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We had a fantastic trip thanks to Avania Inn of Santa Barbara!

Reviewed May 31, 2024
We had such a wonderful stay at Avania Inn of Santa Barbara thanks to the great team at the inn. Jacob, Oswaldo, Huy and Jamaru in addition to other staffs have all been very friendly, helpful to make our stay much more pleasant and enjoyable. In addition to its hard working team, the varieties of the breakfast choice, the sweet and tasty fresh strawberries with multiple choices of coffee truly made our two days staying in Santa Barbara a much more joyful one! The room was very spacious, clean and modern with very comfortable bedding and pillows plus pleasant room temperatures. We especially appreciated the heated pool and hot tub, even opened till 10pm, so we got to soak in after our busy day trips. We are truly grateful that we could pay such affordable prices to have such excellent and impressive experience staying at Avania Inn of Santa Barbara. We certainly recommend this inn to other travellers, and will continue to come back to stay whenever we get to travel back there. Well, the only request we're having from this inn is that we hope that the management team will start consider having at least one or dog friendly rooms available for us dog lovers to bring our dogs with us to travel and stay in your wonderful hotel. So, we'll get to plan more trips your way and get to enjoying visiting your team more often in our senior years. Thanks, Avania Inn of Santa Barbara!
Date of stay: May 2024
Room Tip: It's in close walking distance to Amtrak Station toward the beach. Remember to bring your...
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Jacob Thompson, General Manager at Avania Inn of Santa Barbara, responded to this review
Responded Jun 1, 2024
Dear SusanbO4036DE,

Thank you for taking the time to provide your valued feedback. So great to see how many aspects of your stay that you got to enjoy along with superb staff service. It was my personal pleasure and privilege to help make your experience an exceptional one. Huy, Oswaldo, and Jamaru are all tremendous assets to our wonderful team and I look forward to sharing your compliments with everyone. There are circumstances and conditions that prevent us from permitting some pet friendly rooms so I appreciate your grace and understanding in advance. Thank you for choosing to stay here and we look forward to having you back again with us!

Best regards,
Jacob Thompson | General Manager
Avania Inn | West Beach
128 Castillo St. | Santa Barbara CA, 93101
Gm@avaniainn.com
805-963-4471 (Hotel)

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Reviewed May 28, 2024

The rooms are beautiful, spacious, and super clean. Staff are super nice and outgoing to make sure everything is great. There was a variety of breakfast food to chose from and once again everything was well maintained and clean. Will keep in mind for future visits.

Date of stay: May 2024
Trip type: Travelled with family
Thank Riley R
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Jacob Thompson, General Manager at Avania Inn of Santa Barbara, responded to this reviewResponded May 28, 2024

Dear Rileyr493,

Thank you for your valued feedback. So great to see you enjoyed an amazing experience, guestroom, staff service and our hot complimentary continental breakfast offering. Thank you for choosing to stay with us and we can't wait to have you back again!

Best regards,
Jacob Thompson | General Manager
Avania Inn | West Beach
128 Castillo St. | Santa Barbara CA, 93101
Gm@avaniainn.com
805-963-4471 (Hotel)

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Reviewed May 27, 2024

Very clean, friendly staff, close to everything!
Good continental breakfast, fresh cookies in the lobby. Would definitely stay here again. We had the room with the third bed, which worth it. Beds were comfortable and they cleaned the rooms well.

Date of stay: May 2024
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Thank Jackie A
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Jacob Thompson, General Manager at Avania Inn of Santa Barbara, responded to this reviewResponded May 28, 2024

Dear T3495Mjackiea,

Thank you for your valued feedback. So great to see you enjoyed an excellent experience, guestroom, hotel amenities, and comfortable bed. Thank you for choosing to stay here and we look forward to continuing to exceed your expectations on future visits!

Best regards,
Jacob Thompson | General Manager
Avania Inn | West Beach
128 Castillo St. | Santa Barbara CA, 93101
Gm@avaniainn.com
805-963-4471 (Hotel)

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Reviewed May 27, 2024

We arrived at the Avania Inn on our USA round trip and we are vegans. Jamaru and Oswaldo did a great job. But not just them, of course also the whole hotel team, otherwise it wouldn't be so great! We stayed overnight from 22.05.2024 to 23.05.2024. We have stayed in many hotels but this one is great and we just have to rate it, which is why I took the time to rate it. Our following review here is honest and genuine, even if it may seem exaggerated to outsiders. Please always offer fresh fruit at breakfast, this is a great unique selling point and is healthy.
Our request for a quiet room, which we had made weeks before, was accommodated without us having to ask again at check-in (top organization).
Super large rooms, great facilities. Free parking lot. Super committed staff. We haven't seen such motivated hotel staff for a long time.

Breakfast: Incredible staff (Jamaru and Oswaldo) and uniquely clean breakfast buffet. Fresh, delicious strawberries that are replenished over and over again so that there is no shortage of vitamins. Please never remove fresh fruit from the breakfast assortment, but offer it as beautifully as you do now. This is cost-intensive but will make the hotel even more attractive and therefore even more economical. Jamaru and Oswaldo are highly motivated and responsible for breakfast. They were the ones who made the start of the day and the hotel breakfast first class, because in other hotels you find unmotivated staff. Thank you Jamaru and Oswaldo, keep up the good work! 👏
A great team that doesn't work alone but looks out for its colleagues. Everything is also replenished very quickly.
When we asked whether a food item at breakfast was vegan (potato pancakes), we were given the list of ingredients without having to ask. During our breakfast, several members of staff took care of the tidiness and cleanliness of the food throughout, even clearing our plates in between on request and asking if everything was in order. Very competent. There are great bagels, toast, bagged porridge, muesli, high-quality yogurts, coffee, fresh waffles to bake yourself. Really a very successful concept. The only small suggestion for improvement is to offer vegan margarine instead of just butter. An add-on would be to offer sliced vegetables such as tomato slices and cucumber salad to put on the bagel. To make the hotel more sustainable, we recommend switching from disposable crockery and cutlery to reusable cutlery, which is understandable from an economic point of view in terms of the need to wash dishes, but will also attract sustainable tourists to the hotel. This will attract even more tourists to the hotel for whom sustainability features are important.
We didn't use the outdoor pool and whirlpool, but they looked functional and great. The jacuzzi was in great use by people, so seems to be great.

Date of stay: May 2024
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Thank Julian W
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Jacob Thompson, General Manager at Avania Inn of Santa Barbara, responded to this reviewResponded May 28, 2024

Dear JulianwB597PU,

Thank you so much for taking the time to provide such a detailed and transparent review. It was so amazing to read how many aspects of your visit you enjoyed from our continental hot breakfast offering to superior service provided by Jamaru and Oswaldo. I cannot wait to share all of your compliments with our outstanding team members.

We will certainly take your remarks on our food offering into consideration as there are limitations on what we can provide being a continental breakfast and not a full service restaurant. All of serving utensils consist of biodegradable, recyclable materials to help address that concern. We hope to have the opportunity to take care of you again the next time your in Santa Barbara and thank you for choosing to stay here!

Best regards,
Jacob Thompson | General Manager
Avania Inn | West Beach
128 Castillo St. | Santa Barbara CA, 93101
Gm@avaniainn.com
805-963-4471 (Hotel)

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Reviewed May 27, 2024

This is a nice place to stay that is convenient to the waterfront but far enough to be away from the waterfront noise.

Check in was a fairly easy process. The breakfast was very well stocked and maintained by Faustina, Edwin, and Jamaru, who all made sure we had everything we needed and were focused on keeping the food stocked and the breakfast area clean while balancing a flow of people checking out.

Date of stay: May 2024
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Thank Geoff P
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Jacob Thompson, General Manager at Avania Inn of Santa Barbara, responded to this reviewResponded May 28, 2024

Dear 748geoffp,

Thank you for your valued feedback. So nice to see you enjoyed a great experience, our premium location, hot continental breakfast offering, and great staff service. Faustina and Edwin are both tremendous assets to our team and I look forward to sharing your compliments with everyone. Thank you for choosing to stay here and we can't wait to have you back again!

Best regards,
Jacob Thompson | General Manager
Avania Inn | West Beach
128 Castillo St. | Santa Barbara CA, 93101
Gm@avaniainn.com
805-963-4471 (Hotel)

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Reviewed May 27, 2024

We have stayed here multiple times and have come back because it’s consistently a good experience. Great location(close to harbor, wharf, State street and Funk Zone), excellent and huge breakfast buffet, we love the pool and hot tub, super helpful and friendly staff! Thanks for the great hospitality Jasmin, Jamaru and Huy!

Date of stay: May 2024
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Thank Britta K
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Jacob Thompson, General Manager at Avania Inn of Santa Barbara, responded to this reviewResponded May 28, 2024

Dear Brittak605,

Thank you for your valued feedback. So awesome to see you enjoyed another great experience with us and superb staff service. Jasmin, Jamaru, and Huy are all outstanding parts of our wonderful team and I can't wait to share your review with everyone! Thank you so much for coming back and we look forward to continuing to exceed your expectations on future visits!

Best regards,
Jacob Thompson | General Manager
Avania Inn | West Beach
128 Castillo St. | Santa Barbara CA, 93101
Gm@avaniainn.com
805-963-4471 (Hotel)

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