I was invited to my friend's friend birthday party and it was a very cute venue with stunning…read moredecor/interior!! I've never noticed this venue located in Arcadia but it's super beautiful. When you walk in they have these mirrors on each side that you can take pics in or look at your outfit! They have seating at the bar and lounge area. I love the flower decor that's in the ceiling!! It gives the place a nice modern luxury touch. It's not too big but perfect for a party of 30-40 persons. They have parking in the lot right by Outback! It's easy to find and very nice to celebrate. You can also have food catered or taco truck outside venue. I will come back her for another event or maybe in the future consider renting out for myself. -Marshay D.

It's so great having other bar options instead of driving to Los Angeles to drink nowadays. This is…read moresuch an amazing spot for girls night out and for people who just want to sit by the bar to order drinks all night. Ambiance is super warm, the service and bartenders are amazing as well. I can honestly say this is one of the best bars in the 626.. Aesthetically pleasing and the drinks are actually made well. They don't use that shitty sweet and sour mix, a lot of syrups are made in house, they have a nice selection of spirits and the overall speakeasy vibes are immaculate. If I could come here every weekend I would! It's a nice spot to bring your girl after dinner or if you're on a date.

I can not say how much we love this venue! Stefanie is truly amazing! We first rented the venue for…read moremy baby shower back in 2024. A year later we came back for my daughter 1st birthday and now we are planning our third event and we can't wait! The Venus is spacious for the normal 80 people we host. The availability for the use of the kitchen is excellent so we don't have to worry about transporting hot food and can heat up everything there and the bathrooms are so clean and stocked. We've also recommended the space we're family friends have utilized it for bridal showers, birthdays and baby showers! Loved that the parking lot was small safe enough to have a jumper for the kids as long as we powered it with a generator

I booked this venue for my baby shower, and overall, it was a great experience. The price was…read morereasonable and the rental comes with tables and chairs. You are responsible for your own table cloths, or you can rent it from them for an additional price. There's a kitchen that you can use, the bathrooms are clean, and there's plenty of parking inside. The venue can host 100 people, but it will be very tight with that many people. We had about 80 people (including kids) at the event, and though it felt tight, at least the kids were able to hang outside to enjoy the bouncer. I rented the afternoon time frame, so we were given the venue from 2:30-9PM. The only thing that I found weird was that there was absolutely no attendant available at the end of the night. Overall, a decent place to rent a venue if you wanna DIY things yourself.

We held our baby shower here in San Gabriel on 5/30/26. Jim the manager helped us through the…read moreentire process and gave us a tour and walkthrough before deciding to reserve the venue a couple months in advance. They have a full kitchen, full bar, ice machine, restrooms, and enough tables, chairs, space, and rental equipment to hold up to 150 people, and are flexible with customizing the experience to any kind of event and theme. We had a cuties themed baby shower with 130 people, and hired multiple vendors (Vietnamese food, boba tea bar, desserts, a bartender, and balloon artists). It was an amazing and fun experience for all of our friends and family members. Would definitely want to go here again for other events in the future, such as birthday parties, weddings, graduations, etc.

Great venue, clean, lots of tables, space, bar and no problems. Plenty of street parking. Very safe…read morearea.

I've driven by here a couple times when I'm in the area or when I'm with a friend, so it was neat…read moreto finally go inside. We came here for a small reptile show, around 10 vendors and there were some bird vendors there too. Decent amount of parking and I loved the decor that they had in here, along with the tidbits of history behind the glass, including historical and cultural artifacts from the past, the chandeliers, the art on the walls, and much more. Gives more flavor to the venue than just a regular gym or auditorium. AC wasn't the strongest, but it's probably best for the cold blooded critters that were there. The birds were in the hallway entrance in, so the sound reverberated quite a bit. Not bad for smaller events from an attendee's point of view.

Visited on 10/26/2017…read more Came here for the first time for a Girl Scout/Boy Scout meeting. Because of the large group of scouts and their family, this was a good place to hold the meeting. We all sat at long tables with chairs that weren't the most comfortable, but it was doable. The temperature on the room was comfortable. The ability to hear the speakers wasn't an issue. There was a large clean restroom with plenty of mirrors. In the hallway, there were some glass cases which show cased some items from previous Rose Parades. Plenty of free parking for this Lodge.

A beautiful way to spend the Memorial Day weekend. Perfect weather and temps. My handicapping not…read moreso good today... but with views of the San Gabriel mountains who cares. I was actually surprised at the size of the crowd Monday, very well attended. For those new to Santa Anita go to the Frontrunner for a restaurant experience overlooking the stretch run. Serious horse players go to the "Room" - it's next to the Chandelier room. Used to be called the Sports Book but now it's just unnamed. The clubhouse side has outdoors table seating just past the finish line. Plenty of bars and food venues throughout for those so like to walk around and visit the paddock and walking ring. Check it out!

I came to Santa Anita Park for a 5K race. Yes, me, not the horses. - haha…read more This place is so nice! So clean! So organized! Beautiful grounds. Beautiful curb appeal. Manicured landscaping. Peacocks walking around. An experience I will cherish for ever. On race day, there were rides, food, beer, and just a good vibe that would make anyone come back again. Sure it was hot! But it's also California! Gotta love a sunny, bright, hot day with cotton like clouds up in the sky. Happy summer everyone!

I came here for a work conference meeting. I'm not sure how much it would cost on a normal day to…read moreenter this clubhouse section of the race track. Parking was also slightly confusing because it wasn't a race day and there were some spots that said to valet, but there wasn't a valet. When you walk into the area, there was a section which looked like a host desk before approaching the elevator. This room is on the 3rd floor. When you walk into the terrace, you get an amazing view of the mountains and race track. The catered menu was delicious, it was like having a Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner and a variety of desserts. My favorite part of this area would be the restroom, women's restroom to be exact! It was like I stepped back in time to experience the elite life. I didn't want to leave the bathroom to go back to the meeting, lol.

We had a fun company holiday party hosted Arthur Chandelier Room. Upon arrival, we enjoyed the vibe…read moreand the nostalgic atmosphere of the room. I love the double staircases that led to the balcony that oversees the racetrack. The bar is spacious and we don't need to wait too long for the drinks. Food is amazingly good. Overall, we had a fabulous time.

This is such a convenient and gorgeous location for an intimate wedding ceremony. We stayed in the…read morethe airbnb located behind the venue. We had to just walk a few steps to the venue when it was time for the ceremony. The airbnb and venue are gorgeous. We also had sandwiches made by Kim for guests following the ceremony which were delicious. We loved our wedding ceremony and this was the perfect location for what we wanted.

Kim is very approachable and friendly. Her artistic talent made this place a beautiful location for…read moresmall to medium sized parties. This placed saved our wedding during COVID - we live streamed our wedding to 300+ guests from here and it was extremely memorable to all. It also helped that they have 2 airbnbs adjacent available to rent for our wedding preparations. I then had my baby shower at this location, hosting up to 25 people. The conservatory is a beautiful backdrop, and there are many niche spaces that are wonderful for photographing. Highly recommend.

Let me start off by saying I have never used an event coordinator before and after the experience I…read morehad with Audrey from Santa Anita Banquets, I NEVER will again! Audrey was so unprofessional and so unorganized when it came to our wedding. She promised us one thing when we first met with her, but ended up with something completely different. We were given a list of things that were included in the wedding package that we chose; tables, centerpieces, chairs/covers, food, etc. Everything sounded good, so we signed the contract that day. Stupid move on our part! One thing after another started changing, first it was the "bar" could not serve wine in wine glasses so we had to provide the plastic cups for that. The so called "bar" was a table with crates, which were lined with trash bags to hold the beer and wine. There were only 2 centerpieces to choose from, we ended up choosing the 3 cylinder vases with an "orchid" in each, turns out the orchids were fake, as in plastic flowers that she probably bought from the 99cent store! I was beyond upset because I did not find this out until the day before our wedding. By then it was too late to order real flower centerpieces. Never once were we informed that our centerpieces were going to be fake flowers! This looked so tacky! I sent Audrey a text message letting her know that I was upset and she replied back with a VERY RUDE and UNPROFESSIONAL message. We were told they were not going to be able to use the chair covers for our chairs because the chairs at our venue were too wide and would not fit. I went ahead and rented covers from an outside vendor and paid and additional $250 for them only to find out the same day of our event that the covers Audrey had (which were part of our package deal) DID fit the chairs we were using, she never even tried them on. Our outdoor Ceremony was scheduled to start at 3:00pm and chairs were to be set up for our guests. Our guests were arriving and there was nowhere for them to sit. Audrey finally started bring chairs out and setting them up about 3:20pm after being told over and over. We paid an additional ceremony fee which we were told included a system for our ceremony music, the chairs, and rehearsal fee. We ended up downloading our own music and bringing our own speaker just incase because of all the other "surprises" we had along the way. Good thing we did because there was no music system for our ceremony. More than half of our guests had to stand for the entire ceremony because only a few chairs were brought out. Our tables were not set up the way we had requested them to be. Our candy buffet table was set up on a silver table cover, our colors were ivory and burgandy. Audrey and her staff started removing table and chair covers an hour and a half before the reception ended. There were not enough plates to serve our guests, some of them were served on styrofoam plates, again TACKY! To sum it all up this was the WORST experience I have ever had in my life! I will NEVER use Santa Anita Banquets ever again! To anyone who is wanting to use them in the future, please think twice.

Update , Feb 5, 2015. My husband spoke with Audrey on the phone today. Our stands are still not…read morereturned. He asked her to send us a check for the deposit we were out from our baker and she told him she would, IF I TOOK MY REVIEW DOWN! He told her I would do no such thing and then she told him he could come pick up the stands but we would have to work around her schedule. I can't even believe after more than 7,000 dollars that this is how we are being treated. Update - Jan 23, 2015. Still not returned! ---- I've been putting off writing this for almost two months, but I just want to get it out of the way and hopefully save anyone the stress I went through. I booked with Audrey for my wedding. Everything seemed fine at first, she was really nice in person... but then it started to get wonky from there. First the gratuity was whatever I wanted to give, then it was a set amount, then it was whatever I wanted to give. THE DAY BEFORE MY WEDDING, a magical deposit for the venue was required, even though we never discussed it. It was for security she said, since we had a bar, but I already paid her the $250 extra to have a bar. And I didn't see a security guard at my wedding. We met before the wedding for a tasting, and the food was good (really good, actually, as far as wedding catering goes), but what I told her I wanted for the centerpieces wasn't what she had done mockups of for us. We did like it though, so we picked what we wanted. Lo and behold, my husband I do our grand entrance and the centerpieces ARE NOT what we agreed on, there was some horrible fluffly floral piece of crap tablecloth on the sweetheart table. Some of our wedding party came late, and the staff WOULD NOT give them the food they asked for (more than one scoop of a specific item), but then someone working for her came out from the back and loaded their plate up with as much food as they wanted and took it in the back to eat it. The tables for the gifts and guestbook were not set up how we agreed. We provided her with games and toys for a kids table that never got set up. And we never got the things for it back. She didn't return the unused cups that we paid for our of our own pocket, she didn't return all the undrank booze (I KNOW we didn't go through all the champagne). Even with all this, I had a nice wedding, I married my husband, which is what it's about, but to top if off, after ALL THIS, she tells me she is going to return our cake stands for us (that we have a deposit on) and she doesn't do it. We follow up with her repeatedely and she says, this weekend, this weekend, this weekend and still nothing. It's been nearly TWO MONTHS since my wedding. It's not like we had some far off destintation. We used the location SHE OFFERED in Santa Anita, and our cake was made in PASADENA. It's not my fault that her office isn't where she has events. It's just insane, that this is still going on and that after ALL THE MONEY WE PAID, we are out deposits from OTHER VENDORS because of Audrey.

College bud held his 50th birthday bash at this venue…read more Off the bat: IT WAS SUPER LIT! Okay, since I got that out, this place is an impressive venue! It seems old and dated, but with a bit of love and cosmetics (like how his planners designed the whole place) then it's a whole different place! Plenty of room for apps, main course and the bar was strategically placed in the back. There's also a big dance floor. Venue can easily fit 200 - 250 people comfortably. Free lot parking at the back (it's a little tricky to find but not too bad - slow down when you get on Morlan Place, should be easy from there!) They should signs or something, because a lot of people missed it. Other than the parking snag, we had a great time at this place! If it were close to home, I'd consider using it as well!

I booked this place for my Dad's 65th birthday, but unfortunately had to reschedule due to COVID…read more Evan was very understanding and we were able to reschedule and combine my dad's birthday with my mom's. I loved that we had the freedom to bring in our own vendors. He even allowed us to create a personalized bar menu. He was always quick to respond to my questions. He was very helpful every step of the way. The bar tender was amazing and so very patient. The security was also helpful and kind. The venue was perfect for the size of our party. I will definitely be booking at this hall in the future!

Expectations exceeded!!! My Husband found this location online and we agreed to book it for my…read moremilestone birthday celebration. Some of our closest friends joined us here for the weekend and we had an absolute blast with them at the castle! We didn't need to leave to go to a bar or restaurant. We enjoyed our time in both family rooms, the pub downstairs, the kitchen, the study and the outdoor backyard was the best for photos. We want to go back around the holidays when there is snow. This place is beyond impressive. I truly had the best birthday and this location was a huge part of that!

If you're looking for a vacation rental in the Lake Arrowhead area that offers access to mountain…read moreattractions and massive amounts of space for large groups, then look no further than Castle in the Forest. I've had the pleasure of staying here numerous times for different occasions, including birthdays, ski trips, etc and each time has been an absolute delight. One of the stand out features of this vacation rental is its spaciousness. It's perfect for large groups with many bedrooms and bathrooms for folks to spread out and enjoy themselves. The bedrooms are comfortable and well appointed and the common areas are designed with group gatherings in mind. Whether you're cooking up a feast in the chefs kitchen, lounging in front of the fireplace or playing games in the card room, there is no shortage of space to enjoy. Castle in the Forest is very close to the Lake Arrowhead Village with many shops and restaurants, and only about 45 minutes away from snow-sports in Big Bear. I cannot recommend this vacation rental enough. It is the perfect place to gather with friends and family for a fun filled mountain getaway.