My wife and I stayed at the Packard House Bed & Breakfast for our honeymoon in October 2010 and we loved it! Due to heavy rain on the drive to Mendocino, we arrived after the normal check in hours. This was not a problem though, since I called and they left a key in a lock box for us to get in upon arrival.
When we got to our room it was just as I had hoped. While the Packard House has old style charm on the outside, it is well remodeled to a more fresh modern feel inside, rather than the floral patterned walls of many other Mendocino B & B's. The bedding in our room was luxurious, and the room had plenty of space. It did lack any sort of mini fridge, which would've been nice since we often had left overs from going out to dinner, but it was not too much of a problem.
The only really negative thing about our room was that the jetted tub was not functioning. Upon meeting the inn keeper the next day, since we checked in late our first night, he informed us that it had stopped functioning the day before we arrived and that he had a repair guy that could come in and fix it our wait till after we left, whichever we preferred. Since the repair man would have to be in our room for two to three hours to fix the tub, we opted to just do without the jets for our stay. Though this was an inconvenience it did not detract from our stay at the Packard house and I would gladly stay there again!
Lastly I shall end on a very positive note. When deciding where to stay for my wife and my honeymoon, we were a little hesitant to stay at a bed and breakfast since we honestly didn't want to have to go down to breakfast and socialize with too many people. We just wanted to enjoy eating breakfast together. The Packard House presents a solution to this, delicious breakfast baskets! Every morning we woke up to beautifully, deliciously prepared breakfast baskets, usually consisting of: 2 croissants, 2 scones, 2 freshly prepared yogurts with fruit preserves mixed in, fruit, orange juice, and coffee. We looked forward to it every morning and it was a great breakfast to start the day with!
