The Gateway Restaurant & Lodge

Disappointed and regretted not staying...

Liked: The restaurant had a nice dinner menu and good service, and some seats had views of the rushing river. You can eat at the restaurant even if you don't stay at the lodge. (Most who go to the restaurant are not staying at the lodge.)
Disliked: I selected this hotel because as my booking.com receipt stated, we would be able to purchase a $15 breakfast. When I showed that receipt with that to the manager on duty, they said we could not get that. They would only offer us a $31 per person brunch. There were 2 of us. We didn't want to pay that, and the nearest other breakfast spot we could find without an extreme wait was a coffee shop 11 miles down the road (away from Sequoia National Park where we were heading after breakfast), right next to the Comfort Inn. That meant 22 extra miles of driving for breakfast. We so regretted that we hadn't just stayed at the Comfort Inn, which would have been significantly cheaper and included breakfast. We had chosen Gateway because it was was closer to the park and according to the booking.com website, it offered the $15 breakfast. The Gateway Inn room was clean enough, but small! It surrounds a small parking lot right off the main road- there is nothing scenic about the hotel rooms! The bathroom was extremely small and had no towel hooks.

Great location, nice rooms, outside...

Liked: Loved the location!
Disliked: The property could use some updating but inside the room was nice. The food was just ok. Don’t order the Tomahawk steak! Undercooked the first time served, sent it back. Came back still not cooked and we eat rare steak all the time. You cannot serve steak that rare!

Hot fun in the summer...

Liked: EVERYONE at Gateway were wonderful.
Disliked: Nothing it was a great experience.

Pleasant

Very poor

Liked: Restaurant was great
Disliked: The Room

Very good

Liked: Very nice staff, specifically cleaning lady. Great location and a really good restaurant next to it
Disliked: You live there in the parking lot of a restaurant. Really low quality hotel. Try to avoid if you can

Passable

Beautiful location and wonderful staff...

Liked: Beautiful location next the the rivers! It was awesome to sit outside on the patio with a glass of wine and enjoy the view!
Disliked: The room had two double beds really close together which made it difficult to get around.

Pleasant

Disliked: The restaurant should have been cleaner out on the deck