Do not ignore all the negitive reviews....I did and I regret it.
The Marina Motel was built around 1931 and boy does it show. Rooms do not have air conditioning , and interior doors on rooms (bathroom and closet) use skeleton keys. The rooms look like something out of a black and white movie, Walls are painted Half and Half, changing color half way up the wall. Rooms are dirty, and old. Rooms have no ventalation except windows, Which either open to the court yard, Lombard Street, or to an makeshift metal roof, that makes your room easily accessable to other guests who are staying across the way from your window. Rooms are Small and show the age, our room had cracks in the cealing, as well as a small crack on the wall. The Beds are horribly small. They Claim they are doubles but I think that they are smaller. Locks on windows are bad and required us to work on them to get them to close. Our Windows had to stay closed all night which made our room feel like we were sleeping with a Fireplace going at full blast!
The location of the Marina Motel is good and bad, you have a great little burger joint called Liverpool Lil's located down about 3 blocks, and a Mel's diner not that far in the opposite direction. The morning after our first and last night there I walked to the walgreens in the morning and saw Drug Paraphanala on the ground. NOT SOMETHING I WANT IN MY AREA.
When we arrived at the Marina Motel, it was well after check in. We checked in and made our way up the stairs to the room. We swiped our key, opened the door and were shocked to seen Beer Bottles, food containers and an unmade bed. The Maid never got around to cleaning our room and we went back the the desk and told the girl our room was not clean and it had to be cleaned. It took approx one hour to get a made to clean the room. We were orignally booked at the Marina for a couple of nights, we only could survive one night there and it still suprizes me that we lasted that long. When we were quickly getting our things out of the room I began taking pictures of the horrible place they call a motel, and I discovered that our shower had BLACK MOLD growing in the upper corner of the shower. As you know BLACK MOLD is a dangerous form of mold.
This place needs to be shut down, renovated, and put under new management. I would suggest not staying at the Marina and if you do have reservations CANCEL THEM NOW!!!!
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