Golden Bear Hotel, SureStay Collection by Best Western

Always love staying here. The staff is friendly, rooms are very clean and always enjoy the location. We appreciate how accessible it is to the marina. We enjoy fishing on the Ms Marin. Get to the marina in 5 minutes. This place is the best

Refurbished, adequately sized, well equipped and clean rooms. We especially liked the walk-in shower. Parking was good, easy access from Interstate. Breakfast rather poor (bars, plastic wrapped pastry) but there are cafes and other options nearby. Ice-machine under staff control, no self-service. Wifi good.

I have family living in Berkeley. This hotel is not far from them. It has been open about seven months with incredible renovations by Best Western. For one thing in a city that’s known as parking hell, there is a nice parking lot in the courtyard of the motel which is very spacious. It’s a well lit corner and has a view from the office. The staff at the office are great. Extremely helpful with my questions. The room includes a very comfortable bed, alarm clock and phone which are connected with a number of lightning charger wires for devices. There is a one unit dresser type unit including a mini fridge, a microwave, safe, and a Keurig coffee machine. There is a good size closet area and shower with bathroom area. There is a desk with a great desk lamp. The lighting is powered when you put your key in the slot near the door. There’s plenty of light and it feels very clean. One of my favorite features is that there’s no carpeting which means you don’t feel like you’re stepping on someone’s dirt. The cleanliness is only second to the quiet because although you’re not too far from San Pablo Ave. there is very little noise at night. You can turn on the fan or air conditioning or heating and have some white noise as well. The window louvers really didn’t block out a lot of lights because one day I got up at seven and could not tell that the sun was shining brightly outside. The golden bear is very convenient to the freeways because all you do is take a turn onto San Pablo Ave. and a right turn on University Avenue and you will come to the 580 down near the water. This will lead you to all the freeways going either north or south or west to San Francisco. I cannot recommend this facility enough.