San Mateo County Spa Hotels

The hotel is great, the rooms are big, but the location is a bit remote. Suitable for couples traveling. All the toiletries in the room are from le labo, the experience is very good. It can be delivered right away if you ask for a microwave in the middle of the night, very good service.

Great location with vast variety of food along the street (Chinese food, Japanese food, etc...). Although it has been around for a long time, yet the hotel is well maintained

The hotel is very old, in fact, it is really not worth the price, but it seems that the nearby hotels are similar and there is no choice at night! The breakfast packaged by Ctrip is not a buffet but a set meal. It is OK and full! The parking fee is too expensive. Ctrip said it was 40 US dollars. When I checked in, the hotel told me it was 48. After arguing with the front desk staff, they actually gave me a discount of 36 USD! But when I was looking for the elevator, they told me to go down the hall and turn left. We searched for a long time but couldn’t find it. Later, they came and said front desk left. It felt like they deliberately pointed me to the wrong way. The first feeling was immediately bad! There is an uncle from Guangzhou who has been in San Francisco for more than 20 years in the restaurant. He is very nice and speaks Cantonese with us. He immediately speaks Cantonese to us! On the last day, Zaizai caught a cold and didn’t go downstairs for breakfast, but he packed breakfast for us. It was very heartwarming 👍There are also many sisters who speak Cantonese when they are cleaning on holiday. They are all very nice! The hotel airport shuttle bus is very convenient, every 15 minutes! Overall, it feels good!

Although it has been in business for many years, it is impeccable in all aspects.

Charming hotel with a spa, golf course, and a couple of restaurants, located by the ocean. The rooms are clean and well maintained but a bit older (from the hotel staff I learned that there will be some renovation in winter 2023). I loved the patio with the fire pit just to relax, breathe some ocean air, and enjoy in room dining (which was delicious). The staff members are attentive and friendly. The spa has limited availability if you’re booking last minute but the services are good. The hotel provided some bath salts as a welcome gift for my Marriott Bonvoy Gold membership but each time I stayed, my room was upgraded and my checkout time was never extended to 2 pm (even during a mid-week, off-season stay when the hotel was not busy). In room dining options were pretty good and the food was tasty. Beautiful views from the hotel can be enjoyed on sunny days. However, there’s a frequent overcast, even during summer. The piper walking around the property in the evening playing music is quite special and a nice touch. Golf players and families coming here for the day seem to enjoy this place as well. Overall, I’d recommend this place and stay here again.

Staff member who checked us in (named Fatima) was very friendly indeed. We were given a complimentary upgrade to a suite, which was huge. Sofa, dining table and kitchenette which contained a microwave, fridge and coffee machine. King-size bed was very comfortable and the sheets were very soft. Room was extremely quiet throughout the night. Shower was pretty powerful. Complementary coffee and water in the lobby.

The hotel's environment is particularly good, just 20 meters from the beach by the sea. There are few people on the beach, the sea is very wide, suitable for playing at the beach, or taking a walk. The breakfast at the hotel was good and the restaurant was very comfortable.

This hotel is worth every bit of its 4 star rating and the hotel alone I would rate a 5/5 on Tripadvisor. It has many suites with an absolutely wonderful view of the bay and small airport, especially at night. There are a ton of wonderful photo/facie opportunities from most of the hotel rooms and right across the road from the hotel. However, I dropped one rating point to give the hotel a 4/5 for a few reasons: -- Most of the local restaurants are highly overrated and over-hyped, and on top of that they are massively overcrowded at least 1/2 to 3/4 of the day. -- Most of the local shops are just about the worst mall-like beach tourist-trap shops you'll find anywhere. The first negative alone would be enough to drop 2 points from the Tripadvisor rating, but this hotel luckily has two excellent places to eat and drink right next to it, within 50 feet. One of those is a fish shack called Barbara's Fishtrap, which has vastly better seafood than any other restaurant. The other is Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, which has about a dozen excellent in-house beers available and a fairly full range of restaurant food, including more than just pub food. The exception on the second negative point above is one local shop next to the brewery, which is a nice homey privately-owned shop with interesting small items and clothes. It definitely does not have the typical beach souvenir crap, but items you won't find anywhere else. On the first negative with the local restaurants, you'd expect the in-house restaurant in a 4 star hotel (with room service) to be half-way decent, right? The in-house ”restaurant” is nothing more than a pub with pub food, exactly what the brewery next door is not. It's probably because they can't compete, but still, do something else. We walked in twice, looked around for 5 minutes, and there was nobody there either time, 3pm and 5pm. We just grabbed a menu, looked at it, and it was just random pub food that was likely all microwaved. But the room service for things like wine bottles, glasses, even champagne glasses, was all excellent, living up to any 4 star hotel. Needless to say, this hotel is great for a one-night stay on the weekend or something like that, but there really is very little to do if you stay for more than one night. And, two excellent restaurants gets old fast after two days maximum. Lots of nearby scenery if you're OK with relatively cold beaches like I am, but don't expect more than that and two places to eat.

Booked the Beach House for a solo getaway. Size of room was awesome - plenty of space for just me, and full kitchen was unexpected (two burners plus fridge/mw, and a bunch of dishes & utensils). No counter space (due to the burners), that was a drawback. Also they provide a keurig but my room had no cream or sugar and when I went to the front desk they gave me a cup of half and half! Don't they have little packets? Furniture was a bit worn but the bed was extremely comfortable and the comforter was fluffy & warm. Nice bathroom but again, not so luxurious as the description would have you believe. Booked a partial ocean view, but what I got was a parking lot view with a peek-a-boo of the bay if you stood at the slider and craned your neck. Tons of road noise too. This was disappointing, as I had been hoping to hear ocean waves. If you book this room type, specify the south side of the inn so you are not right by the restaurant next door. Continental breakfast was nice - good choices of pastries, yogurt & hot cereals. No wine reception on Sundays. While the front desk people were courteous & friendly, I felt I had to ask about every little thing. There was no amenity listing in the room or anywhere, so I had to ask: where is breakfast (it was in a meeting room one morning, the lobby another), where is the wine (it was sunday), is the pool heated, what is check-out time. Just felt a little like they assumed you'd know or wouldn't care, as opposed to other places that bend over backwards to be sure you know what they have to set them apart. It was a bit of a walk up to restaurants, which I didn't mind but just be aware. There's a very nice beach walk the other direction, but you're up on a bluff, not exactly on the sand. Next time, I'd go for the full oceanview.

Not bad, very close to the highway, very convenient, and the breakfast is very delicious.