It’s a holiday tradition that has drawn crowds of people to Forest Avenue and Morse Drive in Pacific Grove since the 1940s.
It’s one of the most elaborate holiday displays on the central coast and on Saturday night the lights were turned on.
Hundreds of visitors will flock to Candy Cane Lane, this month to help them get into the holiday spirit.
And it has nothing to do with drawing shoppers to PG. Enjoy, it’s free to visit and no one is trying to sell you anything.
New LED wreaths. Nice change from the boring white ones.
“Well the holiday season in Pacific Grove is very important, especially to the down town merchants, and so the decoration lightning that we do down there is a key integral part of the whole celebratory aspect here, and one of the things we’ve been looking at is energy efficiency, says Pacific Grove public works superintendent Celia Martinez.
Pacific Grove has done just that, with 90 wreaths lining the light poles on Lighthouse and over 6,000 holiday light bulbs shining for 9 hours per night through the holiday season, an electricity bill of over $2,200 from last year, will be cut drastically.
Speaking of boring white lights, the “little Las Vegas” display on the old Grove Theater building is out this year. Merry X-mas!
Don’t know if he is telling the truth or not.
Saying he’s fed up with nearly 14 years of delays in his attempt to build a luxury hotel in downtown Pacific Grove, developer Nader Agha has put the landmark Holman Building on the market.
The sale price of $17.95 million includes the 84-year-old, 120,000-square-foot Holman Building and the 1.35-acre lot it sits on, as well as four other lots on Fountain Avenue being used for parking and a building across the street at 549 Lighthouse, Agha said.
Nader’s Hotel Proposal, also championed by Losin’ Susan:
Nader blames the changes in city leaders, but other business people have been successful in deals with the city. Old Bathhouse. Lighthouse Cinema. Maybe a big (ugly) hotel is not what we need.
(Trip Advisor)
People let loose with comments –
The Clement Monterey
Breakfast at C overpriced but very good. Lots of flies in eating area and staff a little slow. Great location.The Intercontinental has used these plasticized mattress covers – I guess in case you have an accident!? Yuck.
Monterey Bay Inn
The only noise through the night was the Sea Lions honking down the beach, and I’m not going to complain about that.the flattest pillows I have ever seen.
The manager on duty was unprofessional, as well as argumentative and patronizing
Bed did not seem clean. Smelled like other people. Ew.
Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa
Every bit of noise was audible in the room, from the squawking seagull to the bass of a car. Though we could not hear our next door neighbors you can hear the folks upstairs. I was able to hear someone peeFatal flaw is the beds. Like plywood with a thin foam cover.
To reach the heart of Cannery Row, you have to walk by several “scenic” vacant lots, boarded up buildings and cyclone fencing.
Did I mention the service is super polite, even tho the waiter’s tie dangled in the main course and the dessert.
Sunset Inn
Regarding the room, I felt a bit like I was staying in a basement because of the pretty small windows in the room.I didn’t snore but the guy in the room next to ours did. The walls are extremely thin.
It was the same price as other very dirty properties.
A continental breakfast was offered but the coffee served was so foul it could strip paint.
Asilomar Conference Grounds
Stuff growing in corners of shower.staff liked to start cleaning rooms before 8am. It’s either sleep with the vacuum cleaner running, or get up.
Rosedale Inn Executive Suite
opening the windows took care of the smell.Deer Haven Inn & Suites
I also defrosted the refrigerator while I was there so the door would shutstay away from the back building with the two bedroom suites, very scary!!!
The room smelled clean but some of the items in the room did not. Those items are the bath tub, door hinges and the kitchen.
The room was like a section 8 apartment.
Lover’s Point Inn
pre-packed pastry where the list of chemical ingredients barely fits on the wrapper.good hotel to film a cheap B horror film at.
We wondered if it was haunted the motel was so empty.
Butterfly Grove Inn
but $190 for a room we didn’t want and in the end they gave to someone else?Holiday Inn Express Monterey – Cannery Row
We were woken up at 4am by a naked man talking on his phone outside our room (yes I did say naked!!) When I called reception they just came to the courtyard and asked the guy to ‘keep it down’Sadly the courtyard set up means that people stand outside their doors smoking along the footways overlooking the courtyard
Best Western Victorian Inn
When we got to our room and unpacked my wife heard a noise coming from the BR.We looked at the tub and the drain started to fill the tub with someone else s soapy, dirty water…yechh.Elevators smelled strange (possible pet urine?)
It was possible to hear whether the person in the bathroom above us was going #1 or #2 in the middle of the night
The Borg’s Ocean Front Motel
Right now my back feels like I slept on uneven rocks. Taking a pain pill and going to see the chiropractor tomorrow.we were not told there would be a triathalon taking place on the street in front of the motel (it blocked our view and megaphones were making very loud announcements starting at 5:30 in the morning) at the time we made our reservation. What’s with that?
Sea Breeze Lodge
the guy had to light the gas heat in our room which was really odd and made me paranoidI noticed the window was unlocked, so I checked all the other ones, which were also unlocked.
The Wilkie’s Inn
“Deceptfully charming on the outside. Nasty on the inside.”Lighthouse Lodge & Suites
there was a major draft through it and the room itself was strange in terms of decor.carpet needs to be shampooed-my feet became black when I walked barefoot
The two soaps on the sink area were unwrapped and one had obviously been used. There was a brown stain on a white towel.
view out the balacony was a “grave yard”.
They had no one available to fix the toilet so they sent a plunger over for US to do it ourselves.
sweaty-smelling pillows,
Best Western Monarch Resort:
looks and feels like a college apartment complex.