Point Reyes Country Inn & Stables

Want to be pampered while on vacation with your horse? Point Reyes Country Inn and Stables is a B&B with clean comfortable beautifully decorated inn rooms as well as rooms with a kitchen, above a barn. There are lots of safe boarding options for your horses too. The property is entirely fenced with an electric gate. You bring hay, and feed, but the inn provides big water tubs. You can choose to clean your own paddocks for a reduced bill. When I’m on vacation, it’s nice to take a break from manure management.
If you stay in the stable accommodations above the barn, you can cook and hang out with a large group — which is a blast, and a less dusty experience from horse camping.
I prefer staying in the B&B main house on the property because I don’t need to pack groceries, cook, or do dishes. I focus on getting my horses settled into a pasture, and then getting comfy at the inn after a day out on the gorgeous trails of Point Reyes National Seashore. The only thing you need to bring is your beverage of choice.
Tom, the marvelous inn host, provides hot chocolate, coffee, tea, and a gourmet breakfast. If you need lunch, grab a deli sandwich at the grocery store in town before heading out on the trail. For dinner, we have tried all the restaurants but usually enjoy Café Reyes, salad and a pizza. Save room for something sweet because back at the inn, Tom provides chocolate covered malt balls and port for dessert in the common room. Often, we build a fire in the fireplace and visit with housemates.
You will find water as well as wine glasses and a cork screw in the private rooms. GLASSES not plastic. There are plenty of plush towels and warm water in the bathrooms.
You can discreetly use the refrigerator in the kitchen for small item storage, and ice for your cocktails.
My favorite rooms are #1 and #6 because of the twin beds. I’m usually here with my trail riding pals. The beds have puffy white comforters and soft mattresses. If you need an extra firm mattress, I suggest contacting management ahead of your stay to request a roll away. I have never met a comfortable roll away — maybe moving the bedding to the very clean carpeted floor would work. If you are coming with your romantic partner, the rooms with shared beds are fabulous too.
PLAN AHEAD as lately this place has been BOOKED… and sadly, not always with riders, but tourists or hikers who want a B&B experience. There is no place else like this for people to stay with their horses in Point Reyes. The pampering and comforts here can not be compared with horse camping.
You do need to trailer out to trail heads for your rides, but it’s very easy. Feel free to message me for ideas. Tom knows the trails well too and has given us lots of tips. I always feel like I am visiting a friend when I stay here. I’m hoping that this inn continues to prosper while remaining affordable. Book ASAP. You will thank me.

We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Point Reyes Country Inn and would highly recommend it to others looking for a relaxed, friendly place to stay in a beautiful part of California.
Other reviews gave us an idea of what to expect form the accommodation, but what they don’t convey is how friendly, charming and hospitable Tom the B&B innkeeper is. Tom really knows how to welcome guests to the area and help them experience the best parts of Point Reyes. His suggestions and inside knowledge ensured we maximized our time, avoided the crowds and ate at the best local places.
We had room #1 which was was bright and nicely appointed with our own patio in the garden. The size of the room was lovely and as mentioned when booking the room can be set up either as a King bed (or twin beds). There was a room above us and we were near the front door and while we did hear others, it didn’t disturb us. Ear plugs were also provided to ensure a good night’s sleep. I slept soundly each night!
The breakfasts were really delicious. Coffee, tea and orange juice are served from 8am at the weekends and food is served from 9am. Saturday we had fluffy blueberry pancakes, sausage and a bunch of grapes; Sunday it was a frittata, sausages, a morning bun and fruit salad. It was a great way to start the days off.
Thank you again Tom for having us, can’t wait to visit again.

Best place for you and your horse…
Just got back from our mother daughter weekend, with my horse and my daughters pony. It was the best weekend I’ve ever had with my little girl. The drive there was a bit grooling, due to a bike race. When we finally got there, we put the horse away in their stalls and found some port in the living room, Nice!
The room was nice and clean, breakfast was wonderful, good coffee, Tom was most helpful in giving me safe trails to take my daughter, great wifi, and he had some wonderful guests!
To put it in a nut shell… I want gift certificates for my birthday, Christmas, Mothers Day, V-​day, you get the picture!
Thank you Tom!

best place to go with horses! If you are not a camper and you want to ride in the National Park… this is the place to be. Great horse accommodations and the places for people are pretty nice too. I have been here many times over the past 12 years and I will continue to stay here in the future. Have met lots nice trail riders over the years.

Got room 3 which cost $ 10 more but is worth it. Has two balconies, one on the front and back of house. Place is very quiet but easy to hear everything going on, but room 3 doesn’t share a wall with other rooms.
At night there was complimentary port which you can help yourself too. Breakfast in the morning was nice, pancakes and sausage.
Overall very comfortable place for couples and in good location. Just few minutes drive of restaurants in Pt. Reyes Station

I really wanted to give this place 4 stars, but 2 drawbacks (one of which may not be an issue for everyone), make that difficult. First the good part:
My room (#4) was bright and nicely furnished, with lots of windows and a nice balcony that’s a pleasant spot to sit and read or just look out at the hills. I think all the rooms have a balcony or deck of some sort.
The breakfasts were marvelous. On the days I was there the centerpiece was either a frittata or blueberry pancakes, accompanied by sausage, fresh fruit and pastry that varied every day. Tom, the proprietor, is friendly and charming, as is his lively and cheerful dog Mario (who might be a little too enthusiastic for some).
The downsides: The walls are thin. If your neighbors are loud talkers you will hear them loud and clear. Posted quiet hours from 10 p.m. — 8 a.m. help, but there were still moments when I was hearing more from the adjoining rooms than I wanted to.
And for me, this was a more serious problem: The bed was way too soft. I need a fairly firm mattress and I literally woke up during the night and again in the morning with my back hurting from lack of support. I don’t think the mattress was old or worn out; it was just designed to be marshmallow-​soft, and that simply doesn’t work for me. If you like soft mattresses, you may be in heaven here, but this one issue would make me hesitate to return. Too bad, because otherwise the place has a lot going for it, and it’s a great value for the money.

I wanted to surprise my husband of one year for our first anniversary. I knew I wanted somewhere private and away from all the hustle and bustle of the city. I searched and found a list of places. I only had a three week lead time to reserve a place. Our anniversary fell on Thanksgiving weekend. I found a short list of inns and only a few places with availability. This was one and it fit our budget.
We had never stayed at a B&B so I did not know what to expect. I read all the reviews and decided to take a chance, I am /​we were glad I did. We were away from TV, the Internet and only saw the other guests at the Inn if we wanted. This was a place to stay and take a shower for us. No frills, but enough to be quite comfortable.
We were in room 1 right by the front door. There was only one other couple in the main house and another out by the stables. Tom was great, very nice and makes a good breakfast. He also had some great recommendations for where to eat based on what we wanted.
The size of the room, the inn and everything was great. It was clean and pleasant. We would stay here again.
Thank you again, Tom, for having a great get a way spot.

no customer service for a guest in distress. we were asked to phone this place by a guest who was stranded out on limatour beach on point reyes. she had lost the car keys and had no cell (in the car) and had been thrown from the horse. we called when we drove to a signal place. here is the response of the man who answered the phone: «what do you want us to do? we cannot do anything. she needs to call the AAA». here is an appropriate response: thank you for assisting our guest. we can call the park ranger and let them know of the situation. i have never been at this inn, but i would never go. i agree with the review saying how rude the place is.

This Inn is very nice. The rooms are clean and with a nice country décor, and the breakfast was great. The price is right. Tom is wonderful. My biggest compliant is that the rooms are not very private. You can hear the other guests in their rooms (yes, with all the various activities, including snoring). It’s as if the sound is traveling through the outlets. I was glad that we had brought music to drown out the noises. This issue will definitely affect whether I stay there again. If noise does not bother you, this is a great place to stay in Pt. Reyes Station.

I stayed at this place twice, in two different rooms, and I enjoyed each visit thoroughly! Each room I stayed at (#5 and #6) had guest books that were filled with praise, from 1998 to the present so I’m really confused at why there are only 4 reviews (some of which are lukewarm)…so, I hope my review can at least show one person’s happy experiences for people who might be on the fence about this place!
Here are my impressions by topic:
1) Location: It is less than a 2 minute drive from the main town of Point Reyes station, so you can’t ask for much more. I suppose if you want a water view, this would not be your place as it is tucked off the main road with a more woodsy feel. I loved the location!
2) Price: Can’t be beat for the location and the niceness of the facilities.
3) Availability: It should be noted that this place lets you book on a weekend night for just one night during the summer season, which very few (if any) other B&Bs do in this location and price range — that was
essential for me each time as I only wanted to stay a night.
4) Cleanliness/​general décor: Everything was clean and functional. The decorations included lots of really cool vintage items such as old wooden dressers and cool lamps. The bathrooms in both rooms were small, but we didn’t mind. Room #6 is sweet because you don’t have any neighbors there and so noise isn’t a problem. Room #5 is great bc it has a private balcony. The bathrooms are small but functional.
5) Food: I loved the breakfast — the first time, Tom made it and the second time a woman made it. Both times, the orange juice seemed freshly squeezed, there was an egg/​cheese dish that was delicious, in addition to fruit, a roll, and sausage (and coffee/​tea). Breakfast is served in a beautiful living room with cool old vintage musical instruments on the walls and some antiques around to make things feel more special.
6) Misc: I loved that the keychains come with flashlights so you can find your way back to your room :-) I also like that it has free wifi! Of course, it also has amenities for horses but I can’t comment on those as I don’t have a horse.
Overall, it was great — the only minor problem was that in room #5 we could really hear other people coming up and down the stairs and our neighbors, but otherwise I really can’t imagine a better value for your money given this location!

We stayed in the studio over the stables on 4^th of July weekend. Although we liked the place, we were disturbed that we left 4 clean stalls on morning when we went for a ride only to come back and find horse crap in 3 of the 4 stalls. I didn’t complain, but just cleaned that stalls again (as we didn’t want our horses with some strange horse crap near their food). Quite disturbing that someone would do that.
My other issue with this place is that the website is deceiving. It says you can ride FROM the inn to Tomales bay, but that is NOT true. You cannot ride on his property — at all. It’s ALL trailer out, and without a good map-​it can be difficult to find a place to ride with a decent staging area.
Next time, I’ll do my homework a little better. I would stay there again, but with a better plan as to where to ride…

We spent 3 nights in room #1 in the small 3 apartment house built above the stalls, about 150 yards from the main inn. Our two horses stayed in their own large pipe corrals next to the building. We liked the fact that our room came with a stove and refrigerator, so we could do our own cooking and didn’t have to eat all our meals in restaurants. Although the room was somewhat small, it was quite adequate for us, clean and comfortable. We enjoyed some of the best trail riding we’ve ever had. This was our first visit to Country Inn, but it definitely will not be our last.

We’d been cyclintg into headwinds all day when we arrived in Point Reyes. This was the only place in town with rooms left when we arrived. Tom was so inconceivably rude to us that we opted to ride on to the Olema Inn. I will never spend a cent in this place.

Booking on the B&B’s website, we arrived on the start of Memorial Weekend. It was after check-​in and Tom (the owner) left the front door open and a welcome letter on the desk, providing directions to our room and itinerary around the place.
Opening Room #4, we saw a queen size four-​post bed (so comfy!), an antique dresser, two reading chairs, wine glasses, and a private bathroom. The room had many large windows, allowing us to gaze far into the hills.
We propped down our stuff and settled in to … the quietness! It definitely took some getting use to, without the hustle & bustle of a City. We could hear the wind chime of a neighboring house, probably 50 yards away! On the balcony, we enjoyed wine, read, and heard and saw many birds.
We also propped down in the living room area with high ceiling and lots of natural light … perusing through various books. Outside, there’s a large patio area where other guests conversed with friends … and the stable is viewable from this location.
At 9am every morning, the smell of cinnamon buns drifts into our room. We join other guests downstairs in the living room area where dining tables are also located. We help ourselves to coffee, tea, and orange juice. Tom or his wife (apologies for forgetting her name) would bring delicious home-​cooked breakfast, by the plate, to us. We thoroughly enjoyed this as it’s just perfect to start off a day of hikes.
The only thing that concerned me was the towels, although I’m sure they were clean and are very soft/​comfortable, looked old and used.
Cellphone reception is sketchy but no worries, Tom provides a in-​house land-​line with free long distance. The location is a 3min drive to downtown and very close into Pt. Reyes National Park. or up to Marshall for Tamales Bay. No TV, no radio, no wireless … just enjoy the company of your travel companion and their hospitality, what a thought!
Thank you, Tom for sharing your lovely place!