Hotel Oceana Santa Barbara  

The people at the reception were young but just superfriendly! Because it was our honeymoon we got one of the best rooms and indeed the room had a balcony and an ocean view, it was just super! Also breakfast was included and was just perfect with fresh fruit etc. Great hotel!!!

Overall appearance of the hotel is not so great (since you need to park the car behind the hotel you see less beautiful stuff)

I loved the location and facilities. The atmosphere was amazing- so relaxing and fun! Right on the beach too! I also loved the amenities!

Fantastic!!!

Staff

Room and price, this is a Motel priced as a hotel

Clean, convenient, close to beach, bathroom was clean and nice.

Thin walls. The family upstairs had kids who were running around until late. More for beach, family place than a quite, resort atmosphere. Ok place for price. A little more touch up on the decor couldn't hurt. Recommendation depends on what the travellers are looking for: NO if looking for quiet, cozy, charming place - YES, if the rooms don't matter too much and not much time is spent in the room - and want beach access is important for a decent price. It's priced correctly for the value in the area.

Location was good, room was nice (the sea facing) but a bit on the higher price side, toilets were ok a little cramped and old. The hotel is spreadout, they must have taken over adjoining building and made it into their hotel. We were just passing through to san fran and we stayed the night at santa babra, its a beautiful place.

Toilet and that it was spreadout n the rooms were as if it is detached from the hotel,

Very clean and perfect location across the street from the beach! Nice staff.

I would have liked to have cable T.V. in the room.

The employees went out of their way to make sure we were happy. They even brought us up a portable heater and a large thermos of hot water because I was very sick and needed some special items. They even made a trip to the drug store and got me some cough drops and other things I needed. They really cared about me and no request was too much for them. They always remained cheerful and accomodating.

Loved everything. Nothing bad to say

I really liked the location and the staff was very friendly and helpful.

I did not like that the coffee in the room was not free. It is kind of tricky because, although there was a menu with prices, I didn't look at it because I thought that it was for the mini bar and not the coffee, which is usually free.

The main positive thing's about hosb is the comfort of the bed and that you can have the option of a ocean view bedroom.

I didn't like how they charged for parking each night even though I spent $772.00 for two night's as if that is not enough. The bathtub had a black grim around, and it's ricdlous how they charge 44.00 for a soda, $4 for chips etc, you would think it would be free.!

The staff was very nice and very helpful. We enjoyed our room. It was clean and quiet with a nice peek of the Ocean. We were never told about the continental breakfast, but did discover it on our second day and it too was very nice.

The only drawback is the parking. We were there with another couple and we both got parking tickets. We did inform the front desk and they said they had several complaints regarding parking and tickets. Had we been told at check in to pay close attention to where we were parking (one side of the street it's fine to park as a Hotel guest, but the other side of the street is not for Hotel guests). We were also never told about the $30 per night charge for parking as a Hotel guest. This ended our stay on a bit of a sour note.

staff very nice, free continental breakfast, easy location, easy on street parking

my room on lower level--upstairs walking very loud--need carpeting or something to reduce

Location

No Complimentary Beverages/biscuits/water. Being in a ground floor room we could hear every move in the room above.