Ayres Hotel Fountain Valley - Huntington Beach

Clean classic and spacious rooms. Excellent staff and attention to clean common areas.

Old worrisome elevators, very basic breakfast, tired linen and pillows.

I was only there for less than 24 hours, but the breakfast was fresh and the breakfast room staff was very helpful.

8

Not

Staff was friendly and helpful. Shower was good. Toilet flushed well. Room was reasonably quiet, some road noise but not intrusive. Bed was ok. Breakfast was good.

Elevator buttons needed to be pressed multiple times to get the elevator to work. Toilet handle was hard to press. On Saturday, instead of waffles there were pancakes, which were rubbery and not tasty. There was a ridiculous system to control the lights. The room key was to be put in a slot on the wall to turn on the lights. When the key was removed all the lights went out in about 30 seconds. If you have to get up during the night to use the bathroom, you have to grope for the key and then turn on all the lights - blinding you and waking you up completely, and disturbing anyone else in the room. The lights work if you just put a piece of paper in the slot. This asinine design is enough to keep me from staying at this hotel again.