Carisbrooke Inn Bed & Breakfast

This is a great bed and breakfast for a quiet couples getaway. We stayed during the slow season and we had the place to ourselves. The service was excellent and the breakfast was amazing! Also the ice cream 😋 The hosts were very attentive to our needs.

Nice selection for breakfast. Rooms are comfortable. Nice for a lil weekend getaway. Close to Tropicana, the beach and downtown shopping (less than 8 minutes away). Safe area and quiet.

John, the owner can’t do enough for you. Coffee and bottled water is always available. Ice, cups and glasses for wine are clean and plenty. Nice restaurants in walking distance. Breakfast is always hot and fresh. You can see the ocean from the dining room.

This is a charming and lovely B&B in an older but updated building in Ventnor, NJ less than 1 block from the boardwalk. The people who run the place are friendly and accomodating and the breakfast was quite good. A few words of caution: there are stairs to get in and to climb to higher floors. The bathrooms have been updated but are small and my room was not large but others are larger. On the plus side, there are several good places to eat and a Wawa, all within 2 blocks. Finally, the parking lot is a block away.

We've been coming here since 2006, usually several times a year. John and Agnes are wonderful hosts.. This was our second visit this summer. Carisbrooke Inn is like a second home. We usually take Room 2, the large room downstairs with a small deck. Each room has a private bathroom. Since the advent of Covid, breakfast is now at the North Beach Cafe down the street. There are outdoor tables in nice weather. There are wonderful chocolate chip cookies in the living room and breakfast can include one of Agnes's delicious scones. You also can select an ice cream cone or water ice each afternoon, and there are a lot of flavors to choose from. The beach towels and beach chairs are included and you're just a half block from the beach and boardwalk. It's all the pleasure of a vacation home with none of the aggravation.

Staying at Carisbrook Inn was a last minute decision. It's now on our list of places we'd like to come back to for a longer visit. We stayed on the ground floor in a room with a king bed, antique furniture and access to it's own deck. The bed/pillows were very comfortable. The inn provided beach chairs, beach towels and you can check out beach badges. Access to the beach was one block down the street. The breakfast is a little different from other places we've stayed. You go down the street to a local cafe and order from a set menu. There were a large range of choices and the food was delicious. My favorite part may have been that you also get a small ice cream from the same cafe in the afternoon. I do think that if you have mobility issues this would be a challenging place to stay. The parking is about a block away, the breakfast is half a block away and there are stairs into the building.

My partner and I stayed 3 nights in Room 3 (first floor, queen bed, private bathroom) and it was exactly what we hoped for. We're always looking for nice LGBTQ+ friendly travel options and this was one of the ones we read about. The bed was so comfortable, the room was actually larger than I expected for a B&B, the wifi strong, the A/C strong, the location perfect, the parking spot appreciated. Restaurants, shops, and beach access are right there and walkable. We loved the included breakfast at North Beach Cafe, and the convenience of beach chairs the inn provides. You can also get beach permits at the cafe ($25 per person) and get a refund when you return them. The self checkin and checkout was also really convenient. There are homemade cookies in the living room that I had to drag my partner away from one night. The room was also (surprisingly) quiet - we didn't hear anyone else on property (hopefully we weren't the loud ones!). There are a few things that could have made the trip even better for us: the shower pressure was so strong, it was actually painful (it feels weird complaining about strong shower pressure, when I know it's better than no shower pressure); the freebies in the welcome letter - beach towels, water bottles - were always depleted (we got 1 beach towel and 2 bottles of water over the 3 nights we were there because the inventory was empty); the afternoon wine and refreshment hour a lot of people mention in the reviews doesn't appear to be a thing anymore - we would have loved that! Overall, we had a really great time, would stay again, and would highly recommend!

What a pleasant time, though I may try to stay on the second floor next trip:) I’m short and the ceilings on the 3rd floor in our room were proving challenging for me.

I have been coming to this bed-and-breakfast for 20 years now and I can’t say enough good things about it. The location is amazing. Everything is right around the corner. Lots of restaurants, drug stores, food stores, etc.. The beach and boardwalk are right there as soon as you walk out the front door, for a nice morning walk and a day at the beach. 😊 The place is always clean. The staff always makes us feel like we are in our own homes, always meeting all our needs. The little cafe for a free breakfast has incredible food, and a lunch and dinner if you want something close. I can’t say enough good things about John, who always gets back to me as soon as possible with any needs that we have. I would highly recommend this place to anyone!