This hotel is a good place to stay if you are merely spending a night along your way to Yosemite. The desk staff was not very helpful at all. Their brochure lists panning for gold as an activity, which we looked forward to. When we asked the staff about it, they merely said they had no idea where we could pan for gold, maybe in a rock shop somewhere along the highway. There is no coffee pot in the room, no continental breakfast, the restaurant left a lot to be desired and the bathroom smelled unclean. The drive, however, is quite beautiful.