La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club

I stayed here at the resort before I decided to explore the possibility of having a wedding here. The rooms are REALLY outdated and the food is not good... The staff is very rude. The only positive from this place is the front desk staff... Finally if your thinking about planning a wedding here I highly recommend you don't waste your time as they will waste yours. The catering department scheduled a meeting with me to go over my event and then stood me up and sent their assistant whom told me everything that was the opposite of what her boss told me after the fact. Overall the catering director was very rude and obnoxious. The catering director told me that they were declining my party. Please note that my party was a party of 80 and the room I was requesting only seats 120. I asked the catering director if she could talk with the general manager and ask him what food and beverage minimum would he like to place on my party as I am willing to agree on a minimum that he is comfortable with that is separate from the guest count. I told her that let's say I only have 80 people but to treat my party as a "larger party" and to place a minimum that suits. The catering director NEVER called me back with this number and overall played a ridiculous childish game with me and wasted my time!!! Who does business like this? I shared with my parents how I was treated and they termed the overall experience as obnoxious which it was. My family recently bought out the Pebble Beach Golf Course for my sisters wedding and they are a much higher level than ljbtc and the experience was night and day. To be treated and talked too how I was by the ljbtc was totally disgusting. Also know that the catering assistant went as far to talk to email me regarding the optimal dates for my wedding and even the sales manager emailed me room choices and rates.... To be called by the catering director a week later after the fact and told we were denied due to the size of our party and they were waiting for someone larger to book. She also threw in some crude comments that were obnoxious!!!I am a local La Jollan and after talking with people in La Jolla regarding my frustration I was told that the club is not a good place to throw ANY event as the catering staff is unhelpful and rude and if you or your party are not vacated from the banquet rooms by 10pm they call security. They are VERY strict on this policy. Things happen for a reason and at least they showed their true colors before contracts were drawn up as I would not want to have my wedding here with their negative energy.

The LJBTC is a private club, with a private beach on La Jolla Shores. This was GREAT for a beach wedding because they rope off a whole section of the beach for you, and you don't have to worry about city permits, etc. Also, you can have the reception right inside and your guests can all stay at the hotel, so everything is all in one spot! The cons: If you are not a member or don't know a member, you have to pay extra for every single one of your guests. Also, to even have the wedding there at all, you have to be/know a member, or book a certain number of hotel rooms! If you have above a certain number of guests you must pay for valet car service; they don't have a room for the bride to get ready in; and the reception must be over by 10 unless you get special permission. Also, I wasn't always very impressed with the staff- they give an air of being very classy with 5 star service (and you're paying for it), but then seem to hire young people without much experience, and at times we got conflicting information from all of them. Bottom line: if you MUST have a beach wedding and don't want to deal with park permits, etc. and money is not a huge concern for you (as there are a lot of random fees with the tennis club), and you're good at reading fine print to see how much it will really cost you, then check them out!