The Lighthouse Inn

The lighthouse in is clean and comfortable for the price. Ask for a blow dryer at front desk as there isn’t one in the room. Staff was super friendly. Good place to stay for the money.

Good location. Walking distance to Old Town. Clean and allowed our pets for extra charge. The people running the front desk were a bit strange and lacked solid knowledge of what they were doing. We rented 2 rooms. One inside the main building and one on the putter side. My husband and brother in law were getting up early to go fishing. We were wondering what was holding up brother in law (who had the internal room)… He couldn’t get out. All of the doors were locked from the inside! WTF!
We, however could open the door from the outside. Seems a bit of a fire hazard to us.
Would not stay there again. If you arrive after 10 you can not check in and you are charged. Just a weird unaccomadating place.

Eek! Methinks not.
I start all places out with three stars (average), and then add or delete stars from there. I consider price and value, and the price for a room at The Lighthouse was very low, so I had low expectations for this place. That said, there are several key requirements that any lodging facility must meet: basic cleanliness, comfortable mattress for a good night’s sleep, working shower and bathroom fixtures, reasonable sense of safety, temperature control. If a place seriously fails at any of these, I’m likely to deduct stars.
We stayed in room 16, which is on the ground level, facing Hwy 101, and adjacent to Nature’s Corner Café (a separate business entity, not part of the motel). To say the room was shabby is an understatement. However, the room was reasonably clean, the mattress was more comfortable than expected, and road noise wasn’t too bad considering the location. The bathroom had a tiled shower stall; no tub, and that’s fine with me. The bathroom sink did not have a vanity around it, and the tiny 4 inch wide shelf above the sink was not even wide enough to set my hair dryer down, so I had to lay it inside the sink. (Motel does not supply hair dryers). The cheap, fake wood flooring was a welcome sight, since we could see that it was clean and not flea infested. There was no AC, and I couldn’t figure out how to turn on the overhead fan until the next morning. I would have slept with a window open, but that didn’t seem safe, given the ground floor location. The room had a barren appearance. See my pictures.
Considering the previous paragraph, I was planning on writing a two star review. But then it happened. About one minute into my shower, with my hair full of shampoo, the water turned from the temperature I had chosen to scalding HOT! I fiddled with the faucets, but the water stayed hot. Then, it suddenly turned icy COLD. This happened several times. It was the fastest shower ever, because I made it my goal to get my hair rinsed as quickly as possible and leave. My husband took his shower earlier and the same thing happened to him. We speculated that the room shares a hot water heater with other rooms, and being last in line, room 16’s water changes temperature when occupants of other rooms sharing the same plumbing line turn their water on or off. One star! :(
Other comments: Wi-​Fi worked well. Breakfast was not included, but we knew that when we booked the room. You have to fill your ice bucket before 9 p.m., when the lobby closes. There was not a fridge or microwave in room 16.

Stayed in this hotel/​motel last weekend. The lady «Jennifer» at the reception was courteous, polite & made multiple follow ups when we were getting delayed for our check in. She suggested multiple options & gave suggestions to roam around in Florence.
We booked the family suite. The rooms were pretty big, spacious & clean. The flooring was a little old but it appeared well maintained & was worth the price we paid for it.

Our room smelled musty and was in very poor condition. We didn’t put any of our things on the bed — we actually kept them on our bikes because we were weary of the room to begin with. My husband was then bit by something in the night and we awoke to take the sheets off the bed and found two bed bugs. We were refunded money. Awful experience. Went to laundry mat down the street and washed and dried all of our belongings and are headed to bike another 200 miles. We just wanted one night of peace and cleanliness in weeks of camping but in retrospect would rather have camped.

Dingy. Old. Noisy. Weird smells. They weren’t in the office when we tried to check out at 9am. Extremely overpriced, especially during the off season. Not going back

Decent place to stop for a night while driving down the coast. Very cheap motel and yup you get what you pay for which is not much. Tacky décor, our room was a poker theme… Noise wasn’t bad except for some weird fog horn noise that happened a couple of times, I think it was something to do with the bathroom in the room above me. There’s a window in the shower which is weird and the shower head is very low… Like I’m 5’3 and I had to bend down to get under it. Good amount of parking, wifi worked fine for me, and staff was friendly even when we checked in at 9pm.
If your travelling on a budget it’s not bad.

Cute & cozy old school style ! The bed was quite comply … Had 2 doors one for the inside & one for the outside ! So you have the option ! Lots of wood in the lobby it’s like in the 50’s so cool !

Like everyone else that Unilocaled this place, in short, it’s old, but clean and cozy. It was one of the cheaper options in Florence for the weekend, so we booked it. We both commented on how surprisingly homey the room was. If you want to stay somewhere and feel like your chillin’ at your great-​grandma Ruth’s, this is it.

My husband found this place while we were in Roseburg and called for reservation the night before. We wanted a room with a fridge, but they were all booked for that room. We have a dog, so we are limited to dog friendly rooms.
The room is small, but big enough for us. Dog friendly rooms don’t seem to get updated at most motels… So the carpet seems a bit old.
But people are friendly and it’s close to the old town.
Cozy and fun front lobby.
$ 10/​dog/​night. It’s nice to have a café/​health food store right next to it.

This is a great place! Clean and cozy, with lots of books, videos, and board games to borrow, and a friendly staff. Also? Hand-​quilted bedspreads. It’s quirky and unique, and much more fun than some cookie-​cutter chain motel with sealed-​shut windows and generic art on the walls. It’s also conveniently located to, well, everything.

We picked this place on a last second trip. It is well kept, ran by a family that lives there, and is safe and clean. Not a Four Seasons Resort but for the price it is nice and close to the historic waterfront. I would stay again. They also have books, games like Trivial Pursuit, and ice machine. For the price it is a great value.

I loved this hotel, our most fun hotel on the Oregon trip. Entrance super cozy with free games, (fake) fireplace, jigsaw puzzles, etc. Owner super nice, gave us free tea, rooms cheap and clean. Basically, I really don’t care for the amenities, but I demand cleanliness and usually this means getting a cheap soul-​less chain motel — here we got a lot of character and a good night sleep for very good value. Warmly recommended!

Lowest priced around, great lobby but that’s the end of my positive feelings. Dated, worn out. Hot water ran out. In fact the water went from warm to cold in the shower. For only $ 13 more a night we moved to a other hotel and it was total luxury. We won’t stay here again.

My boyfriend and I pulled into the parking lot of this hotel and I immediately asked if he wanted to drive around and look for someplace else.
Don’t let the exterior fool you, this place is decent. The lounge area inside is very nice and cozy. Our room was clean and nice enough. The bathroom was spacious. It is within walking distance from downtown. I would stay here again.

What a nice place! We were offered the ‘honeymoon suite’, which turned out to be upstairs, with a large living area, large bedroom and bathroom. Very clean, comfortable and quiet. We were very pleased with the room and the price. Old Town is within walking distance.

They went out of their way to make sure we were comfortable. This building is OLD but it is very clean. This place defiantly is not run by a corporation and the employees seem to be happy. The folks who manage and work here are very nice and made us feel like we were part of their family and are providing us a room (except they made us pay for it). I have stayed in some very nice motels that had more features but this is my favorite.

Hey, would you like to borrow some videos casettes to play in your VCR? If so, you can find those at no charge in the lobby. Here’s the key (metal key on ring) to your room because plastic key cards are for tools. Don’t forget to push aside that large curtain which separates the stairs from the upstairs hallway which has an immediate incline which will most certainly kill any elderly person who made it up the stairs in the first place.
Straight outa not this decade but that’s three stars A-​OK. It’s groovy because the room is clean, the bathroom is clean, the window looks out over a lovely scene of highway 101 BUT we can see our car parked in the lot which is always a plus when you’re lugging around a ton of roadtrip gear.
We were sold a ‘deluxe’ king room which means it’s on the back side of the hotel (away from the highway) and comes with a refrigerator and microwave — deluxe gets new meaning here — but received a standard with none of the above. Gonna go talk to the lady at the desk but I’m not upset because I learned that there’s a refrigerator and microve in the telephone room (yes) where the coffee/​tea/​cider is served in the morning. Definitely going to hit that free coffee up and sit in the lobby by the fireplace and check out their bookshelf. Can’t wait.
So yes, the place deserves three stars but I’m bumping it to four because I like quirky old-​fashioned wierdness and mistakes which are easily rectified. Oh, and the wifi is super quick which is extra bonus points and makes up for the lack of AAA rates.

This place is cute, has a great staff and the wifi is reliable. If you go here, check out waterfront depot for dinner.

This is a great place! The entrance room is big, warm, and welcoming; they had a fire roaring. Our room had a twin bed for our son and a queen for us, both of which were super comfortable and warm and clean.
The staff was incredibly sweet and friendly, too.
There’s no breakfast, but they do put out coffee, hot chocolate, and hot cider, which was lovely.
The internet was easy and fast, too.
I really loved this place — the warmth and charm seeped through into my bones, and I slept really well and woke happily.