Hawthorne Beach

It is a sprawling property. If you have any issues with mobility, you need to know in advance because there were stairs involved just to get to an elevator. Unfortunately, the room we got had the view of two air-conditioning units. So that was a definite negative. And the floor was uneven. Perhaps it’s because we were on the first floor and the place is really old…. But the property itself is quite lovely. Just not a place I would spend another night.

The walls are paper thin, we heard every door slam shut, people in the hallways, very hard time sleeping. Housekeeping came at 9:30 am, I answered the door and the lady saw that i was half asleep and kind of walked away. Security knocked on our door to let us know if we didn’t want to be bothered, have the sign up of do not disturb. I was confused because we literally checked in the night before and didn’t expect housekeeping to come already. I also did not say one word to the housekeeping lady or caused an issue so i don’t get why security had to come and say something. We also got charged for the parking garage that we DID NOT use because it was full. We explained it at check out and they still charged us THEIR price versus the other parking garage even though the other parking garage was cheaper. We will not be staying here ever again.

After flying in with four of us from Los Angeles on a Red Eye, we had to drive around for 4-5 hours until we were able to check in at 4pm, however after hours of trying to get into the property with no answer on the contact number ,we finally were able to have the local property manager come out and say that the property overbooked and had no room for us. I spent over 2 hours on the phone getting the run around by Expedia with mixed stories of our accommodations. FINALLY with now the story is that there was a plumbing problem and they would get us to another property from the original property manager and Expedia NOT doing a thing to help 4 of us stranded with no place to stay, we got to the other property. The new property was fine, but the most upsatting thing was dealing with Expedia trying to get a place for us to stay. Expedia tried saying they would cancel the accommodations and get us a Hotel but we would have to pay for the hotel and then wait for any credits or refund on our original booking. HIGHLY unacceptable by Expedia customer service. I am a GOLD member and spend quite a few thousand dollars a year for both business and pleasure and they did NOTHING to make me feel they were taking care of us. We basically lost a day of full work which cost my business over $1500 in non productive work.