Irvine Marriott — Hotel in Irvine

I am reviewing for a stay and for a wedding anniversary we hosted at Irvine Marriott.

Wedding Anniversary:

We, like many other couples, struggled with multiple postponed weddings and having to look for different venues. We had to completely change our whole wedding! New church and new venue. Thankfully, Irvine Marriott was able to accommodate us and we were so happy with how everything turned out!

We worked with Maxine Pingarron and Riley Salas. Maxine helped us book our date and connected us to Riley. We worked with Riley for the food, drinks, and coordination of our event. Riley was a GEM! She gave us reassurance prior to our event and helped the whole night flow so smoothly on the day of our event. She sent us some chocolate covered strawberries and champagne the night after our event. She was also available to us the day after our event in order to answer any questions and help us with anything else. We had no issues whatsoever!

Riley also helped us with a last minute reservation for our rehearsal dinner which we held on the pool deck near their grass area. It was a wonderful, casual event, just as we had wanted. Our guests had a wonderful time relaxing by the pool and enjoyed the food.

We rented the Catalina Ballroom which was detached from the hotel. This was wonderful to separate our guests from the hotel guests. There was a perfect outdoor area for our cocktail hour. The ballroom was beautiful and fit our 150 guests very comfortably. There are also private restrooms within the ballroom. We appreciated this so that our guests did not have to go to the main hotel lobby to use the restroom.

The waitstaff during our event was so professional and outstanding! Our guests had a HOOT at the bar and LOVED the food! We were able to request signature drinks to represent my husband and I. My husband had a whiskey mule for "his" drink and I had a berry mojito for my drink. Both were delightful! I am biased, but I definitely think my berry mojito was better 😉. Our tasting with the executive chef went so well prior to the event. It was a buffet, not a tasting! We loved it! We were so full from all of her delicious food. We decided on the dual salmon and short rib plate and our guests had nothing by great things to say after our event. Delicious!

Hotel Stay:

The hotel was very clean and what we expected. Our guests were all comfortable in their rooms and had no complaints.

We booked two suites that were much larger than we expected which was perfect for getting ready photos with our wedding party prior to our wedding anniversary.

The hotel has a pool, jacuzzi, gym, Starbucks, and restaurant. We were able to enjoy the Starbucks and restaurant but due to our busy schedule with our wedding events, we were not able to enjoy the other wonderful amenities. However, all the facilities looked clean and were accessible to all of the guests.

We loved the Irvine Marriott so much! We definitely recommend them for your next event and...

Hotel Review This hotel is sooo nice, clean modern rooms, excellent food, great services. All of the staff are so nice and they even had a cute pumpkin painting contest going on at the hotel while we were there. They have so much for people to do within the hotel; billiards, pool/hot tubs, lounge areas, indoor golf, Starbucks and a restaurant/bar. I am going to positively rave for the next several paragraphs but my one teeny gripe with the design was that the bathrooms inside the rooms all have "no-privacy" doors, stay with people you're comfortable hearing in the bathroom! lol

Event/Wedding Review I can not stress how perfect of a venue Irvine Marriott was for us. We will cherish every moment there and could not have asked for a more flexible group of people to work with.

This venue has both a cute ceremony area and reception halls. They are well equipped to throw events and still make you feel like you’re special. We received some very sweet gifts from the staff and felt at every moment that people were celebrating with us. 70% of our wedding was from out of town and they accommodated so many large group meals over the course of the week and family spilling into every corner of the hotel.

Maxine was a wonderful Sales Manager, she was very transparent about all costs involved and created a nice relationship with us to feel secure moving forward with the Marriott as our venue.

Loralie our Event Manager was incredible. Very communicative and helped us resolve just about a hundred problems over the course of our event. We felt so confident in the staff that Loralie worked with and everything went seamlessly.

The Executive Chef Martin created an Indian fusion menu that impressed every single one of our guests. We haven’t stopped hearing about how good the food was and “the best wedding food” they’d ever had. It set the tone for the evening and is an impressive display of his ability to learn a new cuisine, adapt it and teach others how to execute it.

We wanted some of the core features of the wedding to be handled by the venue; food, staffing, equipment, with the flexibility to customize, decorate and DIY some elements without it looking out of place. The Marriott was the perfect place for our wedding and we are so grateful for everyone who...

Our stay here was quite mixed, but overall, a good experience. I guess anywhere has it's pros and cons, but I think overall the pros outweighed the cons, and I'd stay here again if I couldn't find another location.

Checking in was easy enough, and the staff were very helpful in finding us a room we wanted with specific views. Right next to the check in is a cute tiny little "store" with essentials and drinks etc, so after a long flight, it was nice to go in there and get a drink while we waited to get our keys.

We get to the room and it was clean and had the two double beds we requested and the views we wanted. Everything seemed warm and inviting. The only things I would "complain" about during the course of our stay, was that the floors and side table grew a little dusty during the visit. Yes, the floors were washed, but seeing as there's no carpet in the rooms, they show up dust quickly and one of our tables was NOT washed/wiped and dust was very evident. They also make the beds with very ill fitting sheets that don't sit over the mattress entirely, and if you toss and turn a little, you'll wake up with no undersheet under you and that's kind of gross.

The hotel itself is reasonably priced, and in a good area as far as being in the middle of various things. You can't go out of the hotel on foot and find a lot of shops/restaurants in the immediate vicinity (though there are a few here and there). To us, the location was smack in the center of things like South Coast Plaza, Irvine Spectrum, Fashion Island, the beaches and various other towns that are nice to visit. They have a Starbucks on the property, though that seemed to be closed on the weekend which was a bit of a bummer, and they have their own bar/restaurant. The food there was nice enough, but with so many nearby places to drive to, it's not essential to have to eat there unless you want convenience. Valet is a bit overpriced, and that service was definitely hit or miss, but convenient too, nonetheless.

Overall, as I mentioned, I would stay here again. For the most part it's clean and inviting, and the staff were all friendly and helpful. Being a stone's throw from the 405 helps too, and makes it very...