The guide was awesome and he took nice photos of of family riding. We got along great with horses…read moretoo.The sand dunes and bald eagles on the beach made it memorable

Our second time riding here. We had a great time. They have really nice horses. Do a great job of…read moresetting things up and treat their guest really nice. Highly recommended. We'll do this again riding horses on the beach is really cool.

we came here last Sept with 8 people and 9 horses. we loved it and are coming back this year…read more Plenty of room for our trailers , horses loved the beach. Carol was super nice to work with.

This place is pure magic. The magic is not produced by a wand, but by people--good people. Okay,…read moreand ponies and puppies. But mostly by people. There was some brief confusion when I booked the reservation. I had not realized it was a "horse hotel" with multiple stalls and also campsites as well as rooms. My disappointment was replaced by pure joy upon learning that humans can stay here too, as well as hybridized beings like myself (a centaur)! Everything here is done the old fashioned way, the right way: with kindness, trust, love and simplicity. Staying here will make your heart ache for a simpler time when folks were able to conduct business with a handshake, where their first priority was just treating each other how they want to be treated themselves, with dignity and decency. We came here almost my accident. I'll be honest. Ocean Acres was not in my first, second--or even top five--picks of places to go. We were aiming at much further up the coast. I could find almost nothing and what I could find was neither affordable nor desirable. We did not want to go to some sterile resort where you exist to be milked and sent on your way. We wanted to be in a place that was family-owned and served a purpose beyond just making money as efficiently as possible. We wanted to be somewhere that had actual personality, not just a hollow façade with a minimal, lazy attempt to lure visitors and nothing else. Ocean Acres Horse Hotel was--is--the jackpot on all accounts. Because of a recent death of a family member after a prolonged illness, it was important to be in a place with healing energy. I had a good feeling the moment I navigated my way to Ocean Acres' minimalist website and saw they have no automated process for automated or online bookings. Everything is done personally, over the phone. The owner, Carol did not even ask for my last name, the make of my vehicle or a credit card to reserve the room. She asked us to pay in cash when we arrived. When we did arrive, the first thing I did was try to pay, but she insisted we wait until morning to do so! She wanted us to be able to settle in, relax, and get a good night's sleep first. WHAT?! My thought was: who the hell are you and what time period do you hail from? Where is your time machine? Such a small gesture, but to be endowed with that level of trust by a stranger doing business with me...I cannot think of another time in my 46 years that that's happened. Again, you may think I am making too much of it, but being shown such trust and kindness so quickly had an immediate healing effect on us. It is impossible to discuss Ocean Acres without talking about Carol and her husband, the owners. I don't know how they do it. I could barely keep up with all the adventures they shared with us. Carol is a polymath of the first rank. Her amazing breakfasts held us in good stead the entire time we were there. We ate with the other guests--sometimes sharing a table--in their family dining room! Whilst cooking up innovative and astounding savory and sweet detectibles, Carol regaled us with stories about her life, her work, her relationship to horses, the wheeling and dealing required to get hay. We were also surrounded by her work--stunning oil portraits and bronze sculpture, for which she had rightly won awards. Carol and her husband knew we were hurting, and they pulled out all the stops to help us. They lent us their own, personal ebikes (which were so much fun to take on country roads, tooling around cranberry bogs, little ponds and abandoned farmsteads), Her cooking was phenomenal. She knew we loved animals but had none of our own, so she introduced us to their collie dog Price, with whom we quickly became BFF's in a neverending game of fetch, told us what foods her mini-pony (or was it a mini-donkey?) likes to be fed. And of course, there were other people and their beautiful steeds all around. Just being in the presence of so many happy critters and people had a very good effect on us; it was so needed. The property begins at the highway, off which a short, paved driveway leads to and terminates behind the main house, where the owners live and some of the rooms are. Then, a dirt road goes straight back (west) about a mile--all the way to the sea--passing by a beautiful barn, stalls, campsites, forest, meadows, a pond and other bucolic scenes on the way. Strolling the road on the property (and biking on it) was one of my favorite things to do there. If you ever pined for things (and people) with a personal touch, if you ever just wanted to drop out of the game and NOT be treated like a number, a walking phat money bag with a dollar sign over your head, if you miss interacting like a regular human with other regular humans, if you ever needed some puppy time but had no puppy of your own, if you ever wanted to feel safe, breathe in serenity like it floated in the ethers, if you ever just wanted a really damn good breakfast...Ocean Acres is THE place for you.

Had a recent weekend stay and was pleased with the room & property. Sizable, comfy, and they…read morepromptly brought cookware items we requested. Staff was great though you will endure a few timeshare program sales attempts. Everything was easy & as expected -- would definitely do it again.

Clean unit. Attentive staff. Nice short walk to the beach and local businesses. The decor was…read morecurrent and the unit has everything you need for cooking. The hot tub and pool were kept clean and there is plenty of good parking. I'd go back.

Website says $5 credit card fee but I was charged an additional $5 PER RIDER…read more We paid for 1-hour ride. Once horses were saddled and guide gave instructions ride began at 3:25. We were back before 4:05. This was a 40min ride, only 2/3 of the time that we paid for.

Extremely rude and unpleasant owner. Avoid at all costs. The horses are great. But the trip was…read morecompletely ruined by that woman.

My family has been gathering for a summer reunion for the past 29 years. This year, at the…read morerecommendation of my brother, we rented the barn at the Columbia River Ranch and Cattle Company. WHAT A TREAT! I'm not even sure where to begin. There were so many activities (kayaking, paddleboarding, swimming, goat feeding, board games, giant outdoor chess, lawn games, giant tricycles, and horseback riding) that I personally never got through my list of things I wanted to do. The barn itself has many rooms with comfortable beds. There are more than enough bathrooms to accommodate all guests. The barn is three stories. The first floor boasts an industrial kitchen and a very large dining room and two bathrooms. The second level has another full kitchen and living area as well as bedrooms and bathroom. This level also has a large open area with a small stage a d dance floor. I can totally see a youth group enjoying this space. My family used it to play D&D. The upper level has more sleeping areas and another bathroom. The owners were very helpful as well as unobtrusive. We have already booked our reunion here for 2020.

Went for an hour ride with Honey Pearl Ranch during a family trip in July 2026. Rides were…read more$50/person. My husband and I own and ride horses, but my SIL and her 9 y/o daughter do not. All four of us went and had a great time! The guides paid attention to everyone, especially the kids. Our nieces seat was crooked and caused her saddle to move a bit. Right when I thought about saying something to a guide, one was already getting off her horse to go adjust our niece. The horses all seemed healthy with good feet and they got water after the ride before being tied up. I didn't love the community helmets, but they did have Lysol available. There's not much of another way to do that as far as I'm aware. If this really bothers you maybe wear a beanie to put the helmet over? Bring your own? The demo for instructions could have been a little better, but I've been a guide myself and people tend to not listen past the basics anyway. Almost just easier to correct as you go if needed instead of doing a long speech. One of our guides took a picture of all of us at the end of the ride per request. We spoke with one of the owners for a bit. Very kind guy! For those that think the horses "look sad": horses will sleep while standing or they will lay down to rest (this generally means they feel safe actually). It doesn't mean they are exhausted or overworked. The type of ride this is isn't going to exhaust a healthy horse, even multiple times through the day. My own horse goes to sleep as soon as he is tied up. Lip drooping and all whether he just came out of the pasture or we just got done with a ride. If they were actually stressed or in pain you wouldn't see what appears to be a dopey "sad" horse. You would see a very tense and tight horse instead. Also they are just fine being tied in the weather that's typical for the area. Horses will stand in rain/snow/ice storms instead of going into shelters we provide. A few hours sleeping in between rides on the beach isn't going to hurt them at all. I would say a little hay may be a good thing, but horses will fight over food and people will try to feed them and get bit. So they probably don't due to liability.

Horses are out of control and extremely volatile, you don't sign any waivers or anything you just…read morepay and you get on. They seemed hesitant to get us in with the next group going for some reason, but said they'd make it happen, I think we figured out why they were hesitant. It seems they put the adults with the newer, less experienced horses, as mine wanted to run off the entire time I was riding; which was 5 minutes because my wife was promptly bit in the ass by another rider's horse and bucked off by her own. The only lady that seemed to care about what happened to my wife was another rider, everyone else was just gone. Don't go here if you are new to horseback riding, or value your safety