Best Western® Hotels in Carmel-by-the-Sea

Ok, Carmel by the Sea is an expensive place to stay. It's a neat little town with lots of boutique stores and neat downtown activities. It is super close to the Pacific Grove Gate entrance to 17 mile tour. The hotel room was pretty clean and had a fresh smell when entering. Upon closer looking there were some little nit picky items that could be easily fixed up. The room is extremely dark! There needs to be more light! Please put a light in the corner by the TV and change the damned light bulbs to LED 100w equiv bulbs. This would make a huge difference. The washroom was very dated and had broken tiles near the tub. The tiles along the wall were clearly very dirty and uncleaned. The toilet was offset which was strange to sit on because you are angled toward the wall??? The shower leaks onto the floor when showering which is the likely cause of broken tiles. The parking is free which is part of the saving grace but there are no elevators and if you get ”lucky” like us you are shoved back into the rooms above the garage which was supposed to be nicer. The hair dryer didn't work. Only blows cold air which pissed off the wife. I'm sure if we had been staying there for more than 1 night, that would be rectified. The biggest issue for me was NO AC in room!!! This is the first hotel that I've ever stayed in that doesn't have in room AC. When I couldn't find it, I asked at the front desk. We were told that only 1 hotel in the town had AC and it was priced very high. In fact we found 6 hotels in the area that have in room AC and not much higher price than this one. That being said... There are floor fans in the rooms and the temperature by the sea is very cool at night. We opened the window and turned on the fan and were actually quite comfortable while sleeping and I'm a die hard 65 deg sleeping person. The main room is very clean and obviously updated. The bed is super comfy and the pillows are great. The room really needs a microwave! There is a nice sized fridge but no microwave. I would likely try a different hotel the next time if I could find something for similar money simply because of the stairs and being shoved into the back rooms which I suspect are overflow for over booking. The TV in room is bad. Mostly because they use these crappy universal remote that makes it impossible to view the guide to select channels. Listen if you have to put 2 remotes in the room to be able to take full advantage of whatever box you are controlling, then do it! I'd rather have instructions to run remotes than to have a crappy simple remote that doesn't give you full options! The breakfast was as expected for continental breakfast. Eggs were hot and good but bacon was undercooked but seems to be the norm in the US. I prefer crispy bacon and if there was a microwave in the room, I would have thrown it in there to crisp it up. Minor complaint