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Reviews of Holiday Inn Express La Mesa Near SDSU, an IHG Hotel 3 stars

8000 Parkway Drive, La Mesa, CA 91942, United States

#2 of 6 hotels in La Mesa

Guests' Choice

Review score

Based on 61 hotel reviews

7.7

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    8.4

  • Comfort

    8.6

  • Location

    8.4

  • Facilities

    8.2

  • Staff

    8.4

  • Value for money

    7.5

  • Free WiFi

    10.0

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  • Reviewed: 18 May 2024

    8.0
    Comfortable and relaxing
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Executive King Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    That you need to pay for parking per car !

    That it’s clean and in a good location

    Stayed in May 2024

  • Reviewed: 12 May 2024

    8.0
    Basic But Good Value and Clean
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Queen Room with Two Queen Beds
    • Stayed 1 night

    It was great for the price and location near SDSU.

    Took the train to SD to visit my son at college. This hotel wasn't fancy but it was comfortable and clean. Breakfast was basic but adequate. Staff was friendly and helpful. Very quiet at night even though there was traffic outside. Comfortable bed. Some peeling paint on bathroom door.

    Stayed in April 2024

  • Reviewed: 7 April 2024

    7.0
    Good
    • Family with young children
    • Family Suite
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Parking was very limited and inconvenient bc people would park in multiple spots

    Location was convenient

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 11 March 2024

    8.0
    Very relaxing
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Executive King Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    That you have to pay for parking 20 a day and we had 2 cars and paid 40 total

    Nice modern clean comfy

    Stayed in February 2024

  • Reviewed: 11 March 2024

    8.0
    Excellent had a nice relaxing night with my boyfriend and beds are super comfy and it’s quiet
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Standard King Room with Bathtub - Mobility Accessible
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    That I have to pay parking and I had 2 cars so I paid a total of 40 dollars for the parking

    It’s clean modern and roomy and good in between location to where we need to be also had a lot of food options around walking distance

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 27 February 2024

    8.0
    Very good
    • Business trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Standard Room
    • Stayed 3 nights

    The staff was fantastic, everyone was very friendly and helpful. Excellent value for the price, many fast food options at walking distance from the hotel and there is a small gym in the hotel to burn all these calories

    Stayed in February 2024

  • Reviewed: 19 February 2024

    9.0
    It seemed quiet, safe and with a great location.
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Executive King Room
    • Stayed 2 nights

    Breakfast had a lot of unfilled containers- nuts, brown sugar, spoons etc. I would have liked to have been informed that cleaning service wasn't available every day.

    Senior staff Joanie was great. Handled complaints well.

    Stayed in February 2024

  • Reviewed: 12 February 2024

    9.0
    Nice hotel for a family visit
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Family Suite
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Good location, conveniently located with lots of parking. Staff were friendly and helpful.

    Stayed in January 2024

  • Reviewed: 1 February 2024

    9.0
    It served my purpose
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Executive King Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Shower wasn’t clean…hairs were on the side of shower as well as on the floor. Furniture showed ALL wipe marks

    Location to where I needed to be

    Stayed in January 2024

  • Reviewed: 14 January 2024

    9.0
    Wife and I spent two nights. Very comfortable and safe location.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Queen Room with Two Queen Beds
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    No dislikes. The breakfast was just ok. Appreciate it was complimentary.

    Very clean and well managed. The staff was very accommodating to all our requests.

    Stayed in January 2024

  • Reviewed: 13 January 2024

    9.0
    Superb
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Family Suite
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    The breakfast buffet, not enough food for the people there.

    The family room is really spacious, pleasant, well designed, the children enjoyed it a lot

    Stayed in December 2023

  • Reviewed: 16 December 2023

    7.0
    The value of the room was reduced because breakfast was not available. The pool was out of service. The bathroom did not
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Standard Queen Room with Two Queen Beds - Communications Accessible
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Multiple breakfast items were not available. Pool unavailable.

    Nice location

    Stayed in November 2023

  • Reviewed: 13 December 2023

    7.0
    Meh, a very expensive, meh. The breakfast staff made it worth it.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Family Suite
    • Stayed 7 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Wasn’t told that the pool would be closed indefinitely until arrival. Signs all around hotel, “Forget something? We’ve got it.” They didn’t… we asked for a comb, soap for the shower and to replace the detergent/softner that their laundry machine took - nothing. Stayed 8 days, room was cleaned once and only because we asked. They did have gigantic trash bags so I could pile the trash up in our room and then to the hallway. Laundry machine took my money, detergent and softener. Then I had to download an app to prepay an amount that was more than I would’ve need to wash/dry with no return on funds if not used in entirety

    Breakfast was good and the breakfast staff was amazing

    Stayed in December 2023

  • Reviewed: 30 November 2023

    9.0
    Convenient location, nice staff.
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Queen Room with Two Queen Beds
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Breakfast wasn't great, yet expected quality.

    Clean room, nice bed.

    Stayed in November 2023

  • Reviewed: 6 October 2023

    9.0
    Would stay here again, super easy to find with easy access to freeways.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Queen Room with Two Queen Beds
    • Stayed 2 nights

    Didn't sell or offer plain water, had to go to 7-11.

    Great location, great breakfast. First morning bunch of people crashed the breakfast that weren't actually staying at the hotel. No food left - not really the hotels fault. Second morning was perfect!

    Stayed in September 2023

  • Reviewed: 8 May 2024

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • King Room - Mobility Accessible Tran Shower - Non-Smoking
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    With a one nite rental at $200 the additional $20 for parking is a deal breaker for staying here again.

    Building and staff were good. Well stocked room.

    Stayed in May 2024

  • Reviewed: 28 April 2024

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Executive King Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    I didn't know there was going to be a extra $20 charge for parking... added to my reservation

    Stayed in April 2024

  • Reviewed: 9 April 2024

    3.0
    Will never stay here again
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Executive King Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    1st when I called to confirm some things I was told I would not be charged for parking because I was handicapped but when I go to check in I was told it was $20 a day to park but another staff came out and said don’t charge him for that which was a good thing because that’s what I was told, they don’t really clean in the halls stairwells near the bed on the floor or corners or remove hair from bathrooms. We stayed 3 nights and opted not to have staff clean the room daily we called front desk for towels and he said to come down and get them? We weren’t able to at the time so no towels the 2nd night the next morning called again and were told they were no towels available? Because they were behind on laundry??? Then it states online that NO animals were allowed on the premises and yet we saw 10!! Dogs inside of the hotel, there was trash in the halls for 3 days and in the stairwell, some of the parking lot was in an alley? Which was next door to 7 11 and our window faced the alley why would you charge $20 a day to park in an alley with no security??? Unbelievable, NO staff except the front desk spoke English, the ice machines on the 1st night 2nd floor weren’t working and no one was bothered to fix them. The 2nd night there was ppl in the alley fighting and then drunk ppl screaming down the halls talking very loud at 3:00 am which no one did anything about. We have never stayed at a bad Hilton until now… poor service, poor free breakfast, subpar cleaning and upgrading standards holes in door torn wallpaper .

    The price was fair, the bed and chair in room was comfortable and the TV was very good

    Stayed in April 2024

  • Reviewed: 7 April 2024

    4.0
    Not getting our room cleaned for the duration of our stay
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Queen Room with Two Queen Beds
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Never got our room cleaned. We even talked to the cleaning lady but no one came. Bodywash was out the first night and never got refilled.

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 10 March 2024

    10
    Exceptional
    • Business trip
    • Family with young children
    • Queen Room with Two Queen Beds
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Clean rooms and hotel

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 26 February 2024

    10
    I loved the structure of the building. The breakfast was excellent and the Staff was super.
    • Business trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Queen Room with Two Queen Beds
    • Stayed 4 nights

    There was a large organization or family there and it was very noisy outside and above me. I requested my room be changed for the last day and the staff was very accomodating.

    I loved the hospitality. All the staff were very welcoming and accomodating

    Stayed in February 2024

  • Reviewed: 22 February 2024

    4.0
    Disappointing
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Standard Queen Room with Two Queen Beds - Communications Accessible
    • Stayed 7 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    wi-fi didn't work, trash bags everywhere, can hear people walking upstairs, they only did cleaned rooms by appointments with a 24 hour notice. Charged for onsite parking when it was not even in the city. Just not the best experience

    Stayed in February 2024

  • Reviewed: 20 January 2024

    1.0
    Very poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Family Suite
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    It was Booking.com error, they don’t have 2 queen beds and sofa family room, as sold to me!

    Don’t know… booked a family room and they don’t have the family room I booked.

    Stayed in January 2024

  • Reviewed: 19 January 2024

    10
    Very enjoyable, helpful staff, comfortable room
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Queen Room with Two Queen Beds
    • Stayed 1 night

    N/A

    Breakfast was great, a lot of variety

    Stayed in January 2024

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