Chaminade Resort & Spa

My husband and I got married here last July and everything was wonderful. The wedding coordinator Angela was wonderful to work with from beginning to end, clearly very knowledgeable and very patient with every little thing. The venue was beautiful and it was so nice to have an outdoor ceremony and then just walk upstairs for the indoor reception. It was also great to have all the tables, chairs, linens, tableware, etc. taken care of and not have to worry about all the set-up and take-down! The food was delicious and the service was great. There was a even a lovely woman named Shannon who kept checking in with my husband and I to make sure we had food! Overall, we were extremely happy with our choice to get married here.

We had a great wedding at Chaminade!! Our coordinator Angela was wonderful and made our wedding perfect, but overall Chaminade definitely seemed behind and unorganized when it came to communication in the beginning. The resort worked for our needs to have everyone stay together and host a weekend of events, including our rehearsal dinner for 55, wedding ceremony and reception for 85, and goodbye breakfast for 40 so we had a full weekend celebration there and everyone stayed at the hotel. With the amount of investment we were putting in to it we had hoped that the cost of the hotel rooms for our guests would have been lower, but they were still pretty pricey. It wasn’t as smooth leading up to the wedding (I'm a Type A bride so I appreciate lots of communication and organization) and I had to be very proactive in checking in to see where things stood. We were sold on the renovations to the main building and that’s what we signed on for so it was disappointing that 5 months before the wedding no one told us that the renovations wouldn’t be happening anymore. Our Chaminade wedding planner also changed half way through and no one told us, she didn’t even intro us to another event planner to take over, we just got an auto reply that she had left and I had to call and track down a new coordinator which was unsettling for us and leading up to the wedding we had a lot of concerns. Thankfully we landed with Angela and she was our main point of contact and great to work with. When we arrived for the wedding weekend the grounds looked beautiful and well taken care of, the food at our rehearsal dinner, wedding reception and breakfast were all wonderful and we ended up having an amazing wedding! There were some hiccups day of, like the ceremony power outside wasn't delivered to the DJ on time, dinner issues where a couple of folks didn’t get the steak they ordered, food allergies were overlooked from our final headcount sheet, and heating lamps were in a shortage, but my husband and I didn't notice any of it and only learned of it after. There were some nice extras that Angela and her team added, like saving appetizers for us to enjoy during photos, getting a van for us to drive around the lot for photos, having a club sandwich, extra cake and bottle of champagne that was back in our room at the end of the night was an excellent touch and so appreciated! We really loved working with Angela and she bent over backwards to accommodate our requests and needs. Pros to Having your Wedding at Chaminade: - Location is convenient to the Bay Area and everyone can stay at the same place - Beautiful scenery and backdrop - Pricing is reasonable and all included which makes it so much easier on Brides - They worked with us on really any request we had (like eating dinner outside or specialty drinks) and were the most accommodating venue we met with Cons: - They do a lot of weddings so that might be why there was a lack of organization and disconnect - Prices for Guest Rooms are still high with the room block and the food onsite is expensive - The main lobby is pretty outdated, we were so excited for the new look and layout, but that didn't happen - Some parts of the planning process felt rushed and impersonal, again this may be because they have so many weddings but I just had to really stay on top of all of the planning and details

Amazing Venue! Jules is the best! She answered every question I had, and always found a solution! Great communication. They coordinated every detail. Things we didn't even think of! We could not have been happier with them. I wish I had something else to plan with them!

Let me start out by saying that I did not host my wedding or reception at Chaminade, but I did have a guest booking package for all of my wedding guests to stay there for our nearby wedding last month. 5 stars for the beautiful rooms - the suite they had us as the bride and groom in was modern, super clean, and exceptional. All the hotel staff were kind and graceful, but some major ball drops impacted my review in a big way. First, as the bride and groom we were instructed to book a standard room via a provided link, and their reps would cancel that reservation in order to re-book us at a free upgrade to a suite. This is a nice thing they do when you're booking a room block. However, the sales rep who performed this task made a big mistake - they cancelled our two night reservation in a standard room and replaced it with a one night reservation in the suite. This meant chaos, stress, and a million phone calls the morning they thought I was supposed to check out, during the time allotted for my ceremony rehearsal. So, a small disaster. Next was a bigger problem. They kindly agreed to store a small 1/5 size kombucha keg and our groom's cake in their walk-in refrigerator, which was really helpful and great because our venue didn't have the ability to store those items. However, when the time came for us to collect the groom's cake and kombucha keg, the keg was apparently in a locked walk-in and only one manager had the key. The staff could not locate said manager, and my poor mother and brother in law who were going to bring it to the venue were left freaking out and almost didn't make it to the ceremony on time. Chaminade offered no resolution or plan of action, and my relatives had to leave to make the ceremony. Luckily we were running behind and they didn't miss anything, but it's super disappointing that it took my dad calling Chaminade and getting very firm for them to even offer to bring the keg to us when they could locate the manger. By the time they finally found this missing manager and got the keg to our venue 5 minutes away the ceremony and cocktail hour were over. And hello, cocktail hour is obviously a big part of why I paid for this keg and drove multiple hours out of the city to collect it. So, in closing, 5 stars for the location and the rooms, -5 stars if you need anything additional from these people at all. Ball drops all over the place, no apologies or interest in doing anything to help you out when they create issues and chaos, and overall a super mis-managed operations.