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Reviews of Yosemite Gateway Motel

2.5 out of 5
Yosemite Gateway Motel
51340 Highway 395, Lee Vining, CA

Reviews

7.8

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 234 out of 747 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 295 out of 747 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 129 out of 747 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 60 out of 747 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 29 out of 747 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

7.8/10

Staff & service

7.2/10

Amenities

7.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Saralee

Liked: Cleanliness
Lovely
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lauren

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Convenient and easy parking and check in/out. Clean room with comfy bed. Fairly quiet. Just wish the shower was warmer.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

SHAH

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
It was excellent
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Dalia

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wonderful sunrises and sunsets from the back cliff.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Meh at best
Room’s heater doesn’t work. No late check out, no soap or shampoo, no tv remote and no channel button on tv. Bed was comfy when not waking up cold.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Yu

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

stig

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
A little run Down
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Don

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

TAN

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I like lake view of this room.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Joseph

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
There is note on the bathroom wall that tells you not to flush toilet paper, but to put it in the trash can. That is third world.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Traciann

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We only stayed 1 night as this was a stopping point on our trip. It is clean and quiet. Has a decent view, which I'm sure looks a lot better when there isn't a storm coming in. Parking is not the easiest as the lots are small and tight. We had a problem with the t.v. but the staff came right down to fix it for us. Overall i would recommend this motel and i would stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Carol

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Rustic but clean. Nice view of Mono Lake. Room was comfortable
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

James

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

terry

Travelled with family
No hot water for shower
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Jean Yves

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Yosemite Gateway Motel
I stayed one night. Room was OK. I didn't like the glass sliding door entry. Locks on sliding door and screen door were very difficult to operate. Stairs outside could use some work. Parking was good but a little far from my room. Check in/out was easy. Staff was friendly. I would stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sheila

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Luis Alejandro

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
Good location nearby the entrance of Yosemite. rooms are small and not so clean
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Charles

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Overpriced for the condition of the property.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Judy

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Just a basic place to stay on the way to Yosemite, on the main road. Good restaurant just across the street. Nothing special at all about it. Fine for a night -- but when the people came in (we were on lower floor) there was lots of noise of suitcases rolling in, etc. I'd get the top floor if I went again.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Susan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Unexpected surprise
What a great place to stay, such a surprise, amazing view of lake mono, and to have Nicelys diner across the road a real bonus
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Beth

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
View of lake
Veis is great and comfortable bed but place is old and right next to highway so quite loud and there are ants that march thru under front door and into walls and your trash if left in room
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

MELBA, Sparks

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Greg

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Lok T C

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Grant

Travelled with family
Liked: Amenities
Great stay at the motel.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Helen

Liked: Amenities
Clean and in convenient location
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Edward

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
Property is old but kept up. Clean. Looks like they are trying to make a lot of improvements and have done so already. WINDOWS need to be replaced. Screens are torn or bent. The windows are are steel or heavy alum from 50 or 60 years ago. Very hard and noisy to open and close. Over priced for what you get. Paid $179 a night with no air, no breakfast, no phone, no clock. Paid that much at the Yosemite Southgate in Oakhurst with very full amenities. Over priced.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Susan

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

frederique

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Will not be back!
Oldish style trying to look fresh but still lacking. No mini fridge, no microwave. No bath, just shower. Two out of three windows did not lock, which is unsafe to me considering street level on 395. The doors have not had a coat of paint in 50 years and the wear shows. The walls are so thin, we could hear the guy next door snore all night during the first night and the second night, he was on the phone at 6:30am and I can translate word for word what he said. The mosquito screen door did not shut close, so what is the point having one? Decor is hodgepodge, 50’s trying to be 90’s. This place needs a total update, not just fix one thing and not all of it. And the faucet drip all night…there are MUCH nicer places around for the same price. The area is superb though!!!
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Alexandra

Liked: Staff & service
Enjoyed our deck view . Staff was friendly . Our shower drain didn’t work as well as bathroom door. there was no fridge and the over all ambiance was of a 2 star hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Service
The view on the balcony was awesome, the bed was comfortable, and the bathroom was adequate. The service was less than desirable as we had to ask for new towels and coffee each day. They didn’t clean the bathroom the third day but finally got it right the last day. I think there was a little bit of a language barrier.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Fabienne

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Met our expectations.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

john

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Roongko

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

Jeanette

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Elizabeth

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Alexander, North Reading

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Overall a great experience
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Jennifer

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Cockroaches
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Dean, Sanger

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Sejal

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We loved View from Motel and Town was very convenient to Yosemite National Park. I would recommend this Motel to everyone visiting with Family.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Shannon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Pretty views , cute and clean room . Easy checkin
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023
Response from Front Desk. on 1 Aug 2023
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10/10 Excellent

Tyler

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We always have a great experience staying at this property.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

Eun

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Pls be aware this property has a room w out an A/C . I PAID over 200 dollar for a room w out an A/C in Summer. It was too dark and ask them to turn the patio light and they said that doesnt work. The light switch doesnt work so went and ask and they said the lamp works not the light switch next to the door. And noticed bit stuffy but didnt think I didnt have AC.... got kids out from the car and brough them to the room and started noticing lot more ... The windows were all open w a broken screen. And NO AC. so I went back to the office and ask why our room doesnt gave AC? Or all ur unit doesnt have AC?....but the front desk closed and left. Expedia and I both called emergency number bc there was no way we can stay like this..... Yet no one is Answering Emergency LiNe. So basically I paid over 200 dollar for a room w out AC w no help. I tried to find another hotel but none close by had a vacancy...
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

4/10 Poor

Kevin, Seattle

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Never again! Right on the Main Street, trucks roar by all night. King size rooms lack microwave and/or fridge, and no breakfast is on offer. There are better choices in Lee Vining!
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023