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Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort
Good 6.0/10 40 reviews
633 E Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 (at Milpas)
Hotel Class: 3 Stars
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Hotel Review

3.0/10
Poor
member icon Hugely disappointed
Posted Jan 29, 07 by AeroBoi, 1 reviews 
46 year old with a luxury budget, traveling for leisure

First thing you need to know about this property is that aside from the vast, poorly landscaped asphalt parking lot which surrounds most this class B- hotels "mountain view" rooms, you then have to look beyond the very active Amtrak line which appears to run adjacent to and all along most of the property's eastern boundary. But then you also have to overlook the industrial rock mining facility right on the other side of the rail line!

To the staff’s credit they were indeed pleasant and responsive in relocating my guest and I to a garden view room. I suppose I could have been fairly well placated except that I immediately noticed this new room (121) happened to be located directly across the hall from a stank little circa 1970 workout room with a single closet turned "massage room".

Yup, what should have been one of the most active areas of the building was indeed just as quiet as could be at least until the boisterous yakking of morning housekeeping detail got started in the interior hallways, but I’m quite astonished that Hilton/Doubletree has the audacity to include either “resort” or “spa” in the name of this property.

Don’t be fooled by the pictures on Expedia or the hotel website either! Granted, the recently refurbished rooms are indeed large, attractive and comfortable (definitely avoid the mountain view rooms though) but the public spaces are all very, very tired, poorly lit and truly in need of a major renovation.

Overall, even at $150 a night this place would have been highly disappointing.

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