Sundowner

I am writing this review from this motel right now. Do not i repeat do not stay here! I have never been so disgusted in my life! Trust me I have stayed in some ghetto places before but this takes the cake! First off the room which is non smoking had an ionizer to take out the cigarette smell. My sister came in and tried to turn on the light and it would not work the next light she put on seems to have a short in it. I went to the restroom and saw a nice smear of poop on the wall. Yes I said poop! Ewww I then pulled back the blankets to get ready for bed after a long day and was greeted by poop on the sheet, hairs on the pillow and a spider! Not only all of this but we are here with all the lights on scared to close our eyes. Btw the room is outdated, don’t think the carpet has ever been cleaned and we didn’t dare to look in the microwave or refrigerator. Whats more interesting is the fact that you can buy alcohol in the lobby here right along with the bottled water and chips. Oh and let’s not forget the prostitutes and the fact that my sister in law went to the car and felt an eerie feeling like someone was following her. This place is ghetto, grimy, outdated and I would never ever stay here again. I think I’m on an episode of motel hell! Where the f*ck is Gordon Ramsey?!

Oh. My. God. Where do I even begin? This place was the WORST place I have ever been to in my life. We stayed here because my boyfriend had a job interview in the area, so we needed a place to stay for the night in town. I picked this place because it was not far from the interview, and it was a decent price. As soon as we checked in, I knew we should have turned around and stayed somewhere else, but I figured it wasn’t a big deal since we were only there for one night.
When we checked in, there were 2 people behind the desk, and we were the only ones waiting. The older man, I think he was the owner, and an older woman. Neither of them even looked at us when we walked in, nor said hello, or «I’ll be right with you». We stood there for a good 5 minutes while the owner berated the woman about something to do with the computer. We just stood there, waiting for someone to acknowledge us, but it never happened. Finally I made a comment about them not having much customer service, and that’s when the owner actually decided to great his customers. We checked in, and he told us not to do any drugs in the room! WTF?! Who says that? Obviously they had some problems with people doing that before.
After checking in, we go to the room, and that’s when the horror begins. The room was absolutely disgusting. The carpet looked, and felt, like it hadn’t been cleaned in YEARS. You could see the dirt and grime just sitting on top of it. We never took our shoes off. Then, there was a chair and a table, which would have been fine except for the fact that the chair (upholstered) looked like there were bodily fluids, grease, grime, dirt, you name it, all over it. I don’t think it had been cleaned since the place was opened.
We then noticed that the walls were two different colors, and not in that interior design way, but literally two different colors on the same wall. One half was white, and the other half was pink, and you could clearly see where the two colors met on the wall. The lights in the bathroom would work when they felt like it, and it was noisy as hell. The place was so gross that I was actually considering sleeping in the car for the night. I could barely sleep in the bed because I was too afraid that something was going to crawl on my face.
Needless to say, we got the F&*% out of there ASAP the next day. This place is really the SunDOWNER Inn. I wouldn’t even call it an «Inn», more like a roach motel. STAY AWAY! Whatever you do, stay somewhere else. Even Motel 6 would’ve been better.

I would stay here when there was no other place to go. I have to say the rooms are dirty and out of date. But it was still better than the Best Western a few blocks away. At least the rooms here had clocks and a big comfy bed.

Don’t bother: extremely noisy, badly maintained and terrible management.
I had to stay here for a couple weeks. It’s cheap and not a bad location, but it’s not worth it. The maintenance people are dangerously unqualified. The electrical outlets were sparking and the water would only come out hot. I saw them trying to «fix» some stuff at breakfast and it made me shudder. I would bet money this place has a fire in the next few years if they don’t get a new maintenance crew.
It was extremely loud with leaf blowers, power washers, power saws and hammering, starting as early as 7 am. The front doors are not insulated so you hear every little noise outside. They actually started power washing the sidewalk in front of my room at 9 pm. This is the noisiest place I have ever stayed. If I didn’t have noise cancelling headphones I would have refused to pay for all the noise.
They claim to have «free WiFi» but you have to spend ten minutes every day begging them for a new password. They have motion sensor lights in the rooms which are terrible. If you spend more than three minutes in the shower, the lights turn off and you have to get out of the shower if you want to turn them back on. If you sit still for a couple minutes watching TV, all the lights go dark, then come back on if you move again. I’m all for saving electricity, but this was unlivable.
The refrigerator is unbelievably tiny with a nonfunctional freezer and the bottom is actually angled so it’s not easy to even put anything in it without sliding right out. There is clearly a substantial amount of prostitution going on here, but the girls weren’t too obvious. I did run into a couple pimps though that made me uncomfortable.
The TVs were pretty nice, but it takes about five seconds to change the channel so I gave up on it. I thought I’d watch on my computer, but it was hardly worth all the hassle of getting a password every day.
The only plus sides are that the beds are quite comfortable, and it’s really cheap. Most of the housekeeping staff was great (though a couple had a penchant for yelling «HOUSEKEEPING» very loudly and pounding on the doors, and they use way too much lemon stuff).
This could be a good place if they fired their maintenance crew, chased away the hookers, got rid of the daily password thing, fixed the slow TVs got new refrigerators and made things a lot quieter. In other words, they have nice beds.

I stayed here for my anniversary and I LOVED the service I got from Rudy at the front desk. I would give this place 5 stars if everyone was as great as him.
We had booked a queen bedroom, and the first room we got actually had two twins. He was happy to change our room for us. We moved to the second room which was nice, but a few hours later, we heard a popping sound from the outlet and called Rudy about it. He sent maintenance to look at it.
The maintenance men were very rude, and we had to call them 3 times before they showed up an hour and a half later. They pretended to look over it, then took out the outlet and left.
Later, the popping sound came again and we started smelling smoke. We went to the front design to ask for maintenance to look at it again. He called them and they said they refused to look at it because we were ‘crazy’ Rudy apologized and gave us a new room.
Later, around midnight our key did not work. We went back to the front desk and unfortunately, Rudy had gone home. The night manager was also quite rude and constantly sighed and rolled her eyes at us.
The rooms were fine (and we got to see quite a few of them)
the pool was amazing (heated and closes late) and the stay was overall nice.
As for Service I give Rudy 5 stars, but everyone else was crap

I luved this place for the rate it has.
Free wifi with prety good service. Clean
Lots of parking. and safe too.
The rooms in the lights are motion sensor. i like the green approach!
The carpets are a bit old but then everything else is really good.

Do NOT stay here. The owner Mr Shah is a jerk as well as the other employees. The décor is outdated, which could be forgiven if it weren’t for the cockroaches. I found an adult german cockroach on my pillow (these are the kind that spread the most diseases). When I told him about it, he just handed me a can of Raid. He didnt care about the problem at all and wasnt even willing to negotiate a discount. This place is squalor and is poorly managed by people who don’t care. The Motel 6 a block away is where we went and had a surprisingly much better (and sanitary) stay. I would not recommend Sundowner to even Bin Laden.

Okay, it truly doesn’t even get one star, but I had to put something to write this review. This is the honest truth. My husband and I travel a lot for business and were both in the Bay at the same time. We try to never stay at anything less than a 4star (for the following reason), but this was all that was available because Oracle was holding their convention at the Moscone and everything was all booked. Anyway, so one evening on the way back to this dump of a motel, I stopped to pick up dinner figurin that my husband and I would eat at the dump. I put our food out of the table and sat down with my husband to watch a football play on TV, we both heard somethng and looked towards the table to find a rat on top of the table nibbling on our meat. I was so totally grossed out. To make matter worse, the darned rat wasn’t scared of us and just stayed there eating away. I hurried and called the man at the front who told me that he didn’t have anyone that could help me. I told him that he needed to do something immediately or I would go knock on each door and let the rest of his customer’s know to watch for rats. He had the nerve to show up at my door yelling at me and accusing me of letting the rat in the door! I coulnd’t believe what I was experiencing. Needless to say, I left his hotel and went to stay in Newark — totally inconvenient but at a nice brand named hotel. This place is a total dump and I did report them to the board of health.

yes, it’s a motel, so what? I think it’s cute that they have a pool area that they label «the cabana». look at them, trying to be all upscale. the lobby is attractive, tall glass walls, floor to ceiling.
i dropped my bf here for a party with a bunch of other college students on a friday night. It was really obvious where the party was, because there were only about 4 other cars in the parking lot, and a crowd of about 8 people standing on the balcony next to the room, smoking.
i warned the guy hosting the party that the city of Sunnyvale is known for being uptight bitches when it comes to hotel parties, but he told me not to worry, this was a great place to host a party, the hotel managers will not throw you out if you have dozens of guests. good to know.
there’s not much in the vicinity, unless you have a car, then you can drive a few miles down mathilda to downtown sunnyvale. this motel is located a block off of the 237 mathilda exit, right before it connects to 101.
my bf says it was not run-​down at all inside. it was spacious, the living room was separate from the bedroom.

I hate to even give it 1 star! This place is a motel. Don’t be fooled by the inflated star ratings on Orbitz and the like. My room had tattered & worn furniture, appliances from the 1970’s, and stained carpet. The on-​premises «gym» had ancient equipment that was an accident waiting to happen. Management was not particularly friendly and they seemed to be busy dealing with a lot of customer complaints. Not too many happy campers at the Sundowner Inn. I checked out after two nights and headed to the Hyatt Place in Fremont where I got an incredibly better room at a cheaper price.

If you like Longhorn’s Charcoal Pit (see
), you’ll *love* this place.
Kitschy and out of place for the area. There’s a Sheraton just 100 yards away. It’s worth it, trust me.

Dont expect much, and dont pay much for it. Maybe get a good deal on priceline but this hotel is more motel and you can definately find better options nearby in santa clara/​san jose/​sunnyvale. Rooms are clean and fairly comfortable but again, dont expect much!@

This is an OK motel. It is not a hotel as this place would make you believe. The room and the business center in the lobby are the only pluses of Sundowner Inn. The service is also good.
While I stayed here for the second night, they had a water problem. They had problems with the hot water and did not notify the guests of the problem. That is, until a few guests called the lobby and I brought it up, while I was in the business center. The front desk clerk should have given me some type of discount for a future stay there or simply not charge me for the second night.
I will definitely not return there. I suggest the Comfort Inn down the road.