We booked this hotel after looking for a place online to stay while visiting the Montery area. The price was great and it was nice that we could get 2 bedrooms for cheaper then others with only one bedroom. It was great that the kids could have their own area. It is well off the beaten path of other hotels and it was clean(which is always my main concern). It was older and had a musty smell in the hallways due to age, and the vent in the bathroom was falling out of the ceiling....but it was nice to have a fridge and microwave in the room and each room had its own tv, so my kids could watch what they wanted. The breakfast in the morning was nothing specail, but was nice to have it included in the price. We would stay here again when returning to Montery since you cannot beat the price.

I loved this place. I am a mother of two little boys, 3 & 5, and there is nothing worse than at the end of a long day having two little boys cramped up in a hotel room and making sure they don't stomp hard or yell too loud. We have stayed at the nicest hotels on cannery row and spent a mint. I happened to find this online out of the blue. I seen the pictures for the King size bedroom suite. This room is fantastic. It used to be a condo and now converted into hotel rooms. They are built with high ceilings and the room I was in was very spacious. It had a nice fireplace, a full kitchen (and I mean full, oven, dishwasher, microwave, large refrigerator!) It was so nice sitting in the kitchen area and having a nice table to sit and eat breakfast at. The original living space now had a king size bed..and the bed was comfortable. Walking up a few steps and you also had another sitting area where the couch converted into a bed. Okay, not so comfortable, but what couch converted into a bed is? I've stayed at 4 star hotel rooms, and none of the couches that converted into beds were comfortable..that's just life. We had our little boys sleep there with no problems. In fact, they loved the idea of being close, but not too close to us and having their own separate TV!

Yes, it could use a makeover, but I liked the rustic appeal and everything was clean and they were even nice enough to have dishes and pans ready if you needed them. You can walk out into a balcony area that sits a table and four chairs and we can look into a nice woody area, very quiet and relaxing.

I have to say that I felt very bad for the owner who had to deal with these RUDE women who were in the check out room before me and DEMANDED that they only pay for one night because they felt that the pull out bed on the couch was very uncomfortable. I couldn't help but listen to the owner describe how she told them before they stayed there that the couch was not as comfortable as the bed. It did not matter. All three of these women were vicious and that they will "STOP PAYMENT IMMEDIATELY." I felt embarassed for them. This poor lady being yelled at remained calm and classy and just nodded and listened. Very sad.

5 stars all around. If you have young ones I do not think you'll be disappointed by the space and feel that you're in an apartment instead of a hotel. Just that freedom alone was wonderful. Also, being able to purchase peanut butter & jelly, milk and snacks and keep everything fresh was a plus. The free breakfast..great. You can make your own fresh waffles and they were delicious.

We will surely be back again. Thanks to all the nice people who run this place, we had a wonderful stay!

Best things about this inn: nestled in nature, and close to beautiful Sunset Drive and Cannery Row. Biggest complaint: When heating or air conditioning came on, it sounded like what you would hear if you were sitting inside a plane and the jets would start up - I needed earplugs at night.

What also wasn't so great: shower temperature would drop a lot when toilet was flushed, and continental breakfast only consisted of various sugary carbs (cereals, pastries, but no meat or even fresh fruit).

The manager is nice enough, though. And we didn't mind giving her our business. But overall, this inn was functional, but not spectacular relative to other places I've stayed.

Having stayed the previous year in a very sub standard place (see review - still fuming about treatment), I was quite careful about booking this time. I cannot recommend more highly a visit to Pacific Grove and this time I took my teenage son. This HoJo was a most pleasant find and surprise and I would recommend it highly. Spacious, clean, quiet, comfortable accommodation, set next to the woods and surrounded by lovely hotel gardens, it was a complete contrast to the previous hotel stay round the corner. PG is expensive so this seemed good value. Only one minus perhaps - the breakfast offerings were the usual artificial/packaged stuff, no different than a lot of other motels, but my recommendation is to make coffee in the room and head up, preferably on foot in order to enjoy the wonderful walking scenery and lovely houses, to Holly's Lighthouse Cafe for a real treat of a meal. Yum! I love you Pacific Grove!