Camano Island Inn

"I will try to keep this as to the point as possible, but DO NOT BOOK THIS PROPERTY. I have reached out to the owners and given them the chance to address their problems and make a good faith effort to show they are trying but after a week I have received no reply, so my only option now is to warn fellow travelers. My hope is the property owners realize that what they are doing is shady and they either need to put their efforts into returning to either returning to good business practices, finding a better management company, or selling to someone who will. - It looks like up until 2019 this was a nice place to stay. COVID must have done a number on them because they are not anymore, and it shows. Ignore any review before the past 2 years, those posters clearly visited the property in a better time. - Do not trust the pictures show on the website. They are inaccurate to the current property. We stayed in room 2 which pictured a dramatic 4 poster bed and other romantic colors and theming. Those have been replaced. The bed is now with a spring steel frame without even a bed skirt to hide it’s barrack’s like feel. The mattress is old and uncomfortable. All rich red colors in the website picture have been replaced with a sickly beige of a mid to low end motel. The other furniture, fixtures, and curtains are damaged and pathetic. It looks like they were trying to upgrade at some point but gave up and are now trying to charge for luxury resort while delivering roadside motel. DO NOT TRUST THEIR PICTURES. Its not the difference between a good and bad photo, they do not show the image of the room today. BAIT AND SWITCH. - The deck does not have the wicker and cushion furniture but is steel mesh. The mini hot tub is about 4’ diameter, and shallow (maybe 2.5’) and the moment you get in, it overflows through the deck. If two try to use it together the remaining water level threatens to sink beneath the jets causing a horrible sucking sound all night. The covers are weather battered, cracked, and unappealing looking. - The “bistro” is simply an area of tables and chairs with a microwave, coffee maker, and a few free snacks they bought at Costco. It is not staffed and honestly, we never saw an innkeeper except one cleaning person emptying garbage and restocking the water bottles. THERE IS NO BISTRO. - The outside property is verging on overgrown. The grass is weedy, the blackberries and hedges are overgrown. The one good thing about the place, the view, is half obscured on lower floor rooms. The plexiglass of the decks is disgustingly dirty anyway so even if the plants were cut back, you are staring through hazy plastic. The walk down to the beach is barely accessible, almost overgrown as well, and narrow causing you to walk through a neighbor’s back yard. Altogether, the appearance is an owner who just doesn’t care anymore, or perhaps is so strapped that they can’t afford to make this place as nice as they are charging for. It’s a shame, the property wa"