American Motel
About American Motel
Enjoy a comfortable stay at the American Motel, conveniently located in Wheat Ridge's Arvada Plaza Area, just a short drive from Coors Field and Empower Field at Mile High. This motel offers complimentary Wi-Fi, a 24-hour front desk, laundry facilities, an ATM, and free self-parking. Each of the 138 air-conditioned rooms features a flat-screen TV with cable programming, a private bathroom with a shower/tub combination, and a desk. Housekeeping is provided daily. Nearby attractions include Clear Creek, Lakeside Amusement Park, and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. The motel is also within a 15-minute drive of Lutheran Medical Center and Applewood Golf Course.
Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Meeting space
- Business center
- Dry cleaning
- Self-service laundry
- Wheelchair accessible
- Elevator
Reviews
The hotel reviews are overwhelmingly negative, with guests frequently mentioning dirty rooms, homeless people in and around the property, and unprofessional staff. However, some guests appreciated the affordable price and friendly staff.
- Affordable price
- Friendly staff
- Dirty rooms
- Homeless people in and around the property
- 3/5
Easy process, good prices, friendly staff. Just a trashy, junk hotel. Make sure you park where you can see your car b/c there are questionable people walking around the parking lot at all hours of the night
- 3/5
Expedia needs to stop asking me for reviews. I deleted several emails about this because I only give reviews if I have a reason. This hotel closed in July 2025. Stop asking me for a review
- 2/5
My bathroom had the small variety of cockroaches, and the door was in shambles. I highly recommend paying a little more per night and staying somewhere else.
- 1/5
Room was absolutely filthy. Even the non smoking rooms reaked of cigs. White stains on the sheets, dirty sock and hair in the bathroom and the fridge didn’t work. Would have rather stayed in my car.
- 5/5
Was perfect
- 5/5
I stayed there quite often, and they are quite friendly and accommodating
- 1/5
The property stunk really bad. The manager was very rude
- 4/5
I prefer the apple inn across the street
- 2/5
2. Rooms - sheets were dirty and stained. The carpet had huge noticable stains and needed many sweeping as it had alot of particles on it. Not to mention - i found glass on my bed and holes in my sheet. 3. The other tenants in the building looked sketchy. I was not 100% safe.
- 2/5
That place is disgusting, there was blood on the elevator wall, the carpet is old, dirty and gross, and needs to be replaced, that was my 3rd time staying there never again
- 1/5
The room was awful. The screen door to patio was broken. The lock for glass sliding door was broken. Broken bathroom door broken. Nasty patches on walls. Walls were dirty. Main door to room looked like it had several attempts of break ins
- 3/5
Quick and friendly
- 4/5
Quick and easy.
- 4/5
Quick and easy
- 4/5
Easy to get around
- 5/5
Miss Sandy is very polite an staff are very helpful
- 4/5
I have no complaints about my short stay. Everything including the staff were wonderful I’d definitely stay again in the future.
- 3/5
Quick and easy
- 4/5
Helpful and friendly.
- 2/5
This place is a trash heap.
- 4/5
Quick and easy
- 1/5
Stains, smells, rude, don't use the sheets or showers.
- 4/5
Quick and easy
- 3/5
Quick and easy.
- 3/5
Easy in and out.
- 3/5
Clean and easy going.
- 3/5
Quick easy and friendly check in and out.
- 2/5
The front desk manager, Robert was such a jerk. No customer skills.
- 1/5
This hotel needs the bulldozer…
- 5/5
Service
- 1/5
Shabby, dirty, poorly lit room. There was a cash(!) deposit required for the room key. Wifi was "open" so completely insecure. Lobby restroom requires a key from the front desk. The bed spread was stained and the entire building was musty smelling. I left and found another place for the night.
- 4/5
Friendly checking in and out
- 3/5
Quick and easy
- 4/5
Simple in and out
- 4/5
Checking in and out was simple.
- 4/5
Balcony was nice tyhabe
- 5/5
They are it easy for me 5 stars across the board .So other guest may have a different option but I'm simple So with that being said I'll always go back
- 1/5
Horrible conditions manager is unfair amd brakes the law and gets away with it beacuse she knows the people that stay are homeless and have no other means of housing themself. Also they charge entirely way to much for the run down place it is no breakfast no room clean service unless bagged rude staff and i was told i am unable to have the right to freedom of speach well inside my paid for room.
- 3/5
Typical cheap hotel
- 3/5
Quick and easy in and out.
- 3/5
Quick and each check in and out
- 1/5
The one and only outlet was near the ceiling. Hotel stinks like cigars. Staff not helpful. Charged extra for key card. Room dirty. Carpet bably worn. Mattresses worn. Terrible.
- 1/5
This should not be an option for people to choose! The room was very dirty. The smell was awful. Didn't feel safe. Left after 1 night. Pictures are not current. Front desk Staff were nice. Felt sorry for them.
- 4/5
Quick and easy check in and out
- 3/5
Quick and easy.
- 5/5
Love the private balcony with sliding doors but the fact that they give u your privacy to full extent and are always there to help with any assistance..... And feel safe with 24hr security....
- 3/5
Checking in was quick and easy.
- 3/5
Easy to get around
- 4/5
Simple going
- 3/5
Everything was easy going. In and out
- 5/5
Every
- 4/5
It was easy going.
- 2/5
Can get rides
- 4/5
Everything was quick and easy. Very friendly.
- 4/5
It was all easy going.
- 4/5
Hotel is getting old but was quiet and comfortable.Nite front desk Guy needs a personality upgrade.. Convenient to fast food restaurants and to major i70 highway.
- 2/5
one wall behind beds did not have any power...so the lights over the bed, the refrigerator, and microwave did not work. Freeway noise continued all night, but a diesel pick up truck arrived at 2 am, and the engine kept running outside of the sliding glass doors to the rooms. When i went to check out, the person on duty would not get up from his desk to come and give me my dollar back for the room key.
- 5/5
Manage miss Sandy is fantastic
- 4/5
Very easy going
- 4/5
Everything is easy going.
- 4/5
Nice property
- 4/5
Very affordable
- 5/5
Miss Sandy the manager is very very good at her job. An is always polite an easy to talk to.
- 5/5
I liked the place
- 5/5
I like it a lot
- 1/5
Trash
- 5/5
Had a peaceful and relaxing stay. Enjoyed the room, had an unexpected issue with room availability and desk clerk gave me a free upgraded room. Fabulous stay will highly recommend to others, and will stay again
- 5/5
Affordable cheap friendly quiet
- 5/5
Clean and quiet
- 5/5
Great staff
- 1/5
I was recently kicked out of this place because I laid out $20because I don't like the housekeepers in my room I clean my own room and one of the housekeepers came in my room and stole the $20 I reported it now I have to leave because that housekeeper is a thief
- 5/5
Staff is awesome are aawesome to the community
- 5/5
Fantastic employees therefor you when other chains are not , called compassion. World lost that . Never forget where you came from
- 4/5
Thank you, the location served us fine.
- 2/5
Felt very unsafe and evertjing was dirty.
- 5/5
The staff was really friendly
- 4/5
A lot of cigarette burns on the sheets of a non smoking room
- 5/5
Great place to stay
- 5/5
Great staff
- 1/5
If I could leave 0 starts I would. This place was terrible. It smelled like cigarettes and my “non smoking” room had cigarette ashes in the bathroom. The room was so dirty! It was cheaper but I should have paid much less for that room. I was lucky I only stayed there for a few hours.
- 2/5
The price on Expedia is well above the price listed at the motel. The non-smoking rooms had a smell of smoke. The first room we got the toilet water was not working. The second room did not have it's own thermostat for the the a/c.
- 3/5
Easy access to Interstate and near the place needed to go.
- 5/5
Great
- 5/5
Nice room but there a gentlemen that rude that work the front desk
- 5/5
Good Quiet Comfortable Stay.
- 4/5
No deposit
- 1/5
A drug infested rat hole. Expedia should not offer this property as an option. Had a reservation, walked in and left.
- 3/5
Okay stay
- 4/5
All
- 5/5
Everyone working here was so helpful and kind. I can always count on them to take care of me and I'm sure they will you to.
- 5/5
Room was comfortable. the bed was comfortable. The Air Conditioner worked Great. Later check out was great.
- 5/5
It may be an Older hotel but their staff has and always been amazing to us. The rates are very reasonable
- 5/5
Caring stuff
- 1/5
The room didn't look to bad at first. Then only 1 outlet in the room worked. Then about an hour after being there the roaches started coming Into our room. The house keeping stole things from our room and when we addressed it with the manger she just said the lady had worked there for 12 years so she would have to asked what happened then NEVER got back to us. The pool they advertise was down the entire time we were there. The carpet was so disgusting your feet/shoes would turn BLACK. The card to the room had to be reset every other day if we had the DND sign up and when house keeping would come in the room. There is only a microwave and mini fridge in the room.The only really good thing was the old cast iron tube that would stay hot/warm for about an hour or so 10 out of 10 would NOT recommend.
- 4/5
Hotel is filthy. Reeks of cigarettes. Requested non-smoking room to no avail. Was unable to stay out was so dirty and smelled so bad.
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What's nearby
- Colorado Convention Center 6.8 mi