Capistrano Seaside Inn - Dana Point

Granted the Pacific Coast Hwy is standing between you and paradise, the ocean breeze and sound of the waves make this place a quaint little getaway. The layout for the rooms along the coast are like cottages with chairs outside the rooms for ocean viewing. The mattresses are nothing to brag about, in fact theyre downright pitiful, and there isnt much […] to do at the hotel, but for the price you cant do a whole lot better. They offer complimentary breakfast, althought I didnt partake so I cant comment. All in all, not a bad a place to stay. Read more

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I read several negative reviews of the Seaside Inn so I wasn't expecting anything good when my boyfriend and I arrived. We were pleasantly surprised, however. The room was small but it was clean and had a small refrigerator and microwave, although no coffeemaker, which was a little disappointing. There was coffee in the lobby along with a continental […] breakfast each morning. We enjoyed coffee and breakfast while sitting at the patio table outside the room. There is a view of the ocean, PCH, and the train tracks. There is a lot of traffic on PCH and the train does go by several times during the day and the evening but this really didn't bother us. Beach access is right across PCH and there are a few restaurants within walking distance. We really enjoyed our stay at this quaint little Inn. Read more

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My husband and I stayed there overnight and we loved this place. It was charming and warm. The owners were welcoming and it was an 8 minute walk from the beach. Our room was clean, the bed was comfortable and we could watch the waves from our balcony. My husband and I are easy & simple to please. All we need is a bed to sleep in, coffee to drink and […] a friendly face. No, this wasn't the Double Tree but we would not have been as happy there. My husband and I work in customer service and this hotel made us feel welcome. We'd defiantly stay there again. Read more

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There was large knife in the Sea Side sign as I was leaving.... classic!

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I give this place a O as we refused to stay. I wouldn't put a homeless person in a room like this.

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THIS PLACE IS A DUMP, IT IS AN OVERPRICED HOMELESS SHELTER. THE BEACH IS ACROSS STREET BUT A LOOOONNG WALK TO ACCESS IT. IT IS RIGHT BESIDE THE TRAIN TRACKS, LITERALLY. DO NOT STAY HERE!!!

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I am not sure much can be done to improve cleanliness of room or condition of hotel because of age of building, BUT they could certainly improve on the maintenance and quality of service. It needs MAJOR renovations, especially for the price charged. I can't believe Hotels.com even offers this as a choice. They offer coffee maker, but no coffee cups. […] Bathroom window would not stay open, patio door opened but then you could not shut it. I made reservation for queen/king bed, and the first room we were given were 2 twin beds! I wish I would have noticed previous reviews.... Read more

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A lot of traffic noise and awful lot of train noise the hole night. Windows need better sound insulation

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The hotel was horrible sorry to say. It's very old and so dirty. Unbelievable dirty. It has an old scary man working in the office. The rooms had cold red tile that was uncomfortable. The room I stayed in had a Brocken lock and the windows didn't lock either. I opened the shower and there was a spider in it. I got into the bed and there was blood or […] something on the blanket. The springs on the bed were so stiff. I'm so sore from it. Overall- it was horrible. Read more

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Dirty place, there was sand in the sheets when we arrived

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The motel was awful. We didn't even stay the night. The room was dirty, smelly and musty.

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This is not a nice hotel with room service and great management. This is a quaint, old, small cottage style place to stay directly across from the beautiful ocean and walking distance to the harbor and many restaurants. Each room had a sitting area among the tropical landscape. If you are looking to stay somewhere inexpensively, and not expecting too […] much and you like a little character, give it a shot! Read more

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OK, missing cup, towels, no chair, outside chair broken, bed TERRIBLE, squeeked, needs new mattress, light out, asked for new bulb, no response.

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Right by the beach, but very deceiving. The hotel was just old, ugly and cheap. Not romantic st all

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We have stayed at this Hotel before and enjoyed its character. Unfortunately, this time it had too much character. Do not stay in any of the old rooms, they have dirty carpet, and are very much in need of an update, (lots of potential). Now, with that said, they have started to redue some of the rooms and we requested a newer room and it was fine with […] the acception of no TV, (after telling the owners that is was broken on Monday morning, we returned later in the afternoon and nothing was done. We were the only ones in the Hotel???) Not a good overall impression. The Train annoyed us a little more this trip also which runs along PCH. They are trying to update, and the New rooms are obviously very clean with Tile and not carpet. Read more

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Nice area, but hotel management did not seem at all interested in the comfort and convenience of the guests. There seemed to be no interest in room comfort - for example curtains on windows and door were old, dirty, and non-fitting. Small TV precariously balanced on microwave oven which, in turn, was located on the front room dresser. The wall pictures […] were not fixed in the frames. If you are a surfer just looking for a place to "crash" for the night and are not concerned about comfort or asthaetics, you would be fine. Read more

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The inn is comprised of small cottages facing the ocean, so basically every room is an ocean-front room (unlike the big-chain hotels in the area), with its own semi-private front porch. The room I stayed in had been recently remodeled and still smelled of fresh paint. Parking, wifi, and continental breakfast were included in the price, which made it […] a good value overall. One downside is that the surfliner train passes by routinely starting at around 7 or 8am, but this issue also applies to all of the hotels in the Dana Point area. Read more

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We paid an extra $10 for an upstairs room for an ocean view - which was mostly obscured by the trees just outside the window. The room was old and dirty. On the plus side was a fireplace, which we enjoyed and a balcony. The small TV balanced on top of the small microwave was an interesting approach to modernization. I guess a shelf would have been too […] expensive. I would recommend that the place be torn down and replaced. Read more

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not good

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Okay, when I was younger, I may not have cared, but now - no way. Doors could easily be jimmied opened, windows the same. The cold water valve on the faucet was completely stuck. No blow dryer although it is listed on site. It seemed clean enough, but I still worried about when the comforter had last been cleaned. Would not go again...

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This Hotel is a dump, i cant belive Hotels.com would even list this on their site.

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Great People...The BEST LOCATION. 1940's charming building. Needs Major renovation. However...the room was comfortable, service was good and you can not beat the view of the ocean!!

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Very old motel that has not been very well maintained. Inside the room there were mouse droppings and saw a mouse at night chewing on a bagel bag and bagel. Trains went by about every hour at night and blowing their horns. The bathroom and appliances looked very old. The hotel room cost was very high and I would have pursued a refund, but it was prepaid […] on line to a third party. Overall it was one of the worst motels I have ever stayed at and would never consider returning. Read more

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This hotel is in need for some updating. It is a little rough. Great location you can walk across to the beach. Great Mexican restaurant right down the street. We slept great & loved the sunsets & walking on the beach.

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I left....it was so gross........would'nt even stay there! Went next door to Best Western.....should be shut down........priced way too high!

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I lived in this area years ago and was familiar with this hotel as being a funky beach hotel but it has gone from funky to filthy. Didn't stay, checked it out and then had to find another hotel. Lesson learned, read the reviews and believe them.

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Horrible experience! We even read the reviews, my boyfriend said..."it can't be THAT bad"... it was. We arent that picky so we even brought our own sheets and towels and figured it would be like camping. We had a wedding to go to and the reception was at the Marriott up the hill. By the time we paid for cabs back and forth, we could have stayed there […] instead for the same price! Would have been much better It was worse than camping, we got up and left at the crack of dawn, didn't shower, barely slept, will never return. Next time, we will spend the extra bucks... Read more

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The hotel is VERY old and in dire need of updating! I would give it no stars at all!!!!!

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The hotel was on the ocean...and adjacent to the highway and active railroad track. The noise was bad. The a/c was a small unit in the window that did not allow the broken hanging blinds to close AND have cool air at the same time. The floor appeared dirty enough, I never touched it without shoes on. The one chair had multiple stains on the upholstery. […] There was no place to put my suitcase. Had I not arrived very late with tired children, I would have left to find something else. It was that bad. I travel a huge amount and stay in all kinds of places. This ties with with my worst experience ever, Read more

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When we first got to the Seaside Inn, one of the rooms was not ready. After we checked the rooms out, one of the rooms were missing a bed so we had to wait even longer for the second room to be ready. Once we got into the room, paint on the tiles of the floor were chipping off and sticking to my feet. There was a hole in the ceiling where a fireplace […] use to be. When we took showers, the water leaked into the main room making big puddles. One of the puddles was right under an outlet and it was progressively getting bigger the longer we took a shower. The lamp that was inbetween the beds did not work and the lamp on the side of one bed was missing. The door in the shower did not close tightly and a spider crawled out of the drain as I was taking a shower. When I was getting ready for bed, 2 spiders were on the wall above my bed. The curtain on the main door was see-through and the window in the bathrooms was missing blinds. Also in one of the bathrooms, there was mysterious white plant growing out of the wall. We did not know if it was mold or not. On one of the rooms, it looked like the door had been broken into several times. There were holes in the comforter on the bed. A train goes by about every 20 minutes tooting its horn until about midnight. The Seaside Inn does have a carport to park cars but it is very low and our truck could not fit in it. You can hear people talking in the room next to you even if you were talking with your "inside" voice. It also doesn't have a very good sidewalk to walk to the crosswalk to get to the beach. It was a little gravel road but it is so far off to the side you don't notice it. The only good thing about the hotel room was the little area to sit right outside of your room because the plants were very nice and it was peaceful excluding the busy road and the train that went by every 20 minutes. We paid for 2 nights but we only stayed for one because it was just too much to handle. Read more

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This hotel was very outdated and not kept up well at all. I wore my flip flops throughout the room and wanted to wear them in the shower as well. I was afraid I'd be taking home bed bugs from this hotel. I didn't know we are right next to train tracks so you hear trains roaring past at all hours of the day and night. We just tried to shower and sleep […] and get the heck out of that place as soon as we could for the day. We also didn't have batteries in our remote which was odd and someone left a wad of gum on one of the bed posts. Some other people staying with us saw a few spiders in their room and some sort of mold/fungus plant thing growing out of the shower. They also had a hole in the ceiling where a fireplace used to be. Read more

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very sad to say, but it was one of the worst places i ever stayed. Owners are nice but meu deus, they need to take care of their property ASAP. Dirty, unconfrotable etc. Never going there again!

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This is the worst Hotel ever.The place is filthy.Everything was falling apart in our room.They don't clean it or bring you any clean towels.The place was empty and now I know why.Save your money,don't waste on this crappy place.We hated absolutely everything about this place and we aren't very fussy at all.

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Terrible hotel. Manager showed absolutely no interest in resolving any issues. The room was exceptionally dirty and in a terrible state of disrepair. Bathrooms were disgusting. Booked in and paid for three nights but stayed for one. Blinds broken. Door wouldn't lock. Best thing about this hotel was leaving it.

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This is the worst hotel we have ever stayed in! If it had not been so late in the day we would have cancelled and gone somewhere else. There were cobwebs hanging from all of the walls and the bathroom had mold on just about everything. The floor was black with dirt and sand and there were used tissues under the bed. The lamp between the beds would not […] turn on, when we looked to see if it was plugged in we found the plug in the socket and the cord to the lamp just hanging there. The light in the bathroom had no cover on it and the lights over the sink had burnt out bulbs. The tv remote had no batteries. T here was a plate for a smoke alarm but no smoke alarm in it! We don't know how this passes code! There were no lush plants around the place like the pictures show. Also no fireplace and who knows where the hot tub was or if it would have been usable. The continental breakfast we wouldn't have touched for anything because everything around it was filthy dirty. The owners were very unfriendly. For the first time in our lives we pulled back the sheets to make sure there were no bed bugs and slept with only the sheet because the blankets were so dirty. DON'T WASTE YOUR HARD EARNED VACATION MONEY STAYING AT THIS DUMP! Read more

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If you're looking for a four star hotel, this isn't it; if you're looking for a quiet, romantic, quaint get-a-way that is inexpensive, well then, this is your place! YES, it is old, yes it is run down, however, there is something about this hotel that just put a smile on my husband's and my face. We sat out on the balcony just listening to the ocean, […] looking at all the stars and realized that the quality of the hotel has nothing to do with our purpose for being there...getting away for a night. I highly recommend this quaint little hotel with the fireplace and a great staff!! Read more

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I booked this room for a romantic getaway weekend with my boyfriend and felt like I walked in to the movie "Psycho"! It was disgusting! The first horrible experience was walking into the office: it smelled of bad food and was coated in a layer of dust and spiderwebs. The clerk was an older Indian man who said no more than 2 words to me before handing […] me a key. We walked into the room (after walking through spiderwebs in our faces) to find a hodge-podge of furniture that looks like it was dug up from a dumpster. There were used burnt matches on the pillows, mold in the bathroom, and the bed linens looked like they were 30 years old. We turned right around, gave the key back, and stayed somewhere else! I can't even comprehend how this place is still in business! Don't ever stay unless you want to catch a disease! Read more

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Do not expect a hotel. This is more like renting a cabin. Fireplace in room. Very old hotel and has that 50's surfer vibe. If you are searching for a spotless 4 or 5 star hotel do not stay.... We enjoyed our's..... Shower had awesome pressure and plenty of hot water.

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This was a very Romantic get-a-way for a low budget vacation. The rooms are very clean, Hand painted murals on the walls are a good accent. the Gas fireplace was an excellent addition to a romantic night. I was very pleased at this hotel, and dissapointed i had to leave. Beach access was a walk, (although we never made it to the beach) :) .... The trains […] ran through the night blaring their horns , but didn't bother us much. and lastly the walls are very thin so we could hear our neighbors conversations, and vise-versa. ( didn't stop us though) VERY PLEASED!!!!!!!!! Read more

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The blinds were broken, there was no soap in the bathroom. It was bare inside. No cozy at all.

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The hotel and it's owner/manager need to be retired! Avoid.

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Les chambres sont situées en bordure de plage mais...séparées de la plage par une nationale et une voie ferrée. Comme il y'a un passage à niveau au niveau du lobby de l'hôtel, le train doit actionner son avertisseur sonore à chaque passage donc jusqu'à minuit le soir et à partir de 5 ou 6 heures du matin... Entre le passage des trains et des voitures, […] pas possible de dormir...dommage car c'est une des prestations que devrait proposer un hôtel... Read more

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