Country Inn By The Sea, Santa Barbara, Smell

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Out of 107

Country Inn By The Sea	Average Price: $206 Check Rates

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128 Castillo Street

Santa Barbara, 93101 View map

3-Star Hotel Rank: 11 of 33
Average review rating: 3.18

OpinionWell Value Index: 5

Traveler reviews analyzed: Expedia (31) , TripAdvisor (167) , YahooTravel (23)

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Construction:	No recent comments about construction were found.
Noise:	No recent comments about noise were found.
Room Smell:	No recent comments about room smell were found.
Parking Fees:	No recent comments about parking fees were found.
Bed Bugs:	No recent comments about bed bugs were found.

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bad (2) elevator (2) liked (4) night (2) room (7)

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1. We stayed in a 'refurbished' room, and it looked like we should have smelled fresh paint.

"Excellent Choice! " Read full review on TripAdvisor 11/21/2011 Vote

2. The smell won't go and increased at night, for some reason.

"Ridiculously Overpriced " Read full review on TripAdvisor 12/14/2010 Vote

3. The room we lived in was on the 1st floor, it smelled like rotten rags.

"Ridiculously Overpriced " Read full review on TripAdvisor 12/14/2010 Vote

4. The rooms had a dirty grubby feel and smell, the bathroom was in bad need of repair, clean & update.

"Effort made to update but generally a cheap, shabby appearance " Read full review on TripAdvisor 9/12/2009 Vote

5. We asked for another room and were shown a 'suite' which was larger but very tired looking, stale smelling and quite unacceptable.

"Awful " Read full review on TripAdvisor 8/22/2009 Vote

6. Then when we got to our room it smelled like bad B.

"Don't Go " Read full review on YahooTravel 7/19/2008 Vote

7. It smelled horrible.

"Never stay at Avania Inn " Read full review on YahooTravel 5/27/2008 Vote

8. There was only one elevator & it smelled awful.

"Don't waste your hard earned money on this place. " Read full review on TripAdvisor 9/23/2007 Vote

9. We stayed two nights and from when we arrived to when we left, the elevator smelled like someone vomited in it.

"We were not happy! " Read full review on YahooTravel 8/24/2007 Vote

10. They owners were very nice but the rooms smelled as old as the rooms looked.

"not good! " Read full review on Expedia 7/25/2007 Vote