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Moonlight Beach Motel
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4 reviews for Moonlight Beach Motel
I lOVE this place!
We scored 2 weeknights and a Friday in this motel for a trip southward for a wedding and everything about it deserved praise.
1) Easy to book
2) Closest local hotel to the beach (roughly 1 city block)
3) Nice Innkeeper
4) Huge rooms (ask for the one with the best ocean view)
5) Built in kitchen with large fridge and every cooking untensil under the sun
6) Balcony
7) Air conditioning
8) Continental breakfast 9am
9) Right by I-5
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You really can't get any closer to Moonlight beach than this. A modest motel with unattractive rooms that haven't really been renovated in years but hey you can walk to the beach, to downtown Encinitas where you can find everything you need for your stay. They have kitchenettes that work and older Televisions but the owners are nice and accommodating. The price is relatively inexpensive for the location. It's small so book in advance.
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This place is actually pretty great. Encinitas is a sweet little town, and the beaches there are beautiful. The Moonlight Beach Motel is very basic, but each room has a small kitchen, a living room with sofa bed, and a balcony with an ocean view. Not bad for $85...You can get wifi for $10 a day or so, and if you go to the beach at the end of the street, or the internet cafe in town, you can pick it up for free.
I'd recommend staying somewhere else. The rudeness started when I booked the room. "You know this is non-refundable, right?" The trip was several days away. Still, we were committed to go, so I didn't make an issue out of this strange practice.
When we arrived, our room was under construction. We were asked to wait, even though we arrived nearly four hours after our check-in time. We refused. The only available room was a suite. That was no problem, we said, we were happy to have the upgrade. But they tried to charge us extra for it! When we called them out on the fact that they couldn't charge us for a problem that wasn't our fault, the lady exclaimed, "Shit!" and grudgingly handed us the keys to the suite.
It wasn't much of a suite either. Pretty tiny and uncomfortable for their nicest room, and the main room didn't have a heater. (It was January, and in the low 40s at night.) I found someone's sweatpants in the dresser. In the cold, I was tempted to wear them, but decided just to leave them where they were.
The straw that broke the camel's back came after we left. I had mistakenly left my dop kit in the room. I called the motel, described the bag and explained that it contained my medication and I needed it as soon as possible, so could they please mail it to me and charge our credit card? But they refused! I called again the next day and got the same answer, no way, we won't put it in the mail for you. No explanation, they just wouldn't do it. In exasperation I called Fed Ex and arranged a pickup, and now finally, over a week after our visit, I have my medication back that I have to take daily.
Apparently they weren't overly concerned about the quality of our stay or whether we'd be inclined to give them more business. Done and done, I won't be going back. Hopefully if you decide to stay there they'll have seen this review and decided to change their business practices.
