The staff, the rooms, the view...everything was INCREDIBLE!!!! Wonderful location. I needed peace and quiet, and I found it here. Cleanest hotel I have ever stayed in and I have stayed in 100+.

We just got back from a couple of nights at the Beach House. The location is fabulous. Right on the beach, easy to walk to local places to eat. We picked the hotel as they advertised their rooms as suites and we were going with our kids and always like to have a separate room. The rooms are advertised as separate living space with a hide-a-bed. When we entered our room, it was one large room with a three foot wall separating the bed from the sitting area, not what we expected. We called the front desk and asked if all the rooms were the same and told they were. We were disappointed but decided to make the best of it.

Our kids did enjoy the heated pool and large hot tub and walking on the beach and looking for shells. The balcony was also very nice, although not very private. Our view of the harbor from our partial view room was great. The room was clean and well decorated.

If we were going back to Half Moon Bay and it was just my wife and I we would stay here again. If we went with our kids and wanted a suite, this would not be the place for us.

I stayed again at The Beach House for two nights while visiting relatives in San Mateo, which is less than a twenty minuet drive and a world away from the crowded SF peninsula.

The hotel is upscale but not luxury, very clean and quiet, friendly staff. Rooms have a step-down living room with fireplace, nice furnishings. Towels and linens are not top quality but better than the average motel kind! Complimentary breakfast is served in the lobby and consists mostly of breads/muffins and fresh fruit along with coffee, milk and juice.

Parking is free (and easy). I'll definitely stay here again!

When my bf and I were visiting my family who mostly live in and around Bay Area as well as in and around San Jose, CA, we came across this ideally and quiet located hotel. We had booked a room at another hotel of which I don't even want to mention its name and where upon arrival the hotel appeared to had given away our room while I'd booked and prepayed the room far in advance. We decided to cancel the reservation and look around for another hotel. We checked out some hotels all the way between Pacificia and Half Moon Bay but none of the hotels could help us, they were either fully booked or didn't seem satisfactory, one of them was even so spooky that I had to run away as fast as I could remembering a horror movie!

Being tired of a long direct flight from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to San Francisco, driving around for at least an hour and being in the midst of the night, we arrived at Beach House Hotel and asked for help. The staff was so friendly that we immediately felt at home and surprisingly enough they had rooms available, but soon we came to discover that the price of a room was a bit beyond our budget but when we decided to leave the hotel and look further, the receptionist called her manager, explained the situation and we were happily surprised that they will offer us discount on the room price. Surely we accepted their offer and the hotel is such a quiet and pleasant place for a (long) stay, especially given the fact all rooms offer acces to a balcony or a view, free parking, a kitchenette, a living room and most importantly and surely the big bonus, the staff was so friendly, the rooms were oh so clean, the surrounding area so beautiful and accesibility to major cities as well as villages with fresh fruits and veggi's, good food and shopping if necessary so rich and vast that we stayed there for a whole week and felt like being at home.

If you look for a hotel that offers you peace, serenity and all the space you need, but would like to have your freedom and go on a adventure and explore, do like both fast food as well as fancy food, then this hotel is the place to stay!

If you rather choose to have a hotel with restaurant and other facilities like major hotels, then this hotel can not answer your questions as it distinguishes itself with its pure and personal attention to the each one of the guests only and not to the en mass demand!

I loved it, I still love and cherish that hotel as part of my home and surely in each and any of my next trips, a few nights stay at this hotel, is listed atop of my wish list!

Charlotte J. Najafi
the Netherlands/Europe