Paso Robles Accommodations
When traveling to a place I've never been, I usually prefer to walk from the place that I'm staying at to my destination. Using rideshare can not only drive up costs of a trip, especially during surging times, but is also unsafe during these covid times; walking is always better! When researching accommodations, I primarily search hotels or airbnbs, compare prices depending on the number of people in my group, and pick whichever is more affordable! I've stayed at both an airbnb and hotel in Paso Robles. I’ll share my recommendations and what I would do again on my next visit in this blog post!
My first time in Paso Robles I stayed at the cutest Airbnb near the city center of Paso Robles. It was such an easy straight away .08 miles, a 13 minute walk from downtown Paso Robles. It ended up costing only $370 total for a 2 night stay, which included a queen bed in one room, a pullout queen in the middle room, and a couch in the combined living room/kitchen area. I stayed with 2 of my friends, so that came out to $120 per person for the whole weekend! It was such a good deal and i would definitely stay there again next time if it's available. Especially since we didn't pay for any Ubers, it was so easy to walk back and to delicious food and wine tasting rooms.
The first time we visited Paso, we didn't know anything about the area, so we booked a Grapeline Wine Tour for the day. I highly recommend this tour group if you do not want to walk or are overwhelmed with researching the best wineries! They were the most accommodating wine tour group, they even picked us up and dropped us off at our airbnb. They picked us up at 10:30 am and we were able to tour 4 wineries, with lunch included! It ended up being $146 per person for the whole day; this included tastings at the 4 wineries, wine club member pricing on any bottles purchased, transportation, lunch, and a guided tour of the region! I added it up, and if you were to try to do this tour yourself, and pay for everything out of pocket, it would be about $130 per person, but you would have to do the research, and the wine club member pricing wouldn't be included. So this is always an option if you are able to spend a little more for a great first time experience.
My group of friends who usually travels to these wineries with me consists of a total of 5 girls, which can make it sometimes hard to find accommodations. What I usually do is look for a room with 2 queens, and a pull out couch. I have always been successful in finding a place with a bigger room to accommodate us together. We have fomo and would hate to be separated into different rooms!
The hotel we chose to stay at is called the Best Western Plus Black Oak. It's currently rated as a 4.4 stars out of 5 on google. It is definitely more of a motel feel, but it is really clean, very easy to park, and the workers are very knowledgeable about the wine country. When we arrived we were offered fresh baked chocolate cookies which we ended up using as palette cleansers while wine tasting. Yes, you can take snacks to wineries, as many wineries do not serve meals(check beforehand now during covid). The hotel offers a nice prepackaged breakfast consisting of a granola bar, orange or apple juice, and a muffin. Parking is free, and located right in front of our room for easy loading and unloading of all the wine we purchase! Black Oak is 1.1 miles from the city center, but we ended up buying so much wine, we ended up taking Ubers so they could carry it all for us!