The Coupeville Inn - Hotel in Coupeville - 200 NW Coveland St, USA

This is a dated hotel with no elevator, no bottled water available, no housekeeping services except changing towels if you put dirty towels on the floor outside the room, and marginal breakfast. The location was good within walking distance of town. No air conditioning but ceiling fan and window fans. We wouldn’t stay here again.

The room was nicely setup, the location was perfect and the price was nice. However, the detergent they use on the pillows and blankets was so strong/scented that sleeping in the bed gave us both headaches, plus the pillows were awful. The TV had a crack down the middle of the screen, the heat lamp in the vent fan in the bathroom shook so bad that we thought it was going to break and fall out (so no fan while showering), and the shower head barley let any water out. Simple fixes and upgrades this would be a nice place, but as is its just ok.

Wife and I absolutely loved our weekend stay at the Coupeville Inn. The location is perfect for walking to nearby shops and restaurants. Our room was clean and quiet and had a decent bed. We loved the morning and evening view we had from the Captain Lovejoy room. Should we need somewhere to stay again when on Whidbey Island, this place will be it.

Close to do to so much in Coupeville, who would have known how awesome this little town is. Reasonably priced Inn, they offer yoga here, quick walk to downtown shops, food and the wharf... Giant starfish visible at low tide, Penn Cove mussels harvested here around the corner. Hate to spill the secret, but this Inn is great and so is this quaint little town you might drive by without a 2nd look.

Coupeville is a small, quiet town with not much to do after dark, so we needed a hotel that we could relax and comfortably spend a lot of time in. This wasn’t it. ||PROS:|- LOCATION. I’m a huge fan of the movie Practical Magic, so staying in Coupeville has been on my bucket list. Since the Owens House doesn’t actually exist, the next best thing—if you want to experience any of the locations where the movie was filmed—is historic Front Street, so it was important for us to find accommodations as close to it as possible. Even if your reason for visiting Coupeville has nothing to do with the movie, you’ll appreciate the short walking distance from Front Street and the wharf.||CONS: |- FRUMPY DECOR. It’s old, but not in a charming, old-world, Victorian, Owens House kind of way. The town is filled with gorgeous, historic Victorian homes, but this hotel is decorated like my grandparents house was in the 1980s. I loved my late grandmother very much, but she couldn’t decorate to save her life and neither can the person who decorated Coupeville Inn. While there are some nice antique furniture pieces at the Inn, most of the decor looks like it came from a garage sale. |- VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. There was no sofa or loveseat, and no small dining table to sit across from each other and have some wine or coffee or snacks (no coffee makers in the rooms, either, by the way. You have to go downstairs to get coffee). They put random chairs in the rooms, but they are stiff and uncomfortable, and not placed where you can sit in them to watch TV. There’s not enough space in these rooms to reposition the chairs, either. To watch TV, snack….everything… we had to sit in bed. |- VERY LITTLE SPACE FOR CLOTHES. Neither of our nightstands had drawers in them, and there was only one available drawer in the one dresser. The closet is also very small, and also houses the small refrigerator, leaving no room on the floor of the closet for shoes or luggage. Adding to the tacky decor were multi-colored plastic tube hangers, rather than the nice wooden hangers you normally find in a hotel room. There’s also no door to the closet, so exposed tacky plastic tube hangers, exposed clothes, and an exposed refrigerator just adds to the already tacky aesthetic of the room. |- TV TOO SMALL. Not much bigger than a computer monitor, and sitting a little too low to be comfortably viewed while sitting across the room in bed.|- NO COUNTER SPACE OR OTHER STORAGE SPACE AT ALL IN THE BATHROOM. There’s no place to spread out your makeup, or hair styling tools. And no other place in the bathroom to store them. The whole bathroom is generally very small and dark. |- VERY FEW BATH AMENITIES. The one shampoo and one conditioner were in the tiniest bottles I’ve ever seen. Good thing he’s bald or that would have never been enough for both of us for even one day. Other than that, just two tiny bar soaps. There was no shower cap, which I really needed on the day I wanted to shower without in getting my hair wet. They left an extra roll of toilet paper, which was appreciated, but the quality was so thin and weak it would tear off immediately in tiny pieces instead of rolling until you had enough. I had to take the toilet paper off the roller and keep it on the back of the toilet with the spare.|- NO IRON OR IRONING BOARD OR in STEAMER IN THE ROOMS. If you need one, you have to ask the staff to get it out of their supply room.|- NO STAFF ON DUTY AFTER 9:00PM. The front desk closes at 9 and I’m going to assume that means that after that time, there is no personnel on site at all. So if you need to check in after 9, or you need an extra blanket, extra pillows, the iron and ironing board, or you need to complain about noise, or need any help at all for anything, there won’t be anyone to help you after 9.|- BAD ELECTRICAL OUTLETS. These days with everyone having electronic devices that need recharged at night, every hotel should have a convenient, easily accessible place on both nightstands to charge. Ideally, there would be lamps with built-in USB ports in them. My boyfriend didn’t have that on his side of the bed. There wasn’t even a good spot on the desk for it. He had to charge his phone on the floor on the other side of the room. On my side of the bed, there was one electronic outlet with one available plug, but the holes were too big and my charger just kept falling out of it. |- NO FIREPLACE. For some reason, when my boyfriend booked a room at Coupeville Inn, he was under the impression that it would have a fireplace. He was certain he saw a photo of one of the rooms with a fireplace online somewhere. But ours did not have one, and I honestly don’t think any of the rooms have one. We didn’t notice any chimneys. |- POOR SECURITY. Instead of the card keys used by most hotels these days, their keys are the old-fashioned kind attached to tags with the room number on them. To make it worse, the code to enter the hotel through the exterior doors is written on the key tag. So, if you lost your key, not only would the person who found it have the code to get into the hotel, they would know your room number and have the key to get into your room. |- NO FITNESS ROOM||It’s not a good place to stay if comfort, functionality, and atmosphere are a priority.

Room and bed were comfortable. Location is perfect as it's close to the main strip of shops and restaurants. Very small town and felt safe the whole time. Service could be a lot better. The woman running the front desk the morning of 10/29 told me "I don't know what to tell you" and "there's a garbage can in the hallway" when I told her the fridge in the room was not working - the salmon n chips I got from Toby's last night was room temperature when I took it out of the fridge. As it's a very small town, you would think some effort would be made to remedy the situation. Not a snide remark of "was it plugged in?" - it's a hotel on a busy weekend - your guests shouldn't have to plug in the fridge for you. I would have been very happy if she had just given Toby's a call and told them the situation to see if they could get me 50% off the same meal. This woman would never consider making any kind of effort. Somewhat hesitant to stay here again because of this woman. The lady running the desk yesterday afternoon was delightful and very helpful!

Cute and beautiful boutique hotel. We had a room with 2 Queen beds on the main floor with a balcony that had a peek a boo view of downtown Coupeville and the water. Rooms were beautifully decorated and the beds were comfy. The only thing I didn't like was the toilet was too low. So, if you have bad knees, it may be difficult to get up and down. ||Just a heads up, this hotel does not have an elevator and lots of stairs. You have to use steps to get to/from the lobby. So, if you are disabled or have a wheelchair, this place is not for you. They do have handicapped accessible rooms on the first floor that has an entrance in the back of the hotel, but the only access you have is to the room. Everywhere else has stairs. ||They do have a continental breakfast every morning from 7:30-10am in the "Breakfast Room" that you have to go upstairs to the second floor then go down another 7-8 steps to get into the room. They have bagels, toast, fruit, yogurt, orange juice, tea, and cocoa. ||The hotel is a block away from the town so it's only a short walk to restaurants and shops.||Overall we had a nice stay and will stay here again.

We stayed one night in June. The room was comfortable, good beds good bathroom with shower and tub. We stayed on the 2nd floor with sea view. The balcony with view was a real treat. The building is quaint and just steps away from front street where the restaurants are. |Breakfast was very poor. No cereals, only sweet bread, no savory items We were told is was down to staffing shortages.. For $206 a night I expect more. I stayed in motels who make a better job of that. There is no A/C, just a fan, so I imagine that will be a problem in summer. There is complimentary coffee and tea on the 1st floor, but no water to boil for the tea. Other than that no refreshments available. Maybe a vending machine is a good idea?