This place is a bit unusual.... It's really just a restaurant with three rooms upstairs (two of which share a bathroom!). But it's ideally located, comfortably furnished, and the people are nice as can be. If you stay there, try the restaurant for dinner. They will spoil you silly, and the food is divine. We'd go back in a heartbeat!

We have stayed at the Blue Heron inn twice and have had great experiences both times. We stayed in the room with a private bathroom the first night and we and another couple we brought there stayed in the rooms with the shared bathroom. The rooms are clean and comfortable with views of the water. The location is great, you can walk all around the the town of mendocino and to the water.
Our favorite part is the Moose cafe. We have eaten lunch and dinner there (breakfast is included in the price of the stay) and the food is always FANTASTIC. Sitting out on the patio in the sun at lunchtime is also great, you can see the water from the deck.
I think for the price you pay, you can't beat the Blue Heron Inn while in Mendocino. It's a perfect getaway.

We recently stayed at the Blue Heron Inn above the Moose Cafe in the village of Mendocino; we had stayed there a couple of years ago, and did not realize the ownership has changed. The three rooms above the restaurant are really now an afterthought. We were told the second day when asking about refreshing the room that we were supposed to ask for that service. We did and got towels and bed made, but again the 3rd day ....nothing. They had specials in the past including a meal at the restaurant, but we got blank stares from the unfriendly staff when we asked on phone and once we got there....
Would not recommend any longer.

We stayed at the Blue Heron Inn in december 2005 and it was no problem to get the "Sunset Room" for just one night, even from Friday to Saturday. The Sunset Room is really nice, and you have two windows from which you can see the cliff and the ocean. 115US$ in off-season for a room with a shared bathroom may seem much but I guess that's Mendocino, but I'm sure compared to other B&Bs in that little city, you will stay on the cheaper side in the Blue Heron Inn. The bathroom of the Sunset Room is shared only with one other room, so it wasn't a problem to use the bathroom anytime you wanted. The Lonely Planet says the rooms would be spartan. That's true in the sense that they aren't as over furnished (Victorian Style) as many other B&Bs in Mendo, but as posted before, lovers of the european style will really like it here, and the linen are fantastic. The only thing is that there is a restaurant below the guest rooms and you will here the sounds of people talking and eating till 10pm in the evening. So if you like to go to bed early, that may be a problem. Otherwise I think that the Blue Heron Inn is a great choice and, for Mendocino, surely is a best buy! I would certainly come back!