Happy until the cockroaches crashed the party!
We stayed at Pacific Shores Inn from Sunday, August 5th through Saturday, August 11th in room 61. The rooms were huge, the staff was not very helpful (i.e. could not give directions to anywhere or give advice about food, save for one extremely nice girl a few days in), but the room was big, the ocean was right there. There were small things and details which made it hard with kids- for instance, the newly renovated showers without doors, while cool, are not built deep enough so when people take showers, the ENTIRE bathroom gets wet. Very hard with kids. The breakfast was free, yes, but 'continental' implies more than it is... it is coffee, hot water for tea, and danish (muffins, danish, and croissants). The people come with trays and buckets (since there are no plates to carry the stuff!) and FILL them, so by 8 a.m. the supply is empty and it was just a lot of sugar and not any substance. They don't have a lot of room, but a cereal turnstile or oatmeal with the hot water, or ANY improvement would help. Still, none of these things would illicit a poor review from me. What causes this reivew would be the dead bug we found on Thursday morning. It looked "cockroachy" but I figured it could be a fluke. Thursday night, I woke up and found them on the wall. No more fluke. Took a picture of the one I could get and sickly collected the dead bug from the trash and took it to the office. She was grossed out. She said we could move to another room when the poeple moved out at 11 but I said it was our last day in San Diego and I didn't want to spend the middle of it packing/moving. I said we might check out early but to have the manager call, which she assured would happen soon because he would be in ALL day. No call came, nighttime we came back, they didn't know what to do. We barely slept that night watching for the darn bugs. Saturday I went to check out early and asked what happened, she said he was gone for the weekend but would FOR SURE call monday and no one had made a note of it. I waited all day today to give the manager a chance to call, nothing. I have the pictures to upload and I hope this review disuades people from staying. Bugs are nasty, no matter what kind it was, and they came out only at night... I slept horribly, had to leave all our food behind just in case, and it made the trip icky. I expected more and I hope they rectify it at some point.