Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa

Like other reviews, our visit started with the brain dead group at the front desk, moved to our veranda room, which the front desk explained means the doors open outside ( in this case to a wall located near an employee walk gate that banged 20 times a day) not that the room actually has a veranda. Sooo many weddings and noise, and inconvenience. They should simply market this place as a convention center and then you would not expect it to be a quality hotel. Save your money and your nerves. You are not missing anything here but frustration at the incompetence of all the hotel employees. We had to call each day to actually get our room cleaned. Seriously!

High quality facility with excellent service. Beautiful, lush planted grounds, in the midst of the UCSD campus and across the road from the Salk Institute. Close to a hiking path, shuttle to the beach. I have visited this property twice, once 8 years ago, and once in Aug. 2017. I am impressed that the quality of the food in both on-site restaurants has been much higher than in other hotels I have visited. Very much worth eating on-site. The meeting facilities are excellent. Rooms on the two courtyards and the rooms above the walking path are quiet.

Estancia is very nicely secluded, very quiet with a fantastic staff. The valet guys were super friendly, the concierge was helpful and the ladies taking care of our rooms did great. The pool was very nice and all the on site restaurants were fantastic. It is secluded. Depending on your view of this it can be a bit of a drive to other eating establishments in Del Mar or La Jolla. We will certainly return. It was highly recommended by our friends as well.

Needed lodging for Margaritaville, a play about Jimmy Buffett. This resort turned the weekend into total Buffet experience. EXCELLENT margaritas, lodging, service, food, amenities, etc. Quiet too! Check out the croquet.

Booked weeks in advance, got email confirmation that reservation is confirmed.. then arrived close to midnight to the hotel after a 15 hour trip from Europe.. waited for 10 min at reception while nobody was there to help me.. meanwhile, super loud wedding ... Finally a staff member arrived and after checking my reservation apologized to me that there is no available room: "due to unforeseen circumstances my room was not available"... but they found a room for me at another hotel which was 15 min driving from there so I should jump back in the car and drive... somewhere else.. Then I asked if I can stay at the other hotel for the entire duration of my visit ... No, I could go there for the first night but had to come back to Estancia for the other days.. so imagine my beautiful Sunday which was supposed to be relaxing... check out from the other hotel before 12 and come back to Estancia after 14.. total disregard for the customer.. No discount, vouchers..nothing.. Do not book there..you cannot trust them .. there might be no room despite your booking Spa area... Ok-ish but definitely nothing special, super noisy air conditioning in the room .. As a cherry on the top of the cake.. they did not credit my stay to my loyalty account.. sent them a couple emails and then gave up... Horrible !