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Reviews of Sheraton Carlsbad Resort & Spa This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!

5480 Grand Pacific Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92008, United States

#39 of 51 hotels in Carlsbad

Guests' Choice

Review Score

Based on 71 hotel reviews

7.2

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    8.2

  • Comfort

    8.6

  • Location

    8.9

  • Facilities

    7.9

  • Staff

    8.1

  • Value for money

    6.9

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  • Reviewed: November 26, 2024

    7.0
    surprised
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Traditional, Guest room, 2 Queen, Balcony
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    there was one server for the whole restaurant on a holiday weekend. poor staffing. the pool was covered in trash with drinks from night before and discarded towels

    the room was great

    Stayed in November 2024

  • Reviewed: June 21, 2024

    8.0
    Overall the experience was good, and the staff did everything to ensure we had a nice visit.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Ponto, Studio Suite
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The main downside is there was a disconnect between the booking and what was shown in their system. For example, I had booked breakfast included and had to request that the staff didn’t charge us all 2 days. It would have been nice not to have to keep asking for our breakfast to be comped.

    The property was clean and the staff was super helpful.

    Stayed in June 2024

  • Reviewed: March 31, 2024

    7.0
    Overall, it
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Premium Ponto, Studio Suite, Coastline view
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    I had booked the reservation including breakfast, but the front desk said exclude it. I doubt checked again and showed to him. He gave me the breakfast ticket only for two people so I went to there again and got two more tickets.

    The breakfast is good and the location is great

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: February 20, 2024

    7.0
    Quick overnight for a friends baby shower :)
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Traditional, Guest room, 1 King, Balcony
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    No staff member at checkout Monday AM.

    Great front desk staff member on Sunday and solid room service staff Sunday night!

    Stayed in February 2024

  • Reviewed: June 13, 2023

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Traditional, Guest room, 1 King, Balcony
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Sprawling layout was disorienting. $35/day parking excessive.

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: May 22, 2023

    7.0
    Too expensive for what you get
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Traditional, Guest room, 1 King, Balcony
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    I was shocked to find a fairly small TV by todays standards, and no USB charging outlets in the room. The king room was ample but the designer colors and styles are out of date. I’ve had better rooms at a newer Holiday Inn Express!

    The hotel lobby is beautiful and the bed was super comfortable. The king room was ample. The front desk staff was very polite and professional.

    Stayed in May 2023

  • Reviewed: April 8, 2023

    6.0
    beautiful place to stay but they aren’t staffed correctly!
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Traditional, Guest room, 2 Queen, Balcony
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    My room wasn’t ready to check in, not properly staff, and room wasn’t 100%. The water they provided was opened from the previous guest.

    location

    Stayed in April 2023

  • Reviewed: September 27, 2022

    8.0
    Very Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Deluxe, Guest room, 2 Queen, Balcony
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    I don't understand why they have to charge $28 per day to self park my car! There is plenty of space on the entire property, just another way to gouge.

    Stayed in September 2022

  • Reviewed: August 5, 2022

    8.0
    I had a good time and could rest
    • Business trip
    • Couple
    • Traditional, Guest room, 1 King, Balcony
    • Stayed 13 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Room cleaning could happen more often, it was a bit noisy sometimes with kids running around at night. The door on the room was super heavy to open. 28/day parking seems expensive.

    Friendly staff, pool is very nice, room is big, location is ok

    Stayed in August 2022

  • Reviewed: June 6, 2022

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Traditional, Guest room, 1 King, Balcony
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    I was so surprised when the hotel staff initially told me that I had no booking under my name. It was frustrating since I booked through booking.com and I made sure I had my confirmation number and an email sent by booking.com. Apparently, booking.com wasn’t able to fulfill their role of booking my family a room. So we had to wait until someone could help us find a room. Another frustrating experience is not getting my request for an extra blanket, despite calling them the entire evening multiple times and being told that it was on the way to my room already. I called again when I woke up the following day and that was the only time they gave me a blanket which was useless since we needed the blanket during sleep and not when we were all off to Legoland.

    I commend one of the staff named Hunter who tried to give us a room despite not seeing any room booked under my name which was really frustrating since I got a booking confirmation through booking.com.

    Stayed in June 2022

  • Reviewed: May 31, 2022

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe, Guest room, 2 Queen, Balcony
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    I booked for queen beds and they gave my full beds

    Stayed in May 2022

  • Reviewed: December 24, 2024

    10
    Comfortable and clean
    • Business trip
    • Family with young children
    • Traditional, Guest room, 2 Queen, Balcony
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Very clean

    Stayed in December 2024

  • Reviewed: November 27, 2024

    2.0
    Rip-Off
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Traditional, Guest room, 2 Queen, Balcony
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    They charged my card $38.00 per day for parking but it says on their parking policy (Booking.com) that it's $28.00 per day. It was a complete rip-off

    Proximity to Legoland

    Stayed in November 2024

  • Reviewed: November 21, 2024

    3.0
    I would not stay in the resort again! Additional unexpected bill for self parking and resort fee.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Traditional, Guest room, 1 King, Balcony
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The staff never clean or made our bed or removed the garbage from our room.

    The closeness to Legoland and private entrance.

    Stayed in November 2024

  • Reviewed: September 19, 2024

    9.0
    Wonderful
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Ponto, Studio Suite
    • Stayed 3 nights

    Great for staying with kids. Walked to Legoland as hotel has a separate entrance to avoid crowds. Nice breakfast.

    Stayed in August 2024

  • Reviewed: July 17, 2024

    4.0
    Good location. Poor facility maintenance
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Ponto, Studio Suite
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Our toilet was broken for a whole morning and we had to call The front desk 4 seperate times to finally have someone come up. The elevator was also broken half of our stay.

    The location

    Stayed in July 2024

  • Reviewed: July 2, 2024

    10
    Wonderful hotel, good food and super fun water slide
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Traditional, Guest room, 2 Queen, Balcony
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    nothing

    large rooms nice pool

    Stayed in April 2024

  • Reviewed: March 16, 2024

    1.0
    yea I won’t stay here again
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Traditional, Guest room, 1 King, Balcony
    • Stayed 2 nights

    the first night the toilet backed up and the heat and air did not work so they gave us a portable heater, there was maitance working in the hall way with too and ladder and working on something the whole time now the worst was we wanted to stay another night because it was raining the day we were going to a outside event they advertise they match prices but they would not match price with booking so they charged for one night 259.00 resort fees again 59.00 parking per night 38.00 plus they made us change to a different room plus it was supposed to be one breakfast incl but they charged 76.00 for breakfast unbelievable oh yea he whole reason to stay here was because of heated pool it was very cold but beautiful

    I liked that it was very clean

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: November 30, 2023

    3.0
    Poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe, Guest room, 1 King, Balcony
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Horrible customer service

    Ok

    Stayed in November 2023

  • Reviewed: September 4, 2023

    10
    Overall this resort is beautiful and worth the stay
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Traditional, Guest room, 2 Queen, Balcony
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Room had a really bad odor like mildew carpet

    Exceptional customer service Beautiful resort

    Stayed in September 2023

  • Reviewed: August 24, 2023

    4.0
    Disappointing
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Ponto, Studio Suite
    • Stayed 5 nights

    We didn't enjoy the majority of the experience when at this hotel. The staff were very uninviting. No activities for kids other than a pool slide that closes early. Onsite restaurant was expensive and exotic for our taste. Coffee in our room was not replenished when cleanings were done. Bathroom was mediocre for a resort. TV channels were very limited especially for younger kids.

    The beds were comfortable and the facility was clean.

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 14, 2023

    5.0
    Fair
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe, Guest room, 1 King, Balcony
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    House keepers too loud when they clean and constantly yelling at each other in the hallway super early in the morning

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 9, 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Premium Ponto, Studio Suite, Coastline view
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Great staff. Johnny at check in was spectacular

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 3, 2023

    10
    Wonderful all of the staff were so amazing and loved the laid back feeling at the hotel.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Traditional, Guest room, 2 Queen, Balcony
    • Stayed 9 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Only strange part was at the Sheraton side of the resort you could not get coffee until 6:30 am but if you walked over to the Westin that’s attached you could get a coffee at 6 am. When you are coming from the east coast with the time difference - you need an early coffee!

    Johnny Johnny!! Since the moment we checked into the hotel he took such good care of us. Professional and would go out of his way to make sure we were happy. Made the experience over the 9 nights for my family smooth and enjoyable. Hope to see him when we return.

    Stayed in August 2023

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