El Rancho Motel

Easy check in. Clean room. The bed was comfortable. Reasonably priced for a nice location. Parking wasn't an issue. We would stay here again.

Very charming and clean. We had parking which was nice and the beds were comfy. Great WiFi. The A/C worked great and the staff were very nice. We would definitely stay here again. Also, was within walking distance to everything.

A quaint, but very bare bones hotel. This is not a destination or resort hotel, but it is probably the most affordable place to bed down on Coronado island. Small, but clean room with TV, small fridge, microwave, and coffee maker w/a couple mugs provided. No closet, just a 6 inch bar attached to the wall with a few hangers on it. An iron and a landline phone were in one of the drawers. Small bathroom and shower with tiny soaps. The front office is unmanned, but you can enter with the code they provide you to pick-up your room key along with extra towels, soaps, shampoos, coffees, etc.. Checkout is just dropping your key in the drop box by the office. Parking is minimal, but we always found a spot. One nice 'extra' is that they leave a couple beach towels in each room for you to use at the beach (which let's face it, is probably the reason that you're staying on Coronado island) and they have several folding beach chairs that you can take to the beach as well! They say that there are also beach umbrellas available, but I didn't see any. (Tip: if you need to, you can rent beach equipment at Little Sam's Island & Beach Fun across from the Hotel Del, next to the El Cordova Hotel)

We will begin this review with, "WTH" LIKE WHAT THE HECK! We arrived late because of a flight delay. We called the phone number on the door outside the office. No one responded. We were outside for about 1 hour and minutes. Some folks outside gave us a code to get into the office to pick up our key for our room. But since we hadn't spoken with anyone, because no one was responding we didn't know what out room number was. Someone finally called us who of course was half asleep and told us to pick up key number (##). Went to the room, and brought in our suitcase and belongings. The room was small, but we new it was going to be, but when we pulled back the blankets to expose the sheets, the sheets were filled with body hair. The floor that had cheap raggedy carpet was so dirty we had to put down white towels to create our own clean carpet flooring. The ceiling fan had a deep squeak, that we had to turn it off. Once turned off it was filled with dust and dirt, so gross! The bathroom had water on the floor, smelled like dirty went laundry. The air-conditioning unit placed under the sink was loud. Since this property was located on Corando Island we assumed it would be at least tidy, clean, and that there would be staff on site. No one was ever on site. We went to the local Vons' store to buy Clorox to scurb the shower floor because it was filthy!! We bought liens for the bed to throw over the dirty liens. We had to stay in San Diego one more night, but would never stay here again

Nice little small hotel, not far from shops and beach. If you just need a place to sleep and shower, this place will do. Good value for the price.