Brisa Pacific Hotel Encinitas

Nice place with newly renovated rooms I have stayed here several times in the last few years. They have recently renovated the rooms, and my room was very nice. I was actually happier with this stay (and the comfort of the room) than in previous years. Staff is great, very friendly and helpful. Make sure you walk to the nearby Stonesteps and beach access point. The nearby town of Encinitas is lovely.

California cool, loved it! Exactly what we hoped for. Easy access, simple check in, friendly small old school hotel feel. Walking distance to the beach, windows open for that open ocean breeze at night. The rooms were clean and spacious. Friendly staff. We will be coming back!!

Great for the beach experience on a budget The room was perfect for our family of 4 on a short 3 day trip to the beach. The hotel is a very short walk to the beach but there are several sets of stairs to navigate to reach the water. The stairs were not an issue for us but I could see that being troublesome for someone that might be handicapped or have walking troubles. The bed was great, pillows were perfect. The room was clean and housekeeping was very responsive when we requested a quick sweep of the floor after the sand followed us back from the ocean. The only thing I would say was a tiny problem for us was the lack of places to hang our beach towels. With the San Deigo humidity, it seemed like our towels never properly dried unless they were fully hung (not bunched). There are hooks in the room but maybe our towels were just too thick. We, thankfully, brought our own beach towels, as the hotel does not offer any pool or non-bathing towels. Speaking of pool, the pool was great, it's shallow as well as 5' deep in the deep end. My 4 year old, who is a great swimmer, was able to navigate the entire pool safely (supervised). However, there are no towels provided in the pool area. Perhaps they have some at the front desk that can be provided upon request but we brought our own so never inquired. The hotel is within walking distances to several restaurants but is about 0.8 miles from the main Encinitas strip. There was a frigerator and microwave in the room which was great for when we purchased a pizza and large gallons of water. We never tasted the water from the faucet so cannot comment on that. While the booking website feels a little outdated, the hotel itself is not outdated. We had a lovely time and were thoroughly pleased when the front desk was kind enough to let us check out one hour later since it was our last day in San Diego and our flight wasnt until much later that day. We parked our car in the hotel lot and never had any issues. After visiting 3 different big box stores in search of boogie boards, we ended up buying the boogie boards that the front desk sells and had a great time with them. The hotel breakfast was "okay". There is no hot food other than instant oatmeal but there is cold cereal options, appels and pastries, no bagels or pancakes or waffles. They are strict on the 9am cut off time for breakfast. We always made it down there around 8:30am and while they were always great at refilling the milk or Orange Juice when requested, once the time was 9am, everything was closed up and breakfast was over. It is a small hotel so I imagine the breakfast hours are cutting into the housekeeping/front desk work so it makes sense that they need to adhere to specific hours, but just some advice to future travelers, make sure you make it to breakfast well in advance of the 9am cut off. Lastly, I REALLY wanted to stay at a place that was literally beach front but it was very difficult to find something affordable for our short stay that also had a pool and complimentary breakfast. This hotel really checked all the boxes even though the walk to the beach was approximately 0.2 miles. The walk to the beach was always so lovely. All the homes we passed had fun decorations and we always found something new each time.

great base to explore Encinitas from. no frills, but clean, easy to access, and friendly front desk and housekeeping staff. perfect if the hotel is a mere bedroom to retire in before/after a day of playing in Encinitas. easy to use, quality coffee machine in room, too. tight parking lot, if you're towing.

Brisa Pacific Hotel: Clean, But Needs Improvements Our stay at Brisa Pacific Hotel was a mixed experience. Although it's a small hotel, it was impressively clean and well-maintained. We initially booked a room with double full beds, but the air conditioner was broken, making the room uncomfortably hot. We were moved to a room with a single king bed where the air conditioner worked fine. However, the air mattress provided for our kids deflated overnight, waking us up. The breakfast was quite basic, offering only coffee, orange juice, muffins, three types of cereal, bananas, and apples. There were no hot options like waffles or eggs, which was disappointing. Overall, while the cleanliness of Brisa Pacific Hotel was commendable, issues with the air conditioning, the deflating air mattress, and the limited breakfast options detracted from our stay.