We met friends at Staybridge for a little getaway. We booked their cheapest rooms, which were mini-suites with one queen bed, plus a pull-out couch that could be made into a bed. There was a kitchen with refrigerator/freezer (including icemaker), 2-burner cooktop, microwave/hood, dishwasher, pans & dishes. This place is designed for longer visits, similar to Extended Stay, but way better. Rooms were pleasantly decorated with yellow walls and mission-style furniture. There were a lot of extra little perks. In-room coffee, tea, and popcorn. Cabinets with actual storage space in the kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom. Lots of nice towels (and more towels available at the pool and fitness room). Free wireless in the room. Price included FULL breakfast, and I mean the real thing--very good. Staff was helpful wherever we encountered them. Our friends left a cellphone in their room, and housekeeping was very prompt to get it to us when we came back for it. The surrounding area is FULL of every conceivable restaurant and retail store. Downtown Sac is 10-15 minutes away by freeway, and Arco Arena and Airport are 5-10 minutes away. We had a great, relaxing time with our friends in the rooms and the jacuzzi. We are due back in Sac in April--Staybridge won us over; we will try to book them again.

I stayed at the Staybridge suites for 2 nights after Thanksgiving. It was just as I expected -- still new, clean, comfortable, well appointed and trouble free.

My room was a small efficiency studio. It had a kitchenette (2 burner stove and a nuke, but without a real oven, sink with disposal, and full size dishwasher) with full utensils, pots and pans, a toaster, and a coffee maker. There was a comfortable queen size bed, with OK pillows (I'm very persnickety about pillows, so I always bring my own anyway). There was an adequately sized desk and various other little tables, and a small sofa. There was also a nice large flat screen LCD TV with a ton of channels. The bathroom was fine, with a nice massaging shower head and curved curtain rod. Everything was clean. If I had next door neighbors, I never heard them.

The only feature that left something to be desired, was the blackout curtains, which allowed bits of light to peek through in the morning. I'm a light sleeper and I like a very dark room. I imagine they are fine for most people, but for me they definitely weren't Hilton dark (IMO, Hiltons have the best blackout curtains in the industry).

There is free breakfast until 10:30 am. I only went the last morning of my stay. Had I known it was so good, I would have gone the first morning as well. There were: eggs, sausage, make-your-own waffles, fresh and canned fruit, three juices, a few different kinds of coffee, oatmeal and assorted cold cereals, yogurt, muffins, pastry, bagels and other toastables, and I'm sure I'm omitting plenty. It was one of the most extensive hotel free breakfast buffets I've ever seen. It added significant value to the already reasonable rates. Apparently, there are evening buffets Tuesday through Thursday as well.

Check in was a breeze. The staff were always pleasant and helpful. When I asked for a 2 pm checkout, I was told I could only get a 1 pm checkout. Then at about 11 am, someone from the front desk called to say that I could stay until 2 pm after all. It was greatly appreciated, and was the kind of attention to detail that surely would have been overlooked in most full service hotels.

Another review mentioned power surges, but I experienced no power related troubles. I always travel with a surge protecting power strip for my laptop, but its fuse never tripped.

The only trouble I experienced was that the free high speed internet was anything but high speed. The internet sometimes cut out intermittently, even though the hotel was nowhere close to capacity occupancy. I ran speed tests and got the same slow speed (120 kbps down/120 kbps up) on both the wired and the wi-fi networks. That's only about 2.5 times the speed of dial-up, and pages take seemingly forever to load. In order to be competitive with other area hotels, they should spring for a little more bandwith.

For those who don't have a computer with them, there are two computers in the business center downstairs which can be used for free, but you may have to wait your turn with a few game playing kids. I didn't print anything, but I was told that printing is free as well.

All in all, this hotel is a real gem for the budget traveller who doesn't want "budget" accommodations. I got a good rate on priceline. However when I checked their website, I found their rate of $73 to be very reasonable for a place like this. These days, I don't think you can do better in the Sacramento area. I'm staying there again next weekend and looking forward to it.

This hotel is new and clean. It is very conveniently located near a shopping vcneter with a variety of places to eat. The staff was friendly, and the breakfast food fresh.
The linens on my bed were somewhat rough and scratchy. For me, the comfort of the bed is paramount, so this was a disappointment. The mattress was firm, though.
The pocket door to the bathroom was flimsy and hard to move. I could hear conversation in the next room, not clearly, but still I heard them, they probably heard me. There is not scheduled housekeeping on the weekends. .

During our stay at this hotel an electrical surge in the building destroyed my laptop!! There was nothing wrong with my laptop until after I plugged it into the socket in the room. Within 2 seconds my motherboard got fried.

20 minutes after that the alarm system in the hotel went off. The fire station arrived, but did not find any fire. After they left, the alarm came back on again. According to the receptionist it was not a fire but electrical issue in the kitchen.

As another person commented, the personnel (from the GM at the top to the receptionist) at this hotel are unprofessional and always cover up 'strange' issues that occur at this hotel. When I left a message for the GM about my laptop, nobody bothered calling me back. So I emailed his (got his business card), and still he did not respond to my email. I had to call the hotel 3 times and call the Staybridge head office in order to talk to the General Manager. Everytime I got the run around at the hotel. The receptionist even tried to cover the electrical surge by claiming 'the alarm was just some smoke in the kitchen area'. Even what she is claiming is seriously dangerous!!

And when I spoke to him he tried to cover everything up and said that he was not liable for what had happened as I could not prove it. I have no doubt that this hotel has serious safety issues. My guess would be that when they built it they cut around the edges and the wiring in the building is seriously messed up and dangerous. I strongly recommend that everyone not take the risk (nothing might happen to someone else, but the chances are seriously there).

I usually book through the Intercontinetal chain of hotels, that includes Staybridge, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, and Crown Plaza. That's the only reason I stayed at this hotel. After this incident I will forget about my points card and stay at other hotel chains.