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Reviews of Cedar Lodge

2 out of 5
Cedar Lodge
9966 Highway 140, El Portal, CA

Reviews

8.0

Very Good

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Rating 8 - Good. 642 out of 1740 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 290 out of 1740 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 113 out of 1740 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 55 out of 1740 reviews" "

8.2/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

7.2/10

Amenities

7.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Rajeshwari

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
We did not get hot water at all during our stay, the water from bathroom sink came out like a sprinkler splashing water on the floor and surrounding areas. I did not feel like going into the bathroom during my stay. Also, we did not get cleaning service (we had not posted Do not disturb sign on the door). Room was clean and we liked the game room facility.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Chris

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great place overall
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Junuk

Traveled with group
Disliked: Amenities
Clean and nice
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Angelena

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The location was great for our weekend at Yosemite. The staff was great.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

lorie

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very clean and quiet. Great staff. Great dinner. Will definitely stay again.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Sarka

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Carina

Traveled with family and small children, Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Just outside yosemite park and not far from all of the waterfalls i wanted to see
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jodi

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Everything was fantastic. The property and room were immaculate. Check-in was easy and the team was very kind. The rokm was spacious, clean, had extra pillows and extra blankets and a large frig. The beds are comfortsblr, the couch was also comfortsble and didnt need ro be pulled out into the bed. Just a really nicely-appointed rokma d space that you can't help but enjoy. Highly recommended!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Yelena

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Aditya

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

2/10 Terrible

Juan

Traveled with family and small children, Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
It was close to Yosemite which was very convenient. The kitchen was a good size and the recreation center was a plus. On the other hand, the beds were uncomfortable, no breakfast was available, and WiFi was not available unless you paid extra money. There is no cellphone reception.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

6/10 Okay

Stuart

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I would have given this a 5-star rating if it weren’t for the fact that they make you pay extra for having wifi in your room… despite the fact that the lobby not even 50 meters away from the rooms has wifi available for free. Of course this wasn’t mentioned clearly anywhere when purchasing the room for a few days.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

laure

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
We had a really great time in the swimming pool, but the restaurant (grill) was terrible.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

4/10 Poor

Dave

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness
N Not good

10/10 Excellent

Mike

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Tony at the front desk was cordial, helpful, friendly and flexible to our needs. Our room was clean and spacious. The Hotel is only a few miles away from Yosemite, and a couple miles from the big cluster of hordes of people that one hotel further up the road is! We will be staying here for all of our future Yosemite visits!
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Amith

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

6/10 Okay

Jess Wilhelm

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Internet is 9.99 for 24 hours. The ice machine by my room was broken and there are 4 tv channels
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Maureen

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

6/10 Okay

Einat

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Relatively close to Yosemite
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

6/10 Okay

Matthew

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mila

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

celestino

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Corey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Pleasantly surprised by the room I got. It was huge. Everything worked even though the property is dated. It’s a motel reasonably close to Yosemite which is why they get away with what they charge. Depending on the season, their prices are acceptable and this October stay was in that range of acceptability

2/10 Terrible

Nicholas

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Eric

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Love
We had a good time
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Gregg

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I did not like that not only did the property not provide complimentary wifi, but we were also limited to the first two devices we connected, not a total of two devices at any one time. This was very frustrating.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Connie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stay at Cedar Lodge
I stayed here for a weekend. I was reading the comments and I saw more bad than good. It was a very chilly morning at Yosemite that weekend and when we go inside our room, it was so warm, clean, and neat. We slept very comfortable and were able to rest comfortably for a very long day the next day after a 5 hour drive. I’m happy about our stay here! The burgers & jalapeño peppers are amazing! The only bad thing was that we had to pay for Wifi and it was $10 for 24 hours. I only needed it for destinations and gps! Other than that, “Disconnect to connect, look up and talk to each other.” ❤️🏔️🌿❄️
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023
Response from Cedar Lodge on Dec 11, 2023
Your feedback is appreciated. We are very pleased you had a wonderful stay, we hope to have you back soon!

6/10 Okay

Kevin

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Danny

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Essy location

10/10 Excellent

Scott

6/10 Okay

Ted

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Both Good and Bad
Clean room & friendly staff & best room rate anywhere near Yosemite, BUT comes with a couple of BIG drawbacks. Namely, TV reception was limited to 6-channel lo-resolution ANTENNA reception, wi-fi requires separate $10/day fee with 3rd-party provider (to be paid online by credit card), and cell reception (at least on T-Mobile) was non-existent. Fine if you WANT to be cut off from the rest of the world, but otherwise...
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Pengju

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Quiet and clean
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Heyuan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice experience
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Celina

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful place, very cute and great facilities, staff were very nice and helpful. Excellent budget pace near Yosemite Park
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

2/10 Terrible

David

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Place is horrible! Walls are paper thin! You can hear everything in the rooms next to and above. No internet at all. Wi-fi will cost you extra. Close to the entrance of Yosemite and that’s all there is that’s good about it.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Denise

Traveled with family and small children, Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great value for the area. Nice to be across the river.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Titipong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Keigo

Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
The comforter on the bed was thin and it was too cold for us.The pool and entertainment facilities were very pleasant. The front shopping area had a wide variety of food items and was very cheap, which made us happy.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

4/10 Poor

Jennifer

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

LUIS ALBERTO

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excelente location, clean and quiet hotel, love the customer service very friendly …. Love it

2/10 Terrible

Peter

Traveled with family and small children, Traveled with partner
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
No WIFI! You have to pay for WiFi. $10 per day No daily cleaning Bathroom smells Bed is very hard
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Towshif

Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Van

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
this property is newly remodel
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

JAMES

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
All meals at Cedar Lodge are way over priced for a below average meal. In our 9 day stay we had no choice but eat 5 meals at the Cedar Lodge. The fish in a fish and chips meal was mush. I learned a long time ago don’t send food back to the kitchen. Suck it up, pay for your meal and leave. They know you are almost a captive audience and make very little attempt to prepare a good meal. The nearest town, Mariposa, California with good choices. It is a 70-80 round trip drive on cooked roads thru the mountains. Internet is $10 per day for 2 devices.
Stayed 9 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Sujay

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good for a day stay.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Karina

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
No wifi
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Linda

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Wifi should be a basic service specially the poor cell phone reception in the area
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

diana

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Comfortable, clean property, great location.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Kathleen

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Food amazing, disappointed that the hair dryer didn't work. Bathroom nice and updates. Room needed updating..like bedspread, lighting, wallpaper. Very disappointed that wifo was extra
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Courtney

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Close proximity to Yosemite entrance. Beautiful views on drive.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023