Hi! Does anybody have any experience with Extended StayAmerica Hotels that you could share? Am looking into staying at one in Kent, WA and just wondered how they rate for a small family of 2 adults and 2 children (ages 22 months and 5 years). Thanks!

Hi Karen

We stayed at their property in Santa Rosa, CA.--our son is in college nearby. It was fine for that purpose. It was new and clean, but not luxurious. It did had a small kitchen, which may be useful with young children. I don't recall if there was a stove top or just a microwave. There were washers/dryers on the first floor. There wasn't an elevator, and we were on the third floor. This was OK for us, but, with children, you may want to ask for a first floor room. Bottom line, it was a good basic place to stay for a few nights, but I wouldn't consider it as a vacation destination. I think there is a website.

Betsy's on target. They're clean, most are relatively new, basic, but offer a lot of little amenities which can save $. Not luxurious, but not as basic as a Motel 6, either.
Functional. That's a good description, I guess.

A couple of observations:

1) Extremely clean
2) Extremely spartan
3) Extremely cheap

You would not want to take someone here for a romantic liaison, but you certainly could do worse with kids. However, you are renting a very small space--much smaller than the photos on the their web site suggest. I'd consider another property if I were traveling with two small children.

Just stayed at one in Colorado Springs for a week. Was clean & nice. Small kitchen, fridge, cooktop & microwave. Did you try their web site? http://www.exstay.com/

My family and I stayed at an Extended Stay in Houston last summer, and it was very convenient. Our children were 3 years old and 6 months, and it was great to have a small kitchen in which to cook simple meals. There was a sink, coffee maker, full sized fridge, stovetop, and a microwave. The place was very clean, and the maid even washed our dishes. On the other hand, a couple weeks ago we were in Orlando and we stayed at a Studio Plus (which is a "bigger sister" property of Extended Stay, also on their website), which had an oven in the kitchen, and a pull-out sofa instead of a second double bed. My biggest complaint was that we had a weekly rate in Orlando, which meant we only had maid service once a week, as opposed to when we stayed in Houston on a daily rate, and had maid service everyday. I would definitely stay at Extended Stay again (although, as Tom said, it's a small space--- but I don't think that's a big problem if you're on vacation and spending most of your time away from your room), but I don't think I'd bother with Studio Plus again; we never once used the oven, and the sofabed was a pain to open and close everyday.