Montecito Inn, Santa Barbara, Bad

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Montecito Inn	Average Price: $270 Check Rates

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1295 Coast Village Road

Santa Barbara, 93108 View map

3-Star Hotel Rank: 17 of 33
Average review rating: 3.73

OpinionWell Value Index: 2

Traveler reviews analyzed: Expedia (37) , Travelocity (6) , TripAdvisor (127) , YahooTravel (16)

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Noise:	Recent comments complained about noise.
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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1. Also due to bad acoustics of the historic hotel, the road noise was considerable as were the intimate sounds coming from the couple in the room next to me.

"Great ambience, bad acoustics " Read full review on TripAdvisor 4/19/2012 Vote

2. Too bad, because everything else was perfect.

"beautiful except for beds " Read full review on TripAdvisor 8/9/2010 Vote

3. And this place is bad news.

"Stay here if you love freeway noise " Read full review on TripAdvisor 10/19/2009 Vote

4. Anytime I see reviews with lots of 1 and 2 star reviews quickly followed by a flurry of 5 star reviews I know the owners are frantically try to counter bad news.

"Stay here if you love freeway noise " Read full review on TripAdvisor 10/19/2009 Vote

5. You must part with some money to experience how bad this hotel really is.

"Overrated, overpriced, poor service, noisy, minuscule bathroom, never again " Read full review on TripAdvisor 2/21/2009 Vote

6. Couple in next room fighting so bad could hear them over the TV.

"Would never stay again. Walls too thin, too noisy, screaming couple next door, nothing done about it " Read full review on Expedia 8/27/2008 Vote

7. To sum it all up small rooms, poor (dangerous) water temperature control, bad electrical outlet, and the pampering aspect was not there.

"Disappointed " Read full review on TripAdvisor 4/3/2008 Vote

8. This Inn, is a mixture of good and bad.

"Montecito Inn experince " Read full review on TripAdvisor 4/29/2007 Vote

9. The episode did leave a bad taste--it took an hour and three separate discussions to resolve.

"Really cute gem; don`t stay in room 200! " Read full review on TripAdvisor 12/31/2006 Vote

10. We called the front desk after not being able to sleep for hours and they mentioned they had been getting a lot of calls but that this wedding party was not as bad as they usually are.

"Loud hotel and rude staff " Read full review on YahooTravel 3/7/2005 Vote