Camano Island Inn

Old and in need of repair. Deck was dirty and moldy. Grounds were unkempt. Room was tired, tired, tired. No food, except for a basket with a few bags of potato chips and small, plastic bottles of water. My wife and I slept there only because we had already paid.

Hassel to track down anyone to provide check-in instructions, asked about drinking water staff unresponsive. Tampons on the floor which means the room wasn't cleaned, flies all over the cups ..

What a charming inn on some of the most spectacular private coastline in the Pacific Northwest. We loved our spot, feet up on our own private balcony watching Blue Heron, Bald Eages, etc. and boats going by, wandering down the path to the pebble beach below, picking blackberries... Idyllic. Our innkeeper, Charlene was so accommodating, SO hardworking. She was constantly cleaning, prepping, on the go, and yet took all the time in the world to chat with us about the Inn, local attractions, eateries etc. This is an older inn in a rustic setting, and if you don't do charming and rustic, this is not the spot for you. Keep to your 5 star resorts in the city and miss out on the sheer beauty and tranquility of this place. Prior to our stay, we read some scathing reviews on popular sites, but decided to risk it. Thank goodness. And all we have to say about the vehement attacks posted on line, is that those folks are used to being pampered and waited on, and need to stay well away from this amazing little place. Only one note .... Very few units, only one unit, #8, is on the little country road, and not oceanfront, so we would recommend asking for the oceanfront, which all others are ....Enjoy!!

Do not book this hotel. The website is totally misleading leading and the property looks nothing like the pictures depict. The room was dirty, unkempt and on need of serious maintenance. The bathroom was disgusting and in need of a total renovation. The shower water never got above lukewarm. The outdoor deck off the room was dirty, moldy and in need of repair. The property is overgrown, littered with trash and not maintained. There are zero amenities and the bistro is no more. At $200/night is a total rip off. It is clear the owners do not care.

In its day it was a nice place, but is by far what it is now. And don't be fooled by the pictures of the rooms. They are not like that they are grossly misrepresented. And beware there is no air conditioning.very uncomfortable at 95 degrees. The only good i found to say here is the Inn keeper was very nice and did her best to accommodate us. Find another place if you can this is not the one.

I will try to keep this as to the point as possible, but DO NOT BOOK THIS PROPERTY. I have reached out to the owners and given them the chance to address their problems and make a good faith effort to show they are trying but after a week I have received no reply, so my only option now is to warn fellow travelers. My hope is the property owners realize that what they are doing is shady and they either need to put their efforts into returning to either returning to good business practices, finding a better management company, or selling to someone who will. - It looks like up until 2019 this was a nice place to stay. COVID must have done a number on them because they are not anymore, and it shows. Ignore any review before the past 2 years, those posters clearly visited the property in a better time. - Do not trust the pictures show on the website. They are inaccurate to the current property. We stayed in room 2 which pictured a dramatic 4 poster bed and other romantic colors and theming. Those have been replaced. The bed is now with a spring steel frame without even a bed skirt to hide it’s barrack’s like feel. The mattress is old and uncomfortable. All rich red colors in the website picture have been replaced with a sickly beige of a mid to low end motel. The other furniture, fixtures, and curtains are damaged and pathetic. It looks like they were trying to upgrade at some point but gave up and are now trying to charge for luxury resort while delivering roadside motel. DO NOT TRUST THEIR PICTURES. Its not the difference between a good and bad photo, they do not show the image of the room today. BAIT AND SWITCH. - The deck does not have the wicker and cushion furniture but is steel mesh. The mini hot tub is about 4’ diameter, and shallow (maybe 2.5’) and the moment you get in, it overflows through the deck. If two try to use it together the remaining water level threatens to sink beneath the jets causing a horrible sucking sound all night. The covers are weather battered, cracked, and unappealing looking. - The “bistro” is simply an area of tables and chairs with a microwave, coffee maker, and a few free snacks they bought at Costco. It is not staffed and honestly, we never saw an innkeeper except one cleaning person emptying garbage and restocking the water bottles. THERE IS NO BISTRO. - The outside property is verging on overgrown. The grass is weedy, the blackberries and hedges are overgrown. The one good thing about the place, the view, is half obscured on lower floor rooms. The plexiglass of the decks is disgustingly dirty anyway so even if the plants were cut back, you are staring through hazy plastic. The walk down to the beach is barely accessible, almost overgrown as well, and narrow causing you to walk through a neighbor’s back yard. Altogether, the appearance is an owner who just doesn’t care anymore, or perhaps is so strapped that they can’t afford to make this place as nice as they are charging for. It’s a shame, the property wa

It's seriously run down - no one at the front desk at all, some bags of Chex Mix and bottled water at the unmanned reception. Room 6 had no robes (as were advertised as being included), a bathroom fan so dirty we had to clean it ourselves (after asking the one person briefly present at the inn whether she had a feather duster or a broom so we could clean it ourselves to which she replied that the dust was "unremovable and maintenance would be there in the morning"), no ice machine ("a guest broke it, maintenance will be here in the morning,") no coffee in the morning unless we made it ourselves in a seriously dingy looking pot in the front area. A hedge in front of room 6 made it a no-view room when one sat on the veranda. For $250 a night, do not recommend.

The room was not as advertised online. My room was very small with no amenities (and no hot tub as advertised). The restaurant never reopened after Covid, so there's no food service at the hotel. There's also no microwave or refrigerator in the rooms, so you have to either go out and eat or bring it back and eat it on the bed as there's no table in the room (at least the one I stayed in). The walls are also very, very thin so you can hear everything happening in the room(s) around you. I also couldn't ever figure out how to access the beach from the hotel. I had to get in my car and drive to a beach 10 mins away. I was quite disappointed and cut my stay short.

I was so excited to finally get to stay here. Sadly, it was not a good experience. I’m fairly certain no one else was there but us. No staff and no other guests. That was just weird. A previous guest’s dirty laundry was in the dresser but there was no one to tell so there it sat. We booked room 6 because we wanted to sit out and watch the water, the hedge was WAY too high to do that. When I booked, the website said a continental breakfast was available, there was only 2 day old coffee and it’s since been removed from the website. Dirty glasses were in the bin our entire stay. The exhaust fan in the bathroom was very dirty. There were no hangers and no where to hang clothes. It has so much potential but sadly, it’s not a place I’d ever stay again or recommend to anyone.