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Hotel Lucent

3.0 star property
Family-friendly 3-star hotel near Stanford Shopping Center

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Terrace/patio
Front of property - evening/night
Standard Room, 2 Double Beds
Courtyard
Coffee service

Reviews

8.4 out of 10

Very good

Popular amenities

  • Breakfast included
  • Gym
  • Housekeeping
  • 24/7 front desk
  • Parking included
  • Air conditioning

Explore the area

Map
727 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA, 94025
  • Stanford Shopping Center
    14 min walk
  • Allied Arts Guild
    18 min walk
  • Menlo College
    4 min drive
  • Palo Alto, CA (PAO-Santa Clara County)
    12 min drive

Room options

View all photos for Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed

Premium bedding, in-room safe, desk, soundproofing

Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed

  • 23 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

View all photos for Standard Room, 2 Double Beds

Premium bedding, in-room safe, desk, soundproofing

Standard Room, 2 Double Beds

  • 23 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Double Beds

View all photos for Standard Room, 1 King Bed

Premium bedding, in-room safe, desk, soundproofing

Standard Room, 1 King Bed

  • 23 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

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About the area

Menlo Park

Heart of Menlo Park.Your stay at this Downtown Menlo Park hotel places you within 2 miles (3 km) of Stanford Shopping Center and Stanford University Medical Center. Also, Stanford University is within 3 miles (5 km) and Facebook Campus is within 6 miles (10 km).

What's nearby

  • Stanford Shopping Center - 14 min walk - 1.2 km
  • Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford - 4 min drive - 2.7 km
  • Stanford University Medical Center - 4 min drive - 3.2 km
  • Stanford University - 4 min drive - 3.4 km
  • Stanford Stadium - 5 min drive - 3.2 km

Getting around

  • Menlo Park Station - 6 min walk
  • Norman Y. Mineta San Jose Intl. Airport (SJC) - 24 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Philz Coffee - ‬6 min walk
  • ‪Saint Frank Coffee - ‬6 min walk
  • ‪Starbucks - ‬6 min walk
  • ‪Coffeebar - ‬9 min walk
  • ‪Cafe Borrone - ‬5 min walk

About this property

Hotel Lucent

Family-friendly 3-star hotel near Stanford Shopping Center
Free breakfast is served daily. WiFi and wired Internet are free in public spaces. A fitness center, a terrace, and an arcade/game room are also featured at the family-friendly Hotel Lucent. Free self parking is available.

This 3-star Menlo Park hotel is smoke free.

  • 1 building
  • 47 guestrooms or units
  • 2 levels
  • Continental breakfast (free)
  • Charging station for electric cars
  • Coffee in lobby
  • Front desk (24 hours)
  • Staff is multilingual
  • Storage area for luggage
  • Front-desk safe
  • Concierge
  • Game room or arcade
  • Pool or billiards table
  • Terrace
  • Garden
  • Television in lobby
  • No smoking on site
Hotel Lucent offers 47 air-conditioned accommodations with laptop-compatible safes and complimentary bottled water. Beds feature premium bedding. 49-inch LED televisions come with premium digital channels. Guests can make use of the in-room refrigerators and coffee/tea makers. Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers, bathrobes, slippers, and designer toiletries.

Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and complimentary toiletries. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Languages

English, Spanish

Property amenities

Family friendly

  • Arcade/game room
  • Free cribs/infant beds
  • Pool gate
  • Refrigerator
  • Soundproofed rooms

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi and wired Internet

Parking and transportation

  • Free covered self parking on site
  • Electric car charging station on site

Food and drink

  • Free continental breakfast available 6:00 AM–9:00 AM on weekdays and 7:00 AM–10:00 AM on weekends
  • Coffee/tea in common area(s)

Things to do

  • Arcade/game room
  • Billiards/pool table
  • Fitness center
  • Table tennis

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • This property does not have elevators
  • Braille signage
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
  • Wheelchair-accessible registration desk

Room amenities

Entertainment

  • 49-inch LED TV
  • Digital channels
  • Premium channels

Bedroom

  • Air conditioning
  • Bed sheets
  • Free cribs/infant beds
  • Premium bedding

Bathroom

  • Bathrobes
  • Bathtub or shower
  • Designer toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Towels

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Free bottled water
  • Refrigerator

More

  • Connecting rooms available
  • Desk
  • Iron/ironing board
  • Laptop-compatible safe
  • Phone
  • Slippers
  • Soundproofing

Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at 3:00 PM

Check-out

Check-out before noon
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

An adult age 18 or older must assume all liability for the booking
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • No pets allowed, but service animals are welcome

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
  • Free cribs (infant beds)!

Property payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a security system, a first aid kit, and window guards
Charges for extra guests may apply and vary according to property policy.
A cash deposit, credit card, or debit card for incidental charges and government-issued photo identification may be required upon check-in.
Special requests are subject to availability at the time of check-in. Special requests can't be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
    This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business, or profession. This property accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. Cash is not accepted. For guests' safety, the property includes a carbon monoxide detector, a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, a security system, a first aid kit, and window guards in each accommodation.

We should mention

  • Up to 2 children 17 years old and younger stay free in the same room as the parent or guardian when using existing bedding.
  • Connecting/adjoining rooms are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property at the number on your booking confirmation.

Property is also known as

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Hotel Lucent Reviews

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 377 out of 729 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 197 out of 729 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 96 out of 729 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 33 out of 729 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 26 out of 729 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.2/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

jennifer

Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Paul

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

10/10 Excellent

Jamarr

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Karlos

Travelled with family and small children, Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
Every thing great except the room was very humid and blankets felt humid/ wet hard to sleep in the room
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Lisa

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Warning small beds! Great friendly people and loc
Good things Breakfast, pool table, friendly people, great location, great parking Bad things Mold in bathroom and shower was disgusting, not given replacement towels when used ones were take, full beds instead of queens.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
It’s basically a motel 6 with an ikea makeover. Looks cool and hip in the pics, but not so much. The “pool” is a joke. It’s a long skinny hot tub/water feature. It is as 90 degrees outside and the hot tub was hotter. Located on the main drag, need to walk a few blocks to restaurants or anything cute. It is super close to the Guild theater which is why we were there (seeing the Old 97s). So…if you are looking for basics, no frills, with a little makeover, this is the place. Buts definitely not boutique chic.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Jon

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Room had an off-putting smell. Pics of the hotel suggest it’s more luxe than it is. But location is great if you are heading to the Guild or nearby eateries.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

4/10 Poor

Monica

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is called a hotel, however the rooms are accessed outdoors which makes me feel uneasy. I was able to hear every single step every single flush and every single shower from the room directly above me. The walls must be very thin because I was able to hear everybody walking outside of the room as well. The hotel does not pay attention to detail because many items in the room were worn, had tears and unclean. The pictures online are a bit deceiving because it looks very new and updated. However, the rooms no longer look new and poorly maintained. The bathroom door did not close all the way, The walls were dirty, The chair in the room was torn. The bathroom mirror looked like it had not been cleaned in weeks, And was not cleaned a while at my stay either. The Expedia app said this was a four-star hotel, but it is a two maybe three star at best. It looks like an old Motel 6 that was renovated with the bare minimum.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Ismo

Travelled with family
Motel level hotel.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Laetitia, Morgan Hill

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Really clean, comfortable and affordable. Friendly staff and great parking area
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Sharon and

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Really quiet over the Sunday night we stayed, only a few other cars. Very convenient to Stanford Hospital! Breakfast was decent. Great bathroo!Whatever cleaning solution they use, they used way too much! very strong chorox smell, had to leave room and turn on air to dissipate odor
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Changsheng

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location is great. Walkable to supermarket and lots of dining option nearby. Close to Stanford University.
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ashley

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was a great choice!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Nancy

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

4/10 Poor

Lakshmi

Travelled with family
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities
We arrived at 10pm and they had no record of my reservation despite booking it 6 weeks previously and Expedia having taken payment. They managed to accommodate us after a lot of back and forth but it was a temporary room and we had to move the next day. Our new room had a broken closet and when the shampoo dispenser didn't work and I tried to take the bottle off to use it directly, they accused me of breaking it and that I should have asked for help. The manager said she would waive the charge for the repair. Not sure how I would have called for help while standing in the shower. Despite all of this we made the most of it but my biggest issue was on our last day I made four requests for housekeeping to clean my room and they never came. On the final request, front desk told me the cleaners had all gone home. No apology whatsoever. The included breakfast was decent but they were always slow to refill it and I felt it was because they were waiting for the time to run out so they wouldn't have to. Regarding the lost reservation I feel both Expedia and the Hotel were pointing fingers at each other. They have refused my request for a refund.
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Natalie

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Ellen, Bernardsville

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Didn’t like - struggled to get TV to work, finally told them and they said it was out system wide. They could’ve told us via email so no one struggled. Didn’t like - one day the room wasn’t made up despite the placard on the doorknob. Didn’t like - no elevator Liked - breakfast Liked - location Liked - people at reception were nice Didn’t like - wake up call didn’t work twice, neither did alarm clock in room
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Willa Michelle

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great motel with a cool coffee maker in the lobby. Easily walk to Menlo Park train stop, Stanford Shopping Center, Stanford University.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Sharon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I am enjoying my stay. My only suggestion is to make sure the room is supplied with coffee cups, glasses & water. There were a few minor issues with an unplugged light but it is a very nice room.
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Phil

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Nicole

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
The room and beds were comfortable, good lighting, but the dressing mirror had not been cleaned it was foggy. There was a Ping Pong table but only 1 broken ball left, the pool water was not clean.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jordi, San Diego

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice hotel. Best feature compared to all other hotels round is the noise isolation. You can barely hear the train.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Ronald

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice, clean, basic
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

6/10 Okay

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
A motel. Very expensive for what it is — but they’ve invested a great deal in fixtures, furniture, finishes, and for all of that effort I wanted to give it a 5. Unfortunately the traffic noise on El Camino is inescapable, and the staff are often hard to find, not at the desk, have a bell to ring but never come out. And you’ll get your bottled water the first night, but they’ll refuse you any more when you pay for a second night (at $256 a night). If you ask nicely you’ll get a little speech about reducing plastic waste for your trouble. A false economy at the price, silly, needlessly annoying. $180/night would be more fair for what and where the property is. Just $0.02 to management.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024