California Gardening: Any info on Ojai is appreciated, 1 by SoCal

SoCal wrote:
Hi Dawn and Terri,

Sorry I haven't replied sooner, but I never had the time to give you all the information from our trip.

Yes, we went and I'm sorry to say we came home after only one night. We didn't realize that most of the busines's and many of the restaurants are closed on Mon. and Tues. Even the museum was closed. It is very hard to spend time browsing in that small town when nothing is open. In fact, some of them were even closed for Vacation.

We also went the day the weather turned really hot. It was 99deg. there that day and it was not enjoyable to walk all over.

I think the worst thing that happened was our accomodations. We stayed at the Hummingbird Inn and when we pulled into the parking lot, we weren't even sure it was still in business. The parking lot was empty and the landscaping looked like no one had done anything for months. In fact, if there had been a board across the office door, we would have thought the placed was abandoned!!! As we approached to office, we saw a sign on the pool gate from the Health Dept. that the pool was closed and it was dated the middle of June. How come no one told us that when we made reservations? My dh brought his bathing suit also.
They also tried to give us a different room than what we had asked for. We asked for the room with a private patio and they wanted to put us in the back 40.... When we saw our patio we just threw up our arms and had to laught. It had 2 chairs and a little table and there was no way either one of us would have sat down on those chairs. They had not been cleaned off for months and there were spider webs encasing both chairs and the table. Yuk, Yuk!!!
We decided by the end of the day to leave the next morning and either go somewhere else or to go home. The lady in the office told my dh that we still had to pay for 2 nights and then my dh started talking legally to her about all the things that were not up to par, including how the pool was closed and no one told us. After a few days of emails to the owner, they finally refunded our credit card.

We did have a nice lunch and dinner that day but were ready to leave the next morning. My dh was supposed to play golf on the second day and he cancelled his tee time also.

We did go to the Garden Art place and enjoyed seeing all the unique things.
Terri, no I didn't see the Green Thumb garden in Ventura. When we left Ojai, we just headed south on Rt. 1 and stopped at the Santa Monica Pier for dinner.

I'm really sorry girls to tell you these negative things, but you both asked. Thanks for thinking of us though.

This was taken after dinner at the Pier.

Donna