Carmel Visitor Center (Suite 219A) — Attraction in Carmel-by-the-Sea

This review is not for the visitor center. It’s for this town. The visitor center staff was very tourists friendly.

We did not like Carmel by the sea at all - while several local businesses are good (restaurants like Anton and Mechel; mission bistro; Pangaea grill, Simon bull gallery; Carmel walk; bike tour with the bike shop and etc.), the majority of the local businesses (leading by the very arrogant & rude English bike shop which sells cheap intro level side cars (note, every employee other than the owner who pays minimum wage to all his employees is good!), big little boxes, most galleries, le petit pali hotel and etc) does not welcome or accommodate their customers. Local people are rude and hate tourists in general - especially the ones near the fairytale houses.

Most local gallery sales people are not artists or do not know arts enough. Funny enough that they think they are still better than their customers - which could be true as the tourists in the place are mostly loud and rude (take pictures in the middle of the road, scream nonstop, squat in the middle of a narrow alley)- definitely not our like minded people.

Lived in Georgetown (and still living in the most tourist friendly DC metro area - where our locals get fined for driving rudely around tourists) and had visited numerous tourist towns across the country, this place ranks at bottom on my list - if you have to visit, stay at tickle pink inn and do a day tour here would be your best bet. Otherwise, go Santa Barbara, Annapolis, key west, Duck at outerbank, or even the nearby Avila beach. Everywhere else welcomes tourist better! give back this arrogant and shallow place to the mean and uncivilized locals.

I would not recommend it to anyone! Stayed here for a week was the worst traveling decision in my life and I probably won’t be back at all. Do yourself a favor and...

Went in with a few questions. Each time I asked the reply was a question asked of me. First question was my nationality, which I gave the second was how long I was staying, which I gave again but the third question was where I was staying. Which I felt was very rude and inappropriate. That’s when I turned around and walked out. Happened today approximately 3:30 pm. When I walked in the 2ladies were sitting while conversing. Very disappointed with...

This is the premier spot for seeing a sunset in California. Parking is usually pretty limited but it's worth a short walk through the beautiful neighborhood near the beach. The beach itself is beautiful and trash free. You're allowed to have open containers of alchohol, as well as dogs without leashes. This is the PERFECT spot to take a date, lay a blanket down and open a bottle of local wine. When the sun starts to drop you'll...