In rather drab and dusty Yuma, the primary saving grace of La Fuente Inn & Suites is that it follows the model of many elegant homes in the Spanish Colonial style. Unimposing on the exterior, the delight is on the inside, where double tiered rooms under red tiled roofs face inward to a well landscaped courtyard centered on a pool, hot tub, and barbecue pits. It is nicely decorated with palms, other trees, shrubs, and flowers. You could be in Guatemala, say, rather than Yuma.
The location is right off I-8 (exit #2), across the street from Yuma's very nice shopping center, the Yuma Palms, with its many stores, competing motels, restaurants, and a multi-screen theater. If travelling to Los Algodones for dental work as I do, the drive to the border from La Fuente is just 12 minutes.
Very clean and up-to-date bedrooms feature a couch (not a sleeper) with a low table in front, a nice desk with internet connection, a good TV in a cabinet with 3 drawers underneath (and a well-functioning remote), a microwave, a 3-foot high fridge, and a ceiling fan. There is no closet to hang clothes in but there is a hanger rack next to the sink countertop. I stayed in 2 different rooms with a king bed. One had a single drawer bed table on both sides; another on only one. Breakfast is served in a pleasantly decorated room with a gentle tropical motif and two palm trees. In a rather striking contrast pictures of assorted military weaponry adorn two other walls. Between the palms a very large flat TV midway up the wall is constantly tuned to Fox News network. From 5-9 am you can get eggs, bacon, sausage, 4 cereals (none sweetened), orange or apple juice, apples, bananas, waffles and syrup, english muffins, bagels, peanut butter, honey, two jams, Dannon fruit blends, hot sauce, and popcorn. 5-7 pm M-Th occasions an alternating menu of free pizza from Pizza Hut (pepperoni and sausage or the same with green peppers) on one night and chicken wings with carrot & celery sticks and a ranch dip the next. In the same time slot 7 days/week free drinks are offered: a choice of Bud or Bud Lite, jug chablis or rose wines, bourbon, scotch, Canadian whiskey, gin, light rum, vodka, and brandy. Soft drinks are coke, diet coke, sprite, and club soda. Free USA Todays are offered on weekdays.
Service is very cordial. After a 2-day stay I checked out. A glitch in my schedule occasioned a return to La Fuente to request another night. My experience is that many hotels will not give you the internet rate you originally booked without demanding you go back to the internet to rebook. There was no such problem extending my low rate another night upon request at the front desk. Kudos to La Fuente. I have been less than satisfied with my other lodging experiences in Yuma; in the future I will consider this place to be my base in town.
One caveat: if you are even a bit hard of hearing, you will find that a lock has been placed on the TV volume which makes it very difficult to hear the TV with the rather noisy air conditioning on. Turning it off helps greatly.
