Name: Coxhead House
Address: 37 E Santa Inez Ave, San Mateo, CA 94401, USA, San Mateo, San Mateo, San Mateo, 94401, United States of America
Rating: 6

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Mills Health Center - Sutter Health

The San Mateo Japanese Garden

Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia

San Francisco International Airport

San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

Mission Dolores Park

San Francisco Zoo

Orpheum Theater

Hayward Executive Airport

San Francisco Mint

Painted Ladies

Warfield Theater

Golden Gate Theatre

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Westfield Metreon

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Westfield San Francisco Center Shopping Mall

Yerba Buena Gardens

Flood Building

Union Square

Grace Cathedral

Cable Car Museum

Aquarium of the Bay

Pier 39

Palace of Fine Arts

San Jose Mineta International Airport

Livermore Municipal Airport

Reid-Hillview Airport

Buchanan Field Airport

Coxhead House

San Mateo

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Sometimes B&B 's can be so full of knick-knacks of the owners personal taste that you feel you're staying in a craft store or someone's own home. But this owner fills this inn with books, treasures, and history that make you fell warm and cozy and welcome, like you were back when the house was first built.  There was an attention to detail that you will really appreciate if you stay at B&Bs very often. I was in San Mateo on business, and left like I had just had a vacation.   Defintiely top of the line.

Top of the line B&B

I stayed in the Angel Porch room and the "detached bathroom" described on the website requires you to walk through the living room and the kitchen which is extremely inconvenient. There was a fly buzzing around all night and when I woke up there was a spider on my suitcase. The bed cover and pillows looked old and dusty. I could have excused the bathroom walk but the insect and feeling that it wasn't clean was unacceptable.

Disaster

Although I had requested an early check in time due to my Japanese friend flying in from Tokyo that day, when we arrived at 3:45 p.m. we were told it would be 1 hour wait for our room. Finally, when were were shown our room, there was only 1 bed, although I had requested 2 beds. More waiting for a roll-away bed. 

There was only 1 glass in the bathroom, so we borrowed a wine glass from the bedroom. There were no comfortable chairs - only 2 uncomfortable dining room chairs. The fireplace was ugly and full of ashes.  The linens were shabby. There was a dried bloodstain on my pillowcase. The towels were OK and plentiful but mismatched. The bathroom shower curtain was plastic and chintzy looking.

The "full" breakfast was a joke: Lukewarm coffee in a carafe; fresh fruit (ok) - juice (ok) followed by 3 TINY  oat cakes - about 3" x 3" and dry as dust. Syrup was offered. No butter, no jam on table.  We choked it down and fled - and made arrangments to eat breakfast elsewhere for 2 next days.

There is a lawn and garden in the front, but you can't hang out there because there are no chairs or benches. In back, there is a table and chairs but there is so much junk around (owners' belongings?) that we didn't want to sit there.

The owners did not seem very friendly to us; when they did speak briefly to us, it was only about their adult children. When we departed after 3 days, we were not thanked  or wished well, and the owner did not offer to carry our bags to the curb where we were being picked up for our trip to the airport.

I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE. For $220/night not counting $79/night tax, I expected a nicer place.

MAJOR DISSAPPOINTMENT

We thought this bed and breakfast was very sweet and conveniently locatated to  downtown San Mateo and Burlingame and all the shopping and restaurants in the area.  
We had the Angel room and we knew that the bathroom would not be located in the room but it turned out to be on the other side of the house, but we were ok with that. The only issue we had was the breakfast was very light, what was there was good but it was not really filing.  We were out for a splurge and we were hungry just a little while after becuase there wasn't much there.

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