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Reviews of La Pensione Hotel

3 out of 5
La Pensione Hotel
606 West Date Street, San Diego, CA

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 916 out of 1613 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 413 out of 1613 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 161 out of 1613 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 72 out of 1613 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 51 out of 1613 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

7.8/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Dawn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Staff were very friendly and very helpful. Rooms were very small but we literally just slept and showered so we were fine. We would want a larger room if we stayed longer
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Mavy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
All members working at the front desk were very kind, professional and accommodating. This is my second time in San Diego, and each time I've stayed at this hotel because of its amazing location in the heart of Little Italy and its comfortable bed and cozy room. I couldn't be happier to have found this little gem years ago.

10/10 Excellent

Sarah, Lake Mary

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
It was right in Little Italy and very convenient to walk to the waterfront. Saturday they have the farmers market. Ashley at the front desk was very nice and helpful.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

David

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
No need to drive anywhere Hotel is smack in the middle of Little Italy
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Shauna

Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Rooms are a little small and parking a bit tight but the atmosphere and neighborhood make up for that. Walkable plenty of shops and restaurants. Catch the Farmers market on Wednesday and Saturdays.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Javier

Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Debra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Fun hotel with personality. Rooms are small but has what you need and bed is comfortable. Amazing restaurants literally across the street. Will stay again.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

John

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Right in the heart of Little Italy. Great location out of downtown San Diego a little ways. Walking distance to many good restaurants and bars. Fun area.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
We appreciate you taking the time to leave a review! We hope to see you again in the future!

8/10 Good

Nancy

Traveled with family
Perfect in almost all respects. Small room with only one chair. Nice sitting/meeting lounge on the first floor. We would return. Perfect location for enjoying Little Italy.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Christine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Awesome location and very clean
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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6/10 Okay

Hannah

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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4/10 Poor

Imari

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Property had roaches in the room. Hotel staff very nice, but couldn’t move our room after getting in late from a wedding due to hotel being fully booked. Tried to find a new place, but surrounding hotels charging extra for an early check-in to move hotels. Manager offered money off the room for inconveniences. However, If I wanted a motel experience, I would have booked it for a 69.00 rate. Very disheartening, as the room rate is too high to not get the value of what you’re paying for. My suggestion if you’re staying, bring home defense and take a video before they (roaches) scatter.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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8/10 Good

Hunter

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Small room
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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8/10 Good

Brasilio

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Little Italy was a nice walk so close to it
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Victor

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent black out curtains super cozy bed friendly staff and very nice location highly recommend it thank you
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Philip

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Little Italy
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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8/10 Good

Ricna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
good
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

AIDEE

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
In Little Italy, Farmer market on Saturdays. Lots of restaurants.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Scott

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 27, 2024
Thank you for staying with us. We are so glad to hear you had a wonderful stay!

4/10 Poor

Jasmin

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The AC did not work, the room was hot and humid. Asked twice for it to be fixed with no resolution.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 6, 2024
Thank you for the feedback. We took a look into the notes in your reservation. It appears the front desk did send maintenance up to your room twice and both times found the AC working with no issues. We believe the dampness was from the humidity of the rain and for that we do apologize however, it was outside of our control.

8/10 Good

Carla, Fallbrook

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
The hotel is in a perfect spot, we got the corner room and it was so nice. The lady at the front desk was not very friendly. Around 5am the trash trucks were up and down the street collecting it was a little loud. Over all we loved the location.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Constanza

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent location and service
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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8/10 Good

Adam, Corona

Traveled with group
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room was really warm. Couldn't figure out the thermostat. Room definitely needed a vacuum.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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8/10 Good

Todd

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Awesome location in Little Italy area of town. Many restaurants and bars in the area with outside dining. Small rooms. Great coffee shop and pizza shop downstairs. Great little interior courtyard. Friendly staff with good food recommendations. If you love Italian food, you'll be in love with this place and area. Never waiting more than a few minutes for an Uber. Little Italy area much more laid back than the Gaslamp district.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

william

Traveled with family
Liked: Property conditions & facilities
In little Italy
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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8/10 Good

Giovanna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
La Pensione is in an excellent location, right in the heart of little Italy and in downtown San Diego. You can step out of the hotel and have so many options for food, bars, etc. you’re also on the same street as little Italy’s farmers market which makes the space super fun and lively. People looking for night life options, great walkability and good vibes should definitely consider staying here! A couple things to consider: noise and lack of amenities. This area is LOUD pretty much day and night. Construction, live music outside, people talking, etc. You can hear it all from your room. I sleep with a white noise machine and that blocked out most noise at night. This hotel is very much European style: hardly any amenities, and tiny rooms. There’s no coffee/tea in the room, no alarm clock even, AC is the wall kind so doesn’t circulate well, no discounts on adjoining restaurants or meal service. If you’re just looking for a place to sleep in a great location, this is a great fit. The staff is friendly and accommodating, would definitely stay here again!
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Kelly

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved it. A little taste of Italy.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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2/10 Terrible

Matthew

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

Tasasha

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Amenities
The hotel was decent, clean, and affordable. The staff were helpful. Although I feel that the pictures of the hotel rooms advertised were a little deceiving in terms of the aesthetics, I still had a good stay. It’s a basic, no frills hotel in the center of a very cool area, Little Italy.
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Anterias nerses

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Gennadiy

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice area
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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8/10 Good

Cinthya

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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8/10 Good

Denise

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This is the best hotel as far as location. Close to great restaurants and some shopping. Hotel is well kept, rooms are clean, but small. Love this area and location and close to airport.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Edward

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful room. Nice view.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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8/10 Good

Laura

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
We liked that it was small and cozy; not so much sophistication.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Jose

Traveled with partner
Liked: Amenities
Location was perfect!
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Kurtis

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The hotel was great, everything was close by and within walking distance. Would stay here again!
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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8/10 Good

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Pros- Location is great and near many great dining options. Cons- limited parking for small vehicles.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

steven

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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8/10 Good

Lauren

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Matt

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Awesome property
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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8/10 Good

Lisa

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The location is excellent. Lots of restaurants to choose from in Little Italy
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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4/10 Poor

Melanie

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities
Not at all what I was hoping for. I stayed here just one night for a two day conference and just needed a safe place to sleep for the night as a single young woman traveling alone. I called early in the morning to see if I could leave my car there before check-in and pay for parking. I was told no and that I could wait until someone checked out so I could get their space. So I found other parking for the day. When I got back at night, I called in to ask how to enter the parking garage I was told they were at capacity. Even for hotel guests… there are only 17 spots for over 50 rooms… first come first serve. This was not communicated on Expedia nor by the person I spoke to that morning. I had to park in a lot down the block and walk with all my bags in the dark. Then I get into the room and there is no top latch to lock the door. The property is also old and creaked/banged throughout the night. All I wanted was a safe, clean, space to stay as a single woman traveling alone. And this was not it.

6/10 Okay

chantal

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
This hotel is cute, but felt like you were staying in a hostel. Very basic. Rather old. However, very clean and staff was lovely. Bed was comfortable too. You stay here for the location. Right smack dab in the middle of Little Italy. Walking to everything you’d wanna do. There was even a huge farmers market spanning 4 blocks when we woke up Sunday. I would stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023
Response from Front Desk Agent on Jan 31, 2024
We're here to help ! We are pleased to hear you would stay again. We look forward to having you again (:

8/10 Good

benjaman

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great little hotel in the heart of Little Italy. Location was perfect. The hotel is a bit old but works great for a night out. Would stay there again as the value was hard to beat
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from Front Desk Agent on Jan 31, 2024
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We are so glad to hear you would stay again!

8/10 Good

Kathleen

Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
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10/10 Excellent

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The view was beautiful. The staff was extremely welcoming and thoughtful
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from Front Desk Agent on Jan 31, 2024
We are always here to help

8/10 Good

Gregory

Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Feb 27, 2024
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6/10 Okay

Jolie

Liked: Staff & service
Room was too crowded
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from La Pensione Hotel on Mar 24, 2024
thank you for taking the time to leave a review! Please let us know if there is anything we could have done better.