Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, San Diego North

We’ve stayed here many times, we have a ton of hotel points that we can use anywhere in San Diego, we always choose here #1 because of Nadia this is my second review on her and she is so sweet and accommodating. Today she welcomed us with a beautiful gift basket. She makes us feel welcome and at home.
Nadia Thank You for always welcoming me and my husband with open arms
Keith and Michelle Dwyer

I have nothing but positive comments about our 3 day experience here. I was impressed to find a very clean room complete with refrigerator, microwave, free parking and speedy WiFi. The breakfast was awesome, so many choices and the dining room staff were polite and quick to replace food items. A full breakfast, hot and cold items, great coffee and they never ran out of cookies at the desk. All staff members were friendly and helpful! I can highly recommend this hotel!
Cathy from Mims Fl.

I came here for a conference last weekend and a very enjoyable stay. Will look forward to my next stay again next year for the conference. All the staff was very pleasant anything we needed or wanted them provided the rooms were clean. I ate at the hotel several times, the food was always very good and the service was prompt.

I stayed here again and unfortunately this time my experience wasn’t as satisfactory. The room that we had initially had faulty outlets, a very uncomfortable pull out bed (the mattress had a huge dip), a phone that didn’t work properly, a weird buzzing noise coming from the ceiling, and stains on the duvet cover.
We requested a new room the next night. The second room had issues too, mainly related to cleanliness. The duvet cover in this room also had a large stain, but this time it was very obvious the stain was some type of dried bodily fluid (and I don’t want to know what type!). There was also a brown stain on a bath towel, as well as a used q-​tip on the bathroom floor. The housekeeping clearly is not thorough here.
The free breakfast buffet was overall pretty good, although it was better a few years ago when there was a variety of muffins in the bakery section. This time there were no muffins, but mainly dry breads and donuts. The rest of the buffet had eggs, potatoes, oatmeal, meat, fruits and cereals.
The price of the rooms were reasonable, the location is good and the breakfast is a definitely a plus. However, the lack of cleanliness and aging furniture/​facility need a LOT of improvement.

1. Bad service
2. Staff will knock on your door at 2:30 am to drop off a invoice. (Wth)
3. Clogged sink & shower
4. I’ll never stay at a place like this again

Horrible hotel. Room smelled like stale smoke and urine. The worst hotel I have ever stayed in.

Pro:
–Lobby is clean
–Suite is clean, although old
–Sitting room and bedroom have separate TVs
–Bed is pretty comfortable (soft and firm)
–Microwave oven and fridge is in the sitting room
–Friendly staff. Great service.
Cons:
–It can get crowded for breakfast.
–Bath tub is shallow, some stains on the tub. No big deal though.

Honestly, more like a 3.5 rating. The service is OUTSTANDING! But I can see what some of the other reviewers are talking about when it comes to the hotel building itself. It needs a little sprucing and updating. Not much, but you know, a little paint here, some spackling there, update the worn brass door knobs. The continental breakfast was average based on the offerings but the actual food was good quality and again, the staff was outstanding. They were totally on top of keeping the dining room clean and the food well stocked. Yes, the service of this place is definitely five star.
If you’re needing to go to the MCRD for a graduation, this is about ten miles out so not really a good choice for that. A family would have to be attending graduation during the fourth of July or say, maybe Comic Con time to necessitate needing to stay here. Not the time to have to attend graduation, son. But we did it, phew.

I had no complaints. Only stayed one night, but the room was really nice, service was great, provided a late checkout and had one of the better continental breakfasts I’ve seen.

I did Not stay here but had a seminar here. Clean and nice as far as the lobby goes. They have lemon water and coffees and fruit in the lobby for guests which is nice. It also looked like they had a continental breakfast for their guests. Nice conference room.

Stayed here over the weekend for our Wedding Anniversary. At first I was kinda disappointed that we were so far from everything. But realized we weren’t all that far from where we wanted to visit during our stay.
The service was excellent. The room was very clean and spacious. It actually was kinda nice to be a little away from the hustle and bustle of San Diego.
We weren’t that far from stores like Walmart if we needed anything. They offer a breakfast bar in the morning that looked very good.
There is also a pool and health spa to work out. The bed was a kings size so it was plenty of room to roll around LOL. In all this was a great place to stay and would stay here again.

Country Inn and suites was amazing !! Had such a great weekend with my boyfriend. Room was great, staff very friendly, breakfast was awesome ! Front desk manager Shawn is truly the best thanks for all u did for us. All the best Scott and Trisha

We had a great stay here last weekend for my Birthday celebration in La Jolla!
This was my first time at the Country Inn, San Diego North, BUT not my first time at this Hotel property. I stayed here for the first time in the early 90’s, it used to be a Doubletree I believe? Then it became a Wyndham and I stayed there again? Now it’s a Country Inn. For those familiar with Country Inn, I would say this Hotel is a notch up from the last Country Inn I stayed at in Lincoln NE – it’s closer to a Hilton here. It was not exactly built out to be a Country Inn.
Free easy parking, free large buffet breakfast, nice staff, very accommodating front desk with our requests and we made a few, VERY comfortable King bed, spacious clean rooms, LARGE bathroom with «his and hers» toiletry space on the counter, quiet surroundings, easy fast in and out. Towel quality is much better than a Motel 6 or Best Western, but not as good as a Hyatt Hotel.
Since 1991, for most of my trips to San Diego, I usually stay in this area. It’s close to Torrey Pines beaches, the La Jolla business district and a clean shot to Downtown and the Zoo. There are 2 other hotels next door and 5 within walking distance. It’s a 10 minute drive to La Jolla, on and off the freeway in one exit.
I could have stayed a week at this property if needed – it felt like home.
I am going to pick on the free breakfast if you will allow because it’s easy and inexpensive to change, and we have seen better at other hotels.
What we loved: They served the best fresh cut Melons – no restaurant or store has better – must come from the Country Inn Farm. Was glad to see that the Quaker was on duty, and there was a hot brewed pot of Quaker Oats, but it was a bit too watery – let up on the water – thicken it up. The Country Potatoes were the best! On weekends food is served until 10.30 am! – the latest we have seen at any hotel.
What needs some changes: 1.) NO egg whites. Old bad cooking habits don’t die fast. You can’t serve yellow eggs with yolk to your guests anymore! It’s very unhealthful. There was no egg white option – egg whites are the most important food you can eat. The way many hotels handle this is to put out a little refrigerator with a see through glass on the front with the hard-​boiled eggs in it and guests open and take a egg. Some just leave them on ice. Easy! We have seen this at Holiday Inn Express. The Hyatt House will actually cook you an egg white omelet or scramble – but that is too much to ask. 2) They put out a vat of Yogurt with a communal serving spoon but that is unhealthful and unappetizing – put out little sealed individual serving containers. That is the way Residence Inn does it. 3) They have a make your own waffle machine – you pour the batter in, wait 2.5 minutes and you have a hot waffle. We have seen this at a number of other hotels. On paper it sounds great, except the batter is not the best here, and hence neither was the waffle. Maybe a batter change?
Next, I am going to address security. I don’t believe that there was any security patrols at this hotel inside or out, and it may not be needed. We felt safe in the hotel, but this area borders on a not so safe area of San Diego. I have a sophisticated alarm system on my car with a diagnostic pager system. The pager went off in the middle of the night waking me up. I was very delayed getting out of bed, and when I looked out the window at my car everything seemed normal, no one around it, but the digital readout was indicating that the car was recently tampered with. Very tired so I went back to bed. The next morning I checked on the car – someone used their fingers to punch in the drivers rear view mirror all the way down so that it needed an adjustment before you could drive it again. What I don’t know is if a guest was drunk and was being mischievous, or if it was an attempted break in, and when the piercing alarm sounded they got scared away. I am going to go with mischievous at this point.
Last, pet policy here. We have been very critical in reviews of other hotels and motels that allow pets. Pets are becoming the new smoking issue as hotels try to accommodate pet owners. Housekeeping has enough work trying to get rid of all the hair from previous guests day after day, let alone now give them the impossible assignment of ridding the room of dog residue. It’s disrespectful to the next guest to allow a dog in a hotel room is our feeling and we try to avoid hotels that accept pets. Here, they have a designated pet floor with pet rooms. So our concern was that if a non-​pet room was not available, we may be bumped into a pet room. Make sure to call ahead if you don’t want a doggy room and see if they can set aside a clean room for you is our suggestion.

Comfortable, nice bed, nice staff, ok Continental breakfast, pillow seem to be a little too soft. My room was ok it could have been cleaner. Water in tub didn’t drain fast so there for when I was showering my feet were in a puddle. Lobby area is very nice and roomie u can fined coffee, tea, and water there which it nice. The hotel is near the 805 freeway. Free parking. It’s not in the city. It looks to be in a office business area.

Pros:
— Room is nice and clean.
— Nice complementary breakfast.
— 24 hour service.

Cons:
— No drinking water provided inside room or outside, which was very disappointing for me.
— Cooling and heating unit was not as responsive as it should be.

Ok I see a lot of negative reviews for this hotel and I really can’t understand why. I’ve stayed everywhere from a motel 6 to a suite at the Bellagio in Vegas and so I feel that I’m a pretty good judge of hotels. This hotel is really nice for the price range. I paid $ 85 and was astonished when I walked into the lobby at the overall décor and general fanciness of this hotel. They had the standard Country Inn cookies, coffee and tea available 24 hours a day, pool, and exercise room. Additionally they had a full bar and a complementary breakfast that had a wide variety of foods to select from. My room was quiet even though it was by the elevators. Yes there were some stains on the carpet in the sitting room. Who cares? Who really hangs out in the sitting room when theyre statying at a hotel anyway? I would recommend this hotel to anybody, it’s reasonable and has good food and a bar.

Good price — we paid $ 110/​night. The room was dated but clean. Walking through the lobby you would expect the rooms to be more updated, but I believe they are in the middle of a complete renovation, understandable. The bed made my back hurt — maybe mattresses will be included in the upgrades. The breakfast was great! We stayed three nights and they changed the menu each day. However, the most important thing to me is cleanliness and for the most part we enjoyed our stay. My only true complaint is at times the front desk lacked friendliness and flexibility and to me, besides cleanliness, customer service is important. Having a family of four, I am still likely to recommend this hotel and possibly return.

I stayed here from Jun 14^th till Jun 21^st great location. Not a busy area near a lot of businesses. A good hotel with marvelous breakfast which they switched up daily. Housekeeping was on point they came every day. I had an issue with the front desk in crediting my account but they got it resolved. I’m a Carlson club member and didn’t receive any points for my visit or my 7day stay so they get 3-​stars for that. I would definitely stay here again though.

I have 6 nights booked here starting today and It’s off to a rough start. I called this morning to ask about earliest check in because I have to be in San Diego at 3pm and I’ve got some surfboards I need to drop off, and they said the earliest I can check in is at 3pm. Before I could even get a chance to ask about a closet to store them at the front desk and explain why I was asking, I was being hung up on. I’m hoping I can come back and edit this review at the end of the week in hopes of a much better experience. I will be here fora f smily reunion and I think there is about 8 of us staying at this hotel over this week. Big opportunity to make an impression… we’ll see.
Day 3 here and they are doing construction on the 6^th floor, I’m on the 5^th. I’ve got a sleeping baby and they are literally drilling directly above my room… they are going to try and maybe move us if they have availability. They said they are doing work from 9 – 4 everyday… some kind of notice would have been nice for 5^th floor guests. This is ridiculous…
…They moved us down a floor only after they gave a room to my Brother and girlfriend, which I then approached the desk clerk again about giving them a room after I had just discussed with him the issue and he said nothing was available for another 3 hrs. He then said miraculously another room became available and we could move in 20 minutes. So many opportunities missed to make a good situation bad. This team so poorly represents good hospitality, it’s a joke.
…It’s Monday July 7^th, now the following week after my stay and I have the WORST taste in my mouth about this hotel… please read further.
During our check out we were presented with the inconvenience that we needed to check out using the original physical card mad to book the rooms, which was my mom’s credit card. While although they maintain a record of her card on file, they were not allowed to run it. So, I had to drive 30 minutes south to where they were staying, retrieve her card, come back to the hotel and then proceed to pay with her card and check out. We were told during this process that she could have emailed picture of her ID and CC to us. that wasn’t going to happen.
Today I check my bank account and lo and behold, they charged the room to me and not to her card, which i saw her swipe in front of my own eyes. I’m not a very affluent person, so to have an unnecessary charge of 7 nights of stay on my room is extremely inconvenient since I have a rent check out that is now probably going to bounce.
Thanks a lot Country Inn. This was my worst stay anywhere. I’d give half a star if I could.

I was able to get a great deal through Hotwire for $ 79. The hotel is very well designed, the lobby is warm and welcoming.
This is the first hotel we stayed where we smelled a fresh scent each time we walked into the room! The smell is refreshing!
We also loved the hot breakfast buffet with scrambled eggs, bacon or sausage, fresh fruits, bagels and bread, and a waffle maker. Also, it’s only a few minutes from La Jolla which is perfect!