Sunset Inn, Pacific Grove

Breakfast was awful, stale bagels and crossants and no milk/cream for coffee. Very spacious room, but pillows flat and uncomfortable.Location was good and people very nice. I would recommend this hotel only if breakfast improves.

All I can say is WOW! I have stayed in the Monterey, Carmel and Big Sur area many times and know the area well... but will now stay in charming Pacific Grove at the Sunset Inn EVERY visit. It is just steps away from the ocean where there is a beautiful residential area and almost private walking/jogging trails along the sea that was even more beautiful than Monterey or Carmel in my opinion. We felt spoiled! And the water was full of otters, we must have seen over ten in just an hour walk. The Sunset Inn has beautiful rooms that are recently remodeled and really felt like we had our own space... plenty of room, big bathroom... and the price was not expensive... less than $100 a night. We were so pleased. The Inn is close enough to town that we did walk one morning to Toasties for breakfast. We also found it really easy to explore Monterey, Carmel and Big Sur from the location... but were always happy to return to our room and seemingly private seaside area. And like the other reviewer, yes, you can hear the ocean at night :-) Barbara at the front desk is very sweet and super fun. We really enjoyed interacting with her. Many thanks to the Sunset Inn, a super find for sure! We will be back!

Great place, very clean, beautiful rooms and friendly staff. I loved room 201 which had huge windows, sounds of the ocean at night, and a very comfortable bed. I found the previous review pretty funny as it sounds like that person is used to sleeping with mite-ridden pillows at motels(?!?!?!). Sunset Inn didn't have anything of the sort, and Barbara was a hoot. Great stay, will definitely be back

We wish we could recommend the Sunset Inn in Pacific Grove. It's been completely renovated and has big, modern rooms and nice amenities like Jacuzzi tubs, huge flatscreen TVs, and fireplaces. It was quiet and close to the ocean and the center of town. It was spacious enough that there was plenty of room for our 15-month-old son's travel crib, and he loved the big bathtub. And for the price, it was great. We had a really good time in Pacific Grove and Monterey, but our little vacation bubble was popped when the hotel manager, Barbara, accused us of stealing three pillows from the room. She didn't ask, "Hey, do you know what happened to the pillows in the room?" She didn't give us the benefit of the doubt. No, instead, she told us that three pillows were missing from the room and she put a $150 hold on our credit card and accused us of stealing pillows. There was only one “regular” pillow in the room when we checked in -- and it was in the closet, not on the bed. The bed was covered with decorative pillows that matched the bed spread, and my wife and I slept on the decorative pillows. Because the room was otherwise clean and in order, we just assumed those were the pillows we were supposed to use. That's what they provided, so that's what we slept on – the gross, decorative pillows that probably get washed once a year along with the bedspread. Now, why anyone would steal three cheap, standard-issue motel pillows -- the kind that don't give your head and neck any support, the ones teeming with dust mites and dandruff, the kind that someone’s grandpa with psoriasis has slept on, the ones that people stick between their knees to relieve their sciatica -- is beyond me. We were pretty upset that we were getting charged $150 for three, saggy, mite-ridden pillows that the maids had obviously forgotten to put in the room. I really shouldn't have cussed, but I was really angry. Nor should my wife have started crying, but she was really upset. The emotion got a wee bit out of hand. Maybe it was because Barbara, the manager, was mocking us as being idiots to have not known that three more pillows should have been in the room. She rolled her eyes when we explained that we slept on the decorative pillows. We even offered to let her to inspect our car, but she wouldn't hear of it and threatened to call the police. Ten minutes after we left, she called our cell phone and said something about the "inconvenience," and six days later, the $150 hold was taken off of our credit card. I think if you're going to run a hotel, you have to treat the guests a little better. There was no explanation about the missing pillows or why we were no longer suspected pillow thieves. So, we can recommend Sunset Inn for just about everything except for the management. Oh, and make sure you count the pillows when you check into your room.

This hotel was close to the water, lighthouse, even dears wandering nearby. The room was small but recently remodeled. What we didn't care for was that we were hoping to enjoy a quite getaway and instead we had to put up with kids running around in the room. You could clearly hear their foot steps and everything else. In regards to their breakfast, I wouldn't loose sleep over it.

The location is great. BUT the inn is not completely refurbished and our room and water leaks on ceiling and wall; door to outside had space enough around to see outside light; bathroom tub had cracks in it and no longer had porcelin; there were 2 beds but no sitting space so you had to stay on bed to do anything; no adjustment was made on "older" rooms; no hair dryer as advertised and no plug in bathroom once we got a dryer; did not honor coupon for discount! We would not recommend this location to anyone and will be contacting them with our concerns.