Extremely clean and the staff enjoys making people happy. I was impressed honestly. Had a hot water problem in the morning but they hooked me up with no hassle. It's an old building, shit happens. I have no problem giving them my money. Thanks guys! read more

This is a commuter type of place. One to two nights isn't bad. I got a room with a double.bed overlooking parking. The lot is free from 10pm to 7am, but come 7am, you should prepare to go pay for parking as the parking enforcement patrols pretty often. The room had a bathroom. Overall, it was good proximity to everything we needed. Owners seemed ok. read more

I spent two weeks in the summer of 2012 at this hotel and I must say it's the WORST PLACE I've seen during the last twenty years. ---Bed Bug--- I saw a bed bug crawling on my bed sheet one morning and got DINGED THREE TIMES two days later. When I showed the manager what the bed bugs did to my left arm. They admitted they DO have bed bug problems and the only thing they can do is to put a cover on my mattress. What a nightmare! ---Strange odor all over the place and Sticky evelvator floor-- It's an old and poorly maintained hotel. The evelvator floor was so sticky that my shoes would almost come off. And there's always very strange odor all ove the place. According to my experience, I strongly suggest visitors STAY AWAY FROM this place. read more

Had a horrible experience and would recommend no one stay here. The lobby smelled like wet carpet or cat pee and the smell carried up into the rooms. I made my reservation over the phone and when I got there they had lost it and told me it was my fault for calling the wrong number, which I had not. . They then charged me a higher rate than what I was told over the phone. There were dead plants everywhere and the lobby and rooms do not look like the photos. If you can help it, do NOT stay here. read more

Not your conventional hotel, but the staff is super friendly, everything is clean, and everyone works super hard to make sure your experience is as good as possible. Best and cheapest hotel in the Berkeley area! read more

OK, I've got mixed feelings, there are pros and cons, but will probably stay away. Good stuff: + microwave in a room, + fridge in a room, + friendly personnel, + nice ambiance, looks very old-style but neat, old pianos at several spots on the hallway, Bad stuff: - didn't get wake up call that I requested, - noisy neighbors having sex at 1am = feels like they're hammering nails in a wall (I think it's due to bad layout of rooms where beds from different rooms go head to head), and, hey, I have 30 db hearing loss with hearing aids removed, but I hear it very clearly, - noisy neighbors chatting - feels like they're talking aloud right behind your door (again, I am the -30 db guy), - holes in a blanket (looks like previous visitors cut it with knife), - no parking (well there is free public parking that requires you to pick up your car in the morning, and also the staff has offered a $5 daily permit for street parking), - bed bugs. Room 217. read more

This hotel is DUMP don't waste your money, unless you like filth! There's a reason they make you pay in advance, no one would stay otherwise. Disgusting, worst hotel I've ever been in. read more

I just finished my stay at this hotel and I loved it! The room that I got was very clean, the bed was comfortable, the pillows were soft, the Tv, fridge and microwave were great, there was wi-fi, and it was in a great location. It is located close to everything downtown Berkeley pretty much walkable distance to lots of good food and theaters. If you are an adventurer and would like to stay in a hotel with character then stay here. If you are anal and complain about trivial things being misplaced then go stay in a Holiday Inn. The family that owns and operates this hotel is extremely helpful and even gave me a ride to the airport when I said I was going to be late to my flight! Thanks for the ride and next time I am going to Berkeley, I know exactly where I am going to stay, The Nash Hotel :) read more

OK, cheap place to stay, but the hilton she is not, weird tweaker neighrbors, does have pest issues, but you get what u pay for, maybe Im a bit too butch read more

Looking for a last minute/day-of room can be a pain in the ass (especially in Berkeley), but the Nash Hotel had an opening and I did an online reservation (you can't book/pay online) and made the trek up north from LA. Check-in was smooth and simple, the hotel employees were friendly and helpful and the room was perfect. Relatively bare-bones, but I found it to be quite charming. It had a new 32" tv, mini fridge, small coffee pot and the typical night stand, dresser, desk furnishing you'd expect in a hotel room. The bathroom was stocked with Neutrogena shampoo, conditioner, lotion and bar soap. I didn't have any issues with the wifi. It's a 5 minute walk to Trader Joe's, Andronico's, Cheeseboard Pizza and the downtown Berkeley Bart station. This will be my new go-to place to stay in Berkeley. I look forward to staying again. DEFINITELY 100% WOULD RECOMMEND. read more

Is this place a true 5 star hotel? No, but how could you expect that for the price? If you want a place where you plan on spending plenty of time in the comforts of your room, this may not be the place for you. But if you're mostly going to be spending time out-on-the town or at work like I did, and all you really need is a place to sleep and keep your stuff, this is a great deal. I found the room to be clean and had everything I needed (sink-- though I did take the shared bathroom option-- mirror, internet, TV). I will admit, I saw a couple of roaches during my stay and I was frustrated that I couldn't control the level of heating in my room (but it was thankfully never too hot/cold). The staff was very helpful about sending my stuff that I left behind, too. read more

I stayed at Nash Hotel for a business trip at UC Berkley. I love the fact that it's a family-run hotel. Though it looks old and ordinary from outside, I felt very welcomed when I walked in and met their owners. For the rate you pay, the hotel is a great deal for multiple reasons: it's right next to Berkely campus; the rooms are clean and feel safe; public restrooms are available on each floor for quick and easy access; there are so many restaurants and cafes right next to it: Vietnamese, Latin America, Italian etc; If you are Chinese customers not speaking English well, the owners can speak Chinese. There are even Chinese programs available on their TVs. Last but not the least, I have a great deal of thankfulness for its owner- Mr. Li-for finding my glasses back and sending them to me in a timely manner. Nash will be my choice again for my next Berkley trip. read more

it was a pleasure staying at this beautiful and unique hotel. This hotel is located in the most convenient spot. And, I can not wait to stay there again. The owner of the hotel was so kind to me during my short term stay. read more

My 4-day stay at the refurbished Nash Hotel in Berkeley, CA was amazing; my bright and spotless hotel room on the third floor, sported a king-sized bed with a large screen TV, refrigerator, WI-fi, coffee maker, microwave, coffee & tea, a large bathroom, and blow dryer. More than that, the price was exceptional at just under $100 a night! I've never had the need to book a hotel room in Berkeley prior to this visit and found that many hotels and motels charged two to three times more for a night's stay. The Nash is close to the UC/Berkeley campus, a myriad of restaurants and banks; to include its close proximity to BART, and only a short jaunt to Trader Joe's. My purpose to travel to Berkeley from the Pacific Northwest, was to bring closure to losing a loved one. Closing a large storage unit containing a myriad of items, and only a 4-day window to accomplish this task, was monumental. Before I go any further, I want to express my gratitude to Nash Hotel Manager, Yvonne, for her hospitality, understanding, and assistance upon learning that my loved one had passed away. When I advised Yvonne of my loss and that I had only two days remaining to close out a storage unit of personal items, to include a large office cabinet, she came to the rescue and offered to pick up the large item. Not only did Yvonne exercise the same understanding that she exhibited at the Nash, she was patient and courteous as she helped me wade through the contents that remained in the storage unit. Traveling to CA, from out-of-state and communicating via email and telephone when making hotel arrangements was effortless; transitioning to a telephone only communication after I arrived in Berkeley, proved to be as seamless as well. Having Yvonne work in sync with me was amazing! Yvonne's help was immeasurable, in that I was able to complete my task on Friday after she offered to take a large quantity of clothing away; leaving me to spend my last day in Berkeley at a leisurely pace and having brunch with a friend. Coming to my aid in such a short time and ensuring that I would leave without any unexpected delays has meant a great deal to me. I am of the mind that Yvonne's treating me with such kindness and courtesy, is exactly what anyone who visits the Nash Hotel will find when they select the Nash for their next visit to Berkeley! Thank you, Yvonne, and (thanks to your son, too, for carrying my luggage to my room!) and for your unexpected and welcome hospitality! I highly recommend the Nash Hotel and their competitive and economical price point to anyone planning a stay in Berkeley! read more

I stayed this hotel with my girlfriend for 3 nights and both of us were so happy there! For the price we paid, I think it was just great and we like the room, the location, and the service. Well, one thing I have to mention is that they don't serve any food so my girlfriend and I had to go to the next door restaurant to eat. The good thing was that, within the walking distance, we had chance to try all kinds of foods ---- Tai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, ...... What an experience! read more

The service was good and the room was nice. Just a few steps from the bart and Shattuck. I would recommend this place to someone else that I know. I stayed a few nights recently and didn't see one roach, the bathroom was clean and the room was comfortable. read more

Interesting "hotel". More like combo SRO slash cheap hotel. SRO = single room occupancy. Plus you get to meet some "interesting characters" as you try and live on a budget: (a) there is the big guy in almost catatonic state. You know it's the same guy if there is a half-eaten pizza box on the table and he hasn't moved in 3-4 hours. True clinical def of catatonic? (b) Then there is the arabic talking guy feverishly browsing and talking on his cell. (c) I also met Steve. Steve said hello and said he's an engineer and a permanent resident at Nash. I didn't ask more. Did I mention the massage parlor? One of the retail stores on the ground level of the hotel is a spa.... Being the curious type, I've got to check it out. "Massage half-hour 40 bucks. One hour with body shampoo $60" Or was it $70? "For you special..hotel guest rate..." I said I'd think about it. On the positive side, you're walking distance to Downtown Berkeley Bart and all the accompanying great restaurants plus it's relatively cheap. About $50 per night. They have weekly and monthly rates. One week was about all that I could handle. Relatively clean. Didn't see roaches. read more

Wow. So it was a saturday night at around 230am and this was our only option. The lobby is misleading for sure.. as if the neighborhood wasn't bad enough. I got my boyfriend and I all set up and paid 129.99 for a single room with no bathroom, except for you know, the community one in the hall.... well we get up to the room carrying our tote bags and I unlock the door to "our" room and I see a half nude couple staring back at me. The lady at the desk gave us a key to a room already in use!! She was very nice but clearly needs to get with the program. She upgraded us (no cost to us) to a room with two beds and our own bathroom. Which came with no towels I might add. And a pubic hair or two on the toilet seat. The heater did not work and the room was like ice when we walked in since the windows were kept open. Hey, it was a bed at almost 3 am but needless to say, they could really use some hard work. read more

Bed Bug Infested hotel! Do not stay at Nash Hotel unless you like bugs bitting you throughout the night. Horrible customer service after bringing it to there attention. Stay away! read more

The owners were incredibly nice when you saw them. The previous reviews are really on target in their reviews. I just want to add a few important details. First, it is my husband and two teenagers. We got a room with two double beds. We paid 130.00 a night that included 20 dollars each night for each kid. You do have to pay up front. My son didn't even stay with us and so I would have liked to not pay the extra 120.00 for him not being with us. We did have our own bathroom with bathrooms located at both ends of our hall. The hotel was being renovated prior to us booking and they opened up for business the day we arrived. Definitely 1930's style architecture. The owner kept in close contact with my husband prior to our vacation, to ensure that the hotel would be up and functioning when we arrived. This hotel was 2 short blocks from my brother and it was very convenient to not only family but restaurants and shopping. The hotel was in disarray, dusty and smelled very old. We were placed on the 3rd floor with no working elevator. We were given keys to our room, front and back door. That was great as we could come and go when we wanted. We had 2 bath towels and 2 hand towels and no wash cloths for 4 people for 1 week stay and 1 role of toilet paper. We left early before 9 each day and came back around midnight each day so we never could request anything from the hotel. They do have banking hours. The mini fridge stunk like something had rotted in it. So we didn't use it because we didn't want to smell it. We did have a coffee pot with tea bags and coffee that we didn't use. The carpet is very worn and stained in the rooms. The biggest complaint that I had were the mattresses. They were horrible. The mattresses were lopsided and slanted. We slept both directions trying to see which way was better. We literally slept at a 30 degree angle. We didn't sleep well and were ready to get out of bed and out of the hotel every day. It was quiet at the hotel, probably because it just reopened. The furniture pictures are somewhat accurate. We had a hodge podge of furniture with a large plastic desk in the room. We could have done without the desk as it made it tight quarters. There is no luxury or amenities. I would consider coming back and giving it another try next year hoping that they get the place functioning and looking better because of it's location. I really enjoyed my vacation and the hotel didn't make or break my vacation. It could be a super cute renovated hotel. read more

I booked a Double Room with a shared bath for my husband and daughter. I was expecting a double room to have two beds. There was only one bed when they checked in. A roll away was brought for them which folded like a taco when he tried sleeping on it. The shared bath was not in their room. There is a shower on the floor and a separate sink and toilet room also on the floor. The room was very loud. Never again. read more

This is a relatively clean hotel, although after my 4th day today, there was a cockroach sitting on my coffee cup apparently looking for his "wake-up". The guy in the next room has slipped a note under my door, banged on my wall and door at odd hours complaining that he can't sleep due to my television being on. The volume is at the lowest possible decibel, DUH! However, the night before last, windows open, three Arabic speaking men were as loud as loud could be at Midnight, yet my complaining neighbor didn't bang on their door. This guy must be a monthly renter and therefore believes he is the owner. The rate is better than the Hindu Motels on University and elsewhere. About $30 cheaper per night and the absence of Curry in the air. For all Micky D freaks, its up the street from the Nash, however, read my McDonalds review. read more

This place is GROSS. Do NOT waste your money. Pretty sure they've got bed bugs since I was itching all night, and oh they failed to mention that the "shared bathroom" means literally no bathroom in your room and you basically have to share a bathroom AND a shower with the rest of the hotel/people on your floor. I was extremely unhappy with the stay and promised myself to leave a review before I left to stop anyone from coming here and having a horrible experience on top of wasting money on an overpriced room. I've paid way less for a much better hotel. Would leave 0/5 stars if I had the choice read more

The location of this hotel is what makes it worth staying at. You have to be able to really go with the bare minimum to make this work. It is noisy, not dirty but cluttered, and the water pressure in the shower is basically non existent. When I checked into my room, there was trash in the trash can. The furniture is like the owners went to every yard sale around and bought up the used stuff. Not fancy, semi-clean, great location, but I felt like I was camping rather than staying in a hotel. The staff is amazing, especially Kenley. read more

Maybe I had very low expectations for the Nash Hotel... but I was very pleasantly surprised! The room was very clean, charming, flatscreen TV, VERY comfortable beds. And the people who manage the place are so nice. The downside is that they don't have parking, just know that coming here. I don't want to leave! read more

Do NOT stay here. The staff and owners seem to be incompetent in running a smooth hotel business. The booking process was unorganized, without a guarantee that your reservation will actually be in their system. When they were told of their error (not having our reservation), the owner treated us as though we had done something wrong. If calling the hotel and speaking with an employee to make a reservation is wrong, they should have told us. The hotel also had a variety of fishy and cat pee smells as you enter the lobby. Some windows seemed pretty unsafe and did not ease my mind.Radiatior was loud and clunky throughout the night. Find somewhere else to stay! read more

Worst place to stay in Berkeley. I saw horrible things in the shared bathroom and the hall around the room I was staying in smelled like rotting death. It felt like a nightmare. The bed bug infested hostel is cleaner. Go camping. read more

Great place for Berkeley. Very convenient, clean, nice staff and affordable. I will definitely stay here the next time visiting Berkeley.

Pretty good hotel, especially for the price. I stayed here while attending my cousin's graduation at Berkeley. The location is within walking distance of the campus--I didn't even need a rental car. There's free internet, and it's very reasonably priced for a clean room. The staff was very informative and went out of their way to show me some good local restaurants. read more

Check in time was 2pm. We arrived at 340 and needed to wait 20 minutes for them to clean our room. I thought I had requested a king bed somewhere along the way, but got two singles. Decided not to change rooms as we had already waited to eat our bbq. The bed was like sleeping on a toddler bed; hard, weird bounce. The pillows had a stiff internal cover in them. We wanted to look as they felt like a small folded bedspread in a cover. The room was clean except for inside of microwave which was filthy. Everything was low rent, except the TV which was a nice 32 in samsung. Only over the air tv though. microwave and coffee maker weren't plugged in. Messy cords otherwise. Coffee maker was also missing lid, which made unusable without rigging it. When taking a shower the curtain constantly blew inwards, which didn't comforting due to other standards not being met. I thought a flip out curtain would solve, but when I looked up all they would need to do is move the curtain rod already there. This felt like a $40 hotel. Will not return. read more

When arriving at the hotel it was difficult to find parking because there is none at the hotel. We had room #319 and it was terrible, I had to use the bathroom and to my disbelief the toilet had "Urine" all over the seat and it also smelled. I asked the cleaning man to clean the toilet and he told me he just cleaned the toilet. I wonder what the toilet looked like before he cleaned it, well he came in and had gloves on, cleaned the toilet and then proceeded to walk out with his gloved hands touching the door knobs of the bathroom and exit door. Hello? What a novel way to spread germs. I understand it is Berkeley and things are a little funky but the smells in this old hotel were like something out of the back alley to a kitchen, pew. Once we finally settled down to bed we were in for entertainment with the roach gang. I could not believe the bugs that crawled around at night. When I complained at the front desk I was told so sorry. It was business as usual. I based my stay on reviews from others on "Trip advisor" which I now know are lies, should have used Yelp. This hotel is like the ones you see in movies that are sleazy and dirty. read more

I was horrified. The hotel owner delayed my checkout by calling me to ask if a stranger could look in my room while I was there, then letting a stranger man into my room with their master key entry while I was INSIDE, then they said it wasn't even my particular room he wanted- but implied to show me off as a girl inside???- upon getting to my car FINALLY the timing on the parking ticket informed me the hotel owner's inappropriate behavior cost me $60.00 ticket the hotel owner yelled at me about getting the ticket, instead of his offering to paying for it, & before all that ON THE DAY of my arrival AFTER I'd already checked in (I had to run out for several minutes to my car to pay quarters to park at a meter they claim is parking when upon my return back into the hotel) I inconvenienced the hotel owner's TRESPASSING daughter ransacking INSIDE my room WITH DOOR OPEN, so next morning I wondered on my way out of my job interview why my freshly washed shirt was stretched out- BY THE TRESPASSER trying on my clothes no doubt b/c no way it was room service on day of my arrival! All in just one night stay. You too can be violated and terrorized and pay unexpected costs for their group and individual many habitual inappropriatenesses. I was sneezing in the shirt, no less, indicative of a stranger hotel owner's daughter having put her cooties in it. ALL TRUE. read more