Motel 6 San Diego, CA - Downtown

Located in San Diego (Downtown San Diego), Motel 6 San Diego, CA - Downtown is within a 15-minute walk of Balboa Park and Maritime Museum of San Diego. This motel is 0.9 mi (1.4 km) from Port of San Diego and 0.9 mi (1.4 km) from B Street Cruise Ship Terminal.

Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, laundry facilities, and an elevator. Free self parking is available onsite.

Due to COVID-19, this property’s food and beverage options may be limited.

Stay in one of 105 guestrooms featuring LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms with showers are provided. Conveniences include phones with free local calls.

Motel 6 San Diego, CA - Downtown Hotel Amenities

Owned and founded by two local building contractors, Motel 6 first opened in Santa Barbara, California. Lead by partners Paul Greene and William Becker, the hotel cleverly took its name from the initial room rate per night the hotel charged during its first operation, $6. Fifty years later, Motel 6 has over 1,300 branches across Canada and the United States.

Becker and Greene wanted to provide a low-cost hotel that could serve as an alternative to the major hotel brands during the 1960’s, such as Holiday Inn. The partners specialized in low-cost housing and were able to create a hotel plan that would compete with the quality and the price of the current hotels America had during that era. Motel 6 took two years of conceptualization to be able to cut costs in areas possible. The effort these founders invested in Motel 6 paid off. This “no-frills” hotel materialized into one of the biggest hotel accommodations available in America.

Unique to the Motel 6 brand, there was no onsite restaurant available in the first hotel launches in 1962. Up to this day, most of the Motel 6 branches have no on-site dining available, but with plenty of restaurants located nearby.