Cambria Pines Lodge, Cambria

The front desk staff is incredibly rude. I can't even put into words how offended I was the entire length of our stay. We paid $260 for one evening in one of their larger suites. We were greated with rude remarks upon check in and given quick, short answers to any question we asked. Once we asked when our deposit would be returned to our card we were treated like lower class citizens. I would never recommend this hotel to anyone I cared about. There are plenty of other nice places to stay in Cambria, stay clear of the Pines Lodge.

We love this place. We stayed in one of their suites overlooking the woods. The suites are very spacious and clean. We have two children and they loved it as well. We strolled through their grouds and the garden is simply breathtaking. Also the breakfast was great and we even got to enjoy it outside. Service and staff is very freindly and accomodating. Highly reccommend this place!!

The rooms are heated with little, old, electric units on the walls. Ours had a problem and set off the smoke detector. That's when we learned there is no central fire alarm system. There could have been a fire in our room and neither the front desk nor the other guests would know. The fire depoartment was not notified. This is pretty scarey.

WE GO THERE AT LEAST TWICE OR MORE EVERY YEAR. WE LOVE THE NEW CABINS AND THE RATES ARE GREAT IN OFF SEASON. THE FRONT DESK HAS ALWAYS BEEN SO NICE AND ACCOMODATING. THE LOUNGE IS ALWAYS SO NICE ARE PLEASANT, THE FOOD IS THE BEST. WE HAVE MET A LOT OF NICE PEOPLE AND CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK EACH TIME. I LOVE TO GET A FACIAL AND MASSAGE AT THE SOJURN SPA. CHRISTIE IS ONE OF THE NICEST PEOPLE AND WE HAVE BECOME FRIENDS SINCE WE STARTED GOING THERE TO STAY. JOHN AND SHIRLEY SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

I was charged a total of $400 for two nights for a basic room with a saggy King size bed, a 19" fuzzy TV, and no air conditioning (it was over 90 degrees outside). Everything looked like it had not been improved upon since the early '80s. Totally not worth the price.

The gardens are a beautiful sight, our room view couldn't be nicer, their complimentary breakfast was good, however, I did not like that any normal noise, such as walking, laughing with my grandaughter and my son, or my grandaughter falling off the bed once, would cause the front desk to call us and tell us that other customers were complaining of excessive noise three times! We were upstairs. We are not noisy people, or inconsiderate to others, at least we try our best, so it was annoying and upsetting to me that we practically had to be walking barefoot, so we did not "bother" the neighbors. although there were other people, in their early 20's carrying on.

The grounds are lovely, but customer service is terrible. Check-in person was extremely rude. Not even greeted by this person or the other person that would pop out from the office. You can hear everything, your neighbor does. Pass on this place, we have stayed at other places along Moonstone drive and all those experiences have been wonderful. We will never return to this place.

We stay in Cambria several times every year. Usually we stay on Moonstone Beach at Blue Dolphin Inn, Sand Peebles, Fog Catcher, or, when we're looking for something less costly, at the Creekside Inn. However, in July 2009, we decided to give Cambria Pines Lodge a try because it was one of the few places we had never stayed in the years we've been visiting Cambria. What a mistake. It was every bit as costly as the beach front properties with their excellent rooms, well appointed baths, good service, and wonderful views. But Cambria Pines Lodge is one of those places that has put all its money into how things look, not on how they function. I can't understand why the Moonstone Corporation made the decision to construct such shoddy buildings. The gardens surrounding the place are just fabulous. But the rooms? They were awful--and I mean truly awful! The buildings are constructed with the cheapest materials possible: the walls are paper thin, the floors shake so badly all the furniture rattles every time one walks across the room to use the very loud, cheaply constructed bathrooms. Also, there is loud music in the lodge on weekends and if you get a room far away enough from the noise, you will be put in the one of these outer buildings with names like Rose Wood, that are the cheapest, shoddiest constructions of all. We ate dinner in the restaurant. The wine we ordered had corked. They replaced it, but recommended their Castoro house wine as a replacement promising it was very good--It wasn't, it was about as bad an ordinary restaurant house wine as we've had. The Chicken Piccata was breaded and cooked with tomatoes and pickled artichoke hearts with a few capers thrown in, so it should be called something like Tuscan Chicken (or something equally as unidentifiable) because this certainly was not Chicken Piccata. We paid almost as much as if we'd stayed at on the beach with a partial and lovely ocean view and rooms that have fireplaces, are soundproofed, and have lovely bathrooms. Go to Cambria Pines Lodge to walk the gardens, go for the "happening weekend music scene", maybe even go to the bar for the very-hard-to-find late night fare, but don't go for an overnight stay.

A delightful (especially for the low price) stay in a beautifully landscaped environment. Great service, comfort. Highly, highly recommend.

We have been to the Cambria Pines Lodge a few times. The best rooms to stay in are the cabins by the pool since they don't have any upstairs neighbors and appear to be the most insulated. If a cabin isn't available, don't bother staying there unless you like to hear every move & sound your neighbor makes. The walls in the 'condo style' rooms are paper thin and if you're unlucky enough to have a neighbor upstairs don't plan on getting any sleep. The maintenance staff started repairing a railing outside our bedroom window at 8:30 a.m. and the management would not do anything about it. After not sleeping all night and then having the staff not care about the early morning noise we were not happy. The management informed us that we were already staying at a 'discounted' rate so they would not take anything additional off for our horrible night's sleep or non-stop banging hammers outside our room and they were very snotty about it. We would've gotten a better rest if we'd have slept in the car! The gardens are beautiful but you'd be better off staying somewhere else and just stopping by to walk thru the garden. That's what we've done since our last stay.