Cliff House Resort & Spa

Went here for our first year anniversary ! This is where my parents where married so it is very special to me. Back for our second year they have treated us so well. ThankYou cliff house beautiful view from our room and great service ! We stayed in the resort spa. Wouldn’t ever eat here but both years have loved my room !

The restaurant is awful! Bad food, bad service. None of the staff appears to care. The mgr. was clueless and unphased when we expressed our disappointment in the food quality.
Poorly run, clueless staff. Was not an off night… Appears to be the norm. A huge disappointment for a lovely resort restaurant. The view is terrific but not worth the lousy food and service,
They should either Close it or hire a new chef, mgr. and staff.

My partner and I decided to spend a long holiday weekend in Ogunquit. We have a dog, and The Cliff House is one of two hotels in the area that allow dogs. After looking at pictures online of both, we decided on The Cliff House.
The hotel does need some updating, which I understand is to happen this winter, but overall, we had a great stay!
The views are SPECTACULAR! The photos you see online do not do the views justice! Since we have a dog, our rooms are situated on the bottom floor, but still had a wonderful view and had access to walk around near the cliffs. We also slept with the balcony door open, so we could hear the waves crashing over the bluff at night. It was very romantic.
The fitness facilities at this gym are TOP NOTCH. The gym is spacious, has ample cardio machines, and even free weights for bench press as well as dumbbells up to 65 lbs. It also includes a smith machine for squats among 10 – 12 other machines for various exercises. My partner is training for a long distance swim, so the lap pool was perfect for him.
We enjoyed breakfast at the hotel every morning. It was great. The price is VERY reasonable, $ 18 for full breakfast buffet, including omelette and waffle bar. The food was delicious, and the staff was very friendly and helpful.
Overall, I’d say this hotel is great for the money. The staff is great, they allow dogs, have great fitness facilities, and unparalleled views! I would be excited to come back after the renovation to see how it turns out!

Serene, scenic, comfy, out door pool with great drinks made by John. Totally worth it.

Went to the spa this morning for the girls in my family annual spa day. Place is usually great for the spa day but today they messed up the scheduling which I can live with. The attitude of its your problem not ours is what I can’t. Poor costumer service. Plenty of spas in the area to try next time.

O-​U-​T-​D-​A-​T-​E-​D. Overpriced. Skanky. Unkept.
Whatever you do, don’t stay here. You’ll be disappointed about everything. I’ve only stayed in two worse places on my life. One of those was in West Africa and the other in West Virginia. It might be worth $ 49/​night.

My wife and I had stayed at the Cliff House 5 years ago and really enjoyed it, so we were really looking forward to returning last week. However, from the minute we turned into the driveway we were disappointed. I am listing below some of the issues:
–The grounds are unkempt and do not give the appearance of a luxury resort
–The check in service was awful
–The hallways are suffering from deferred maintainance to say the least, carpets dirty and frayed, doors look shoddy, no décor on the walls, basically looks like a no tell motel.
–The rooms weren’t any better, paint is chipped, carpets terrible, balcony floor cracked
–The pool area has more of a Motel 6 feel to it than a luxury resort. The pool furniture should all be replaced, and the general area is dirty and you can’t even get a cup of water.
–The tennis courts were a JOKE. The courts were all cracked with grass growing up from the cracks, the gates were broken and the path leading to the courts was strewn with debris, and looked like something from Grey Garden.
I could go on, bottom line is that unfortunately there are new owners, what a shame. From the way the place is run it seems like they don’t really care. The place still has one of the greatest view going, but you can’t live on that alone. You can’t charge Ritz prices for the Motel 6, in fact I have been in Motel 6’s that were in better shape.

Five Star prices for a run-​down facility. Very dissatisfied.
This resort has been bought by a large corporation and will be renovated this winter and next spring. It’s sorely needs it. It hasn’t been maintained.
Don’t stay here. It’s a rip-​off.

I went to the Cliff House for a work retreat, where we were to spend the day enjoying the resort during our downtime from the workshop. I must say that I was extremely disappointing with this place. Besides the amazing view, the food, service and décor were frankly just awful.
The most disappointing and shocking part of our stay there was the food, so that is what I will highlight. For the resort prices I know we spent, the food was quite atrocious. We were given basically the food of a backyard bbq: burgers and sides. All of the burgers on the buffet were extremely under cooked, and many were RAW. The other food was decent at best. Not what I would expect from a resort.
But probably worst of all, there was MOLD on the desserts. We were given apple pies, and one of the pies had noticeable mold. When I brought this up to the waitress, she lied to me saying «they were just taken out of the oven». These pies were cold, and clearly store bought, so I knew this was a cover up. Not only were these not homemade, but they clearly weren’t fresh at all. It is a disgrace that I place like this would serve such terrible, low quality food.
The service did little to make up for this. People were slow, unorganized, and were not on time starting our lunch. Not one person even offered to show us how to get from our workshop space, through the maze of a resort, to the dining area.
Overall, a huge disappointment. I would recommend that nobody waste their money here. There are so many nice places in Ogunquit, and this is unfortunately not one of them.

Overall I had an excellent stay. What a breathtaking view. This place is amazing. Came with a friend to relax, the place is modern but has been around for a long time. a lot of history, very interesting. They have an indoor pool and outdoor pool and a hot tub inside and outside. The rooms are very comfortable and I could have slept in bed all day as the beds were so comfortable. Service was excellent. Everything was clean. The only two bad things is check out is at 11 it really should be noon. Also we order a breakfast basket and it never came and we had to call. The basket of pastries was disappointing, it seemed stale, I expected more. The fruit cup was divine. I expect juice but had to call for that as well as ice water which usually a standard. I still would stay here again, just would not order the breakfast basket although it was so nice to eat on the balcony, the view alone is worth staying here.

Reading all of these reviews, I was a little nervous but we had a fantastic experience. We stayed in the spa building and it was updated and clean. Our room had a fireplace in it, which was perfect for the cooler nights. The bed was amazingly comfortable and the staff was very friendly. The view was gorgeous and it was so nice to have the ocean as a «living sound machine». The spa was great! We enjoyed our massages. We did not visit the restaurant because the dress code was so vague I didn’t want to chance the embarrassment of being turned away. We were dressed respectably, but for a beach vacation, so we got our meals off premise. Everything else was great.

Came for an overnight escape. Booked the Epicurious package which included breakfast and dinner. We stayed in the Cliff House section of the hotel in a room which had a breathtaking view of the Atlantic from the balcony. The beds were comfy and the room was spacious and clean. The furniture and wallpaper needs a serious update.
We found the dining room beautiful and were seated at a corner table over looking the ocean. Our server was so warm and welcoming. We both found our meals delicious, from beginning to end. My husband went with the lobster mac al forno and I had the stuffed haddock. My only note for improvement of the meal would be that the whipped potatoes had clearly not been seasoned and could have used a little garlic ect, to wake them up-​but that’s really a minor note. Of course it’s Maine so we went with the blueberry pie for dessert which was fresh and served hot with ice cream-​the only way to go.
After dinner we enjoyed sitting by the fire pit over looking the ocean. The next morning we watched the sunrise from our deck then enjoyed a great buffet breakfast. We left feeling like we had a mini vacation! We look forward to a return trip!

A friend and I came to the Cliff House Resort & Spa for a girls spa get-​away weekend.. The goal was to relax and be pampered. The room was clean. décor needs to be updated. The pictures online looked amazing but in real life it looked like the place that old ugly furniture goes to die.
The website has deals for spa services, accommodations and food. I have some food allergies (gluten, it takes a bit more planning) so weighing the options and the lack of a menu online I decided to book my room via Expedia and spa services Ala cart. The packages included 1dinner, and breakfast each day & $ 100 towards spa services. It wasn’t that much of a deal seeing the food choices weren’t grand and the only spa services that would be covered was a $ 45 MANICURE. & a $ 70 PEDICURE… are they serious charging that much for those services??? No shock to me the whole 3 days I stayed there the «manicure» room was dark and empty. BTW the chairs you would sit in were nothing special. definitely not worth those prices
The ladies of the spa were well seasoned and did a fabulous job of relaxing me and my friend. Very accommodating and knowledgeable. I found my services worth the money I paid but the locker room could’ve been a bit more upscale for what I paid. The high end price should reflect the products and amenities available in the locker room. The shampoo was rough. conditioner was not up to my standards and no available facial wash or facial cream.
My room didn’t have a working remote, guide of tv stations, or a welcome book giving us a run down of the accommodations, food service, menus, in room dinning, or recommendations for local attractions. Makes me wonder if they stripped the room of the basic information every hotel offers bc I booked via Expedia.. Maybe it was an oversight. who knows
Views were AMAZING… and the goal was reached… I left stress free. From what I’ve heard the Cliff House Resort & Spa is under new management and is getting better… I will come back during season and see if things improve. I hope the update the furniture. .Outside was beautiful inside needs a bit of love. I have high hopes

Ok. They are getting there! Heard a bit about future plans. Bad news. Spa rooms back to costing over $ 350.

Wow. We were there last night just for cocktails and the bartender was awful! ! No personality and poured a nasty drink. Get it together people! Hire better people for crying out loud!!! Back tonight for a wedding. Hopefully it’s a better experience. My daughter has Celiac disease and I called 4 days ago for gluten free options and was supposed to get a call back and never did.

We had a great time as usual, the views are spectacular and the hospitality and attention to detail are certainly on the rise but what happened to the Spa pool being an adult only area? It used to be adult only, no crying infants or screeching toddlers.
Cliff House management, please bring back the adult only outdoor spa pool sanctuary! We had to vacate the pool area on two separate days as the decibel levels approached a Disney water park. I now understand why the need to keep the spa pool chlorine levels higher than previous years.

The views are amazing, but that’s about the only thing this hotel has going for it. The rooms are severely dated in so many ways; 70s wallpaper, wooden doors, plastic lounge chairs, rusted A/​C units and the tiniest bathroom you’ll probably ever see in a hotel. We stayed in the Cliff Top, which is a separate unit from the overall building. It smelled like BO upon entering and there was no elevator. The food at the restaurant was awful (though the pool bar sandwiches were decent for a quick lunch) and the service is poor. The staff make it seem like they’re doing you a favor by waiting on you. The pools are great; an infinity pool with a small bar to the side which serves sandwiches and limited drinks as well as the indoor lap pool and outdoor hot tub. The cliffs are gorgeous and you can walk right out to them — perfect for photo ops. Each room had a balcony which was lovely, even if it wasn’t properly maintained. If I had a choice, I wouldn’t choose to stay here again.

Used to be better but clearly on the way back up… (3.5 stars)
I had spent time at the Cliff House about 10 years prior to my most recent visit. At that time, it was an amazingly luxurious resort with breath-​taking views and fantastic food. Unfortunately, the years and economy have not been good to the Cliff House. We arrived for a long-​weekend to find a very quiet and subdued experience. The views, of course, were still as breath-​taking as ever. The lobby was clean and inviting. We had our infant daughter with us and the staff were very accommodating, giving us a room at ground level so we did not need to lug her stroller up and down stairs.
The resort is secluded, further down shore from Perkin’s Cove. We stayed in the Cliffscape building which is one of the older buildings but still quite nice. The room could use some updating but was clean with a pretty view of the coast.
The infinity pool was gorgeous and it end up being the place where our daughter took her first swim. The water was perfect and the pool was nice and peaceful so she could calmly experience the water. The views of the ocean from the pool were surreal. The property also has indoor pools.
We did not have diner at the Cliff House but did grab breakfast at the dining room. The food was pretty good. Clearly, the resort would benefit from a more lively dining experience. The dining room is a bit outdated and the menu limited. It seems that refreshing the menu and updating the ambiance would bring a lot of clientele for dinner and brunch and then that in turn could bring in guests.
Overall, the stay at the Cliff House was very pleasurable and relaxing. That was definitely the goal of the trip. They are refinishing the buildings and rooms and grooming the grounds. The Resort is under new management and already positive gains can be seen. We would definitely come back.

I was looking for a place with a good Sunday brunch and stumbled on the Cliff House. The reviews on here are pretty bad but they are for the hotel not the food. We didn’t stay at the hotel so I can’t comment on that but the grounds are amazing and the views are fantastic. We stayed for a good hour or two after brunch just to explore the rocks and look at the ocean. The food was really good and the selection wasn’t bad either. They have all the standards like bacon, sausage, homefries, waffles, french toast, corned beef hash, and ham as well as an omelet station and carving station. My favorite dish however was the curry chicken. I really wasn’t expecting much and was blown away.
I got the feeling that they haven’t been doing brunch very long because it wasn’t that crowded but I was satisfied. The price was reasonable and what I expected. About $ 21 a person. Another plus is they are set away from everything else and have plenty of free parking.

Why this is classified a «resort» I will never know.
First the positive —
Nice sized room in the Spa building with a terrific balcony overlooking the coastline.
Decent adult pool area
Friendly guy checked us in
Great location just south of Perkin’s Cove. Too far to walk but easy drive or taxi ride to great restaurants and scenery.
Now the rest —
Don’t be misled by resort in the name — it’s a motel in sheep’s clothing.
A resort would have bathrobes in the room.
A resort would not use those hangers like motels use (see picture) so you can’t steal them.
A resort would use nice soaps and shampoo, not wafer thin generic motel 6 soap.
A resort would not have paved parking spaces in the prime cliffside space that should be grounds to enjoy.
A resort would have bell service
The lobby has terrible flood lights that illuminate the wood ceiling. It’s assaulting when you walk in. Then there’s this odd hodge podge of furniture in the lobby.
There is complimentary coffee in the lobby from 6:30am — 7:30am. Yep! 1 whole hour. So if you’d like to be up and dressed and in the lobby by 7:30am on your weekend getaway, have at it. It’s all yours. Crazy.
I read the Spa Building was built in 2002, but the furnishing look like they’re from 1992 (including the green floral bedspread)
The dining room is atrocious. It’s like a cruise ship formal dining room, the kind your great grandmother would want to have brunch in. This dining room needs a serious makeover for modern day customers. And the business attire dress code prominently posted on the sign out front… I thought we were at a resort? I don’t bring «business attire» when I go to coastal resorts. Needless to say, we never dined here. Can’t vouch for the food, though I did get a margarita pizza from the bar to take back to my room. It was ok.
The bar area is completely done wrong in my opinion. It’s crowded into a little corner so if you sit at the bar you get to look at the wall. YOU’RE ON THE OCEAN — bring the bar out and put it by the windows and liven this place up. This could be a very busy popular restaurant and bar, due to the view, if they would just bring it into 2012. Gut the restaurant and do a modern dining room open to the bar.
Never figured out if they have room service breakfast or not. No menu for breakfast in the room, only dinner. But I did see a card to hang on your door for continental breakfast. Confusing.
I would not stay here again. It’s not a resort. It’s an overpriced motel on a cliff with a storied history. I don’t mind paying $ 371/​night when it’s an actual resort. I’ve never paid that before for a motel.