Red Roof Inn Arcata

My daughter and I stayed here on May 12 and 13, 2022, in order to attend my granddaughter's graduation from Cal Poly Humboldt. We were scheduled to stay on May 14, but left to stay at the Hampton Inn across the street instead. The room was the worst I have ever stayed in - the toilet didn't flush properly, no hot water on May 13, the towels were about absorbent as paper towels, the TV did not turn on, the one blanket on the bed was too thin to keep me warm (no other blankets available) and the floor was dirty. Avoid this place.

The one positive about this place is the woman who checked us in was friendly. Other than that, everything about this place was gross/unpleasant. On the newly made bed, there were lots of random hairs and what looked like boogers on the sheets along with dirty marks. I also found random bugs on the floor. I didn't get a single good night's sleep because there were people hanging out/talking late at night by the vending machines, in the hallways, and outside my room. Our stay was for 3 nights but we ended up leaving early because we couldn't bear to stay another night in this place.

Do not stay here if you can avoid it. I rented two room the night of 12/29/21. Both were equally bad -- okay, not actually. Only one had actually poop pieces on the toilet seat. I cleaned it up myself since it was after midnight and I was too exhausted to deal with waiting for hotel staff to clean it and I didn't want my teen boys to be even more disgusted than they were (they are high school exchange students from Europe and I was too embarrassed to tell them about the toilet on top of everything else). The almost worse thing, though, was when I told the staff they just sort of apologized, but didn't offer to comp my room or anything. The other thing is that there's no security inside the hotel. At least one of the exterior doors leading to the first floor hallway has no functioning lock -- anyone can just walk in off the street.