Excellent stay, would choose this place again! Location is pretty great, even being on one end of Cannery Row. Only a short walk to anywhere on the row and aquarium. Even the old wharf is only about a 10 minute walk.
We chose a room with an oceanfront balcony, which had the bay right below you and was pretty private. However. If you choose the harbor ocean view balcony room, you'll probably get one of the rooms facing south, which will still get you a view of the ocean, but of the pier and park also, and is not private at all.
The nice thing about the balcony is you can sleep with the door wide open all night and listen to the ocean waves. However, the sea lions and seagulls were actually much louder than the waves were and constant! Other neighbors also left their balcony doors open all night, we could hear other people's conversations pretty easily, but maybe they were just loud talkers. We still very much enjoyed the room and spent a lot of time out on the balcony.
A breakfast tray was brought to our room every morning with quite a few choices. We had fresh fruit, pastries, yogurt, coffee, tea, juice for two and it was the perfect amount and start to the morning. All of the hotel staff we encountered were very nice and friendly.
The only downside to the room was the 1-ply TP and the very low flow shower head. Having a parking garage space was nice, about $28 a day.
Would definitely come back! Hopefully next time, we will score a higher floor balcony room!!