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Pacific Plaza Resort
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3 reviews for Pacific Plaza Resort
It's graduation weekend at Cal Poly SLO and there's no room for rent in SLO. What do you do? Try the next city over with open rooms!
Luckily for some of us, Pacific Plaza Resort had a room available. We were thinking it was just a hotel room, no big deal. But we were pleasantly surprised to see it be more like a 1 bedroom apartment!
There's a California King in the bedroom with a single sink leading into the bathroom (toilet/shower/tub). We also had a full kitchen (albeit small) with a refrigerator, stove, microwave, and dishes/utensils. Pretty cool! If we wanted to make cup ramen, we totally could. Or reheat leftovers from dinner, which we totally did, after doing a quick nighttime trek to the beach.
The beach is within walking distance but it's cooler just to drive onto the beach. That alone just thrilled some of us in the car. We've never driven on the beach before and now we are craving to go atv'ing there.
The place is great for the price and what you get. Yes, it's totally chintzy and dated but as a last minute booking for a graduation at the biggest university in a 15 mile radius, it's great!
Now, time to plan our next trip to Pismo Beach!
Horrible experience! Would never stay here again! We arrived at 10:30pm on a Thursday night and had to call a manager's number to the location of our room key because the office had already closed for the evening. The next morning, my husband tries to excess the wireless internet and cannot. The hotel advertises internet, but we found out that only a few rooms are wired to the internet and wireless has not been installed. The staff did change our room, but my husband ended up loosing a half day of work because we didn't get into our new room until 2:00pm. The next day we leave the sign on the door for the room to be serviced, but come back and 6:30pm to an unserviced room. The young man at the desk told me he could bring us new towels, but he could not make our bed. He also said he could fix our thermostat that was stuck at 75, but our room never cooled down.
Spacious room and nice staff, but not worth the drama. Very unorganized and under-managed facility.
Furniture may be dated and amenities rudimentary, however this place sure beats sleeping on the ground or in a trailer on Pismo Beach.
For me, at least.
Because I don't do camping or anything that remotely requires the use of public restroom with no light and no flush button on the toilets.
I'm spoiled like that. I fully blame my parents.
So, Pacific Plaza Resort is a gem. The little room that we stayed at, with the massive heat bulbs in the bathroom was indeed a nice place to come back to after a day of ATV-ing and subjecting your skin to the ruthless sun (not without SPF-50!). I checked my burnt-as-a-toast self out in the mirror, wondered for a few seconds if the constant sun exposure is going to take its toll on my skin soon, shrugged the thought off, and jump in the hot shower.
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