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Escape to beachfront bliss at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach with stunning ocean and mountain views. Minutes from downtown Ventura and a short drive from Santa Barbara, our pet-friendly hotel is the only beachfront property directly on the sand in Ventura Beach, making it the perfect home base for exploring the Southern California Gold Coast. Attend an event at the Ventura County Fairgrounds & Event Center, just steps away from the hotel, shop at the Camarillo Outlets, catch the long waves at C Street, stroll Ventura Botanical Gardens, and relax at Moofish Café or Aqua Beachfront Bar with a refreshing cocktail. Take a dip in our heated outdoor pool or enjoy direct beach access. Stay active at our 24/7 Fitness Center, host meetings and events in our dynamic venues, and savor delicious local ocean-to-table cuisine at our restaurants. At day's end, unwind in spacious rooms with plush bedding, balconies overlooking the Pacific Ocean, spa-inspired bathrooms, and upscale amenities.
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I stayed here for 2 nights recently and absolutely loved my stay. The location is fantastic. It's right on the beach next to the pier and several local restaurants. You're only a few blocks from downtown Main Street where all the action is. The property itself is older, but they have made a lot of nice upgrades. I was on the fifth floor in a King room facing the north side of the beach. It is so lovely to open the sliding door and listen to the waves crashing. Parking is either valet on site or next door in the parking structure. I parked in the structure next door with no problems. I preferred not to valet as I was going in and out a lot. The room itself was cozy and clean. My only complaint about the room is the bathroom door. I do not understand why they would put a sliding door with frosty glass panels which offers no privacy. Who wants to use the bathroom 2 feet from the bed behind a panel that doesn't even close all the way? I would have felt very uncomfortable if I had been there with anyone else! Aside from the bathroom weirdness, the property is really nice. I had a bottle of wine with some friends outside by the fire pit overlooking the ocean. Highly recommend. I'll be back.
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Date of stay: January 2022
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Response from Dylan DuPont, Guest Services / Front Office at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 20 Jan 2022
Dear Travelnomad88, We are delighted to have been your chosen hotel during your recent stay in Ventura. It was truly a pleasure to serve you. We appreciate your business and value your honest feedback. Your comments have been shared with the hotel team as a critical way of understanding how we can continue to deliver exceptional service to guests like you. Thank you for staying at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach hotel and we hope you choose to create more memories with us whenever your travels bring you back to Ventura. Sincerely, Dylan DuPont Front Office Manager Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach ddupont@cpventura.com
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Location is good, close proximity to shops/restaurants - about a 10 min walk. However, this hotel is situated right next to the freeway and the traffic noise is really loud. Strive to book a room on a high floor with a room number that ends in a zero or 1 (800 or 801, 700 or 701, 600 or 601, etc) then you will be closer the ocean and further from the freeway. The staff is really friendly and welcoming, rooms have been renovated and are nicely appointed. Would return back but will make sure I'm on the west side of the property in room 600, 700, 800 or 900.
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Date of stay: May 2022
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Response from Dylan DuPont, Guest Services / Front Office at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 18 May 2022
Dear 293gretching We recognize your time is valuable and appreciate the feedback you have provided on the Guest Satisfaction Survey. Your comments have been shared with the hotel team as a critical way of understanding how we can continue to deliver exceptional service to guests like you. Thank you for staying at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach hotel and we hope you choose to create more memories with us whenever your travels bring you back to Ventura. Dylan DuPont Front Office Manager 805-648-2100 Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach ddupont@cpventura.com
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Quiet, safe (need hotel key to access building after hours and floors always) Very comfy bed and room updated and clean. Step in shower. Rooms have balcony with partial ocean view. $10 overnight parking in Public garage next door to hotel, convenient and less than hotel parking lot. Just unload your car 1st, then go park in garage...DUH! I read another review complaining about that, but wisdom prevails. The lobby bar area, needs to be renovated and updated in my opinion. I didn't find it inviting and the decor was blah. Front desk was very nice and I recommend Aloha restaurant for basic food and drinks. The restuarant is literally about 80 feet walking distance next door. Great location for access to beach. Ventura is boring with no real night life, so bring your own fun.
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Date of stay: January 2023
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Response from Dylan DuPont, Guest Services / Front Office at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 5 Apr 2023
Dear475rues, We are delighted to have been your chosen hotel during your recent stay in Ventura. It was truly a pleasure to serve you. We appreciate your business and value your honest feedback. Your comments have been shared with the hotel team as a critical way of understanding how we can continue to deliver exceptional service to guests like you. Thank you for staying at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach hotel and we hope you choose to create more memories with us whenever your travels bring you back to Ventura. Sincerely, Dylan DuPont Front Office Manager Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach ddupont@cpventura.com
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Best views on the coast. I picked a Sunset View room which is a larger room and has two balconies. Panoramic Views across to Anacapa and Santa Cruz Islands. Amazing sunset photos.
Walk outside and you are on the beach path which is a wide promenade along the beach. Or walk 2 blocks and you are in downtown Ventura with lots of shops and restaurants.
Service from the hotel is great, very clean and an excellent value. You do get a little road noise from the 101 but love this location and love having the doors open at night to listen to the surf.
Amazing views, love the location, great value,. For sure will return
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Date of stay: November 2022
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Response from Dylan DuPont, Guest Services / Front Office at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 25 Nov 2022
Dear World travelrod, We are delighted to have been your chosen hotel during your recent stay in Ventura. It was truly a pleasure to serve you. We appreciate your business and value your honest feedback. Your comments have been shared with the hotel team as a critical way of understanding how we can continue to deliver exceptional service to guests like you. Thank you for staying at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach hotel and we hope you choose to create more memories with us whenever your travels bring you back to Ventura. Sincerely, Dylan DuPont Front Office Manager Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach ddupont@cpventura.com
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My review pertains to the hotel Accounting and their response to my request to correct Billing and credit card errors. I was charged twice (in essence) for a bar bill when the card on the room was declined and the bartender requested a different payment. I paid in cash but after checking out found that my CC was indeed charged for the same two drinks. Polite attempts to resolve with the hotel were ineffective and I had to dispute this with my bank. Frustrating that a hotel will not settle a small $25 dollar charge and require extra measures on my end for satisfaction. Speaks to customer service in a loud way.
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Date of stay: November 2022
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Response from IHG Service, Owner at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 19 Dec 2022
Hello Rebecca C, Thank you for your stay and patronage of Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach. We strive to provide a quality stay in an environment that makes us unique among all other chains. I read your evaluation of our services and am sorry your stay was not to your expectation. I know this can inconvenience you with this in mind, I forwarded your message to our managers. They evaluated them and created a plan to avoid this from happening again. I sent you a private message so we can discuss your stay further. I invite you to come on your next travel adventure. I know that you won't regret your decision. Cordially, Oscar C. Case Manager IHG Service
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I made a reservation for adjoining rooms, was told they couldn’t guarantee, but they would do everything possible. I called again a few days later, explained that one room was for my kids and asked if any adjoining rooms were available, told the same thing. My family and I drove three hours and upon checking in was told that they don’t have adjoining rooms at that hotel at all. I asked for the manager, explained to him that I had been lied to twice. He said “look, I can give you rooms next to each other.” I said “I can’t protect my kids from a predator night clerk who sees a room full of kids in your roster if I’m in the room next door. I needed adjoining so we can open the door.” Then he actually said to me that since I’m so scared of pedophiles I shouldn’t have left my house and I had to leave the hotel. Truthfully, I had not even raised my voice to this man. I did not deserve to be kicked out after being so misled in the first place. I’m baffled and shocked at such appalling treatment.
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Date of stay: October 2020
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Response from Dylan DuPont, Guest Services / Front Office at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 12 Oct 2020
Dear Meleadean, We apologize we were unable to accommodate your stay here at the Crowne plaza Ventura beach. We wish you well on your future travels. Sincerely, Dylan DuPont Front Office Manager Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach ddupont@cpventura.com
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The hotel has a great location next to the ocean. The room is cleaned and comfortable, but the pillows are making us neck pain. The patio door is single panel which means you can hear the train, the noise from outside. Yes, there is a railroad nearby. There are restaurants close by and a nice walkway by the ocean.
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Date of stay: January 2022
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Response from IHG Service, Owner at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 4 Feb 2022
Hi mark7242, Thanks for your review and for staying with us. We work hard to deliver an exceptional guest experience. We are delighted to hear you liked our location and found the rooms clean and comfortable. I am sorry to learn you didn't fully enjoy your stay due to the noise from the outside and the pillows were not to your liking. I know how important it is to be able to relax, and that didn't happen this time. I have shared your comments with our management teams, so they may address the areas you have noted. Many thanks for your comments. We hope to have the opportunity to provide you with a better stay. Sincerely, Connie D Case Manager IHGService
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Staycation in California-we drove south from San Jose to avoid the smoke and high temperatures. Great decision. Plenty of free parking, right on the beach and Paseo, minutes walk to downtown . Beautiful clean hotel, spotless, excellent staff front of house and restaurant for breakfast. Heated swimming pool outside is a bonus, great views from most rooms. Swimming had to be reserved, towels provided at reception, however everyone’s keycard opened the gate, so 2 families who didn’t book invaded the pool , so we left. That was the only negative. Highly recommend this hotel, most excellent stay, great place to visit for a few days, spotless clean rooms.
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Date of stay: October 2020
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Response from Dylan DuPont, Guest Services / Front Office at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 25 Oct 2020
Dear JohnChapin, We are delighted to have been your chosen hotel during your recent stay in Ventura. It was truly a pleasure to serve you. We appreciate your business and value your honest feedback. Your comments have been shared with the hotel team as a critical way of understanding how we can continue to deliver exceptional service to guests like you. Thank you for staying at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach hotel and we hope you choose to create more memories with us whenever your travels bring you back to Ventura. Sincerely, Dylan DuPont Front Office Manager Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach ddupont@cpventura.com
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We've stayed there many times and have always been pleasant. Excellent customer service. Post COVID-19 peak, it has gotten better and now there's access to the gym and no more 2 hr reservations need to be requested. It's our favorite beach front hotel in California. Fair hotel prices of food and drinks too. No $20 margaritas here. If you have an IHG card and purchase drinks or food from them, request to have your tab charged to your room, if you want a higher rate of IHG points. They have a highway and passenger train right behind them, so the train or hwy.
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Date of stay: April 2021
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Response from Dylan DuPont, Guest Services / Front Office at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 16 Sept 2021
We are delighted to have been your chosen hotel during your recent stay in Ventura. It was truly a pleasure to serve you. We appreciate your business and value your honest feedback. Your comments have been shared with the hotel team as a critical way of understanding how we can continue to deliver exceptional service to guests like you. Thank you for staying at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach hotel and we hope you choose to create more memories with us whenever your travels bring you back to Ventura. Sincerely, Dylan DuPont Front Office Manager Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach ddupont@cpventura.com
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The biggest plus is location of course. And a relatively low $8 parking charge as hotels go, especially by a beach.
At check in, the clerk seemed clueless and indifferent. Waited through the elevator queue as the middle elevator was out of service and got upstairs to find a completely unmade room from the prior guest. Back down to get another room. By this time I had studied the key packet enough to realize what I thought were breakfast coupons were not. So I asked, since my rate included breakfast and a welcome drink. He seemed confused, looked it up, had a breakfast coupon rapidly and then had to go on the hunt for a drink coupon. Looking at the breakfast coupon, I noticed it specifically said for one. We are a party of two, so I asked about that. He explained that it was only for one person for both the breakfast and the welcome drink. Who dreamed up that promotion that will do nothing but annoy every party of two who books the rate? I didn't challenge it further, as mentioned above, the clerk was clueless. The spouse was ready to cut losses and leave at this point.
Off to the second room, no Spire upgrades available. The room is pleasantly renovated, and the bed is comfortable. The bathroom is TINY and as mentioned in other reviews, not much privacy. Also as mentioned, you cannot hear yourself think on the balcony because of the highway, let alone hear the ocean waves. But when you close the door that blocks most of it, and turning the AC to constant fan provides enough white noise to block the rest.
For the welcome drink, I chose Chardonnay and it was decent quality, much better than I expected. For breakfast, I had the full typical hot breakfast and again it was much better than I expected. I did not have lunch or dinner in the hotel, but I do highly recommend the clam chowder in a bread bowl at The Fish House very close by at the pier.
The ONE Spire benefit granted was late check out, which was greatly appreciated given that I am working remotely and needed to get some work down before heading to the next destination.
This is my 10th hotel stay in two months. Other than location, this hotel does not have a lot to offer, especially at this price point. Doubtful that I would return.
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Date of stay: September 2020
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Response from Dylan DuPont, Guest Services / Front Office at Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, an IHG hotel
Responded 15 Sept 2020
Dear PSP Jeff, Thank you for taking the time to share your recent experience with us on the Guest Satisfaction Survey. Receiving a warm welcome during check-in often times sets the tone for a great stay. Unfortunately, it was brought to my attention we fell short of not only meeting your expectations, but ours as well. On behalf of the entire team at the Crowne Plaza Ventura beach I sincerely apologize. In order to better uphold our commitment to deliver exceptional service to every guest, from arrival to departure, I have shared your feedback with the appropriate hotel team in order to improve our arrival process. Thank you for being a valued guest and we hope to welcome you again whenever your travels bring you back to Ventura. Sincerely, Dylan DuPont Front Office Manager Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach ddupont@cpventura.com
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Sorry I can't help, we booked the executive king, west (sunset) facing room with 2 balconies. Loved it - sofa has a decent pullout bed if you need second bed; fridge, microwave +K-cup coffee. We didn't sleep on sofa bed, but did open it up just too see if it was acceptable - it is. Great staff, and food here. Enjoy!
There are more places to choose from in the Ventura area.
PRICE RANGE
₹15,819 - ₹23,816 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
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LOCATION
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NUMBER OF ROOMS
258
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