Top 10 Golden West Hotels

We have stayed at several hotels throughout the years and this was our first time staying at the North Cliff hotel. We had a ground floor (1st floor) (king suite). It has a fantastic view of the ocean and entrance to Noyo Harbor. We saw whales from the balcony. From the hotel, you can enter the walking path that takes you clear to Pudding Creek. The walk is beautiful and whales and other wildlife can be spotted along the path to Pudding Creek and Glass Beach. Only negative we have is the internet/wifi was almost nonexistent. Very sporadic service. For a hotel such as this, a better wifi/internet system should be invested in. All-in-all we would stay at this hotel again in the future.

Our room was spacious, clean, and very well designed. I appreciated this because reviews of other hotels in the area were atrocious. My only small complaint was that the walls and floors seemed thin; you could hear every noise from Highway 20 and from the floor above. Breakfast had a pretty good selection in light of COVID safety measures. I knocked off a whole star for the following reason: We checked in on a Saturday, received the wifi code, and everything worked fine. However, on Sunday, I tried logging into the wifi again, and it said my code was invalid. I, unfortunately, wasn’t able to call the front desk until Monday afternoon to get this issue resolved. The young man told me that the hotel resets the wifi code every Sunday (which sounded bizarre) and offered to write down the new code and bring it up to my room. I told him I wish this would have been told to me when I checked in (as I had incorrectly assumed the wifi was just down). He acted like he didn’t know what I said, and took NO responsibility. Even a simple, “Thank you for your feedback, I’ll pass it along to management” would have sufficed.

A lovely hotel with beautiful views

Thanks to TripAdvisor we found this great family motel in Fort Bragg. As part of the motel, there is a super 18 hole miniature golf course. Our room included a free round of golf for the entire room (spouse and 7 yr old grandson). Super friendly and helpful staff and very nice room. But most impressive was the fact that since the room rate had gone down since I made the reservation I was told (upon checking in) that my rate had been adjusted and was now $50 LESS than my previously confirmed rate. Clearly an establishment that puts the customer first.