Hotel Madonna Inn San Luis Obispo

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100 Madonna Road San Luis Obispo, California, United States, 93405, 805-543-3000

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A Sight to See

We made reservations to tour Hearst Castle in San Simeon in advance and arrived about an hour before our scheduled tour. We had time for lunch and still moved up to an earlier tour. The ticket office attendant was happy to give us a spot on an earlier tour. The castle is magnificent and the grounds are beautiful. It is easy to see why the Hearst family picked that spot for their home.

After touring we drove back to San Luis Obispo and checked into our room at the Madonna Inn. The inn i...

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Now that i've looked around this town i ...

Now that I've looked around this town I have some more to add. I just happened to arrive on the craziest day of the week here - Thursday. Every Thursday evening they shut down the main street of downtown for a farmer's market. It's great. It's half tailgate party, half farmers' market, half county fair. The best part is you can pretty much eat for free if you don't push it. Just go around to the fruit stalls and ask for just a single apple and usually they'll just let you have it. If you ever...

San Luis Obispo, California, United States bradleyt
Lets get a little funky.. and Pink

Day 4
A pink day!!

Awoke to another chilly morning and set off from SF with the sat nav telling us to turn left.... then left again....then left.... then left again, finding ourselves back in the place we started! After going round the block several times and nearly throwing the sat nav out of the window, we found our way out of SF and heading towards highway 101. Now this caused another problem, We were actually looking for the well-known highway 1 as we were due to meet the chaps ...

San Luis Obispo, California, United States chrissief13
ENDLICH, die 2.!

Jetzt läuft's richtig gut - Franzi hat auch seit eben eine Zusage für einen Platz im Wohnheim. Allerdings erst ab Samstag. Ich habe kostenlos einen schönen Sessel und und ein Bettgestell mit Matratze von der Hostellady bekommen. Wir haben die Sachen heute morgen dann mit ihrem Truck in mein neues Zuhause gefahren. Als Gegenleistung haben wir ihr geholfen umziehen (Bett von zuhaus ins Hostel, aus Garage ins Haus, Aus Cottage zu mir, etc.) Danach habe ich noch ein Konto eröffnet und wir sind ei...

San Luis Obispo, California, United States thomasgoescal
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Historical Traveler Reviews of Hotel Madonna Inn San Luis Obispo

Not a good honeymoon spot

from A TripAdvisor Member
My husband and I stayed at the Madonna Inn 10 months ago for 2 nights on our honeymoon. It definitely wasn't all I had hoped it would be.

Maybe we just got one of the less impressive rooms--the Swiss Bell room. It was pretty tacky--all green and flowered with stained glass windows with cows on them. The rock waterfall shower was neat, though.

We ate at their restaurant and the food was mediocre at best. We told people it was a lot better than it was!

A hotel like no other!

from A TripAdvisor Member
I have lived in San Luis Obispo for 6 years and stayed at the Madonna for our first wedding anniversary in the room called American Home.

Every room is unique in this hotel and you can see them all online. Our room had a huge rock fireplace, two king beds, a 7ft bath tub and was enourmous. The rooms are expensive, but it's an experiance like no other to stay there. The steak house is suberb, I recommend the filet mignon, which I have had about 6 times there. While there check out the world famous public bathrooms. This place is recommended for people who like Disneyland or other over-the-top decoration, and who like pink and red. The website represents the place quite fairly, so check it out.

Barking Mad

from A TripAdvisor Member
Here we are at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. Barking mad, this place, Mr Madonna a highway construction owner and his wife Phyllis built this Hansel and Gretel paradise out of pure love. John Wayne and George Burns had a share in it too. The clothing in the man's store is obviously Mr M's own wardrobe. I have never seen such dreadful taste, but somehow kinda appealing. The ladies shop looks like a second hand dowager duchess's cast-offs. We are staying in two vast rooms tackily done up like London and Paris, Bayswater Road art style. We love it. Dinner in the pink leather and rose patterned carpet under twinkling flower lights for steak and more steak. Cattle baron's feasts. Mr Madonna ambles by and asks if everything is OK. Hardly the word for it. Louis Theroux should do a programme on this place and get into the mind of the owners. There is great generosity of spirit at work, the rooms are vast and comfortable. More is given than taken. Sue alarmed by the prospect of us turning into Derby and Joan as we shuffle around the dance floor to wannabe Glen Miller tunes.

Love the interiors

from A TripAdvisor Member
We have stayed here many times, love the different rooms and the food is wonderful!

It has a '50 flare but not my style.

from A TripAdvisor Member
If you want to go back in time to the 1950's this is the place to stay. It is very essintric. Lots of hot pink and florecent colors. Garish is a good word to describe the rooms and amenities in the rooms are not modern.Forget your computer. It is nostalgic so if you are looking for that plush modern look this is not the place to stay. If you're wanting an outlandish experience with a querry flare than you found the right place. It is pricy for the style of rooms but the service was good. I would only stay here again if the all the other nicer hotels in the area are full.

It Sucks

from A TripAdvisor Member
Madonna Inn is garish and chinzy. Prices run far higher than other places in San Luis Obispo and generally for lower quality. The place makes me think of what a brothel owner would design to make his building look swank.

Fun and Exciting place

from A TripAdvisor Member
Our first time there was very exciting and relaxing, almost like being a kid again. We are going back to "get away from it all" on our way to Monterey, our favorite place. Recommend it to anyone.

Madonna Inn--Terrific memories

from A TripAdvisor Member
My wife and I have been staying at the inn as a tradition for nearly 30 years for our wedding anniversary. Many times we stay during the year if we travel thru, and we

always stop to eat if we are on the way thru town. I read many people describe the Madonna Inn as Tacky. I think this is totally wrong. Tacky is the Motel 6 with cheap

beds, generic fixtures and paper thin walls with a cheap price. The Madonna Inn has never waivered in its quality of food and service. It is a unique and origional

place, with no 2 rooms alike. Yes the Inn is still the origional rooms, but they were a vision the Madonna's had in the 1950's, that still are in demand after 40 years. People book reservations months ahead for special occasions.

If you want modern glitsy night life, phoney atmosphere, and fancy trendy stuff--goto Vegas! If you want to enjoy the central Coast, and a nice easy lifestyle, relax in a romantic area, this is it. If you can't firgure out how to have a romantic time in the Madonna Inn, enjoy the walks on the beach, San Simeon, Morro Bay, Cambria, this isn't for you.

In 30 years I can tell you I have never had Lobster like the Inn, Never had better Steaks, never had better deserts. Everything the Madonna's serve is the best in my book.

In Addition Mr and Mrs. Madonna are a credit to the San Luis Obispo's growth. They have been a sourse for college kids to have good jobs while in school for years, and they have given to the community unselfishly. Mr. and Mrs. Madonna are 2 people who made a vision come true, and the result has been grand memories for people like me and my wife, who have stayed at the Madonna Inn. I highly recommend it and enjoying a great dinner in the Gold Rush Steak house or the Coffee shop.

Sleeping on a Cloud

from A TripAdvisor Member
I was just a child when I first stopped for lunch at the

beautiful Madonna Inn. The coffee shop was elegant in copper and pink. 40 years later, I stopped for the night! What I had expected was elegance, but to my surprise - the furnished room was garish and tacky looking. I was slightly disappointed but excited just the same to have finally been able to stay here. The room was very large, had 2 bedrooms, and 2 rooms for the bathroom. My husband and I slept 1/2 the night in one bed, then the other 1/2 in the other. What I shall always remember about the Madonna Inn is the Beds! I told my husband to find out what kind of mattress we were sleeping on. He did! When we came home, we ordered the pillow top Serta Perfect Sleeper just like we had in both rooms at the Madonna! After 2 weeks on the road, and an aching back from all the hard hotel beds, we both felt like we had slept on a cloud in our tacky, garish, funky room at the Madonna Inn.

Madonna inn

from A TripAdvisor Member
the madonna inn is very nice! go there if u wana! and u should! its so cool!

well i stayed there, so it must be excellent!!

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