The Shoal Hotel La Jolla Beach

Everything was amazing, like always.We choose this hotel for our yearly family trip))For the third time already!!! Breakfast caffees on the side and 2' minutes walking to the ocean with amazing views! Clean warm pool and jacuzzi 🫶

Location was amazing! Close walk to the ocean (coastal trail). The small business on the corner has delicious iced coffee, smoothies & breakfast sandwiches!

Location was excellent. A short walk to Windansea Beach. Handy for us to walk the 1.7 miles to La Jolla Cove and village. Ice machine handy. Fridge in room. Quiet pool and hot tub.

The room was super clean and the location was great!

The location was convenient, nice atmosphere, we liked the pool, it was clean and the staff was helpful and friendly.

We liked the rooms, they had good towels, just noticed when I showered that there was hardly any soap and in the room one of the lamps didn’t turn on. Besides of that everything else was great! Thank you.

Location and staff

I just floated in a pool under the stars next to the Pacific Ocean. I LOVE this place!

When you wake up in the morning, you're steps from a fresh cup of coffee and even better, Windansea Beach!

No, that's not a typo, that's what the locals call it. "Windansea"

The staff are unbelievably kind, courteous, and accommodating. Grey and Tony are the two I may recommend personally for FIVE STAR SERVICE and beyond!

The rooms are clean, calm, and welcoming. (I specifically love this big, comfy bed, the tile in the shower, and the teal accent colors.) Everything you need is here, and if not, the staff will find it for you (I presume, since everything I needed was already here and I haven't had to call or walk out to the front desk for a single thing since I arrived!).

For further context, my Dad just died and while you don't need to know my entire life story, I was born and raised in this town and I will be 50 next month. When we got the awful news, we rushed "home" during peak Del Mar race season and there weren't any rooms available anywhere.

My husband and I were just like, whatever, we need a place to stay, and if we have to spend more money than we've ever spent anywhere, just to "get home", then let's suck it up and do it. This is a family emergency.

I got FLEAS at The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe ($900)! The "bold look of Kohler" at the Torrey Pines Hilton ($795) meant the sink didn't drain and nor did the shower!

So, while The Shoals may have once been dismissed as "The Travelodge" when I was a kid -- the place for a weary traveler to rest their head for a night -- it's now been entirely renovated, and remains a place for a weary traveler to rest their head. And this very weary traveler needed it so much!

The shower is WAY better than the fancy Torrey Pines Hilton, which doesn't drain properly, or where they run sprinklers all night long for the golf course and I slipped and went down HARD trying to take my dog out in the morning, when they tout themselves as 5-star and "eco" and "pet-friendly.

Again, I grew up in La Jolla. I deliberately went to college 3,000 miles away to get away from the people here and nonsense like being charged $900 a night for a place that's inadequate.

So, take it from a local, who's about to catch the swell coming in down the street at the beach in the morning -- -it's going to be an awesome morning of body surfing -- and even if it weren't, this place has given me a sense of calm amongst the storm. And for that I am truely grateful.

Again, you don't need to know my entire life story, but take it from a local who's had eyes on "La Jolla" for her entire life. Don't bother with anywhere else. This is the best!

My only wish is that they had a pet-friendly option because I miss my dog right now.

Thanks again for the tremendous service. I believe I'd like to extend for as long as I possibly can.

Well situated in walking distance ti the beach. Simple but great hotel with super friendly staff .. nice and welcoming

Proximité plage , infrastructures correctes

Everything was fabulous! The staff, the room and the location.

Super nice staff. Great location. Very comfortable room with modern bathroom.

Location great near beach

Location

The property’s location was really close to the beach and walking distance from many great restaurants and retail stores. The staff really made me feel comfortable with communication through texts and quick response to any needs or concerns.

The staff was AMAZING and the Shoal was an exceptionally clean facility. Rooms were new and well designed. Location excellent. Walk to beach Windansea just 3 minute walk. We had our car but due to La Jolla being so crowded these days we Ubered to excellent La Jolla dining spots but returned to the calm of our gem of a hotel. Pool and spa so clean. And food (the best breakfast place) called Cafe Vahik is literally steps away from the Shoal. Only disappointment was TV reception. Wanted to watch the US play in World Cup. But no luck bc of their very much a lack of TV service. No Netflix, no movie channels etv. We had to watch on my computer. If I had not brought that it would have been trying to watch it on my iPhone.