Ramada Carlsbad By The Sea, Carlsbad

old, dirty, broken, unfriendly, unaccommodating. save your money you may as well be staying at a motel 6.

I have never seen a HOTEL with such a small room, label as family friendly resort! 1 Queen bed in a small room that they won't even put in rollaway bed because it is fire hazard?! If you are taking kids with you and think this hotel offer a good deal, think again! They keep pushing us to rent an extra room but not considering it is impossible as we have 2 young kids. Are we supposed to leave 2 young kids in one room, or, father stays with son in one bed/room while mother stays with daughter in another?! The Front Desk are rude and honestly I don't see how this hotel can classify as 3-star!

We chose this hotel because of its proximity to Legoland and we were very pleased with our experience. Our room was spacious - offering a little kitchen (microwave and mini fridge included), breakfast table, couch, and a separate room with 2 beds. There were 2 T.V.s which came in handy when our kids wanted to watch cartoons in one room and my husband and I watched other programming on the second tv. The complimentary breakfast offered a vast variety of food which was on par with any restaurant. From making your own waffles, to bagels, muffins, danishes, fresh fruit, juices, coffee, and teas, we couldn't have asked for anything more!

We had a great experience at the ramada carslbad. The rooms were a little outdated but I was informed that they are being redone =) The rooms were pretty clean the showerheads are awesome! The continental breakfast buffet was awesome! they have so much to chose from and are constantly cleaning up any mess that other people left behind. The staff was great, super nice and helpful!! I loved this place! can't wait to go back in october!!! =D

We made our reservation through TripRewards. The room was on the corner facing Motel 6 and when the door was open, you could hear the freeway. Once the door was closed, peace and quiet. The staff was excellent. We had a problem toilet which was fixed with a smile. The hot breakfast, wonderful. The major problem we had was the room was not big enough for all the people. It was a little cool to eat out. The staff brought in extra chairs, but there were still people elbows to kneecaps on each other. We tried to use the hot tub, but I guess all the little kids thought it was the kiddie pool. Worse, the adults did not care the kids were splashing us. On checkout we discovered there was a hidden safe charge of a dollar a day. They needed to mention that on check in. All in all, we were very happy with our stay. We even stayed an extra night and the staff was able to keep us in our original room. We like to go to Carlsbad for the beach and this hotel was only a five or six minute walk to the beach.

Just an FYI my friend and I stayed one night and noticed a faint smell of cigarettes, but since we are not the complaining types, just sprayed some perfume and dealt with it, well when my statement came I noticed an additional $ 100.00 charge, so I called and spoke to three different people explaining that we DID not smoke, I have asthma and my friend is a mom who is still nursing her child and does not smoke. So just becareful I guess it's better to complain then not, so that you don't get blamed for something and charged.

VERY disappointed for a Ramada, 1)poor service at check-in, about 6 of us in line, one person at counter at 3pm on a Friday! 2) got the room, what a HUGE HUGE HUGE disappointment. the "room" (not all rooms are suites as they advertise) it was SO small and very old. Cannot even describe how small it was, oh..yes i can...you can watch tv while you are sitting on the toilet...serious. the only furniture was a small 3 drawer chest and the tv covered the whole top of that. the chest was old worn gouges and scratched up. table and chairs (OLD) were the same. Even the door to the room had huge chunks of paint out of it and splatters on it. ONLY COLD water in the bathroom sink (only sink) so, if you wanted to wash your hand in hot/warm water you had to used the bathtub. this makes me wonder how the cleaning staff "cleans" the room with cold water. do NOT plan on entertaining yourself or your kids with pay per view movies, there were only about 6 to choose from, only 1 for kids (shrek3) and maybe spiderman could be for kids the rest, all 4-5 of them, were all dark intense movies, think there was one comedy. I only have one good thing to say about the visit is that the tv had lots of channels. I left a pair of earrings in the room, when I got home the next day, I called to ask about them, the front desk said they would have to ask housekeeping and could I call back in 20 minutes!! well, for starters, I would think housekeeping would have turned them, then I would think a reputable hotel would have called me to tell me that they had found them and were holding them for me, (they did not) when I called back, they had the earrings but did not seem too enthusiastic that they were able to hold them for me until I was able to come get them. No offer to mail them to me. luckily I only live 30 miles away. when I went to check out and turn in my "'comment card" there wasn't even anyone at the front desk, so I left, which worked out good, now I will mail it to corporate instead of the hotel itself. the breakfast was "fair" their idea of a "hot breakfast buffet" was the basic continental breakfast, cereals, pastries, the "hot" part was canned sausage gravy over cold biscuits, and one day breakfast burritos with not much in them and the next day cheese omelets floating in the water from the steam from the covered tray they were in. they had make your own waffles, on Sunday the waffle irons still had food on it from the previous day, I was the first one in, so I know it was from the day before. Bfast is supposed to be at 6:30, I was there on 7/24-7/26, on Sunday I was there a bit after 6:30 with several others the dining area, (very small for hotel this size, plan on eating outside) waiting, it was dark, I finally walked in and asked the attendant when it opened, she said it was open, it was totally dark, so I turned there lights on, there was nothing out on the counter yet, it was not ready to open, by this time it was almost 7 am. I went and turned the lights on myself and then everyone else came in...there is nothing at this hotel that would entice me to return to it or try any other Ramada...there is a Quality Inn, Motel 6 and La Quinta all in a row next to this hotel. my recommendation...try one of them. there outside of the hotel looks nice but the rooms are so so old, a coat of paint in a room does not qualify as "remodeled" i had a friend drop in for a visit and his comment was "I thought Ramada was a better chain than this". So did I. Motel 6 much better...

The room we stayed in was a one bedroom suite. The room was very neat and the heated pool was great. The breakfast area can get crowded towards the final hour of breakfast, but in all, it was a great value. Very nice room, except some petty little problems we encountered. The main room with the beds had a swamp cooler and the water storage unit had to be emptied every 5 or 6 hours, the front desk doesn't really answer the phone much after 4p.m., I kept blowing a fuse in the room everytime I used my own personal blow dryer, and the light in the restroom blew a fuse the last day of our stay, but when we would call the front desk (usually in the a.m.)they sent someone to fix it right away.

Clean rooms, lots of towels, large pool & hot tub, great breakfast (included), easy to get too, close to San Diego and Legoland, friendly staff, wireless internet included. Recommend highly for a family vacation!