Name of Small So. Cal Hotel Off Highway 1?
Apr 19, 2013, 1:40 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Foster City
Posts: 3
Name of Small So. Cal Hotel Off Highway 1?
Hello:
I am looking for the name of a very small hotel/motel that is located right off off Highway 1, southern CA.
Ken (Mr.SFO-SJO) & I stayed there years ago. It was an older , it did NOT have a beach, but did have a dining room. You took your life in your hands to leave the hotel as you exited directly onto the highway!
Possibly built in the 1940's? It was not a chain hotel.
Anyone who knows the name of this hotel it would be appreciated if you posted - some friends of mine would like to stay there. Hearing the ocean at night even with your windows closed is heaven!
Thank you for reading my post.
I am looking for the name of a very small hotel/motel that is located right off off Highway 1, southern CA.
Ken (Mr.SFO-SJO) & I stayed there years ago. It was an older , it did NOT have a beach, but did have a dining room. You took your life in your hands to leave the hotel as you exited directly onto the highway!
Possibly built in the 1940's? It was not a chain hotel.
Anyone who knows the name of this hotel it would be appreciated if you posted - some friends of mine would like to stay there. Hearing the ocean at night even with your windows closed is heaven!
Thank you for reading my post.
Apr 19, 2013, 9:50 am
#2
Moderator: Luxury Hotels and FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Palo Alto, California,USA
Posts: 17,854
There's more than one hotel meeting this description I bet; I went to a reception at a hotel like this in Malibu (whose name escapes me too!), but it was newer.
Apr 20, 2013, 6:06 pm
#4
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Maître-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
Maybe PacificCoastHighwayOnline can help you narrow the location down. It has a map with CA SR 1 delineated, and a link to the Wikipedia article on CA SR 1.
California State Route 1, most of the Pacific Coast Highway
I doubt you are talking about the original motel (built in 1925), or motel, originally the Milestone Mo-tel, later the Motel Inn, of San Luis Obispo, very close to highway 101 and originally built there because it took two days to drive between San Francisco and Los Angeles - it cost $1.25 a night. It had a main building that looked like an ersatz mission with bell tower and all, and is now basically a ruin with bell tower (2223 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, CA).
(It's historically interesting, but technically in Central California.)
Motel Inn remnants, San Luis Obispo, CA
See here on Google maps.
California State Route 1, most of the Pacific Coast Highway
I doubt you are talking about the original motel (built in 1925), or motel, originally the Milestone Mo-tel, later the Motel Inn, of San Luis Obispo, very close to highway 101 and originally built there because it took two days to drive between San Francisco and Los Angeles - it cost $1.25 a night. It had a main building that looked like an ersatz mission with bell tower and all, and is now basically a ruin with bell tower (2223 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, CA).
(It's historically interesting, but technically in Central California.)
Motel Inn remnants, San Luis Obispo, CA
See here on Google maps.
Apr 20, 2013, 11:30 pm
#5
Join Date: May 2012
Location: DCA, lived MCI, SEA/PDX,BUF (born/raised)
Programs: Marriott (Silver/Gold), IHG, Carlson, Best Western, Choice( Gold), AS (MVP), WN, UA
Posts: 8,730
As others have said there are alot of small motels along that road. It would be helpful if you recall where you were around on this trip...was it south/north of San Fran? S/N of Monterey? etc? When you stayed there do you remember other things you did then?
Apr 22, 2013, 12:27 pm
#6
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,188
OP said Southern California, and the place did not have a beach but was right between the ocean and Highway 1 (or right across the highway from a beach), so that does narrow it down a bit, but still leaves a pretty big area. Would be interesting to know just how many years ago they stayed there. Can't imagine many small, non-chain hotels from the 1940s still being around, but maybe this is in some quiet area
Apr 23, 2013, 12:40 am
#7
Original Poster
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Foster City
Posts: 3
OP said Southern California, and the place did not have a beach but was right between the ocean and Highway 1 (or right across the highway from a beach), so that does narrow it down a bit, but still leaves a pretty big area. Would be interesting to know just how many years ago they stayed there. Can't imagine many small, non-chain hotels from the 1940s still being around, but maybe this is in some quiet area
The hotel was most likely past San Luis Obispo, there was NO beach, just a grassy sunning area and a pool. The sunning area dropped off to the ocean. It had to be highway One. There were the rooms on the first level, and on the lower level there was the pool and also a dining room. I know the clerk said because of the age of the hotel, the owners were just re-doing one or two rooms at the time. The sunning area reminded me of Moonshadows restaurant in Malibu - you just have to look down to see the ocean.
People would come just to go to the restaurant - we took a picture of a young couple in front of the Hotel/Motel.
Darn, I can literally see the name, but if you think I can remember it......
I will keep searching, of course I could do something more productive with my time, but.......
Thank you for your postings!
Apr 23, 2013, 10:06 am
#8
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 20,631
Apr 23, 2013, 10:58 am
#9
Join Date: May 2012
Location: DCA, lived MCI, SEA/PDX,BUF (born/raised)
Programs: Marriott (Silver/Gold), IHG, Carlson, Best Western, Choice( Gold), AS (MVP), WN, UA
Posts: 8,730
I agree with TWA....
The hotel would have to be in the Pismo Beach area.
the only other option would be Morro Bay area.
The hotel would have to be in the Pismo Beach area.
the only other option would be Morro Bay area.
Apr 30, 2013, 1:02 pm
#10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: LAX
Programs: AA Plat, DL, AS, UA, IHG Plat
Posts: 2,406
The Best Western Plus Shore Cliff Lodge in Pismo Beach seems to fit that description.
I usually stay at Cottage Inn By the Sea. Fits all the descriptions she mentioned:
- Off CA-1
- Has dining room
- No beach
- Not a chain hotel (well, not a big national chain)
- Pool and grassy sunning area that drop off to the ocean (cliff side)
- You can hear the ocean with windows closed
- Rooms on the first level
http://www.cottage-inn.com/
But really, it could be any of the motels on this part of PCH.
May 1, 2013, 7:57 am
#11
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Ventura, CA
Programs: too many
Posts: 77
Sometimes folks mix-up the CA-1 and US-101...could be the Cliff House Inn between Ventura and Carpinteria.
http://www.cliffhouseinn.com/
http://www.cliffhouseinn.com/
May 1, 2013, 11:51 am
#12
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: LAX
Programs: AA Plat, DL, AS, UA, IHG Plat
Posts: 2,406
Sometimes folks mix-up the CA-1 and US-101...could be the Cliff House Inn between Ventura and Carpinteria.
http://www.cliffhouseinn.com/
http://www.cliffhouseinn.com/
Last edited by bzcat; May 1, 2013 at 11:56 am
May 2, 2013, 3:35 am
#13
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Ventura, CA
Programs: too many
Posts: 77
You would never give someone directions and refer to the 101 in those stretches as the 1 unless you were directing them to Solimar beach or Faria Point--a stretch in that area where the 1 is separate and runs parallel to the 101.
This is all pretty inconsequential to the thread and OP but if you ask someone in that area for directions, you get better results if you speak their language.
