My wedding party guests had the time of their life!!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 1/21/08
My husband and I got married in Ojai last year, and while we stayed at the Emerald Iguana with the rest of our immediate family (beautiful place, horrible experience), we put the overflow family and friends at The Capri. We'd checked it out a few weeks earlier and after seeing the pictures they give you online, my first impression was that we were at the wrong place. It looked like an brokedown roadside motel, not the classic, retro hotel they were selling it as.
But once we stepped inside the lobby, we took in a huge sigh of relief...it was beautiful! the pool area was very well kept and the backyard (with the cabanas and lounge chairs) looked like an oasis. The room we stayed in was a ground floor room with a huge attached patio. The TV was a huge flat screen, and the bed was made of white linens. The bathroom was ok, but the room and backyard more than made up for it.
We had the wedding and reception a few weeks later and afterwards the afterparty was at the hotel. I was too tired to go, but the next morning all I heard was how much fun everyone had. There was another wedding party there the same weekend, so all the doors were open and all the guests were mingling and hanging out. Our friends who were musicians and performed in our wedding played under the cabana while the guests came out on the lawn and enjoyed themselves under the moonlight.
Now, that's not to say it's like that every weekend, when we went a few weeks earlier, it was quiet, peaceful and restful, where nothing out of the ordinary happened. My point is they take into consideration who their guests are. Any other hotel might have shut the party down, but they realized there were wedding parties there and let them enjoy themselves, which I appreciated. The staff is pretty cool, they let you do your own thing. After 10 or 11 they lock up the lobby and no one is there working, so if you're looking for 24-hour personal attention, you might be disappointed, but if you're self sufficient and just want to get away at a reasonable price, I highly reccommend it!!