly and apologetic.
I checked in for my 3 night stay, and was given my key and told where my room was, around back. The parking lot was super dark, and as a woman traveling alone, i felt unsafe. I walked to my upstairs room and was immediately disgusted. The carpet was not vacuumed, and there were bits everywhere. I kept my shoes on at all times except in bed. The bed’s headboard was totally broken and crooked. There was a small couch that had tons of white stains. I didn’t want to think about the stains and just hoped it was dog drool since it’s a pet friendly hotel. There were white stains on the carpet next to the bed, and dark stains, too.
Since I had to be up at 8am, and i had a long drive, i just wanted to sleep. But instead i laid in bed reading reviews of this hotel and was bummed i didn’t read them before booking. The garbage truck rolled into the parking lot at 4am and was super loud. The dumpster was pretty much below my window.
The sink was decent and toilet was really old. Took about 10 loud minutes to get the tank filled up after a flush. I didn’t check for bed bugs and just wanted to get the first night over with. I woke up at 8, changed my clothes, brushed my teeth, grabbed my bag, and went directly to the front desk and checked out early. Didn’t bother showering because i wanted to keep my clothes on as much as possible at all times.
I’ve stayed in cheap motels. This was the worst experience ever.

This place is the worst dive I have ever stayed at… Although the pool did look inviting there was no smell of chlorine so I was afraid that it would have some germs… The room was all the way in the back where the street noise was crazy all night even with a/​c on… It smelled like cigarettes in a nonsmoking room… The continental breakfast was spare and the milk was out of a can or from powdered… I will never spend 80 dollars like that again… This place needs help I am surprised it’s still in business… Stay in Sacramento for the extra 20 dollars I am sure it would have been a much more accommodating place…

It’s a freaking Howard Johnson’s, people, not a Hilton. What were you expecting? This place met all expectations– we were looking for a comfy place to sleep, not to swim or dine.
We got a King room for $ 55, including tax, from a booking website, and we got our money’s worth. The AC worked, the TV worked, the bed was comfy, we could walk to restaurants and the movie theater, it was clean enough (I didn’t see any bugs).
Could *definitely* use more toilet paper in the bathrooms, more towels would be nice, and making sure the keys work the first time around would certainly be handy, but, like I said: It’s a HoJo’s, expectations weren’t that high.