Carlton Oaks

Very Old, 70’s property. Bed’s are clean but small (doubles) and stiff. However there are lots of bugs (mosquitos, spiders, knats, and June bugs). Very Motel/​Travel Lodge, not a great value for the cost. Calling this a «resort» in criminal. There is a $ 10 «resort fee», no room service, pool yes, no room assistance, no afterhours front desk. No outside food or drink allowed at the pool, however there is also no food or beverage service at the pool. You have to sit and wait at the bar/​restaurant and take you food out. Most people who golf there don’t stay there. Rooms are concreate, outlets are not convenient and there are only a few. No security. However there is a lighted security booth with no one ever manning it. Mold is apparent inside and out on the AC units. I had mosquitos in my bed and inside my pillow case. The front desk offered me «OFF» bug spray. $ 13 for a burger, very rare. My 12 yr old daughters bled and was inedible. No one did anything for her. We were ignored for 60 minutes. Bar staff was great but understaffed for more than 5 people. Book your events or tee time, but stay somewhere else. This is not a good value.

YES! HAVE YOUR WEDDING HERE! Our wedding was 4÷22÷16 and it was absolutely perfect. Carlton Oaks offers a beautiful garden ceremony site (chairs and arch included), reception hall with plenty of menu options (tables, chairs, place settings, linens included), and overnight accommodations for visiting guests. They have a great bar and your guests will be happy to take advantage of it. It was great having everything in one place and the venue is well-​kept and grounds are just beautiful and perfect for pictures. The garden is semi-​private so unlike some venues, your ceremony will not be interrupted by golfers or other guests.
Yvette was our day-​of coordinator and she is awesome. She is professional and personable, and knows how to get things done. My wedding day was completely stress-​free all thanks to Yvette.
Many of our guests stayed at the resort overnight and everyone was very pleased with the rooms. You won’t find this quality of rooms anywhere else in East County.

I love this place! The food is good for the price, my favorite meal here is anything on the breakfast menu. As long as you order before 11am you can enjoy a nice breakfast indoors or outdoors. The service is sometimes slow but based on the location I can understand they may be under staffed, luckily I don’t mind waiting most of the time. Breakfast in the morning here is absolutely beautiful if you eat outside as well!

What a great place to stay! We’ve heard people say «Santee is boring,» I don’t think so. This place is great! Clean and staff are super friendly and welcoming. We stayed here because of the large pool. The amount you pay here is sooo much better than staying down town. If you like being outside the city this is a place to stay. It’s really nice place to get some R & R. I highly recommend this place.

Carlton Oaks is a quant inexpensive clean charming hotel to stay! We stumbled on these accommodations after attending (and staying) for a family members wedding. We stay here often when coming to San Diego to visit our daughter and her new husband. While here we enjoy the pool and chilling by the fire pit at night. The Restaurant /​Bar has great drinks & good food. We especially enjoy the breakfast and the always welcoming attentive staff! Every now and again my husband will golf. Could have given 5 stars but just don’t want to imply that this is a 5 star hotel, it is in our opinion deserving of a great review as the price meets the value. We will be back again and again.

My wife and I always stay here when in the San Diego area. Quiet (it is a golf course) room is clean, bath works well and bed is comfy. Also, the bar is very nice except for the acoustics and the food is very good. Great staff. Best place for the money. Would recommend highly.

BED BUGS. Booked this hotel through
, reviews were decent. Needed this for a work stay over. BLOODY BED BUGS. It was a nightmare. Then we had to throw out my husbands clothes. We couldn’t risk an infestation at home. So gross. Do not stay here. Nothing else matters when bed bugs are involved.

We’ve had our Thanksgiving dinner here for two years and it’s been GREAT! Food (all you can eat) great and service is incredible!

The room had bugs on the bed we did not sleep there it was nasty. Roaches in the restroom

I cannot say enough positive things about Yvette and the Carlton oaks experience! First we hired Yvette for day of coordination and I could NOT have imagined getting through the day without her. She is phenomenal and the perfect mix of professional and personal. The venue is absolutely gorgeous and the pricing on point! We loved that tax and gratuity were already figured into our quote with no hidden cost! Everything was perfect for both our rehearsal dinner (which was also at Carlton Oaks) and our wedding itself!

Clean plus friendly staff. perfect location for what we needed

Very very nice and clean rooms, the manager Will is an awesome guy hooked us up with nice gift since we where celebrating our anniversary. I will admit the outside is a little deceiving but once you get in to the county club or golf club area and you see the rooms very NICE! Thanks again Will!

This place was Clean, Friendly and Fair. Seriously folks, this place was really great. The staff was friendly and extremely flexible. Early check in, «No Problem Sir,» Late check out «No Problem Sir,»
We will be back.
Thanks again,
Rob

Great course! Need to review your strategy before pulling the driver on every hole. Lots of fun

I got married in November, so this review is a little late, but I had the best wedding ever! I highly recommend hiring Yvette as the day of coordinator, she makes sure everything goes perfectly! From the venue to the food… Or everything she had a hand in planning went perfectly, her recommendations on venders was phenomenal and they all worked so well together! All of my out of town guests were well taken care of and I did not have to struggle with any day of hassles!

I was visiting friends in San Diego, and they took me to this golf course. I like the lay out a lot, challenging, requires good course management. The course is in Poor conditions at best. Starter’s etiquette unacceptable, even though we had called for a tee time, group (s) with later tee times were sent out before us. I did not appreciate that, especially considering the amount of time we had to wait to hit each of our shots. $ 10 for 2 small beers on the course !!! Too bad.

I just had my wedding here this last weekend. Yvette and her staff did an amazing job making the day run completely smooth. She was excellent at making sure that each indivdual part was on time and flowed smoothly. We got many compliments on how delicious the food was and the service. Many of our family members also stayed in the resort and were very impressed with the newly remodeled rooms. Ramona the hotel manager was also very helpful through out the whole process. Carlton Oaks is a top notch venue to have your wedding at. If you are a person who worries about every little detail of your event this is the place to go because they help you with anything and everything!!! They even provide you with the best of the best vendors from cake to flowers to linens.

I’m a hack golfer and I find this course difficult but it’s really a lot of fun. Not very expensive either, usually a tee-​time costs around $ 35-​$ 40. Now played it about 6 times and if you love to golf and want to play a challenging course then I’d recommend it.
Good bar there too for the 19^th hole!

I am sad that I even have to put one star for Yvette the wedding Cordinator she was so unprofessional and rude to the guests she even hit one of the groomsman with her golf cart and did not even apologize. She’s so intense and she did not even give the bride and groom a proper tasting. I had to sit in as a representative of of the groom on two of the tastings and she did not greet us and did not have time to explain anything. She looks at you and treats you as if you are ignorant. FYI I have planned and presented to amazingly beautiful weddings one at the El Cortez downtown San Diego and the other at Barona’s golf event center. It is amazing the difference between the quality of the wedding Cordinator’s at those locations compared to the Yvette. The location is beautiful my suggestion if you want to do your wedding here is to bring in your own wedding Cordinator to deal with Yvette!
Or try going to Barona which you get treated like royalty! Yvette looks as if she is exhausted and hates her job and she behaves the same way so good luck!
I really hope this information helps you

Just when I thought this course couldn’t get worse… and it does. What in the hell are you guys doing to this course, your destroying it!
I can’t believe you still ask the prices that you ask for what looks like twenty year old dried up dog turd. The greens are in horrible condition… still!
This is a twenty dollar course at best! I’ve recently played Steele Canyon and Sycuan. Both fine examples of what a golf course should look like.
Photos of this place are very old stock photos, back in a time when this was a beautiful, well maintained golf course. I truly wish the owners, or management actually read these reviews and did something about it.
I think the word might be… BROKE! Sell one of your 100k cars that you drive to the course, and buy some grass seed!