Magic Carpet Lodge

Anyone seen vacancy before? DO NOT STAY HERE!
To start things off here are a few things that bothered us:
1. The room smelled musty and old.
2. The whole place was runned down with dirty carpets leading to the rooms.
3. There was a lipstick kiss on the bathroom mirror that was apparently not cleaned from the previous guest.
4. Poop stains on the toilet
5. If you are taller than 5’3 be prepared to crouch down for your shower
6. Stepping into the shower is hazardous seeing its extremely slippery
7. Hair on shower walls
8.Shower water was scorching hot to cold without being adjusted
9.Not sure if the bed was cleaned or not but the blanket was on first before a sheet… do they wash the blankets?
10.Large hole in the before mentioned blanket
AC or heating but thanks for the dusty fan… does good for my GFs extreme allergies
12. Moth holes in blinds
13. Also heard employees complaining about previous guests
14. Also, hope you like the feeling of springs while you sleep.
In the end we bought our own water, showered immediately after waking and were too afraid to try their breakfast. This was not worth the $ 125 we spent to stay one night.
Best of luck if you decide to embark this dangerous trek… those who believe in rabits foot for luck… buy extras!

When I stayed here the room was less than 100 bucks. I made a reservation and I got there a little early so the room I wasn’t clean yet. I watched as the maid entered the room and never came out with the comforter … So they comforter wasn’t switched from the last guest. I prayed the maid changed the sheets at least. The room had a balcony which was nice it over looked at BMW dealership. The room had a fridge but it had been unplugged so there was a middle of water soaking the carpet in front of it. The room only have heaters no AC. There was a standing fan that was in the room to use. They have a pool it looked clean. I’d stay here again … It was a good price. No problems. I threw the comforter on the floor before I laid on the bed.

We enjoyed are stay here and would definitely return.
The place is clean and quiet and within walking distance to some cool pubs and dives for dinner.
The staff was exceptional!
The manager even dried some of our clothes for us when we got wet kayaking.
See you in the Spring Magic Carpet~

When I first got in about 10 pm… I thought, this room is ok for the price… I guess. I soon realized I’m scared to be in this room. The room smelled like someone had just used the toilet… lo & behold, we flushed the toilet clean! YUCK!!! This morning has been a whole ‘nother story. Shower dirty… other people’s long hair on shower walls. Then, to top it off… I see a note with a smiley face between the sheets. So, first thought… they didn’t even change the sheets. YUCK… Again!!! Now… they have free breakfast but I’m scared to eat anything from here. Way too expensive for all these issues… $ 200 for 1 queen size bed with lots of yucks. Oh did I mention, I couldn’t put anything in freezer cuz it had melted chocolate all over it. Who knows when the last time they cleaned this room if they ever do. Don’t stay here unless you want to be disappointed.

Not friendly employees.
****CLEANLINESS-​Fail.
The comforter and rug Is not clean it feels and looks dirty.
The rusty shower faucet!
The yucky door knob!
The sticky and stinky rug
The ugly and nasty comforter
****INCONVENIENT
*The wifi complimentary is so slow and lack of signal equals useless for then of having it!
*NO AC, if you are coming here in the summer, DONT!!! Paying $ 200 and up on here is not going to be worth it since they don’t have an AC. Sleeping here at night without AC in a cool weather is sucks.
*the price is not very reasonable
****My too is that have a view in the room for yourself before checking in to this place. It is better to spend a night in a comfortable room and paying reasonably than sleeping with costly lodge with an inconvenient dirty lodge. This place is not a good place to bring your family. It’s not worth it!
See for yourself when you have a look for yourself when you visit Monterey, seaside.
My Experience

My husband and I are looking for a last minute mini vacation for Memorial Day weekend, and our anniversary. Since we won’t be getting to the area until around 9pm on Saturday I thought I’ll try to find a place not too expensive since we’ll be checking out in the morning to spend a full day in Monterey instead of driving 2 ½ hours Sunday. I was quoted $ 86 for the room, $ 100.68 total with tax. I gave my CC to hold the reservation and told will get a call back with my confirmation # (thought a bit weird, but she seemed new). I get a call back stating my card # was invalid (really? I just used it). So I gave a different one and told it was valid and good. I get a call back an hour later and told that there was a mistake in the room price and it will be $ 180 + tax. I told her that’s not what we agreed on. She said she would talk with someone to see what she can do and call me back. No call after another hour so I called back again and told sorry that’s the rate since it’s a holiday weekend and that she went ahead and cancelled my reservation. I get higher prices, but to go that high? Plus, I don’t think it’s legal to do that. I have no problems spending money on a hotel or B&B. What I have a problem with is quoting one price, agreeing on that price, getting my CC information and then tell me later sorry it’s a higher price? My bank and CC company have been called to be warned of any mysterious charges and to let me know.

This place was ratchet and ghetto. Holes in the curtains, stains on the carpet in the outside hallways, dirty walls, dirty coffee maker, mold on the door handle, the breakfast area and food was a joke. Don’t be deceived by the decent looking pictures online.

WARNING: THEY HAD A BREAK IN AND CREDIT CARD DATA WAS STOLEN! IF YOU HAVE BOOKED A STAY OR STAYED THERE CONSIDER CHANGING YOUR CREDIT CARD FOR A NEW ONE.
«We have been informed by the Magic Carpet Lodge that they had a break in on the night of 2015-​04-​22 at which time your credit card information was stolen.
We recommend that you contact your credit card holder immediately and cancel your card so you do not incur any unauthorized charges.»

Overall we liked it there the rooms were clean wish the TV was a little bigger but hey wasn’t there for the TV pool was clean a lil cold but nice after you got in the staff was very nice asked for extra towls pillows, shampoo. Etc got them all in just a few minutes I wouldn’t mind staying here again

This is hard to review. yes, we had 2 VERY clean rooms, no complains there. Clean and well cared for. We checked in with a very friendly elder gentleman, all good. Next morning was a disaster. We went for our free breakfast and there were only 3 tables.(3 floors of rooms.).okay, i was willing to take some breakfast to my room. Then I reached for an apple and my fingers went right through it. I got a cloud of fruit flies. Everything on the breakfast table was rotting and WAY over date. The milk was curdled, the fruit was rotten and the rest of the edible things were gone and not to be refilled. We talked to the other guests and thanks to their warning we were not the victim of food poisoning. I know we were at least the 4^th person to mention all this during check out. All we got was a snotty answer, very unpolite and close to rude. «Not my problem». Long review short — the rooms were very clean, but do skip breakfast if you want to avoid food poisoning.

overall not a bad experience… got our moneys worth… never was really at the hotel anyways but the heated pool was a nice touch and again… very iffy on wi-​fi

Small, rock hard beds. The most important part of staying in a motel is having a place to rest my head for the night and this place missed the mark. Even if all the other hotels and motels in Monterey are full, I wouldn’t waste $ 130 staying here again. I would rather sleep in my car then waste money on a rock hard mattress.

Don’t do it. This place cray. Shit stains on toilet, stains on carpet, hair on walls, broken tv, no fridge. Not worth the 190 I paid a night. Oh. But wait. There’s a KFC down the street. Only good thing about this place

Very decent motel, friendly staff, clean fresh room with no stains. Nice pool (possibly heated) honestly for 50 bucks its a great deal in Monterey. Only loses a star for the old matress which had me tossing all night but im used to memory foam so its probably par for the course cheap motel wise. Wifi clocked at 4 megs down for all the complainers but we were pretty close to the front. All in all I was satisfied

You definitely get what you pay for. Pretty sure my room was not cleaned between me and the last person that stayed here. The bed was unmade and there was a pole of dirty towels in the bathroom. Easy to book and affordable but never coming back!

One star because given the choice I would not stay here again. I made the mistake of letting a family member book our rooms for an overnight stay. Very modest motel than really needs updated furniture and fixtures. The bathroom in my room had no fan, and thus all of the poops of all of the previous guests lingered in the room. Made me feel a tad ill, alas, what is one to do?
There is a small semi-​clean heated pool, heated meaning it was probably about 10 degrees warmer than the air outside at about 10 PM in the middle of October. Make of that what you will.
Carpets inside are pretty bad. The pattern, however, doesn’t show stains incredibly well (although there were several big ones, I imagine that was the idea behind the choice). Bedding definitely needed an upgrade. It’s been a long time since I’ve slept on a mattress whose springs I could feel completely.
That being said, the man at the check-​in counter was friendly.
I don’t feel it was worth the price. I believe it was about $ 80, I think it really should of been about $ 65 or so. But they have people trying to find a bargain when visiting Monterey, so they can get away with it. Personally, I couldn’t wait to get out of there. Alas, it was only one evening.

My first «bad review». Spoiler alert: it’s gonna get ugly.
Ordered a room, just to crash for one night during a road trip along the coast.
The place looked like a creepy complex. And so it was!
Entering the room — smelled like death. The toilet had a stain of poo — when I went to the reception — they said that «we have no cleaning staff today so we can move you to a different room».
Well, looks like they don’t have cleaning staff any day of the year.
In the next room, same suffocating smell. And the shower certain was covered with mold, the bed sheets were with stains
Terrible place. Even for one night
Spare the experience, and use your money wisely on another place

We stayed here for the price and a balance of good /​bad reviews. We figured it was worth a shot and $ 100 is way cheaper than a $ 300 room in Carmel.
We arrived at 9pm on a Friday night for a midday wedding in Carmel the following day. There was a person wandering around the parking lot singing bluesy riffs as she strolled back and forth along the back row examining guests’ vehicles. I got the feeling she was on drugs.
When we opened the door the strong smell of cleaning agent was the first thing I noticed, but not fresh clean, more like try to cover-​up-​the-​vomit smell type of clean. The smell went away after we left the door open for a bit.
The floor had permanent stains and needed to be replaced. The bathroom had moldy grout and needed replacing as well. We sort of looked the other way because the rest of the room seemed okay, clean sheets, nice simple furniture, chairs, mini-​fridge, microwave. We just kept things off the floor.
The vents provided non-​existent privacy between the room above us and the rooms on both sides. I mean we could hear everything clearly: people sneezing, singing in the shower, you name it!
The guest guide in the room warned us to deadbolt our door, be sure to use the chain lock too. It said to remove all valuables from our car and be sure to check the peep hole if anyone knocked. eek
Breakfast coffee was plentiful but weak. Cereal, milk, orange juice, and little muffins. The room where they host breakfast had an even dirtier floor than ours.
During breakfast we heard people complaining to the management about their wifi not working. We also heard people complaining that an employee said something offensive to them. To the credit of the management they were all nice to us. But it was clear that they were just apologizing over and over for numerous problems that were not being fixed.
The housekeeper opened the door the next day without knocking and caught me dressing for the wedding. I asked her if they had some fitted sheets and she didn’t understand english. Manager came over and said that there was nothing that she could do.
The iron they provided has some sort of plastic residue inside of the water tank, and every time it put out some steam, some plastic particles came out onto my shirt. I blew them off after the moisture evaporated, and quickly learned how to get the job done regardless.
After the wedding on Saturday night we were tired enough to not notice much except that the cleaning smell was there again when we first opened the door. Only one more night and its over…
All in all I would say that this place wasn’t really too bad. I mean we could tolerate the issues. We didn’t get mugged and our stuff wasn’t stolen. I am a patient person and so we stuck out Saturday night, but then on Sunday we left as quickly as we could to get some real coffee and on to other great things in the area.
We’ll probably put down $ 150/​night next time we are in Monterey, and try a better place. This might not be the worst, but its pretty close.

Very decent Motel, clean rooms. Nice little swimming pool. Poor breakfast (cereal, milk, apples) Located in the industrial area, a+ for the very friendly receptionist Ben
Very decent Motel, clean rooms. Nice little swimming pool. Poor breakfast (cereal, milk, apples) Located in the industrial area, a+ for the very friendly receptionist Ben

I’ve experienced waaaay better of course, but the place didn’t look bad from the pictures and the price was right; so we booked it!
This place looks like an apartment complex! Very grungy and they hallways are creepy! Our room was on the first floor which is a plus for us, and the pool was right outside our sliding window! I thought it was pretty cool at first, we didn’t have to walk far to get to the pool and if we needed to use the restroom, our room was just 7 feet away. BUT this also meant that EVERY little action that went on in the pool, kids screaming, water splashing, adults talking etc. we could hear very loudly from our room. It was super annoying, even with our sliding door closed!
Our room however was surprisingly decent, it was a very ‘normal’ nothing fishy, it didn’t smell, didn’t give me an ‘errie’ feeling at all. I would stay here again, but I think I could find a better deal elsewhere!
The staff however was pretty friendly and helpful.
On a Not-​So-​Good note:
We could hear people walking around from the room directly above us, hear the people in the rooms aside us, hear the people talking in the hallway and so on.
The «Free WiFi» crap is a total sham! We did not get any WiFi at all! And our room was just 20 ft away from the front desk!
«Complementary Breakfast» includes store bought mini cinnamon rolls, bagel, cream cheese, toast, cereal, milk and juice. I had high hopes on eggs, bacon and sausage. :(