Paso Robles Inn

The venue is gorgeous, an old historic ballroom and a garden under an old oak tree for the ceremony and the food was good, we got many complements! They also had a cute welcome bag of snacks and flowers for us when we arrived. However, the staff lacks communication skills and it was extremely difficult to get answers or move forward with details. The event coordinator, Taffy, would respond quickly but only with half of the information or none of what we asked for or tell us that's not her job, ask a different staff member. She was very nice but not very helpful. Our food took an hour to come out after the salad and it was long enough to be a little awkward, luckily we had a photobooth inside of the ballroom for something to do while waiting. I have MANY examples of poor communication regarding every staff member we worked with, but the worst one was Taffy telling me 2 weeks before my wedding that she would be gone the week of my wedding and would be back when the ceremony started, (we had been working together for 18 or so months and never brought it up). It really showed when she came to me all wound up 3 times on my wedding day asking questions that should have been taken care of before I was getting my hair done and trying to handle my emotions without any added stress. I had a couple guests ask my mom who the lady running around crazy the whole time was which was not the vibe we were going for. I also asked the woman that was suppose to be the back up contact to add a chair to one of the reception tables the morning of the wedding, these things happen, and I got yelled at saying that they are not working my event until 4. Umm Im sorry but my wedding starts at 4:30 so I tried to give them plenty of time to add it and didnt demand that it be done at that second. I have worked at a retreat center as an event coordinator and would never snap at a guest like she did, especially a bride on her wedding day. Thankfully my other vendors that I hired were experienced and had worked at the Inn before and knew what to do and what to expect so many things were taken care of by them. If you book this beautiful location just know that you will have to put a lot of energy into figuring things out yourself and work hard to get answers to your questions.

We chose the Paso Robles Inn for our wedding ceremony and reception, and we're very glad we did! We live outside SLO County and about two hours from the venue, however, this was not an obstacle for planning the wedding. The Inn is extremely reasonably priced for the SLO County area when it comes to rental price, food price, and the level of service - these were the three main factors that lead to us choosing it as our venue. Plus, the garden is naturally beautiful - as is the ballroom - meaning little-to-no decor was needed to make it feel "wedding ready." We worked specifically with Taffy G as the venue coordinator. Taffy was friendly, extremely responsive to e-mails, and answered all of our questions. We went through the venue the day before the wedding, with all tables and chairs set up, to make sure that everything looked how we wanted it to. She was also present on the day of our wedding to oversee the event staff, and make sure things were running properly on that end. We would definitely consider the Inn for a future event, and highly recommend it to others.

We stayed at the Paso Robles Inn on our wedding night, and at least 15 families from our wedding stayed their too. Since we only stayed one night we didn't get to go to the cafe or bar, but the room was clean and we loved having a jacuzzi on our balcony. My husband called it "the stinky jacuzzi" because it is water from a natural hot spring, but it does wonders for your skin. The gardens in the center of the hotel were very pretty, and we loved listening to the frogs croak in the pond at night. The fireplace in our room was very romantic and it was very quiet at night.

My husband and I had our rehearsal dinner in their Matador Room. The food was good and the service was great. We also stayed at the inn the night of our wedding the room was great. It had a hot tube in the room that help us relax from the long day of wedding activities.