Name: Islands Inn
Address: 3401 Commercial Avenue, Anacortes, WA 98221, United States of America, Anacortes, Anacortes, Anacortes, WA 98221, United States of America
Rating: 7

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It was a few years ago, but I will never forget the kindness of the owner (Dutch lady) who found my daughter's beloved teddy bear, Sara, and shipped her to us, replete with hair holes. But the motel itself for our family was, as many ssy, clean and basic. Nice pool facility. Great nearby running in woods, down to bridge across sound. But the real feature is the great fresh baked little individual bread with the Dutch breakfast. I love this place. I'd heard the owner moved on, but I hope they've kept her character - and bread!

Wonderful

Stayed a couple nights. Enjoyed the hot tub one night, and met some people from out of state. The breakfast was very minimal, but we did eat hard boiled egg for some early morning protein. The staff were all very friendly.

Anacortes trip

My husband and I stayed at the Islands Inn in Anacortes, Washington, for one night in July, during a sectional bridge tournament. We had stayed here for the first time several years ago. The area around the entry door to our room was clean and presentable, an improvement from our previous stay.
	Our room was spacious and comfortable, with reliable free wifi, a clean bathroom, microwave, mini-fridge, and nice flat screen TV. The refrigerator door did not scrape the carpet as it had on our previous visit, and there was no problem with the light fixtures, as there was on our first visit. There was a corner fireplace that would be very nice during the winter months. The breakfast room was attractive, and offered the usual continental assortment of cereal, toast, bagels, fruit, yogurt and hard-boiled eggs.  (No waffle maker)
	We had time to enjoy the swimming pool and hot tub, both at comfortable temperatures. Note: the guide rails into the pool and spa could be tightened. The Islands Inn is a nice place for a stopover, at a moderate price, and with helpful, pleasant desk personnel.

Improved Since Our First Visit

Stayed there during the very busy weekend because of famous event in Anacortes.  Because of my guests, I wanted some pleasant stay, some nice room with a view and balcony, and pet friendly. Was a bit nervous because of some 1 stars reviews....
One of the reason I had chosen this hotel because it has the swimming pool and jacuzzi. In addition, it was reasonably priced. 

This is what we did not like: this is more like a motel feeling, not hotel. Very small and very DARK room with no table where you can sit all together and have some family dinner. 3 of us used a tiny side table to have some snacks. Not cool for sure. I requested a room with a view and balcony.  Hoping to sit with my family outside, see the sunset with a glass of wine. as we did at other hotels. Even though the room has a balcony (we stayed in room 218) we were not able to sit there to enjoy the view. No chairs there, no simply space, and only one stool in the room. Either we were not able to see view from the bed. The balcony was by a garbage downstairs, too. The sink was a bit clogged. Did not feel like a very fresh room.

Now about positive things! Front desk was very friendly and the process of check-in was very professional and quick. I reserved a room for two people with a dog, but came with 1 more person and no dog. They didn't charge a pet fee, and added only $5 for an extra person, and brought extra bed (that was very comfortable too) before we ever entered in our room. Offered us extra towels for a swimming pool, etc. The swimming pool and jacuzzi were the best part, and a must for us because we were extremely tired after super busy working day. The breakfast was also very nice with lots of options to eat. The room has a new laminate flooring. If you love all about mid century, you will like their fireplace...Parking is close by. Just on the corner of this hotel is very nice seafood restaurant.

Overall, my family did not regret stayed at this hotel. I will be back next year to same hotel.  Because of jacuzzi and swimming pool, and nice free breakfast.  But will chose a bigger room fr this price.Plus, I don't have much choices to chose from. When I was in Anacortes last year for same event and urgently needed to stay for one night, I had seen many on Commercial street by walk-in. Maybe some hotels looks newer, but they don't have a swimming pool and jacuzzi. For instance, good rated Marina Inn is not for me. Who cares about fitness room they have? I had a "fitness" all day long working at the event and need to rest my body relaxing in water and hot tub, not fitness. Plus, that hotel doesn't have any view. Some so called hotels were simply disgusting, and even though the room was only $45, I passed. I slept in a car instead of being in THAT room.;; yuck. And some were way overpriced like $270-370 per night, like a Majestic. In my personal opinion, Island Inn is one of the best options in Anacortes, if you have same preferences as me, might have a dog with you, and not too picky about details.

Good for a couple nights

Have never in 50+ years of travel experienced towels so thin, would have to double them for cheesecloth. Place gets lots of traffic noise commencing at 4:30 am.  Shower and sink fixtures also very poor quality and poorly maintained.
Also found that Expedia doesn't not tell the full story, many places they said were full weren't.  Suggest you call hotel directly !

Cheapo hotel..too expensive for what it is!

We booked based on pics on multiple sites. Upon arrival there was a homeless person in the vestibule area and the place was not at all as pictured. The pool was closed, dirty and chained. The desk guy advised where to park so we could be on cameras for extra  security. Wtf? There was a car with two flats parked there permanently it appeared and when when walked into the room we were hit with a smoke stench. The beds were filthy and sheets yellow. Do not go there.

Beware!! Roach motel

Filthy bedding, homeless folks in the parking lot, car with flat tires permanently parked there. This place should be closed down, false advertisement. Smoke filled room, moldy bathroom, no shame in advertising a clean nice place and no refunds when you realize it’s a roach motel. 

Do not stay here

Bed were the WORST!  I travel a lot  never found one worse than there’s. The room were flat dirty years of neglect dirty.  The grout in shower and on the floors were that moldy dirty black.  The carpet I’m guessing was original to the building.   Definitely not worth the price they are asking for these rooms.  We had 3 rooms. All 3 rooms were with different stuff.  Like one had a square mini fridge located in by the toilet(disgusting). One a standard mini and microwave yet the last one had only a mini fridge located under tv.  This hotel has only one thing going for it.  It’s the STAFF SUPER FRIENDLY! Helpful polite just plain nice.  Sorry to say we will never stay there again.

Take a pass on this one.

We were taking the ferry early the next morning. After a nice day in Anacortes we needed a clean place to sleep and then hit the road again. This hotel is older, The parking lot clearly had a car that had been there long enough for weeds to grow under the tires. The stairs up to the second level were not nice. It was hard to walk up and carry luggage. When we got to the room it was not too bad. For the most part it was clean enough. The sheets looked clean and the bathroom was clean but dated. It had a very tiny toilet. However, the couch by the door and near the bed was disgusting. There were layers of stains. For the price of the room I was expecting more. I would not sit on that couch. There was a fireplace in the room and that was cute (we did not use this). From the window there was a view of the water way in the distance. We hadn't planned to use it but the pool wasn't working.

Would not stay again

Oh my goodness.  We stayed here in the past and enjoyed, but no more.  This place has gone south.  Although the sign and website still advertise free breakfast, pool and hot tub, those have all been discontinued due to Covid.  High speed wifi is... not.  The outside is very run down. Our room was up two flights of stairs which were not well maintained and I almost slipped several times.  There was leftover takeout in the fridge, which we finally found - located in the bathroom.  The sheets were either put on sideways or the wrong size, because when I woke up for the seventh  time in an hour I was sleeping on a bare mattress.  Towels were tiny and cheesecloth would have been better.  The shower was nice and hot for two minutes, but when i finally squeezed out the half teaspoon of shampoo in the one packet they gave us, the water suddenly went completely cold.  The curtains were ripped.  The baseboard was pulled away from the bathroom walls.  If you want your one night to feel like a week, this place may be for you.  Otherwise, Run, don’t walk, to another motel.  Any motel.  Or sleep in your car.

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