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Best Carpinteria motels
Situated by the ocean, this motel is 1 mi (1.6 km) from Tomol Interpretive Play Area and within 3 miles (5 km) of Carpinteria State Beach and Los Padres National Forest. Tar Pits Park and Carpinteria Seal Sanctuary are also within 2 miles (3 km). Carpinteria Station is 19 minutes by foot.
Overall 7.5 Good
Based on 771 reviews
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Mediocre
3.7
Pros: It was quite.
Cons: It was way overpriced.
Okay
4.0
Okay
5.0
Good
6.0
Excellent
9.7
Pros: I have had to stay for an extended period of time. I am a newly discharged (honorably) army vet with ptsd alongside many other issues. The staff has been so amazing both to me in general, and understanding the challenges I may face. While being apart from my family, the staff and facility has provided me with a temporary place of solice.
Excellent
9.0
Pros: I was impressed by the updated design in the interior. Fun! All the basic amenities were there, with a pool to boot. This is an outstanding value.
Cons: There was quite a bit of noise leakage from the walkway outside our door. The room key had to be reset a few times. The coffee came in styrofoam cups (but hey, it was free!)
Good
6.2
Pros: Phil is a very nice man.
Cons: 6am Sunday morning , the room door is opened by someone violently and the dead bolt stopped them. As I bound out of bed to proctect my wife I am transformed into a lion protecting its lady against a Trump son with a rifle trying to cut my tail off. I fling the door open with a rage looking for someone to fight. No one there. Fall back asleep, 7 am.. phone rings RING/RIiiIiinG. I pick up the phone. No one there. !!! 8 am, the maid enters to clean the room, boom, dead bolt saves the day again. We are tired. I check out and let the desk man know what happened. He was nice and promised to have management call me. I am still waiting for the call. I feel like we are just throw away items like so many trump supporters grabbed in the puśśy. We won't be staying there again. Phil was very nice though.
Mediocre
2.8
Pros: The location was decent, on the main setup and near the beaches.
Cons: Broken ice makers, hot stuffy rooms, beds were as hard as a rock. Rooms were attempted to be updated, Ikea style- but much was broken and flimsy. Bare bones, for $100+/nt. I expect more.
Mediocre
3.1
Cons: We booked a room through Booking.com via KAYAK . There was no opportunity on the site to specify a non-smoking room. It never occurred to me while I was making the reservation that I would need to specify. The clerk said we should have reserved through the Motel 6 site. As they were full except for one non-smoking room, we had to choose whether to stay in a tobacco permeated room or cancel our reservation & find another place to stay. The clerk let us into the room to help us decide if we could tolerate it. When we decided we had to find another hotel, they cancelled our reservation without any problems. This is not a critique of Motel 6. I am very disappointed that Booking.com and/or KAYAK didn't allow me to choose a non-smoking room in advance or at least redirect me to the Motel 6 reservation site where I could have selected a non-smoking room.
Carpinteria State Beach is less than 10 minutes’ drive from this motel. The nonsmoking rooms feature cable TV with HBO. An outdoor pool and hot tub are included. Free Wi-Fi is available in every room at Sandyland Reef Inn. A seating area and an private bathroom with free toiletries are both available. Seaside Gardens is 1 mile from the Inn Sandyland Reef. Downtown Santa Barbara is 15 minutes’ drive away.
Overall 7.4 Good
Based on 2,028 reviews
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Excellent
10.0
Okay
4.0
Excellent
8.8
Excellent
8.2
Good
7.3
Pros: Price for the area
Excellent
8.2
Excellent
8.0
Excellent
8.0
Pros: The inn is cute and clearly a small local business with lots of care put into the plants and art. It is very charming. The bed was comfortable, and it was pretty close to town.
Cons: It wasn’t the cleanest place I’ve been. I several times found other people’s hair in the towels and washcloths. The front desk staff was not friendly (the housekeeping staff were great). Not rude, just not friendly. There were also signs up that were pretty unwelcoming—for example the pool door was covered with rules and threats about what they would do if you broke them. I expect they have a problem with non-guests using the facility, but for actual guests, the effect was off putting. The inn is right across from the freeway and a short drive from town and the beach, so not bad, but not a terribly interesting location. For a cheap stay, it was good, but it would have been much improved by better laundering of towels and some thought about the signage and the staff interactions.
Excellent
8.2
Pros: Clean enough, affordable enough, wifi was good enough to watch YouTube at 480p. Pretty convenient location in a decent area.
Cons: Our window latch was broken so we couldn't lock the window. No biggy in our case. But some might find that disconcerting.
Okay
4.0
Pros: I didn't like anything. The internet priced it $20. more than the sign hanging outside the motel.
Cons: The bed smelled like pee or butt...a mixture of it. We left after being there for only a couple hours...drove back home 3 hours away with no sleep because the smell was disgusting. The television had really bad quality picture and sound.
Situated near the beach, this motel is within 1 mile (2 km) of Tomol Interpretive Play Area, Los Padres National Forest and Carpinteria State Beach. Seaside Gardens and Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club are also within 3 miles (5 km). Carpinteria Station is 19 minutes by foot.
Overall 6.6 Good
Based on 457 reviews
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Excellent
10.0
Mediocre
3.6
Pros: It was close to the event I was attending.
Cons: No amenities, no coffee, no fridge, had to ask for blankets, not much for the money.
Good
6.0
Excellent
9.4
Excellent
8.0
Pros: Very modern and clean. Accessible and an easy 15 minute drive to downtown SB. The faucet in the bathroom was a bit wobbly but everything else was just fine. Good bang for your buck!
Good
7.3
Pros: Easy check-in and check-out. Modern facilities and décor.
Cons: Missing basic amenities such as a blow dryer, iron, shampoo/conditioner, mini fridge, etc. that motels typically offer. Would have been nice to at least have a blow dryer.
Okay
4.0
Cons: Towels so thin you can see through them Ice machines broken all weekend (big problem when many of us were staying for a lacrosse tournament) Would not accommodate a late check out(again, here for lacrosse tournament and my daughter had to drive home without showering after her last game. Poor customer service
Mediocre
3.4
Pros: Nothing really
Cons: Sheets felt like sandpaper, musty pool smell throughout the whole place, paid $200/night and they don't even provide shampoo or a second bedside table. I will definitely not be coming back.
Excellent
8.5
Pros: Coffee is good
Cons: For the money I paid is a deal
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