Hotel Casa 425 + Lounge — Hotel in Claremont

The big, big advantage of Casa are that it is right in the Village so you can walk to restaurants, cafes, entertainment etc. You may want (though you don't strictly speaking NEED) a car to get to the schools, but you can park (for free) and forget it the rest of the time. The beds are extremely comfortable, the sheets nice, the room clean ,the hotel pretty and with a good vibe, the staff is lovely .All that is great. ||Here are some things that are less great. The rooms are form over function. The front wall is glass, looking onto the outdoor walkway and the beautiful courtyard. It's beautiful, however when you are in the room everyone walking by or across the courtyard in other rooms can see what you are doing at all times. You are fully on display unless you close the curtain in which case you have no natural light. So it's your choice--conduct your in-room life in public or in the semi-dark during the day. That is such a bummer. If only they would add sheer curtains to the front glass wall it would help a lot. Since the bathtub is also weirdly in the middle of the room (though you can pull a curtain across the tub for a bit of privacy) you are also potentially taking a bath in public, and even if not you are bathing more or less in front of anyone else in your room. Again, cute design, but not ideal in real life use. The rooms are huge, but the furniture doesn't take advantage of the space and there is no carpeting, which makes the space feel like a big cave (some have rugs, I looked in, but I think those are the pricier rooms). Plus, the music from the lounge sounds like it is right in your room so if you're in your room before nine pm in the evening it will be a loud soundtrack--they provide earplugs for a reason. The music was ok, but I didn't (and couldn't) choose it. Finally, the free breakfast looks good--eggs, bagels, sausage--but is absolutely inedible, really and truly awful, worse than chain hotels cookie-cutter breakfasts. Kind of shockingly bad. I mean, saueeze bottles of smuckers and Jif? That's not really my expectation at a hotel of this price point or quality.||Oh, one more thing: both my husband and I found certain web sites were weirdly blocked. Not even controversial ones. I was trying to look up something about United Airlines fares on reddit and could not get onto the site at all. He wanted to watch a Sex Pistols video on YouTube and it was blocked. Why!?!?||So overall, would I stay again? Probably yes, becuase of the convenience and the overall atmosphere. Being right in town really and truly does enhance your quality of stay in Claremont. But only if the prices were competitive, since they go up and down depending on what's going on at the colleges (as in: graduation weekend? FORGET IT!). If there was a significant difference in cost, I'd just stay at the Doubletree which is fine--it's a Doubletree, no better, no worse--and drive more. Also the Doubletree is near Rev'd Up Coffee which is a fun place for coffee and a...

The big, big advantage of Casa are that it is right in the Village so you can walk to restaurants, cafes, entertainment etc. You may want (though you don't strictly speaking NEED) a car to get to the schools, but you can park (for free) and forget it the rest of the time. The beds are extremely comfortable, the sheets nice, the room clean ,the hotel pretty and with a good vibe, the staff is lovely .All that is great. ||Here are some things that are less great. The rooms are form over function. The front wall is glass, looking onto the outdoor walkway and the beautiful courtyard. It's beautiful, however when you are in the room everyone walking by or across the courtyard in other rooms can see what you are doing at all times. You are fully on display unless you close the curtain in which case you have no natural light. So it's your choice--conduct your in-room life in public or in the semi-dark during the day. That is such a bummer. If only they would add sheer curtains to the front glass wall it would help a lot. Since the bathtub is also weirdly in the middle of the room (though you can pull a curtain across the tub for a bit of privacy) you are also potentially taking a bath in public, and even if not you are bathing more or less in front of anyone else in your room. Again, cute design, but not ideal in real life use. The rooms are huge, but the furniture doesn't take advantage of the space and there is no carpeting, which makes the space feel like a big cave (some have rugs, I looked in, but I think those are the pricier rooms). Plus, the music from the lounge sounds like it is right in your room so if you're in your room before nine pm in the evening it will be a loud soundtrack--they provide earplugs for a reason. The music was ok, but I didn't (and couldn't) choose it. Finally, the free breakfast looks good--eggs, bagels, sausage--but is absolutely inedible, really and truly awful, worse than chain hotels cookie-cutter breakfasts. Kind of shockingly bad. I mean, saueeze bottles of smuckers and Jif? That's not really my expectation at a hotel of this price point or quality.||Oh, one more thing: both my husband and I found certain web sites were weirdly blocked. Not even controversial ones. I was trying to look up something about United Airlines fares on reddit and could not get onto the site at all. He wanted to watch a Sex Pistols video on YouTube and it was blocked. Why!?!?||So overall, would I stay again? Probably yes, becuase of the convenience and the overall atmosphere. Being right in town really and truly does enhance your quality of stay in Claremont. But only if the prices were competitive, since they go up and down depending on what's going on at the colleges (as in: graduation weekend? FORGET IT!). If there was a significant difference in cost, I'd just stay at the Doubletree which is fine--it's a Doubletree, no better, no worse--and drive more. Also the Doubletree is near Rev'd Up Coffee which is a fun place for coffee and a...

As soon as our daughter accepted to attend Scripps College (May 2024) ,my husband booked this hotel for Family weekend ( Feb 2025) because it is located in the center of town and supposedly very nice accommodations. Due to the college events happening this weekend, online booking wasn't available. Reservations had to be booked over the phone and paid for up front. He requested a room with 2 queen beds. Apparently those were already taken so the person taking reservations suggested a King with a twin on the courtyard level.|Fast forward to last weekend... we( my husband, younger daughter and I ) arrived at 11:30 pm Friday night, tired after a long travel day from the east coast, to find the room had a king bed and no twin or room for a twin, floor to ceiling doors and windows were the only access into the room and it was literally in the courtyard, and it was an ADA room that also happened to be in very worn shape and very basic old exposed shelving. What the reservation person neglected to explain over the phone was that the twin was a pull out couch and that courtyard level meant the bar and fire pit seating right outside the room with music going until 11pm. The little loveseat that opened up to the twin bed was an incredibly uncomfortable thin mattress that you could actually feel the coils. The room was so small we had to move the desk to open up the bed then to get around the room we had to crawl over the cot or bed. |It was VERY clear to us that even reserving 9 months before meant nothing to them to set aside an appropriate room. Being a late night arrival meant getting the absolute worst room left in the hotel ( for over $500/night. we booked for 3 nights) |The people working the front desk were kind but their hands were tied. There wasn't anything they could do. |The manager ( Christine) was off the for weekend but communicated with us THROUGH the front desk person. Never reached out to us directly the entire weekend. The only thing Christine offered us ,since they were fully booked, was a refund for saturday and sunday night if we wanted to find a different hotel to stay. Oh- and we had to check out by noon ( so drop the events at the school to find a hotel and check out on their timeframe). No refund or discount offered for Friday night since we were only in the room for less than 12 hours! no discount on the room for the rest of the weekend. Not even a small courtesy acknowledgement of a drink voucher at the bar. Absolutely nothing. Moving hotels was not an option for us. Nothing close by had availability. By the way, on Sunday we saw a group checking in so they could have given us a better room at least for Sunday night. || The location of the hotel to the campus and in the center of the village of Claremont is ideal, but turns out that is the only redeeming quality of Hotel Casa 425. |Shame, this place would have been our go to hotel for the...