Holiday Inn, Citizen hotel has a great restaurant, the Sheraton downtown. There is also some others like Econo lodge, Quality Inn.
Try using google maps and enter something like motels near Golden 1 centerive recently been using Groupon and airbnb which you can enter the same kind of question and find great deals
It best to ride uber to natomas area. Nice beautiful hotels. New and clean Natomas 5 miles north. Holiday inn
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