Comfort Inn Arcata-Humboldt Area

“Good Choice for the Area”

Visiting Arcata recently with my college- attending child, I needed a place to stay. Arcata is a small city, and there are not many lodging options, and I wasn’t looking for anything elaborate, anyway. A hotel that provided what I needed for a fair price is the Comfort Inn Arcata. This hotel is s… more

Visiting Arcata recently with my college- attending child, I needed a place to stay. Arcata is a small city, and there are not many lodging options, and I wasn’t looking for anything elaborate, anyway. A hotel that provided what I needed for a fair price is the Comfort Inn Arcata. This hotel is small, with 49 rooms, and it’s situated close to highway 101, just minutes from the airport and Cal-Poly Humboldt. The hotel offers free breakfast and it does manage to pull off a few amenities you wouldn’t expect for a hotel of this small size, like an indoor pool and fitness room. If you get hungry or thirsty, they have drinks and snacks for sale onsite. There is no restaurant or bar, but the location is a short walk away from a handful of eateries. Parking is free, which is a plus. With the rooms, they cover the basics, which is what I expect in this size hotel. Heat and AC are supplied by a unit on the outside wall, directly underneath the window. It can take time to get the temperature just right, but the unit worked without any issues. I like getting a free breakfast, but I should point out that what you get served here is just the basics, like sausage, cereal, yogurt, waffles, eggs, etc. The eggs are of the powdered variety, the sausage seemed like it was leftover from the day before, and the muffins are pre- packaged and not baked fresh. Still, it’s free and again, considering the price of the hotel, it’s about what I expected. Arcata is known as the home of Cal- Poly University more than anything else, and people who come here usually do so for something related to the school. The lodging options in Arcata are limited, and the Comfort Inn is as good as any. It’s not a fancy place of lodging, but it doesn’t try to be. It’s a clean, basic place to sleep and relax, and it delivers on its modest promises.

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“They can do better.”

For $270, everything was just “OK”. Where we were really disappointed was the state of the cleanliness of the tub. I would be embarrassed to be the manager of this hotel with the stained grout showing. Get some caulking and fix this! Disappointing.