We initially stayed at the OB Hotel in San Diego Labor Day Weekend 2006, our 15th anniversary weekend. We had seen it passing through the previous summer and thought it looked cool. While checking out that year we booked it for the following Labor Day weekend, we had fallen in love! Our stay last year was even better. This older but totally refurbished hotel is awesome, right on the beach and walking distance to everything. The rooms have been updated to high quality standards and the staff is like family. We hope to spend our anniversary there for years to come and highly recommend this beautiful destination to all. We sent friends there last year and they called us from thier room to thank us. They are hooked as well! You can't go wrong with The Ocean Beach Hotel!

Needs to get coffee machines in the rooms. New carpet would be nice. Great staff. Awesome views and location is fantastic. Great hotel for pets. Dog park close by. However, the homeless and drug peddlers on the boadwalk takes away from this hotel.

Ocean Beach Hotel was a great launching pad for me, my boyfriend, AND our dogs to enjoy OB. We actually enjoyed being AT the hotel too, thanks to the nice courtyard. We met friends and hung out in the courtyard under the sun more than once! Our room was on the corner at the beach, a fluke but probably the best room in the place. The hotel lets folks with dogs book rooms on the ground floor only, which is what I wanted anyway - that way the courtyard (sunny, teeming with blooming jasmine, comfy tables, fountains) and the ocean view were right there! The room was very nice- simple, but clean, comfortable, and with tiled floors to deal with the inevitable sand issue. We walked everywhere around OB for the four days we stayed- out the pier to relax, to music, beers, etc. I will definitely return to OB Hotel, and next time with my beach cruiser in tow! A note to dog owners, the beach across the road is not for dogs from 9-6, but Dog Beach is about five blocks away and HUGE. So there's plenty of places to exercise the pooches.

My only complaints were about a) the patio- which was potentially cute but currently boring-it needed some plants or something, and even the little fountain wasn't working; b) the bathroom needed some more towel racks and hooks, and c) the staff was at times less than responsive. A small example: we had our own coffee grounds and filters (we were on a road trip!) and all we needed was hot water for great coffee. When i asked about hot water, all I got was the blankest of stares. Luckily, there are great coffee shope all around, but it still boggled my mind that there was NO access to hot water in the lobby, though there was coffee (bad coffee, but still) offered in the lobby! At other times the staff was great, but it was a little inconsistent.

Overall though, it was a great hotel and that part of town is tons of fun- highly recommended!

We have stayed there multiple times and when you travel with dogs to the beach you don't expect the Ritz or you don't have fun!
we love it here and so does Badgley, our Greyhound who loves to socialize at the hotel and at the beach. Highly recommended for the dog lover in you.