Downtown Berkeley Inn

Berkeley


Near downtown, this budget motel has a couple dozen good-sized rooms with platform beds, plus free parking. It's a good balance of budget and proximity to Berkeley's main drag.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Berkeley attractions

1. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

0.24 MILES

This museum boasts a fine collection – almost 15,000 pieces – of art and cultural artifacts sourced from across the Jewish diaspora, particularly Jewish…

2. UC Berkeley Art Museum

0.29 MILES

With a stainless-steel exterior wrapping around a 1930s printing plant, this museum holds multiple galleries showcasing a limited number of artworks, from…

3. UC Museum of Paleontology

0.52 MILES

Despite the title, this isn't a museum, but rather a research facility that's closed to the public. With that said, the location within the Valley Life…

4. Sather Gate

0.61 MILES

The frenetic energy buzzing from the university’s Sather Gate on any given day is a mixture of youthful posthippies reminiscing about days before their…

5. University of California, Berkeley

0.61 MILES

'Cal' is one of the country's top universities, California's oldest university (1866), and home to 40,000 diverse, politically conscious students. Next to…

6. Telegraph Avenue

0.61 MILES

Telegraph Ave has traditionally been the throbbing heart of studentville in Berkeley, the sidewalks crowded with undergrads, postdocs and youthful…

7. Bancroft Library

0.7 MILES

The Bancroft houses, among other gems, the papers of Mark Twain, a copy of Shakespeare’s folios and a diary from the Donner Party. Its small public…

8. People’s Park

0.71 MILES

This park, just east of Telegraph Ave, is a marker in local history as a political battleground between residents and the city and state government in the…