Half way between the centers of Palo Alto and Menlo Park, Best Western Riviera is a small (37 room) motel-style property with a pretty, tree-lined setting - next to a wooded creek at the edge of a residential district but also adjacent to the Sanford Shopping Center, and a mile from the edge of the campus of Sanford University. Rooms are clean, recently renovated and relatively quiet, though with occasional traffic noise from the main road running past (El Camino Real). There are plenty of nearby restaurants - closest is in another hotel on the far side of the street. For a small inn the Best Western Riviera has a good range of facilities, including free continental breakfast, a heated outdoor pool, steam room, spa, exercise room, free parking and guest laundry.