I am writing this review while staying at the YMCA "hotel" for three weeks in July/August 2007. The turn-offs for this place are the following: no overnight guests, common bathrooms and showers, basic rooms. These qualities make it more like a hostel than a hotel, but you do get your own bedroom. The main turn-on, however, is the price for... more

I stayed at the Berkeley YMCA Hotel the evenings of 13-16 December 2006. I tried making a reservation with the hotel a little less than three weeks before my anticipated visit and was told that they were completely booked. However, I was later able to make a reservation through the HostelWorld.com hosteling web site -- all I needed to do... more