So we drove out here from Southern California, thought we got a great deal on the room for two nights (we did). The staff is friendly, the rooms are well-maintained and clean - comfortable beds, huge fluffy pillows (actually a little too huge for me), nice flatscreen TV. However, the AC unit kind of sounds like a jet engine, especially at night. A solution to this is to not run the AC unit at night, but then you hear the other people outdoors yelling at each other or on cell phones at 3AM...
This Howard Johnson's is nicely situated in a good area. I'd recommend this to anyone who isn't a light sleeper :)