Bar Harbor Regency

We were so happy with our stay here. I booked an ocean view room last minute and was skeptical due to it being a holiday inn. Surely the pictures on the web site are making it look better than it really is. False! What a beautiful property. We had such a great stay and no complaints, although I will list a few cons given some of the other reviews did point them out too:
Pros:
Right on the water with amazing views
Two on site restaurants (one Italian one lobster shack)
Awesome breakfast buffet
Beautiful and very clean pool and hot tub
Friendly and knowledgable staff
Nice walk to downtown
Large property with lots of areas set up for viewing
Very nice tennis courts
Free bus to downtown and other areas
Tiki bar by the pool with great food/​drinks
Cons:
There was no elevator in the building we stayed in, but it’s only 3 floors so didn’t make a difference to us other than slightly inconvenient when we had to pack up the car.
Wifi didn’t work. Could’ve cared less personally but some of the reviews here knocked them for it.
Also check out Jack Russell’s across the street for a great meal!

When you see it’s affiliated with Holiday Inn, you think bad things– room key operated elevators, small rooms, small beds, low quality TV, and a cheap breakfast buffet. But, when you arrive, it becomes clear it is not a Holiday Inn at all. The elevators are like the Great Glass Elevator from Willy Wonka with a clear glass back wall. The pool has a beautiful oceanside view, usually heated to 85 degrees, and has a Tiki Bar that will serve drinks and food from Stewman’s Lobster Pound. Your room is complete with a balcony and great beds. The staff are really nice. And the breakfast? A gourmet buffet with delicious Blueberry Muffins made right in-​house. The hotel has 2 restaurants, La Bella Vita Trattoria, and Stewman’s Oceanfront Lobster Pound, that started out on the premises and are both now running successful locations in downtown Bar Harbor. La Bella Vita has delicious pizza with an open air seating area with an Oceanside view. Stewman’s Lobster Pound also has an Oceanside View and serves fresh catches that come in straight from a fishing boat that arrives on a dock that is part of the restaurants. The dock is great also. You can walk straight down it and do some great sightseeing, or for me, birdwatching. There is a bus that runs out of the hotel for free to the Town Greens as part of the Acadia National Park «Island Explorer» transit system.

Extremely happy with our stay at the bar harbor regency. You really feel like you are taken care of. The staff was great, helpful and friendly. The property is well taken care of with beautiful ocean view rooms. The restaurant for dinner and breakfast were very good as well. Having a bus service that went right into town made things very convenient. I know my family will definitely be coming back.

Some background: I spend on average half the month in hotels, different ones each night.
No complimentary breakfast, no complimentary coffee, no internet (broken and there seems to be no plans to fix it, at least there was no urgency from the front desk) no food within walking distance except for the overpriced restaurants for the quality of food (~$ 13 – 16 range on the cheaper side).
Phones don’t work.
The carpets (at least in my room) smell heavily of cleaning products causing me to wake up with a splitting headache on a mattress I would estimate is about 20 years old.
To give you an idea of how much soap is still in the carpets, I can slide on them.
In my shoes.
I can slide on the carpet in my shoes.
Ended up paying $ 2 for the «barista» to pump «coffee» out of a thermos for breakfast. Luckily I carry some emergency snacks in the case of hotel experiences like these.
In the end, I would have rather stayed at a no-​name motel. At least they’re up front about what you’re going to experience.

We stayed at this hotel for 3 nights on our honeymoon… We booked an ocean view and called a week ahead of time to make sure we had a nice room for our trip, to ask about the restaurants, and to alert the hotel that we would be arriving late (since our families had ordered some treats to be delivered to our room upon our arrival). We were assured that we «would have a perfect view for our honeymoon», that «2 of the 3 restaurants would be open» and that «our late arrival would be noted». None of these things were true… We were placed in a 2^nd floor room where the view was blocked by the Proctor wing (the wing of the hotel with the best ocean views), only 1 of the 3 restaurants were actually open, and the treats ordered by our families had obviously been placed in the room and left to sit and spoil all day until our arrival around 8:00 pm. The front desk was extremely uninterested in their mess up and simply said «I don’t know who you spoke to, there are no notes under your name stating that you called to make any requests»… When I asked about the closed coffee shop, they said «the italian restaurant has coffee», and when I went to get coffee at the Italian restaurant they said «we don’t have the same coffee that the coffee shop has» and «the front desk shouldn’t sell this hotel as a package with 3 restaurants because the other ones are rarely open». Overall this hotel is nothing more than your average Holiday Inn. Maybe at one time it could have been called a resort but with the current management and lack of the advertised amenities, you might as well stay at a local motel instead.

Very Nice. Very Clean. Very Quiet. With Great view of the harbor. On Harbor. Easy access to Acadia National Park. You can sit in hot tub or pool and watch the boats and harbor. We were very happy nice pool and hot tub. We each had one drink at the bar reasonable prices. No complaints at all. On site laundry services and Close to (Activities, Boat tours, Acadia National Park, McKay’s Public House Restaurant. etc)

We had an amazing stay here. The staff was very friendly and helpful. The hotel has two restaurants and a tiki bar with lighter fare. They have a large pool near the tiki bar overlooking the ocean. There is also a free shuttle bus that will pick you up right in front of the hotel and take you into Bar Harbor. You can take other shuttles when you get into Bar Harbor that will take you to other parts of the area, including Acadia National Park. Because of all of this, we parked our car when we arrived and never had to drive anywhere.
Our room was beautiful and very comfortable. We had a king sized bed, mini fridge, safe, a table and chairs, one large chair, flat screen T.V. with many channel options and the bathroom was fully stocked with everything you could need. Everything was clean and very comfortable.
We dined at La Bella Vita Ristorante twice and had wonderful meals both times. The bartender made an amazing hurricane. I had ordered one at the Tiki Bar one night and it was really bad, all mix very little rum. I felt sick before I finished it. We never got to try Stewman’s Lobster Pound.
We will definitely be coming back here to stay on our next vacation to Bar Harbor.

Stayed for six nights, and had a great stay.
However, the only complaint was the indifferent and sometimes rude service from the baristas at the coffee/​café in the main building. Each morning I went there for my group, I experienced young staff who were disinterested and seemed put out by any request by hotel guests. In fact, one day the barista closed the café early (because he had opened at 6:30 am) and felt that he could close down at 11 am. When guests began to line up at 11 am, he was forced to come back and made it known to all that guests should not have been served. It seems small, but every day we had a horrible experience in this café, and this put a negative spin on our stay. The hotel should consider either a huge attitude adjustment of this barista staff, or leaving complimentary coffee for guests. It should not be such a hassle to get coffee in the morning, or to be served basic requests. If there were a 7 – 11 nearby, I would have walked over to that, but we had no other choice but to endure the daily horrible service and attitude.
Otherwise, a great place with good staff everywhere else!

I was very pleased with our stay at The Holiday Inn Bar Harbor Regency. It was not fancy but very clean and service was friendly. The location was less than 3 minutes down the road from Acadia National Park, and also within a very short drive to many restaurants.
The grounds are ocean front (although it is not a ‘beach’). We had breakfast overlooking the ocean.
I’d definitely book this one again.

Schöné Zimmer, zum Teil mit Blick aufs Meer. Preise ab 150 $. Frühstück für amerikanische Verhältnisse okay, aber nicht europäischer Standard in der Hotelklasse für europäische Verhältnisse. Personal sehr zuvorkommend. Der Hit ist die Anlage mit Pool und Jakuzi. Bar Harbor ist nicht weit weg. Und der unweite Nationalpark ist traumhaft.

Sehr schönes und komfortables Urlaubshotel in perfekter Lage, direkt am Atlantik. Das Hotel hat bequeme und gut ausgestattete Zimmer. Es ist wie in den USA üblich seine Wäsche im Hotel selber zu waschen, was gerade bei einem längeren Urlaub unheimlich Geld spart.
Das Hotel wird überwiegend von Amerikanern genutzt.
Das Hotel ist halbkreisförmig um den Pool mit Meerblick gebaut. Neben dem Restaurant gibt es noch eine Strandbar.
Das Frühstück ist typisch amerikanisch Vielfälltig und von sehr guter Qulität, alles ist frisch.
Das Personal ist perfekt geschult und sehr freundlich.
Vom Hotel zum Ort ist es nicht weit, von hier starten «Whale watching» Touren.
Der Ort Bar Harbor grenzt an den Acadia Nationalpark.
Noch ein kleiner Tipp: Wer nicht reserviert hat, sollte einfach mal über den Preis verhandeln, mit ein bisschen Geschick kann man sehr viel Geld sparen (ca. 60%).