We stayed here last week for just one night. Let me say this first. Three stars because I don't think the price of the hotel room and food met the quality they charged. Everyone who worked at the hotel was very nice and accommodating, but the room was very stuff and had a moldy smell to it. The sheets and towels smelled the same. We got a two queen bed and one bed was soft and nicer than the other. My wife and I just didn't feel totally comfortable in the room. The pool towels were super rough and old and I found a spider in mine. The pool was nice and clean and the area and grounds where kept up and clean same with the hotel and outdoor seating area. We did eat at the restaurant and our server was good and the food was not that great. We got the flash fried chicken sandwich and my wife got the burger. Their ranch dressing is amazing though! I'm not sure if we would come back to this particular Hilton. But May try another Hilton again. read more

We've stayed at a lot of the Hilton properties in the area, and this was by far the best experience. Pleased with all the regular amenities- safe parking experience, clean room, friendly service at checkin, excellent housekeeping, comfortable bed, quiet room and no external noise from the window (in other hotels we've had issues with street noise). We didn't try the food or the pool but the pool area looked quite nice. I will definitely stay here again when in the area, as long as it's not during an event- I heard from residents that it can get very loud since it's right next to the event grounds. The only downside is the $30 parking fee. read more

Hasin and matin helped us with valet and took our luggage up to our room. They were nice the whole time and helped us with any questions we had! read more

The balcony door cut my hand bad and they don't do nothing about it. I can't even use my hand it just breaks open and bleeds. They lost my item left in the room. I went back 2 days later and they didn't have them 300$ in items just gone. Also when we checked in we were told to go to the back of the hotel knowing we had lots of things and the elevator was in the front . We carried all our things to the back and couldn't find an elevator. I had to leave my family walk to the front to tell them and they switch us rooms because it was close to where we were. They need to explain better. read more

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Great hotel - very clean and great location. Samin with valet was attentive and friendly. would definitely recommend.

Matin was absolutely amazing extremely professional very knowledgeable about the hotel. Super positive person and good energy 5 star service from him thank you matin read more

Martin at Valet was prompt as soon as we pulled in and very helpful with instructions. After checking in, he unloaded all the luggage and checked the back seat to make sure we had grabbed everything. Traveling with kids, he made it easier for all of us! Once we made to the room, he set up all the luggage in the room. Overall Martin made the beginning of our stay a wonderful experience and with no waiting whatsoever for our luggage. Thank you! read more

I travel for business about a quarter to a third of the year and this is my chosen establishment just about every single time. The staff is friendly and helpful at all times. The facilities are clean and well maintained and they are very dog friendly. In terms of the staff, Tassio stands out as one of the friendliest and accommodating individuals and always makes you feel welcome. Thanks to everyone at this location and appreciate you! read more

I stayed at this hotel 2 weeks ago, and the staff were incredibly friendly and helpful. the valet guys were in particular very nice and matin went above and beyond for my car. He stayed extra late to assist me. somethings you don't see often. Overall, my stay was wonderful and I highly recommend the hotel for stay. read more

Great restaurant and bar area. Outside patio is beautiful. Rooms are large, fairly quiet and comfortable read more

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I stayed at the Del Mar Hilton last Saturday for a Celebration of Life event. The hotel was beautifully decorated and the event amazing. A special shout out to Zach, Jacob and Sam (Valets) who couldn't have been more accommodating.Everyone at this hotel displayed extreme courtesy and the epitome of what I have come to expect from hospitality professionals. I would highly recommend the Del Mar Hilton for events or for your next stay. read more

Would give 0 if I could. Be prepared to pay $33 at minimum for parking a night, they won't tell you this prior to the reservation. Breakfast is $25-$50 per person, water is $8 per bottle, to use the coffee maker they charge you, no microwave, our room filled with ants, stained bathtub. We paid for a king suite! we aren't picky people and we've paid more for hotels and got a lot out of it. We were sad and it was truly overpriced for what you got. Never again..not to mention thin walls and people screaming all night. read more

my experience at the Del Mar Hilton on Sat. 4/19/25 was extremely positive. I was attending a Celebration of Life...everyone at this beautifully decorated hotel was so welcoming and friendly, the epitome of what one would expect from hospitality professionals. My particular interaction was with "Zach" and "Jacob" and "Sam" the valets who assisted us...I have met many valets over the years but they stood out as exceptional. Great job and thanks again! read more

We had a great stay here on our honeymoon. The staff were all friendly, location was great, rooms were clean and comfortable. Julio was great at the bar, he gave top service and was friendly and professional. read more

Nice hotel in a great location. Right across the street from the race track and a short drive to the beach. The hotel itself is very nice, clean, and has somewhat of a resort feel to it...the rooms are spacious and relatively quiet with the exception of the North side of hotel where you can hear the road noise from the adjacent highway...the pool is large and goes from 3.5 feet to 5 feet in depth. There is also a large hot tub adjacent to the pool but for whatever reason the timer was broken, therefore it became more of a wading pool as the water was significantly warmer than the pool. There is an in room coffee maker but there is no included breakfast in the rate...there is also a ridiculous 33 dollar nightly parking charge, that they add tax to!!! unbelievable and unnecessary as there is ample parking on the property....thankfully i secured the rate through hotwire so i didn't pay the rack rate, unfortunately any savings were lost through the parking fee and lack of included breakfast...slight recommendation read more

The concierge Natalie was awesome ! Facilitated a quick and smooth check in, great customer service, she pays attention to what's going on. It was my birthday weekend and my wife and I attended a local Food & Wine festival. After returning to the room and mentioning this to her were were sent complimentary champagne ! We also spent time in the more private Jacuzzi area. Staying here was a pleasure and I'd definitely do it again ! read more

We have stayed on this hotel twice and the hotel has so much potential! It is a great property and is in a great location. The lobby and restaurants are pretty clean and food is good. The rooms need to definitely be updated. In our room (1049), the sink overflow drain had brown yucky stuff, which I assume is mildew, the soap holder was rusting, the windows in the room didn't lock and had a draft coming through. Like I said in the beginning, this hotel has potential, but needs to be maintained and updated! Oh the $33.00 a night to park even though your a guest staying there is a little much! read more

matin at valet was very hempful and friendly the hotel is very efficient getting me checked in and to my room read more

March 29, thank you Sam for the great service. :) Very quick, friendly, and sent us off on our day with smiles and kindness.

PROS: - Check-in process was a breeze. - Dog friendly hotel! - Huge parking lot. - The lobby was very spacious and clean. - The rooms were also very clean. I had no issues with anything inside. - Located a few miles away from the beach/ocean. - Del Mar fair grounds are a walk away. - Many eateries and grocery stores nearby. CONS: - Why is there only 1 elevator? - Located right next to a freeway, so it gets quite loud of you have a room facing in that direction. FINAL THOUGHTS: - If you've got a room towards the back of the hotel, and you've got a ton of stuff to bring up, you're either going to be doing a lot of walking just trying to get to the ONE elevator. OR... you're gonna give your legs a good workout going up those stairs. read more

zach was an excellent valet! so friendly and fast. loved the pool as well. Would stay here again anytime.

First of all: HUGE ROOMS!!! I've been staying at this Hilton for the duration of the fair (30 days) for the past 10 years. This is my favorite hotel to stay at because while it has the commodities of a large hotel, it feels quiet and safe. Perfect for a beach getaway. Some of the commodities Karmina and the rest of the staff treat you like family. Everyone is very accommodating and friendly. The courtyard pool and outdoor seating are perfect for the beautiful Southern California weather. It's walking distance from the fair, the Fish Market (restaurant), and a Whole Foods marketplace as well as a small outdoor shopping center. One of the best hiltons I've stayed at. The location and staff are unmatched. read more

Hilton San Diego/Del Mar - The staff helped me celebrate my mom's birthday! Super special. - Hotels Near Me - Del Mar, California

Not well managed. Pros: The staff at the front desk was friendly and helpful. This hotel is in a great location. A little outside of the busy city, but near a lot of cool places. Cons: I booked this hotel instead of some of the places around the area because, on their site, it claims to have an executive lounge. I pick places with executive lounges specifically because I am part of their loyalty program and since I get access to the lounge, a lot of times I get free breakfast and snacks during the evening. Usually includes juices and drinks, which is a great benefit. Unfortunately it is not true. I asked the front desk where the lounge was and he told me that they closed it when Covid-19 hit and turned the lounge into a gym. This means they have closed it for a year and a half and still advertise to have it now. The next item is the shower. The shower knob was partially broken with a piece of it hanging off. The shower still works, but it just looks bad. The drain block was broken and the piece was just laying on the side of the tub. Probably should replace it or at least remove it since it's just weird to just be sitting there in the tub detached from the drain. The final and biggest problem was their cleaning service. The hotel has a checkout time of up to 12 PM. With that in mind, I decided to not check out in the morning. I wanted to try to go on a hike with my wife in the morning and return to take a shower and nap for a bit before heading home. We returned to the hotel at 10 AM. When we arrived at the room, to our surprise, all the towels, sheets, and pillowcases were removed. The cleaning crew came by and cleaned our room by just removing all of these items and leaving. We did not check out yet, so I assumed we should still get to use our room until the check-out time. read more

Hilton San Diego/Del Mar - Removed all our sheets and pillowcases without replacing them. - Hotels Near Me - Del Mar, California

Was supposed to go to a cheaper motel but decided to stay here instead because wanted to be closer to our destination. Upon arriving I was starting to have second thoughts, hotel looked below avg/dated when I got my room, I was completely disgusted. Room/hotel is very out dated, filthy(carpet, walls, bedsheets), and smells am very disappointed. We wanted to change hotels but we just said screw it now we know not to stay here next time. FYI, I don't think they change the bedsheets also. read more

The older African American women women who works at the food court here was awful with her customer service but her college a younger Caucasian male took over and was so kind and sweet , the front desk males were so kind from entering to leaving the building , the rooms were clean, the pool was clean , lots of clean towels , hotel was nice, and the valet drivers were so kind and work all around the clock , really enjoyed my stay here also the pastas here are yummy . read more

Mohammad is great and Very helpful. The Valet service all over is great too . The hotel employees are all very polite. The location of the hotel is very convenient . It's right by the freeway and It only took 20mins to get to sea world. And there are wholefood market , Starbucks, some restaurants nearby. My family enjoy the pool and the jacuzzi. We had a wonderful stay. read more

Pretty average. Parking is 30 dollars a night which spretty ridiculous. It does look like they recently redid the rooms and they were clean and big. Would be nice if there was a love seat in the room. The pool and outside area is nice. We did eat breakfast here and it is expensive for what it was but good. The rooms have a fridge. read more

We really enjoyed our two night stay here at this hotel! It was very quiet on a mon-wed which was really nice for us. Even though their gym is under renovation they put up a temporary gym set (thank god) we got a nice work out in! hopefully their new gym will be bigger and more accommodating! After gym time we enjoyed drinks and lunch at their restaurant! bomb jalepeno cocktail and amazing club sandwich. we also spent some time in the jacuzzi! nice clean rooms , smelled fresh and clean upon arrival! Nothing to complain about this hotel, perfect location right by nice restaurants, coffee shops and the beach! highly recommend! read more

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Nice hotel, located right next to the Del Mar Fairgrounds/Race track. Beautiful property, rooms are spacious and clean. Great bar and food. Staff was very courteous and accommodating. read more

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Front desk nice and helpful Booked through Hotwire, expected more for a 4 star(how it was advertised) Rooms were really basic and standard Room service was really disappointing . I ordered pancakes, 2 coffee, orange juice, and avocado toast for $75 and it came like this. Photo attached. No plates or anything. Ordered fresh squeezed Orange juice, it was clearly bottled juice. And the pomegranate on the avocado toast was like really fermented and old. Tasted like wine. I called room service, and they only offered to make a new one, but I said no thank you that I wanted to let them know that the pomegranate seeds were bad. Nothing else was offered for compensation. Poached egg was :/ read more

PROS: + Located right next to the Del Mar Grounds. + Hotel was overall very clean. The lobby was spacious with tons of seating. The outdoor patio had some fire pits with lots of seating as well. + Service was great upon check-in. + This hotel is dog friendly! There are areas around the hotel with grass, which made it nice. There are also poop bags around the hotel too. + Tons of parking spots. It does cost $$ to park overnight. + The shower water got hot instantly! + Our room was quite clean upon check-in. The bed was really comfy too. + Room slippers are provided if you call housekeeping. + Free internet, and the speeds were very fast! CONS: - Our room was located toward the end of the hotel, and there is no elevator access close by! This was inconvenient when we had to bring up our luggage. We used the staircase quite often for quicker access downstairs from our room. - The TV quality was pretty bad. Not HD quality. read more

Mohamed and Sam have been so helpful during our stay working hard valet service for us and did not hesitate to move all our luggage at a moment's notice! Thank you guys for making our stay so special! read more

Amazing staff! The moment we pulled up in our Über we were greeted by one of the friendliest valets ever. Front desk staff were stellar. Even though we had been 9 hours into a LONG travel day and yet we still arrived too early for the normal check-in time, the staff exceeded our expectations and immediately got us into a room so that we could take a much needed recovery nap. We are here for a business conference, I would not have ordinarily booked this property to stay at...BUT, I am so glad that this is where the conference is taking place at. The property is clean, it is VERY quiet (major plus) and the staff are rock stars! 5 Stars!!! read more

Housekeeping never entered my room after 4 nights! The room service is horrible! They brought me a bag with eggs, toast, and potatoes in separate to go containers. With no silverware. I kept calling and got their voicemail. How about a tray or a table with all my food on a plate? I would have been better off ordering from the Denny's next door. read more

If it wasn't for Mohammed I would've given a 3.5 because of dogs next to our room barking non stop. But comfortable and clean for a quick one night stay read more

This is our third year spending our anniversary at this hotel. It's clean, it's nice, it's close to Del Mar fair, it's expensive. I'm disappointed that this stuff doesn't acknowledge us as returning customers. read more

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The hotel itself is clean, easy, all the accoutrements you'd expect. Nice fitness center, very pleasant attentive staff. This is a 5/5 for Natalie (from Texas) at front desk. She was extremely personable, accommodating and memorable. Nice job on that hire Hilton! Thank you Natalie. I'll be back. read more

Mohammed did excellent for us, professional, attentive and courteous. Exceeding expectations

Thin walls, ugly furniture and rooms, only one elevator working so you have to wait 5-10 minutes while they prioritize their elevator for their staff cleaning. If I were the hotel, I would hold cleaning supplies on each floor so staff doesn't need elevator for access during very busy mornings for hotel guests. read more

Hotel room is fine, but I ordered some room service which was "Chocolate Lava Cake $15 - Rich melted chocolate cake, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream" $15 bucks for this in the photo. It didn't even come with the ice cream. I chalked it up to just getting ripped off and learned my lesson and ate the cake. It was small and it wasn't even hot. I'm pretty sure someone went to the gas station next door and got this cake for like $3. A couple minutes later, the hotel staff returned with ice cream. I guess they forgot it. It was ice cream in a carton but it was a huge carton. By then, I already ate the cake and I was full so I passed. The staff guy was nice though and I think he felt bad because he knew the cake was kind of a rip off. Anyways the hotel is fine, just don't order the room service. read more

Hilton San Diego/Del Mar - The saddest $15 cake in San Diego. - Hotels Near Me - Del Mar, California