My wife and I used to live in Carmel-By-The-Sea and enjoy coming back several times a year. We especially like to bring our dog and enjoy the dog-friendly beach. Casa de Carmel fits our needs quite well and is pet friendly. We have stayed here several times over the years with our dogs. It is close to the beach and at the bottom of town. Casa de Carmel is not a 4 star place nor does it have that “Carmel charm”; it is more along the lines of a motel. However, the rooms are clean, fairly spacious, and reasonably priced. This is not the place for a special occasion, but for our dog’s vacation, it works just fine. He doesn’t really care about charm, just beach! We recently stayed two days and were pleased with the great rate, which included a bottle of Chateau Julien chardonnay wine. The rate includes a basic, but decent continental breakfast of hard-boiled egg, bread, yogurt, sweet roll, fresh fruit, and juice – all delivered to your room around 8:30 a.m. It can be a little noisy in the morning with traffic.

If you want more charm and quiet, their sister inn, the Monte Verde Inn, is across the street and offers various rooms which are pet friendly as well. They even have a one-bedroom condo with full kitchen and deck with a small ocean view.

So if you are looking for a good, clean, reasonably priced dog friendly place in Carmel, you might want to check out Casa de Carmel or the Monte Verde Inn.

Love the convienent location as others have mentioned, but our room, number 3, was very small and the bathroom was a very tight squeeze with no counter space at all for toiletries. It was the least expensive room so I guess we got what we paid for, but the bathroom needs paint and the comforter on the bed needs to be replaced as it is faded and had a small tear in it. Could be a charming room with just a little upkeep and somehow finding some counter space or a shelf in the bathroom. Did enjoy the complementary wine and sherry in our room!

Wonderful location to the village with all it's cafes, shops, bars & galleries.
Warm hospitality, very clean and tidy rooms with comfortable bed and nice extra touches in the room that were all complimentary, including breakfast basket to your room in the morning.
Very reasonable rate.
Pretty hard to fault, definitely recommend it.

When we first drove up our first reaction was "no, this is not the place that we want to stay" since this was clearly a 50's motel on a narrow lot with very limited parking, and the parking that was there requires considerable talent in backing up in order to get out. The room (unit 4, with a king size bed) was small but nicely upgraded. Quality hardwood floors, superior tile in the bath, a nice flat screen tv with plenty of channels (that bore no resemblence to the tv listings in the local paper), IKEA quality furnishings and all in all, quite nice. The reception persons (only one on duty at a time) were a delight and great to deal with. The evening wine and cookies were really good. The location, on the ocean side of downtown, was perfect. During the day the unit is noisy which made the nightime quiet more surprising. The king size bed could use a better mattress but it worked. The bath shower was one of the best that I have ever exerienced which made the slow water in the sink basin unexpected. The morning basket of the continental breakfast was quite good. The unit was clean and well maintained. All in all, we'd stay there again and recommend the unit as an affordable alternative to relatively high Carmel hotel costs.