After escaping the Jack London Inn we decided to stay here. It was ok. Front desk lady was nice and helpful. The rooms are about average, however the carpeting was really dirty and we were disappointed because we thought Best Western had a little higher standards. There was some mildew on the ceiling in the shower and there were some dead bugs and dirt in the corners of the floor under the sink. Take heed, The Best Western label doesn't really mean anything to us anymore it is not a stamp of a great hotel.
We did get some coupons for meals at the Buttercup Cafe next door and they had a pretty decent breakfast.
If you don't expect too much and just want a place to lay your head down for one night I guess this hotel would be ok. Truthfully I would not recommend the hotel to any of my friends so you can take that for what it is worth. We are a pretty typical family, we just want a clean room with friendly staff this place is lacking.

this was the cheapest place i could find in Oakland to stay for a meeting for work. The central location and proximity to the BART also meant that I didn't have to rent a car. The hotel was clean, the room was clean, there was a nice courtyard with a pool that made me wish I had packed a bathing suit after a day of sitting on a plane! The attached restaurant had an excellent breakfast even though the "discount" you get from the hotel is nothing to write home about. I think that for the price you would be hard pressed to find anything better or more convenient in the area.

When my coworker and I arrived, the people at the front desk said hardly a thing to us and were barely audible themselves. Throughout our entire stay they never said "Hello, thank you, Can I help you?, How are you?, Hi, etc." We had to ask them everything we needed to know about the place, such as where our rooms were located, where the elevator was, where to park our car, if there was a pool and workout room, and check out. They were the worse when it came to hotel/motel courtesy. Also, when all 5 of us checked out, the prices charged for each of us was inconsistent. They said this was because some of us did not book online. In reality, we all had booked online the same day. In the end, we lost our arguement with them. Good thing our employer reimburses us. Also, the rooms were bland and smelled moldy and stale. I have to say the landscaping was lovely. Nearly half the equipment in the so-called workout room was broken. Plus at night, a coworker and I noticed that 2-3 rooms had their doors left open all night with the lights off. It was weird and creepy. Not sure why that was. I would NOT recommend this place to stay at unless you had to. I wont stay here again.

I stayed here for two nights for work based on a friend's recommendation. It wasn't a horrible hotel, but I probably would have stayed somewhere else if I had known this hotel was not of high quality. We wanted to be close to Jack London Square so we could walk to local restaurants. In my opinion, it's close proximity to Jack London Square was the best thing about it. It was very noisy (trains throughout the night and lots of street noise). The front desk staff were not very friendly. The room was pretty clean and the bed was comfortable, but the shower had no water pressure and the temperature control was a joke. I was either freezing or being burned. Also, most of the equipment in the 'fitness room' was broken. For $110 a night on a weeknight, you could probably find something nicer (or at least quieter). Five of us stayed there and none of us slept well either of the two nights.