CCL has a great location near 880, Alameda tunnel, Lake Merritt and LM Bart. The rooms are a great price, with cherry wood furniture, a flat screen TV, a fridge (great for long stays) and a shower with a tub where you can fill it with hot water and epson salts and actually stretch out. My room had a kitchenette (sink and counter space) a small table with two chairs and a desk, so relatively big sized room. The only ofd thing was that from my room, I keep thinking someone was vacuuming at odd hours, when it was 880 traffic.
I stayed a week, and the staff look at you with a bit of suspicion, but they warm up. To be fair I have stayed in other hotels where people need to constantly be in the hallway having yelling matches, so they have probably been burned by guests before. It's just culturally noticeable, and at the other places I have stayed, where when you check in, they look at you, they look at the ID, look at you, the ID again, the several minutes at the screen,