If you're like me I like to sleep in a clean bed and wake to an included breakfast for the rate. In my opinion one of the best deals is La Quinta on the main drag. Arti Patel is the manager and she keeps everything on line. Though a bit pricey this time of year, during the off season you can get the rooms for around 65.00. Most impressive is the breakfast offerings. Karen and I figure we can save about $15.00 on breakfast ( of course you can do better at Denny's with the 2/4/6) for the two of us and another $10.00 for lunch all because of the Belgian Waffles, yogurt, hard boil eggs, bagels and cream cheese, coffee, tea, juice and hot or cold cerials w/ milk. Now you can have as much as you'd like. Get this: they also have those little containers of peanut butter, jelly and bread. So we make our own sandwiches for the day on the water. That brings an $80.00 room in high season down to just $55.00 for the room, which is really nice, clean, has internet/t.v./ working showers with great water flow and usually very quiet. You can also get rooms with fridg and micro saving again on dinners if you shop at Vons or bring your own.
I know there are cheeper hotels but when you factor in the eats!.... let me know if there are better.