The main hotel in the hilly, residential community of Belmont, half way (23 miles) between San Jose and San Francisco, is the 82 room Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, at 1650 El Camino Real. This is a compact 3 floor building, bordered to the rear by private residences, and overlooking many shops & offices at the front. The inn is clean and well managed, offering amenities of free continental buffet breakfast, a fitness room, whirlpool and a business center. The Holly St exit of US 101 is 1 mile east, with San Francisco International Airport 11 miles north.

Belmont's Motel 6 is one of the newer properties of this brand, providing budget lodging in several clean-looking buildings arranged around a central, enclosed garden with picnic area and an outdoor pool. The motel faces the Ralston Ave/Marine Parkway exit of US 101, a short drive from the waterfront communities of Redwood Shores and Foster City, and ten miles south of San Francisco International Airport. Besides the pool, amenities include wi-fi, guest laundry, cable TV, a restaurant (adjacent), and a kitchenette in some of the rooms. For other dining choices there are many restaurants along El Camino Real, half a mile west.