Moonstone Landing - Cambria, California

Joe J. H.

We absolutely loved our stay here. The view, especially during sunset, was spectacular!

The receptionist who checked us in, Janet, was very nice. We forgot to bring our wine opener and she brought one AND wine glasses to our room. Bravo! Now that's customer service!

The beds were very comfortable. The bathroom was big and the jacuzzi was perfect. We loved the fireplace! The rooms were very quiet too. The hotel was pretty booked but I could not hear anyone from inside our room.

The breakfast was good too, the highlight was the Danish pastries from Linn's. They were delicious!

Overall, this was a great stay, and we will definitely book here again in the future whenever we come back to Cambria!

Jessica F.

I rarely give a hotel such a high rating. This property exceeded my expectations. It’s lovely, very clean, quiet and has simple yet lovely. The staff was wonderful. There is perfect beach and town access. I love the open air feel and will 100% return.

pigletthepug

There are at least 6 inns next to each other on Moonstone Drive. I wish we had stayed at a different property.||On paper Moonstone Landing looks great. But in reality not as good. We had a premium full ocean front room at close to $400. What do we get for this? A room that is small with low ceiling. Even worse, extremely poor sound insulation. We could hear every footstep from the floor above us, and every balcony door alide and tv sound from the room next to us. We had such poor quality sleep at this property.||The drive between Cayucos and San Simeon was breathtakingly beautiful. It's too bad our stay at Moonstone Landing marred this experience.||Absolutely cannot recommend.

B4Travel2

I gave this a 5 rating as we were very happy with our stay here; however, if traveling during the summer months, I might have given a 3 or 2, if the room was hot with no air conditioning. I believe many of the seaside hotels do not have a/c, due to the often cooler climate and breezes. ||We stopped in Cambria for a night to break up a long drive home. I tried seeing reviews of hotels on my phone’s small screen the night before and morning of booking my room. We needed an ADA room, with 2 beds, and no stairs, as my mother can’t bend her knees well, and can’t do stairs. She is not in a wheelchair, but does need bars in the bathroom, and a walk-in shower (not a tub that you have to climb over), and preferably a higher toilet, not the extremely low ones that many hotels have, which is difficult for anyone that has height to them, has bad knees, etc. We were extremely happy with our room! We got an ADA room with 2 Queen beds and a partial ocean view. ||My suggestion: if you love ocean views, but are getting a partial view, you might just go with a regular view and walk down to see the ocean. It is a small amount of ocean that you will see, and if foggy, as it was in October, it’s not worth paying extra for the small amount of view. Ocean front may be a different story; especially if staying several days, and maybe partial views closer to the front of the building. In our case, we were mainly interested in the ADA (handicap enabled) room, but would have taken the best view we could get, but if paying extra for our partial view it would not be worth an extra cost. ||Our room was very spacious, comfortable, and had a lot of charm. The bathroom had a beautiful tub with a seat, and a raised portion that someone with some mobility might be able to sit on and swing their legs over (not the case with my mother). The toilet had bars and was a good 4 – 5 inches higher than a standard toilet – exactly what is needed for anyone with height, bad knees, arthritis, etc. Not sure if that is more difficult with a wheelchair. While my mother was not able to use the shower in the tub, due to bad knees, the toilet was the best of the 4 hotels we stayed at this month, including a very exclusive resort. ||Our room was near the office on the 2nd floor, (#218), however, the hotel is on a hill, so you can access the 2nd floor & office from the raised parking lot in the back, without doing any stairs. ||Our room had a fireplace, a table with 4 chairs near a window with our partial ocean view, a coffee maker, 2 large glass bottles filled with water, and a nice-sized fridge. They had 2 luggage racks, which also seems to be a rarity in hotel rooms these days. The room had comfortable arm chair with a reading light, which is very nice, as some of the luxury hotel rooms we had stayed in recently had no ability to read in the room, due to the lighting. ||There is a nice breakfast in the office in the morning. They have yogurt, cereal, Danish (from Linn’s Restaurant in town), bananas, other fruit, hard boiled eggs, tea & coffee, etc. There were a couple of men exclaiming about the wonderful taste of the coffee (from SLO). It is in the office, and there are some tables outdoors, as well, on the patio, where there is also a hot tub surrounded by plexi-glass, to keep the wind away. There is a cute fountain of a wine bottle pouring wine into a glass. They had some Halloween decorations up when we were there, along with a bowl of candy on the counter. For a relatively small hotel, they had quite a few little extras that were nice. ||Our room was near the office and breakfast, and we heard a lot of noise in the morning, likely of the people going in for some breakfast. Otherwise, it was quiet during the night. ||I don’t believe there was any temperature control. I felt overly warm and didn’t use any covers to sleep. They have a fan in the closet, that you can use. It was October, so it was all workable. If there in the hotter months, I don’t think that would work for me. ||Overall, we were more than happy with our room. It felt clean, very comfortable, and very spacious, with many nice touches. I would definitely come back to this hotel to stay.

Denise S.

This was our first stay at Moonstone Landing. The room was very clean, nicely decorated, comfy bed, good quality linens, Keurig coffee maker, and microwave. Directly across from the beach. The room was exactly has shown. Will stay there again on next visit to Cambria.

Patricia H.

We loved our stay in this hotel in beautiful Cambria. Lovely rooms, comfortable beds, quiet, location is fantastic, friendly staff, reasonably priced for the area, open breakfast area (healthy distances btwn tables) with many options.

Curtis L.

We had a great stay at Moonstone Landing! We were able to have one of the balcony rooms that faced the ocean. The view is amazing and the sound of the ocean is relaxing. The room was nice and spacious. The fireplace was a nice addition. It is the only source of heat for the room but that was never an issue. There were two chairs and a table on the balcony along with two really comfortable chair inside the room.

DanielleLovingood

This was our second time saying here. our first time staying was about eight years ago, and we had a lovely room on the upper floor facing the ocean. We decided that we were eager to go back for my husband’s 45th birthday celebration. The upper floor was not available so we booked a lower floor ocean view room. The room was beautiful. The bed was comfy and the fireplace added a beautiful ambience to the room. The patio had a nice seating area for us to enjoy breakfast while watching the waves. Speaking of breakfast, the pastries provided from Lynn’s diner were amazing. The only issue we had with the room was there was a horrible smell coming from the shower after it had been ran. The first night we did not shower until late in the evening , and figured maybe the room had not been used in a while so the pipes just needed to be flushed out. However, returning to the room the next evening and showering, we noticed the smell was still there after the water had been run. The smell was that of sewer and started to fill the rest of the room with the stench. It was too late in the evening to call and complain so we just shut the door to the bathroom and open the sliding patio door to air it out. We did report it to the girl at the front desk upon check out the next day. She did advise us that she would send the complaint up to management . Hopefully the smell has been fixed for people staying there going forward. .