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Balboa Bay Club and Resort Review
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Balboa Bay Club and Resort
- Address: 1221 W. Coast Hwy., Newport Beach, CA, 92663 | Map It
- Phone: 949/645-5000; 888/445-7153
- Fax: 949/630-4215
- www.balboabayclub.com
- Price range: $$$-$$$$
- Location: Newport Beach
Fodor's Review:
Sharing the same frontage as the private Balboa Bay Club where Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and the Reagans hung out, this hotel has one of the best bay views around. There's a yacht club vibe in the public spaces, especially in the nautical dining room. Rooms, which have either bay or courtyard views, have a beachy decor of rattan furniture, plantation shutters, and tropical-pattern drapes. Duke's Place, a bar named for John Wayne, a former member and club governor, has photos of the star in his mariner-theme films.
- Hotel Details: 150 rooms, 10 suites
- In-hotel: 2 restaurants, room service, bar, gym, spa.
- Credit Cards: AE, D, DC, MC, V
Member Reviews & Ratings:
Pricey But FAR from Perfect
Posted by lsmoon from Huntington Beach, CA on 5/16/07
We found the service in the restaurant to be unbelievably slow. People who left the hotel for outside restaurants returned long before we finished. The food was very mediocre for the price. Nothing at all unique or exciting. The waiter's attitude was most condescending and he shocked the 3 professional women at our table when he asked, "Will you ladies be having coctails or will you wait for the wine that the gentleman will order?" There was one man at the table (who was not looking at the wine menu) and he was a guest. It had been made clear from the beginning that the dinner was hosted and paid for by one of the women. The man laughed and said, "I don't think that was the right thing to ask at this table." The waiter asked what was wrong with what he said and the hostess had to explain that "Any of us could be ordering wine." Another friend who had dined there earlier commented, "It's a view with food." I think that describes it well. I wouldn't return. The valet parking service was also very slow. I didn't stay at the hotel but I saw my relative's room, which was very nice.
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