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Seaside Hotel's Alluring Coastal Location Delights VisitorsYou can view exhibits at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, catch the waves at Del Monte Beach and much more while lodging at Holiday Inn Express® At Monterey Bay hotel in Seaside. Off Hwy 1, the hotel's location near Monterey Peninsula Airport, two blocks from the beach and 2.5 miles from downtown Monterey, is ideal.Incredible attractions abound in the Seaside, CA area, and the hotel's leisure guests enjoy easy access to them all. Carmel-by-the-Sea is seven miles away. You can test your swing at Pebble Beach Golf Links, America's greatest public golf course, before exploring famed Cannery Row or indulging in fresh seafood at Old Fisherman's Wharf. For high-speed thrills, check out the races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.If you're visiting for work in Seaside, CA, the hotel's free Wi-Fi access and a 24-hour Business Center help you keep in touch with the office. Also, the hotel's location near Monterey Peninsula Airport means flying into Seaside is an easy option. The Naval Postgraduate School and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center are both within four miles of the hotel.During your visit, you can begin every fun-filled day at the free, hot breakfast bar. After a day of work or sightseeing, unwind in the heated, outdoor pool and whirlpool or work out in the well-equipped Fitness Center. For a wonderful Seaside stay, please book now.
Multiple reviews highlighted dirty rooms, stained linens, and unclean bathrooms, with some guests reporting bugs and mold.
Outdated Facilities
Guests frequently mentioned that the hotel appears old and in need of significant renovations, with dated carpets and furniture.
Customer Service
While some staff members received praise for their friendliness and helpfulness, others were criticized for unprofessional behavior and poor communication.
Breakfast Quality
The breakfast was generally well-received, with many guests enjoying the variety and quality of food offered.
Noise Concerns
Several reviews noted issues with noise from outside traffic and neighboring rooms, impacting the overall comfort of the stay.
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Jessica Riley
Dec 30, 2025
1.0
So sorry about this review. IHG has standards but not the case here.
Unfortunately the Monterrey location has the following major concerns. Please read before booking!!
1. Mold and mildew in bathrooms
2. Smoky musty smells in rooms
3. Dated Carpets
4. Something or the other won’t work, light, fridge, exhaust you name it.
If you are an IHG member and want to use the chain go to Holiday Inn in SALINAS , IHG it’s new and renovated and well maintained! Free toiletry if you don’t have any excellent breakfast and service, worth it although you have to trek back and forth for 30 min daily to get to Monterey. It was sold out and couldn’t get in but a friend shared their experience and it was night and day to what we had in Monterey Holiday Inn at Del Monte.
Pros
Waiting to see what breakfast will be like
Newly remodeled lounge well kept new extension to building
Has pool and hot tub. Pool cold.
Overall
I would not stay here or recommend it ever to anyone.
The whole hotel needs a major renovation it’s an old mite conversion and very obvious.
Save yourself your money and stay elsewhere!!
SH
Susan Henry
Dec 29, 2025
3.0
This is not a hotel. It's a motel with outside entrance to your room. It's been rehabbed. While the rooms are clean and updated I hate having the entrance to my room be from the outside.
SA
SERGIO ARNAUD
Dec 29, 2025
4.0
Le falta una buena remodelada, ya dio las ganancias y extras del tiempo de funcionamiento.
Esta al límite de empezar a multiplicar fallas...
KW
Kelli WILKERSON
Dec 20, 2025
1.0
Never will we go again. Bugs in room!! No other room to change everything is wet! Bathroom sink was never clean! Floors wet dirty chips all over walls mildew in the bathtub on some of the handles we had no choice due to it being late will never ever go baxk to the person who worked there. No it was in the evening we had been driving all day didn't feel like going down and changing rooms AFTER we had already unpacked. Also if you looked at your reviews I am not the ONLY one who complained of the room being dirty!!
JC
Jeanne Courtney
Dec 3, 2025
2.0
Would expect this from a much cheaper hotel
Shower water not hot
Hot tub out of order
Unable to get two rooms on same floor even with over a month advance booking
Breakfast food partly okay but the only fresh fruit were green bananas and oranges with brown spots
Ice machine rusty, only available on 2 out of 5 floors, and looked like it was built in the 1940s
Wet spot on carpet got bigger as our stay went on, seemed to be water leaking out of heater
Toilet kept running, low to the ground, not a super strong flush
Corridors all outdoors, cold this time of year
Good points: easy parking, friendly desk staff, tasty biscuits at breakfast