Originally Posted by
RTWSTARALLIANCE
Honestly I had a great deal of reservation about staying here.
Why? It's ranked #7 of 58 hotels in Bakerfield:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Rev...alifornia.html
Originally Posted by
RTWSTARALLIANCE
But as a hedge did book the Four Points for the next night. I actually think this is nicer than the Four Points unless it has been very recently updated. Hiking your luggage up stairs at the Four Points is stupid.
I don't know when you last stayed at the 4P Bakersfield (I've only stayed there once so far, last summer), but I found it very nice. But then I happened to get a first floor room. If you know that there's no elevator, you should request a first floor room.
It's a low-rise spread-out place in a gardenish setting, so in HH terms it feels a bit more like a Homewood than a Hampton to me. (Except this being SPG before March, presumably no free breakfast yet still.)
How many floors is the 4P? I can't remember offhand (since I was on the ground floor). The standard I tend to see (in SoCal and far beyond) is that if there are only two stories there's often no elevator, but if there are at least three stories there's usually an elevator. (In Costa Mesa CA, the city even taxes hotel stays differently based on either the number of floors or the elevator. Since I can't find a hotel / motel in Costa Mesa that's 3 floors with no elevator or 2 floors with elevator, I can't tell which of those two factors the tax rate change is based on!)