Casa Marina Hotel and Restaurant, Jacksonville Beach

This place is Awful!! The rooms are dark and dirty (don't know how long ago these pics were taken but look nothing like our room) Our shoes stuck to the carpet and the furniture was really uncomfortable. We even found old food and candy under the furniture when we were making sure we had everything before checkout. The noise level is unbearable, especially in rooms near the front entrance and bar entrance from both inside and out. Walls are paper thin and you may then wish you were hearing the bar noise. Ok if you want a party hotel, but for the price of the suite (which I use the term loosely) , you would be better off to go get a really nice room at the Marriott....and still maybe have some money to spare!! Not the place to be if you want a relaxing weekend/stay. You will go home with a bad back and bags under your eyes from lack of sleep. Only redeeming things were that the wedding/reception/food were good. Should have stayed somewhere else and driven over for the festivities. It is said to be haunted but even the ghosts have moved on due to the noise!!! Only single party animals would probably be happy staying here. This place is historical but has not fared well. They need to decide what to be when they grow up. Trying miserably to be classy while trying to make money off the rowdy bar crowd. Shouldn't charge upscale rates (when it is definitely not) and then sell out to the party crowd at the expense of your guests.

I am a disabled veteran and an elderly friend and I went to the restaurant last summer. We went in and there was no one at the front and we wandered around a while before three people, a man and two women, finally appeared. Even though only three tables were occupied, we were seated outside. We asked the waitress if we could move inside because of the extreme heat and she escorted us to an inside table and we ordered drinks. Then the man came over and told us we would have to go back outside because all the tables were "reserved." It was much too hot to sit outside and we decided to leave. We had not touched our drinks, however, the man insisted we pay $8 for them or he could not "allow" us to "leave." About an hour later, after having dinner at the Sea Turtle down the street, we decided to walk around the back of the Casa Marina Restaurant to see if all those "reserved" tables were occupied. We were not surprised when we saw that most of the tables were empty. I don't know what was going on at that place, or why a disabled person and an elderly person were treated with such disrespect, but I will never set foot in the place again.