Best Western Plus Carpinteria Inn

Very nice stay, They did a good job on the remodel. Fireplace in our room, nice touch. Thank you to the front desk Kyle. Very reasonable pricing at $ 89! Our normal hotel in Oxnard was almost booked up and they wanted over $ 200 per night. I don’t think so… Excellent family hotel but beware they are just off the 101 and it is noisy because of the location. Great walks and restaurants in town, close by. i.e.; Sly’s is excellent.

Best Westerns have become my go-​to cheap hotel whenever I’m looking for a nice, clean, non-​sketchy place to crash for the night. This Best Western isn’t any different. In fact, it looks fancier than your typical Best Western. With Spanish colonial architecture (like most buildings in Santa Barbara), palm trees and an outdoor pool, this place almost gives off the impression of an expensive resort. They don’t have complimentary breakfast, which is a bummer, but they do have a restaurant with a good breakfast fare. Though Carpinteria is a different city, it’s pretty close to Santa Barbara downtown, making this hotel a decent choice if you are planning on visiting SB.

Woman at front desk this am 2÷5÷16 while checking out didn’t even make eye contact when asked if there was coffee in the lobby, just a blunt «no.» Bad, low energy. Prob hates her job. Rooms are clean but walls are thin– woke up to shower noise next door. Halls and stairways are dirty/​dusty. Not worth the $.

Staff was friendly and nice, the room was nicely priced and clean, but the hallway was being renovated and was thus, carpet-​less. This made for a very noisy night and early morning without the carpet there to absorb the slamming doors and booming voices.

Well, it was a reasonable and very nice hotel to look at, but once in your room (3^rd floor to avoid noise), there was this awful paint order, sort of musty at the same time! Horrible to inhale, and it was way too late after one night my 6-​yr old daughter came down with respiratory issues, which led to fever, and then my bronchitis! Not good at all. We stayed in #331, and there was an AC/​Heat wall unit, but then there was this filter right above the entrance and a loud noise early in the morning, like that was the central heating system for the hotel. Not nice at all! Oh well, you get what you pay for, and we paid for the courtyard view… now looking at the Dec’s reviews, which I kick myself for not reviewing… they did renovations in December, and even have their decorating boards of what they’ve achieved in the lobby… W/​E! Get rid of that stench!

I’ve always liked this hotel, but after my last experience over Christmas weekend I will have to think twice about staying here again. The 1^st room was nice at first, until we had complaints about the noise, yeah ok noise. You wanna talk about noise!!! 2^nd floor was bouncing around all morning 5am-​11am. We told front desk and apparently the did nothing about it, so we had them switch us rooms. And now this leads to my other complaint, I left my watch in this 1^st room and went to get it back after we switched rooms… and of course it was gone!!! I left on the bedside table. By the time I realized it was gone the maid service came and cleaned the room, so I know they took it. I never wore the watch and never took out of the room… it doesnt just disappear! So yes Best Western STOLE MY Watch !!! and it wasnt some cheap watch either !! Your lucky I didnt press charges, thanks for nothing Best Western. next time Im staying across town
If somebody from Best Western would like to send my watch back, please do so. Or a nice check to cover my watch will be acceptable as well. Your move Best Western

This hotel was a great buy for my family as we spent a few days in Carpinteria to celebrate a birthday. The room was clean and easily accessible. The front desk staff was courteous and responded quickly to our needs. The only downside is that they don’t offer a continental breakfast but they do have a decent restaurant that can serve up most anything.

This is probably the most terrible night I have had for a long time. At 12:30 a. m a group with a lot of people wereshouting in a room next to us. All my kids were awake. I called the front desk 3 times. They said these people are probably drunk. We didn’t sleep most of the night. And we hear steps above us from the second floor too.

Not a bad deal for the $ 99 we paid, though we had to switch rooms due to a couple issues and this is what it sounded like our upstairs neighbors were up to all night and early into the morning…
Still, you could do a lot worse for $ 99, even with the construction & paint. Cool little handy location right off of the fwy and close to Downtown and the beach. Lots of fun grub and yummy eateries just a mile away…

Nice hotel for a weekend trip to Santa Barbara. It’s about 11miles to SB so not exactly close. But when you’re out of options because your trip is last minute, this is pretty decent for not being too far. Still cost us $ 50 to über back from downtown Santa Barbara at 11pm. Apparently that’s peak hours and it’s extra expensive.
Hotel itself is quaint with a cute courtyard. Each room has a door that leads to a view of the courtyard. A little weird but none are private and you share the same balcony as your next room neighbor (if you’re not on the ground level).
They have a small gym and a small pool and hot tub. Don’t eat at the hotel restaurant, it’s the epitome of a hotel restaurant. Staff is very friendly and nice. Rooms are clean and has the essentials. Hotel has free parking and is literally located right next to the 101 freeway.

Two stars for the grounds, which were kept clean and nice. The staff is pleasant and professional. No stars for the beds, by far the hardest most uncomfortable bed on the planet. I woke up so sore with bags under my eyes from getting up every time I turned. What a nightmare, I wanted to take off in the middle of the night and sleep in my car is how bad it was.

Great location, ambiance and price! I recently stayed at this hotel and found it to be everything I needed it to be. To quiet and serene, walking distance to the town and just a short drive to the beach.
I will definitely be staying there again!

I’m sorry… $ 250/​night? This is a $ 99/​night establishment. Our room was so musty and moldy it was hard to breathe, the mattress was so old and uncomfortable I had a dark moment when I actually considered if it would be better or worse to be lying on the dirty carpet floor, the shower tiles were so dingy I spent an inordinate amount of energy making sure I didn’t touch the wall accidentally while showering, and there were gross water stains on the ceiling that made me question whether I was inhaling toxic mold.
Yet somehow, our friends staying on other floors were nontheless convinced we had the «nice» room, soooo… thanks for the hookup?
(Luckily, all of us had the super classy bottle opener screwed into the vanity. Great touch.)
The third floor is covered in blue painters tape and «Wet Paint» signs that another guest said had been up for weeks. How would another guest know that, you ask? Because half the place was rented out, long-​term, to a bunch of construction workers working on a nearby project. By the way, are THEY paying $ 250/​night?
If you are charging guests (ANY of your guests) $ 250/​night how is there not enough money for basic upkeep? Like a new mattress at least once every 25 years?
Everything about this place is so, so wrong. Avoid.

Absolutely the worst hotel experience in a long time. NOT recommended. Peter at the front desk was quite rude and short when checking in. We checked in just after midnight and immediately tried to go to sleep but that was impossible due to all the noise. People were slamming doors and loudly going up and down the hall and talking in the courtyard just outside our window until around 4 am. I’m not sure if people are dealing drugs out of the hotel or what but it was extremely odd for that much activity that late on a Sunday night Monday morning.

It’s an okay place to sleep. I didn’t feel grossed out, and the beds were fine.
The pool looked like the size of a hot tub, and the hot tub looked like the size of two crisscrossing bath tubs.
We got breakfast at the Sunset Grille, and it was the worst $ 40 breakfast ever. The pancakes were good, and my wheat toast (bread-​lightly crusted) had good flavor. The sausage was inedible, the potatoes were bland, and the over medium eggs were over cooked. We should have walked to Carl’s jr.

overpriced for actual room but it’s expected being in such a cool town. Floors are a problem and woke us up every morning. Fairly clean for old building
Courtyard is cool and staff were good

Thee worst hotel I have ever stayed in! First of all, the bed was hard as a rock. Second of all, we were woken up at 6 am by loud running and stomping from the upstairs people and nothing was done! I called the front desk and they just did NOT care. They were not phased one bit over the fact that me and my husband were not happy with all that noise. Never again will I stay here. Major sound proofing needed along with better staff.
UPDATE: They gave us 10% off our stay because of the inconvenience. Switching from 1 star to 3. What I would have liked to hear the second time I called the front desk from our room was, «so sorry for the inconvenience, let me see if I have ANOTHER Room for you»

The pictures of this hotel that you see online really make it look better than it is. To be quite honest there’s only a few hotels in Carpinteria, and that’s probably why they get so much business.
Hotel is pretty run down looking on the inside, and my bed was horrible for sleeping in. I went to the restaurant inside and ordered Buffalo wings. My wings were just regular deep-​fried wings with no sauce on them at all? What the hell? I figured this to just be a mistake but I was hungry so I ate them.
Two nights later I ordered them again, and once again just regular wings. Why call them Buffalo wings if there’s no sauce on them?
I could hear the person staying in the room above me everytime they walked around. When I would walk down the hall towards my room it almost sounded like I was stomping on the floor it was so loud. Overpriced in my opinion, even for Cali standards. I’d be better off staying at the Motel 6 further down the street.

Easy to find location just off in fact right next to the 101. Get a room not facing the higjway. I asked and they asdigned me a room not facing the 101 yet still with too much highway noise. So they accommodated me and i changed again.
The room was nicely appointed and large with 2 queen beds, mini fridge, and desk. The beds wete soft and mushy yet surprisingly comfortable.
Very quiet.
3 minutes from downtown and shopping by car. You will not want to walk.
In house restaurant with room service which i did not try.
Friendly, courteous staff!
Definitely not worth their advertised price of $ 149. Fortunately i paid much less on priceline name yoyr own price.
Of the last four 3 star hotels i stayed at, this was the lowest quality.

Nice hotel with a full service restaurant with a full bar. Kyle was super at check I’m and made sure we got the king suite that we had booked. The room was like a condo, with a full kitchen, living room and bedroom. We could have stayed a week. We ran to the beach and also explored the little town.
The pool is tiny, no ambiance, only 3 lounge chairs. Basically in the parking lot. The spa is really tiny, 2 person. Not a place to layout and relax. You have to go to the beach instead.