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Reviews of Harbor View Inn

3.5 out of 5
Harbor View Inn
28 W Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara, CA

Reviews

9.0

Wonderful

Rating 10 - Excellent. 652 out of 1001 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 250 out of 1001 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 58 out of 1001 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 24 out of 1001 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 17 out of 1001 reviews" "

9.4/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

9.0/10

Amenities

9.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Katie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The hotel is very nice.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

8/10 Good

Connie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A perfectly located hotel
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Gerald

Great location.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

adrienne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great location, rooms were spacious and clean. Looks better in person, pictures make the rooms look dated but it’s just the style. Fresh paint and furnishings and bedding were new. Walkable to funk zone and all the shops on state - across from the beach. Would totally stay again!
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The view of the ocean from the pool was awesome . Will be staying here again
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

4/10 Poor

Cecilia

Unexpected fees.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024
Response from Management on 6 May 2024
Thank you for your review. We are sorry that you had issues with your stay. We verified your account and the only additional fees shown were your parking fees. Which are listed both on Expedia as well as our website. Please feel free to contact the hotel and request to speak with management if there are any additional questions regarding your charges or issues you would like to have addressed. We hope to welcome you back in the future.

10/10 Excellent

Tory

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very well maintained hotel and pool area. Great find!
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

6/10 Okay

Kevin, Irvine

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
It may be charging market rates, but this nice property is vastly overpriced. At $509 a night, I assumed that included parking. NO, wrong. Parking is $32 a night. Why is it that high priced properties think that nothing should be included? No breakfast, no parking, no on-site full service restaurant. The room was spacious and quiet, but it had a view of only the parking lot, there were no towel rods in the bathroom, no shelf in the shower to put anything, plastic cups instead of glass, styro instead of china coffee cups. Honestly, we recently stayed in a $90 a night motel that was a good. Save your money and pick something off the main beach.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024
Response from Management on 29 Apr 2024
Thank you for taking the time to write us your review .We are very sorry you felt ripped off. We feel our rooms rates and parking fees are fair and very competitive for what we provide .Thank you for staying with us and we hope you enjoy your travels.

10/10 Excellent

Melinda

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Kevin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Liked everything from check in to check out
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Alison, Dundas

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
East wing is quite outdated and unfortunately we had NO hot water our first morning… maintenance was notified and issue was look after that day! Other than that it was a great place!
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Donald

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Is beautiful property right on the beach beautiful rooms.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Courtney

Travelled with family
We stayed in room S316. It was a king bed with a pullout sofa. The room was very clean and very spacious. It was very modern and you can tell it had been remodeled recently. This particular room is much wider than it is deep, so the balcony outside was huge! it’s perfect walking distance to several restaurants and the pier. We can’t wait to go back!
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Mary, South Pasadena

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Easy walk from the train station, ocean view, restaurants galore, Stearms Wharf right across the street. It’s a very easy getaway,
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jill

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice property. On the harbor with a short walk to the pier and view of the boats. Parking on the property. Room very clean. Walk to many restaurants, shopping, wine tastings, and breweries. HIghly recommend.
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Richard

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I was not aware during my initial booking with Expedia that they would charge me for parking. Was hit with a $32.00 car parking charge. I was in the room for 1 night and less than 24 hours. This was not acceptable.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Gregg

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Linneth

Travelled with family, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very friendly and helpful staff team.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

2/10 Terrible

Todd

Disliked: Staff & service
DO NOT STAY HERE! We had multiple issues.. checked in & wanted to use a different card than the one used to reserve the room. They forgot to charge for”incidentals” they turned off our room keys .. went to the office to fix it .. 2 no night room keys didn’t work again for no apparent reason..3rd night same thing room keys won’t work.. we check out & they charged the stay to the wrong card !! So frustrating!! And their parking availability was awful!! They have staff walking around checking license plates but basically not enough parking to accommodate paying guests.. will not be staying there again
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Nancy, Ladera Ranch

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent location across beach and walking distance to shops and dinning.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Suzi, Napa

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Our rooms were beautiful
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

MAYRA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Tracey

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Fabulous location just wish it offered at least breakfast
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

Raylene

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024
Response from Management on 4 Apr 2024
Thank you for taking the time to rate our property. Upon reviewing your reservation we did not find any logged complaints nor issues. Please feel free to contact the hotel and request to speak with management as we would be happy to discuss the issues you had.Again we are sorry that your stay and review wasn’t a 5-star experience that is always our goal.

10/10 Excellent

elizabeth

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location. Beautiful large room.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tomoko

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It’s very good to be in front of the beach, though we couldn’t see it from the room, due to the building before us.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

mohammad a, santa barbara

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Next to Santa Barbara harbor walkable to beach and lots of Santa Barbara restaurants
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Leart

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent, clean hotel with large, well designed rooms. Pool was great. Jeannine’s by the Shore had delicious breakfast and a lovely atmosphere. Santa Barbara was beautiful.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Gloria

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Pros: We loved the location, cleanliness, and overall facility. Cons: the shower pressure is very weak, almost a drizzle. Considered asking for a change in room, but opted not to since the room was beautiful and spotless. Our biggest complaint was the facilities staff turning on the leaf blowers at 8am, on a Saturday. Then it sounded like other construction-type machines were turned on.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

katherine

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great stay. Very nice, big room and bathroom. Walkable to everything.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Elena

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I very appreciate quite zone and comfortable interior, pleased stuff, aquatic garden. All was great! Thank you a lot.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Esmeralda

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ricardo

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great experience.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Donald

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities
First time visit and couldn’t be more pleased with the quality of service from the staff and the property was amazing
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Bladimir

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I like the cleanliness of this place, I did not like the noise, it was right by a train rail road, I did not like that they don't provide at least a bottle of water.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Nicole

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location is perfect! Located right on state street the beach is right across the street! Rooms are clean, beds were comfortable. Will definitely be coming back!
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lilit

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Martin

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It's right on the water, in a very walkable and bikeable area, several great dinning choices nearby, the Funk Zone, the beach, just an amazing property! It is lacking one thing... No restaurant or bar on site.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Daryl

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Mike

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

YOOJIN

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was amazing staying there :) I loved that the bathroom was spacious and modern 😍 I would love to stay here again if i visit Santa Barbara sometime later.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

ROSA, north hills

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location and Cleanliness
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Kalia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Nancy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel and location
Very nice hotel. Convenient to all the shops, restaurants, and beach. We did not need a car. We would recommend this hotel.
Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Catherine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
BV
Excellent hotel, very clean and classy!
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Waynne

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Luved it. Front desk service were fabulous which was lovely as we had a rather unpleasant phone call with the supervisor during the week. Glad to experience the actual front desk staff were super nice!!
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

4/10 Poor

Jonathan

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tiffany

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Our stay at the Harborview Inn was absolutely wonderful. Our check-in was a breeze, staff was super friendly and accommodating. We stayed in the north wing set away from the main part of the hotel, and would absolutely stay here again. Our room was gorgeous, with a perfect view of the city. One of the nicest hotel rooms I have ever stayed in before. Very conveniently. Located to plenty of restaurants and tasting rooms within walking distance. Perfect place to experience this downtown area of Santa Barbara. Will definitely come back.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Fabien

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024