The Bottom Line
Pros
- Convenient location
- New construction with all the latest amenities
- Comfortable beds with nice linens
- Keurig coffee makers, real cream and enough sweetener
- Extra-nice bathrooms with large soaking tubs and separate, extra-spacious showers
Cons
- Although it's on Moonstone Drive, it's not on the beach and has no views
- Breakfast area is very crowded, even on a winter weekday
Description
- 5620 Moonstone Beach Drive
Cambria, CA
805-924-3003
Website - Smaller hotel with just over 30 rooms
- Free parking (covered, underground)
- Complimentary wireless Internet
- Small day spa on premises with an outdoor Jacuzzi, steam room
- All rooms have gas fireplaces
- 100% non-smoking
- Complimentary hot beverages when you arrive, continental breakfast. Lobby wine bar pours local wines
- Pet friendly
Guide Review - El Colibri Hotel
In long-standing tourist towns, it's easy for older, established lodgings to rest on their past reviews, forgetting to keep up with the times. In Cambria, there's a new kid on the block that will undoubtedly raise the bar on service. Part of Luxe Hotels' Elite Collection which includes properties such as the Elan and Luxe Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and Hotel Griffon in San Francisco, the El Colibri Hotel and Spa is a lovely boutique hotel with all the amenities you'd expect in a 21st-century lodging.
The hotel sits at the intersection of Moonstone Drive and CA Hwy 1, close enough that you can easily walk from there to Moonstone Beach or into town. An indoor parking garage gives your vehicle good shelter from salt-water spray.
Hotel staff is friendly and helpful - and a good source of dinner recommendations, judging from our experience. They also have an on-premises spa, so you can get a relaxing massage without going more than a few steps from your room.
The El Colibri decorator often hits just the right notes, using a warm color palette and trendy-but-comfortable appointments, but a furniture faux pas leaves the bedside tables so far below mattress level that you could fall out of bed trying to turn off the alarm clock. Some rooms have no desks and their layout forces the flat-panel television into an awkward corner.
Despite these minor complaints, the El Colibri is a fine addition to the Cambria lodging scene, providing a modern, clean and comfortable place to stay at a good value for money.
