El Prado Inn Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

Large Rooms, very clean. Inn is perfect size, not so large that it's impersonal. Lobby Staff always helpful & friendly, no matter what time of night you come in. And then there's the resident lobby cat! Love him!

The El Prado Inn is certainly nothing fancy, but if you want an inexpensive, functional, well located hotel, then the El Prado Inn is for you. The staff are very friendly and the rooms are clean. Easy walk to downtown shops/sights/restaurants. Definitely a great hotel if you're on a budget.

Cons: The room was small & lacked personality. Lots of noise from above. Pros: The room was spotlessly clean. Everything worked. New paint and furniture. Service was very good. The El Prado is in an excellent location for just about everything, including a small grocery store with a deli across the side street. Very nice pool and lobby. Other reviews advise poolside rooms, but we faced State Street with very little noise. Get the top floor if at all possible. Not cheap (mid-May) but compared to other places, a good deal.

El Prado Inn was GREAT! It was inexpensive and it was a good deal compared to all the other motels/inns that I checked out. We took the amtrak and walked 1.36 miles to El Prado Inn(if you are not a walker then catch the shuttle 25cents =D ) We got there and the front desk clerks had great cusomter service, they allowed us to leave our luggage there while we went out to explore and wait for our room(we arrived a little earlier then check-in time) In the mornings they served in the lobby juice,coffee,tea,cookies, muffins, danishes for all you early birds (it was yummy!)They have a pool (which we did not go in to but looked nice)The room-nice and cozy and restroom- very clean. But If you like to stay at hotels where they have egyptian cotton bed spreads and big huge bathrooms then this isnt the place...but I do recommend this place if you just want to be cozy and inexpensive! We enjoyed our stay there and would stay there again for our next visit to Santa Barbara.