Beston Inn Seattle

2-star hotel Good 12035 Aurora Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98133
Beston Inn Seattle

About Beston Inn Seattle

Business Amenities<br /><br /> The front desk is staffed during limited hours. Free self parking is available onsite.<br /><br />Rooms<br /><br /> Make yourself at home in one of the 41 guestrooms featuring microwaves and LED televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms with bathtubs or showers are provided.<br /><br />Attractions<br /><br /> Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. <br /> <p>Northwest Hospital and Medical Center - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi <br /> Northgate Station - 2.2 km / 1.4 mi <br /> Green Lake Park - 3.9 km / 2.4 mi <br /> Shoreline Community College - 4 km / 2.5 mi <br /> Woodland Park Zoo - 5.7 km / 3.5 mi <br /> Lake Washington - 6.9 km / 4.3 mi <br /> Fremont Troll - 7.6 km / 4.7 mi <br /> Neptune Theater - 8.1 km / 5 mi <br /> National Nordic Museum - 8.2 km / 5.1 mi <br /> University Village - 8.3 km / 5.2 mi <br /> University of Washington - 8.5 km / 5.3 mi <br /> Shilshole Bay Marina - 8.6 km / 5.4 mi <br /> Lake Union - 8.7 km / 5.4 mi <br /> Gas Works Park - 8.7 km / 5.4 mi <br /> Seattle Pacific University - 9.1 km / 5.7 mi <br /> </p><p>The nearest airports are:<br />Seattle, WA (LKE-Lake Union Seaplane Base) - 11.1 km / 6.9 mi<br /> Seattle, WA (BFI-Boeing Field) - 22.6 km / 14.1 mi<br /> Seattle Paine Field Intl. Airport (PAE) - 26.7 km / 16.6 mi<br /> Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) - 36.1 km / 22.4 mi<br /> </p><p></p><br /><br />Location<br /><br /> Located in Seattle (Bitter Lake), Beston Inn Seattle is within a 10-minute drive of University of Washington and Woodland Park Zoo. This hotel is 7 mi (11.3 km) from Space Needle and 7.5 mi (12 km) from Seattle Cruise Ship Terminal 91.<br /><br />Headline<br /><br /> In Seattle (Bitter Lake)

Amenities

Reviews

3.2 / 5

The hotel consistently fails to meet basic expectations, with numerous complaints about cleanliness, amenities, and location. Guests frequently express dissatisfaction with the hotel's neighborhood, describing it as unsafe and filled with prostitution.

What guests liked
  • Staff can be friendly and helpful
  • Rooms can be spacious
What could be better
  • Hotel located in a high-crime, unsafe area with prostitution
  • Rooms often dirty and not as advertised
  • Jennifer Jun 2026 · via expedia
    4/5

    Parking onsite was useful

  • Daria May 2026 · via expedia
    4/5

    Good

  • Laura Feb 2026 · via expedia
    4/5

    Locally owned and ran by a friendly couple. The room was clean. It was a bit cold when I first got in but turning up the baseboard heaters helped that. The floor was a bit chilly to walk on. One of the chairs upholstery was dirty. All bedding and linens were clean and cozy. The bathroom was small but clean. Not appropriate if you need a handicap bathroom but worked well for this single traveller. Also had a mini-fridge, microwave, coffee maker, a table and 2 chairs, and a little kitchenette sink. The room was very spacious even if the bathroom wasn't.

  • Dakota Nov 2025 · via expedia
    5/5

    Great stay

  • Ray Oct 2025 · via expedia
    3/5

    Staff was friendly even gave us extra blankets because it was cold that night. Room are not terrible just don't expect super fancy stuff. Only downsides are that the heater doesn't blow out a lot of hot air it'll take a few hours for your room to get warm and the location is pretty sketchy. The room has a sign that says no prostitution lol it's one of these places.

  • Francisco Oct 2025 · via expedia
    2/5

    No one was at the front desk when I came in after 20 minutes someone finally came ( they reeked of cigarettes) I tell them

  • Tremaine Oct 2025 · via hotels.com
    5/5

    Great staff. I think this place is amazing! Just super friendly, make you feel welcome!

  • Tremaine Oct 2025 · via hotels.com
    5/5

    The staff is absolutely amazing. It ain’t downtown but it’s just as good!

  • Jaeden Sep 2025 · via expedia
    5/5

    Affordable and clean and not too far from the city. What else do you need. Highly recommended!

  • Tim Sep 2025 · via expedia
    4/5

    The room was spacious, comfortable, quiet and clean! Pleasantly surprised!

  • Yousif Sep 2025 · via expedia
    1/5

    Unit smelt bad and sheets and floors were dirty.

  • Natalee Aug 2025 · via expedia
    2/5

    Super sketchy area and room had hair in the bed, on the floor, sink, and shower.

  • Holly Aug 2025 · via expedia
    2/5

    Bed was broken when we got there, theres wifi for your phones but you can't connect the TV to it. They say they have live channels, but you can't watch it unless you have wifi... So unless you have a hotspot your out of luck. Floor was sticky, and they never cleaned out the coffee pot so there was a moldy coffee filter left in there... But hey, at least there was no bed bugs.

  • Gregory Aug 2025 · via hotels.com
    2/5

    This is a very dirty hotel. There was dirt everywhere in the room. The chair has pine needles and dirt all over it. The bed was rock hard and overall it was disgusting.

  • Chengyang Jul 2025 · via expedia
    5/5

    I love this place, the owner deliver warm welcome. The facility inside is new. AC available . Even the location look close street, but I did not hear anything during my stay. The big Asian food market and a lot of Asian restaurant just 15 min walking distance. Great stay with good price

  • Sean Jul 2025 · via expedia
    5/5

    Older hotel but very well kept with. Staff were very friendly.

  • Lorna Jul 2025 · via expedia
    1/5

    Once arrived, the family and i looked at eachother and knew this area was not what was shown in pictures. Cig. Burns in bed spreads. The lady at desk, tina, was supportive and called the owner and approved a refund. But they wont answer phone with expedia staff to reverse my charge. Still waiting!!!

  • Ashley Jul 2025 · via expedia
    2/5

    When I first got there the room I was put in had a weird odor and was not very clean. You could see fingerprints on the door and also there was a piece of toilet paper that had not been flushed in the toilet. The floors look so dirty that I did not takeoff my sandals. The bed look nice and I didn’t see any bugs. I tried to take a shower and the water was ice cold. I put a towel on the floor so I got the water that I had made. When I picked up the towel, It was filthy. Doesn’t look like the floors have been cleaned in a long time. I went to the manager and he moved me to another room promptly and that was a lot better, but still overall a very rundown property. I debated just taking the loss of money and going home. It was very loud at night with people, yelling outside and loud cars. I woke up several times throughout the night and ended up just getting up to leave at 4 AM as I figured a rest stop would be more restful. I’m not sure if the motel six would’ve been better.

  • William Jul 2025 · via expedia
    1/5

    It's a hooker motel

  • Jeffrey Jul 2025 · via expedia
    2/5

    Pretty sketchy Aurora ave property.

  • Monica Jul 2025 · via expedia
    4/5

    The kids loved the pool.

  • Kaitlin Jun 2025 · via expedia
    1/5

    Not sure why the reviews online are a 10 but this place had so much prostitution. Naked ladies walking in and out. Not safe. Super sketch people

  • Angela May 2025 · via expedia
    5/5

    Check in was easy. Staff were friendly and they were helpful with suggesting public transportation to get to Downtown Seattle. The room was great for the night. My only conplaints are that we did not have hot water to shower with and the frost on the bathroom window was peeling. I dont know if there are people who live behind the building but it made me uncomfortable that someone would have the ability to see in the bathroom. Other than that, we enjoyed the stay and staff at Beston. I would stay there again.

  • Megan May 2025 · via expedia
    5/5

    very nice staff!

  • Keri Dec 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    My fav house ever

  • Tim Nov 2024 · via expedia
    3/5

    Front desk person was very nice.

  • Tao Nov 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    Excellent service!

  • John Oct 2024 · via expedia
    1/5

    Appliances were beat up broken and dirty TV did not have a remote first unit I was assigned to didn’t even have anywhere to hang our clothes or a dresser to put it in construction was done substandard

  • Abel Sep 2024 · via expedia
    3/5

    Busy

  • Paul Sep 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    It’s coo

  • Levi Sep 2024 · via expedia
    1/5

    I didn't even stay it was so gross. Room smelled so strong of smoke and couldn't get my refund. Was there maybe ten minutes

  • Sydney Sep 2024 · via expedia
    3/5

    The shower was set really far into the wall and wasnt very tall, felt really claustrophobic and too dark as light couldn't reach in

  • Scott Sep 2024 · via expedia
    4/5

    It was ok for one night. Didn’t get the room we reserved, but we needed to get downtown, so I didn’t go talk to anyone

  • Fraix Sep 2024 · via expedia
    4/5

    Pretty good

  • Jesmarie Aug 2024 · via expedia
    2/5

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  • Ronaldo Aug 2024 · via hotels.com
    5/5

    The best between Downtown Seattle and Shoreline.

  • Stephanie Aug 2024 · via expedia
    3/5

    It was okay just for one night I would never book more then just one night stay here.

  • Osavia Aug 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    Nice

  • Verified Aug 2024 · via hotels.com
    1/5

    Many things were inacceptable. Bad tv remote, decorative pillows only, very dirty bed spread, 11am checkout with no flexibility unless you want to pay more

  • OG Aug 2024 · via expedia
    4/5

    The manager bwas very nice to me.

  • shuai Aug 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    非常不错

  • Mira Jul 2024 · via expedia
    1/5

    We paid for 2 nights then they came banging on our door claiming angrily to us we didn't pay for the second night. They showed us a pice of paper to tell us we only paid one night. I told the guy when checking out we were staying both Saturday and Sunday. He was yhe one we already paid online and had us sign the piece of paper. It was entirely ugly experience . The sewer gas coming from toilet and no air conditioning and no proper amenities, no housekeeping, extremely tiny room, on top of all this they said an hour and a half before checkout time we had to pay 2nd night which was not correct. Our billing statement from expedia/Orbitz.com showed we paid for 2 nights. It was the worst experience ever along with Seattle downtown experience.

  • izabella Jul 2024 · via expedia
    2/5

    Help and got the wrong room and had to ask for the one I ordered

  • Lauriston Jul 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    It wasn’t too bad. Just wasn’t the best area of town but it wasn’t noisy or any drama related issues. Great stay for me overall.

  • oluseye Jul 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    Satisfactory

  • Andreina Jul 2024 · via expedia
    1/5

    We showed up to get our keys to the room we reserved but they were closed (never had the front desk be closed in other motels no matter what time we arrive) our flight arrived late but that has never been an issue before in other motels but it was in this one since the front desk was closed and had to sleep in our car that night.

  • Michael Jul 2024 · via expedia
    3/5

    It was small, not overly crowded but the other tenets could have learned some manners, it’s not

  • Edward Jul 2024 · via expedia
    1/5

    floor filthy, no toilet paper holder, no bath mat, very poor neighborhood, limited dining nearby, no ac, big, noisy fan for cooling, no coffee maker, no seperation of sink from shower.... all in all not up to even the least standards one would expect.

  • Erendira Jul 2024 · via expedia
    2/5

    I should have checked first but there was no AC just a fan. The room was small with a smell. The bed was not comfortable at all and there were people talking until 3 am and then started again at 6 am. We got no sleep.

  • Ann-Charlotte Jun 2024 · via hotels.com
    1/5

    Værelset var nedrivnings klar. Døren var utæt. Man kunne skære sig på fødderne af afløbet i badeværelset. Så hvis man søger et skummelt sted så er det her man skal være omgivelserne taget i betragtning.

  • Henrik Jun 2024 · via hotels.com
    1/5

    Maybe service would have been better if I was hiring a prostitute.. Avoid!!!!

  • Anthony Jun 2024 · via expedia
    3/5

    Room and property were ok in many ways, but not in others. Location is in an area with limited sidewalks, with places to eat really close, extra caution required. Room was clean, bed comfortable, bathroom recently renovated, but nowhere to hang clothes, no towel bars and no coffee supplied. A place for a decent night’s sleep.

  • Layton Jun 2024 · via expedia
    3/5

    The manager was really nice but the room i was in had cracks on tge sriling and a big hole in the bathroom door

  • Noelle Jun 2024 · via expedia
    1/5

    Room smelled like smoke and there were hookers outside

  • David Jun 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    Room was clean, property was quiet, parking right in front of the room, very kind owners. I had the queen bed for 2 and we had a wonderful time coming and going as we please. Would definitely recommend and come back for sure.

  • Graham Jun 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    Definitely worthy of the 5 star rating

  • Justin Jun 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    Verry nice clean and friendly

  • Myra Jun 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    I liked the hard floors and room was spacious. Staff was welcoming and helpful.

  • Verified May 2024 · via hotels.com
    1/5

    Tried to cancel, couldnt. It was a sketchy area, i should have checked it out before i booked, so to be fair also my fault.

  • Eve May 2024 · via expedia
    1/5

    The poor owner is a sweet man but we stayed in the double queen suite and the sheets and pillowcases were still dirty, fresh drool marks and everything. The room smelled like cigarettes SO BADLY I could hardly breathe. The area is DISGUSTING prostitution and druggies every where. I thought we were in an episode of grand theft auto. Super ghetto, dirty, smelly, so nasty… it was around midnight when we finally got there and we couldn’t switch hotels. We counted down the hours till morning and left as soon as the sun came up. Pictures were very very deceiving.

  • Joerg May 2024 · via hotels.com
    4/5

    clean room

  • Alexander May 2024 · via expedia
    3/5

    The water pressure and flushing could use some improvement. The management is reasonably accomodating.

  • Alanna Apr 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    For an easy over nighter this place was great! Surprisingly clean the neighborhood isnt the best but staff was nice

  • Verified Apr 2024 · via hotels.com
    2/5

    There was not even luke warm water for shower in. It was freezing cold. Left it on for 20 minutes to see if it would warm up. It never did.

  • Gaurav Apr 2024 · via expedia
    5/5

    Value of Money.Staff is very helpful

  • Kathie Apr 2024 · via expedia
    4/5

    While the staff person was friendly and very helpful, he even offered to upgrade our room for free. Our room was very cold, lacked lighting, had no heat in the bathroom, and many of our outlets didn’t work. We didn’t have hot water in the bathroom sink, the sink leaked into the under cabinet. It’s a very basic room and was not super clean. The beds and bedding were alright. For a cheap one night room we would stay again. We also felt the fenced in parking lot was safe.

Frequently asked questions about Beston Inn Seattle

Does Beston Inn Seattle have free Wi-Fi?
Wi-Fi could be available but may carry a charge. Confirm with the property before booking.
Does Beston Inn Seattle offer parking?
Yes, Beston Inn Seattle offers free parking on-site.
Does Beston Inn Seattle have meeting spaces, conference centers, or conference rooms?
Beston Inn Seattle does not list dedicated meeting or conference facilities. For business event venues in Seattle, see business hotels in Seattle.
Does Beston Inn Seattle have a fitness center?
Beston Inn Seattle does not list an on-site fitness center. Some properties partner with nearby gyms — check directly with the hotel.
Where is Beston Inn Seattle located, and how walkable is the area?
Beston Inn Seattle is located at 12035 Aurora Ave N, Seattle, WA 98133. With a Walk Score of 99, the area is rated Walker's Paradise. Most daily errands can be done on foot — ideal for travelers without a car.

House rules

Check in 1:00 PM
Check out 11:00 AM
Cancellation Not available
Children Not available