Overall: Much better than I was expecting for a Motel 6, but not great.
Mostly Good: Clean, smallish rooms (not tiny though), very attentive room service everyday, clean vinyl plank flooring, comfortable bed, fairly quiet (minor freeway noise overnight, not enough to bother me, and I’m a very light sleeper). Older building but rooms appear to have been renovated within last five years or so. The room has very basic features: noisy wall mounted HVAC w/ rudimentary controls; fridge and micro but no countertop area, sink (other than bathroom), plates, utensils, etc; non-smart TV, so no access to Netflix, etc. Everything worked though, bathroom very clean, overhead showerhead a bit funky and about half the spouts were clogged or not working.
Biggest Con: Wifi quirky and unreliable. System disconnects your device from the wifi after one hour, every hour, and you have to try to reconnect, which frequently took numerous tries or didn’t work. Multiply this by phone, tablet, and laptop, and I had to go through this clunky process about 15 times a day. This problem was exacerbated by lack of a smart TV, which means you have to use laptop to watch Netflix/Amazon Prime etc., but you are interrupted every hour to reconnect to wifi.
The place is advertised as Old Town Pasadena, which is deliberately deceiving as it is nowhere near the desirable Old Town section of Pasadena and is instead several miles away in a somewhat run down, area of town. Homeless folks were harmless though.