Balboa Inn, On The Beach At Newport

Helpful staff. My room didn’t have a fridge but the staff accommodated my needs by allowing me to put my perishables in their kitchen refrigerator. After getting to my room, I discovered that my room had broken blinds so I went downstairs to let the staff know and they easily upgraded my room to one that had functional blinds. Parking is not too terrible. You can pay to park at a public parking lot, or use the convenience of the valet service. Which I recommend. The valet staff was courteous and helpful. I recommend just paying the valet fee over having to walk to public parking lot and pay for a fee as a time saver and just Uber around town. The time you save on not having to find a parking spot and walk back and forth is worth it. The complimentary breakfast was ok. Simple, with food items like instant oatmeal, cereal bars, fruit, yogurt, oranger juice, and coffee. There’s also a coffee shop immediately downstairs on the beachside of the hotel where you can get pastries and hot breakfast item.

Room was clean, small and renovated however, the cost of the room was really high, parking was pay lots really high, hotel charged $50 to valet your vehicle. Hotel was hard to find as its part of other retail establishments had to park on the street in traffic to check in. Beach view from the balcony was very nice and the poor is walkable from the hotel all in all a nice environment just some difficulties.

Staff was very responsive to our needs.

The location was excellent and staff so accommodating. Overall the property could use some TLC but was charming.

The location is perfect . We took the boat to Catalina for a weekend stay . We stayed here one night so we can catch the boat in the morning. Hotel is older and needs to be renovated. The restaurants around are not good and the shopping feels very tourist oriented. It’s a good place to stay one night but I would not recommend it for a longer stay

Loves staying here just wish they had more mirrors for getting ready. Other than that is was a nice stay. Definitely will be returning(:

I love the location. It’s amazing.

The first room I had the carpet was just not great. Had toddlers so was not ok with that. Not sure why a property by the beach would have any carpet. Looked at three other rooms. Two with carpet one with tile. One with tile was great. All the carpeted areas were a little stained and didn’t look clean. The room they moved is too without any carpet would highly recommend over the carpet rooms.

Rooms were clean just outdated and felt old for the money

We had such a lovely stay here. Yes, it’s an older property and there was some paint peeling, etc. But not only is the view incredible, but the staff is amazing! So courteous and kind from the front desk to the housekeeping. We left a couple of items at the front desk when we checked in and the girl at the front desk ran them up to our room within two minutes. You can walk all over Balboa and the sand is right outside the door. There was construction all day so it was an early morning each day, but we didn’t mind. Will certainly be staying here again.