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Glorietta Bay Inn
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Neighborhood: Coronado
1630 Glorietta Boulevard
(between Orange Ave & Ynez Pl)
Coronado, CA 92118
(619) 435-3101
1630 Glorietta Boulevard
(between Orange Ave & Ynez Pl)
Coronado, CA 92118
(619) 435-3101
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8 reviews for Glorietta Bay Inn
Thank you Glorietta Bay Inn for making our Coronado vacation a pleasant one!!!
The best thing about this hotel is the staff and their service. Each of the personnel was friendly and really cared about our needs.
The continental breakfast is quite good.
The swimming pool is a bit small, but it our toddler didn't seem to mind.
This place is right across the street from the Hotel del and is easily walkable to the beach (about a 5 minute walk).
The service here is top! And the rooms are relative inexpensive/moderately priced (half the price or more compared to the Del). It's right across the street from the Hotel del Coronado (there's two sidewalks/lights to cross at, by the way) and an easy stroll to the cute boutiques and restaurants on Orange Ave. The mansion itself is gorgeous.
Our room was in the outer building and was nice enough. The hotel had updated bits and pieces of the room, but some parts were a little dumpy (windows, window treatment, some lights didn't work, dated vanity, outdated furniture). The bed linens and shower (the two most important parts of a room) were great. The AC was extremely noisy. Our second night at the hotel, we had some super rowdy neighbors in the end unit come in ~2 a.m. and turn on the TV really loud. OMG. I just wanted to bang my head against the wall to cover up the noise. If they didn't sound so drunk and mean, I would have gone over and knocked on their door. I turned on the AC and that helped drown the noise a bit. I froze myself back to sleep for a few hours till we left for the airport ~5 a.m. I should have called the front desk and let them handle the situation, but waking up irritated at the wee hours of the morning, I wasn't thinking straight.
On the brighter side, a continental breakfast is included with your room rate and it's actually pretty decent. They go all out on their breakfast spread and you can enjoy it on the nice patio overlooking the world's smallest pool (since we were in a May Gray weather funk, I didn't really care, but be warned the pool is very small). I think they only charged us $10/day for parking (the lots are tight). Internet access was included, but wasn't easy or reliable.
What Glorietta Bay Inn lacks in luxurious accommodations, they certainly make up for in service. We're planning on staying here again in September for another wedding at the Del.
I like the Glorietta Bay Inn! The staff are friendly and accommodating and the grounds are cozy and pretty. Great location.
To start off with full disclosure, the walls are PAPER thin... this is not good when you have neighboring guests with a screaming baby. I prefer not to be woken up throughout the night by blood-curdling screams while on vacation. If they decide to do any renovations on the place, I hope sound-proofing the walls comes to mind. Screaming baby aside, normal-volume conversations can be heard quite well.
I also didn't like that my room wasn't cleaned during my stay. However, Claudia (Asst GM) gave me my 2-day parking for free ($20 value) and a $50 voucher for a future stay. When I requested to have it applied to the CURRENT stay, she gladly did so *and* let me keep the voucher for future use. That is what I call top-notch customer service and leads me to be confident that this was an exception and certainly not the rule.
Every morning there is an extensive continental breakfast and every afternoon starting at 3pm there are fresh-baked cookies with lemonade. This, combined with the great customer service I received, are the "little things" that make a huge difference!
I highly recommend Glorietta Bay Inn.
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I'm pretty sure Lucas O. said it all, but I just have to gush about the Glorietta Bay Inn. The rooms weren't glamorous by any means, but I found them to be nicer and more modern than those in the Hotel Del.
One of the Major perks of the Glorietta Bay Inn is that you're just across the street from the Del (which is known for its killer location), and you're paying a fraction of the price. The rooms have cute little patios furnished with chairs and tables, and the showers are spacious and, ahem, well-equipped.
I was staying there for a wedding, and I'm pretty sure the wedding guests rented out the whole hotel, more or less. Despite this, the staff was exceedingly accommodating and friendly - when I called the front desk to see if the suspiciously down-like pillows would trigger my allergies, they sent someone up in less than five minutes to check. The breakfast service was excellent, though they could use another toaster.
In conclusion: if you're looking for a place to stay on Coronado Island, this is probably the most bang for your buck. Stay here, and drink the mojitos at the Hotel Del to get your required dose of glamour.
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It's been 10 years since the very first time I encountered San Diego. Pops had a conference at the Del, I could afford to *cough cough* get sick for a few days at school, and somebody tipped him off that the real playas don't bother staying at the Del, they work it across the street at the Glorietta Bay Inn.
So we blew out of suburban DC for the great and fabled Southern California coast, grabbed a rental and tore off across the Coronado bridge and into oblivion. I watched the Del looming in the distance, started to understand Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, but Glorietta Bay Inn was a totally new level of awesome.
This place began as a mansion commissioned by good ole John Spreckels back in 1906. It was finished in 1908 and lemme tell ya- Spreckels and architect Henry Albright went SWANK. We're talking legitimate mansion here, with marble, leather, brass, french doors, music room, solarium, molding on everything. Which makes sense since John Spreckels is basically the reason that San Diego exists in any recognizable form. He ran the utilities, the mass transit- hell, the guy paid for San Diego's railroad connection out of pocket. After Spreckles finished with it, the mansion swung to another swank San Diego family, the Copleys (they have a news service, you may have unfortunately heard of it). It came to the current owners back in 1975 and they've restored it spectacularly.
The rooms are, not surprisingly, spacious and gorgeous. But they've also been fantastically modernized with 21st century amenities without sacrificing the historical grandeur. The rooms all come with free wifi, refrigerators, and cd players. They have free continental breakfast every morning that's actually GOOD food, and refreshments in the afternoon. Plus, the setting is impossible to beat. The veranda is sun dappled and full of songbirds that hop around you without getting pushy, so you can kick back with coffee and some fuel and soak up the local laissez-faire vibe. If that's not your style, there's the music room that's still got a bit of the old time music action going on.
But then you're still right across from the Del. That's where Pops had his conference stuff, so while he shmoozed and after I got tired of shmoozing, I wandered around the joint and got every bit of good that one can get from the Del. It's pretty well established that the one weakness is the rooms, so why not rock the sweet rooms across the street and then roll through all the opulence of the Del without paying a premium? Sounds like a good deal to me.
Next perk is, not unlike most of Coronado I suppose, the whole pseudo-island is just a few blocks from your door. And while I'd probably go crazy if I had to spend more than a few days there, it's a pretty rockin main street they're working with over there. It takes a couple days to work your way through all the independent restaurants and weird stores, and the Glorietta Bay Inn anchors one end of the strip as an awesome base of operations for exploration.
Finally and perhaps most importantly, it's where I fell in love with San Diego. It's where I fell for a certain young woman. It's why San Diego is stuck with me now. Because I'm me and I like it here, I find that to be an exceedingly good thing. I can't imagine any other place serving as a better ambassador for San Diego, and one day when I'm not poor, I'm going back for a couple days just for old time's sake. It may not technically be a vacation now, but it'll still be good for all that ails me.
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Beautiful hotel - great service - clean - good food. I stayed here for my wedding and always reccomend this hotel to family when they visit over any other one in Coronado - even the Del. The rooms are extremely clean and fresh and roomy. Great complimentary breakfast each morning. I have stayed at the Del across the street and the rooms are tiny for the price. I actually had to turn sideways and take baby steps as i walked to the bathroom in the room (I am 110 pounds - rediculous). Anyways, beautiful, relaxing, and happy stay.
We normally stay at the Del but decided to try the Glorietta Bay Inn. I'm sure the older mansion rooms are worth the price in character, but the room we got was in the newer wing and looked like cheap apartment construction from the 70's. Think cheap aluminum windows, low ceiling, ripped wallpaper, thin walls, total lack of design, decor, charm or character. The AC was loud as noted in another review and the walls are thin. The bedding is on par with a Fairfield Marriott maybe. Even though it is just across the street from the beach, it's still a bit of a schlep. Call me a snob, but I'll pay more and stay at the Del.
Rooms in "The Mansion" are quite elegant and well furnished, better than standard rooms across the street at the Del. Service was excellent, they even invited us to take a key and see a room before deciding. Rooms not in the mansion, however, look more like a motel, not cheap but definitely not like a boutique hotel. HDTV, DVDs available at the desk, decent free breakfast, I wouldn't stay anywhere else on Coronado.
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