Temecula Valley Wine Country Vacations from ￥266,395

Was not as nice as the pictures made it seem.

Great stay! So peaceful and beautiful grounds. Staff was wonderful! Will totally go back

No Fridge, easily get over charged for the mini bar. Never use the mini bar, but got charged after checked out without any notification.

The Empress is wonderfully located, an easy walk to La Jolla Cove with restaurants, convenience stores, and shops all around. That part was excellent. Breakfast covered the basics reliably: scrambled eggs, sausages, bread, coffee. Nothing fancy, but consistent. My only gripe was the juice selection: overly sweet mixes and no simple orange juice. Where the stay stumbled was room maintenance. Our bathroom door lock did not work at check-in, and engineering had to fix it. The toilet’s flush leaked and later failed on our last day. The in-room safe would not open because the batteries ran low while our documents were inside. The iron left a black stain on my shorts the first time I used it, which suggests it was not cleaned after a previous guest. None of these alone would be a deal-breaker, but together they added up.

We booked a room for 2 days thinking there was kitchen as the amenities mentioned kitchen, microwave. But when we got there we got a very small room even without a microwave and there was no closet. It was very deceiving. Manager did keep us in a different room in Day 2.