UCLA Lake Arrowhead Lodge

We had a wonderful time here. Beautiful location. Lovely room, warm and friendly staff. We left a baby monitor there and they called and mailed it back to us the next day! I am so pleased with our weekend up there and will be coming back for many more stays. Thank you.

Had a very nice time here. It's a cozy and fun, family-friendly place with lots of cool amenities. My girlfriend and I had breakfast and did not regret paying for it, meanwhile we hit up the Tavern for a late lunch and dinner. The cabins are very cozy and comfy with the main lodge/lobby being a nice gathering place to socialize and people watch. I found the cabins to be a great value, especially for groups. I look forward to inquiring about hosting a conference here.

The lodge is amazing. It's accommodations are resort quality. The activities in town are close and there great shopping the antiques. Bring all your gear for the season you visit. Watersports, Arcades, Bowling or dining your going to love it!

Absolutely charming historic property on the north side of lake Arrowhead. Only recently opened to the public, rooms are available on this lakeside property. The food, long known to be the best on the mountain, is now open to everyone in the dining room. The tavern is a charming mountain theme with great drinks and friendly staff. I love going here for Thursday night football games.

In the past our experiences at the Lodge with UCLA-affiliated folks have been excellent, or this rating would have been lower. We recommended the Lodge to some friends who wanted to come visit for New Year's. They booked a room and were told there was a buffet dinner for $85. We thought that sounded lovely, food has always been good when we've eaten there in the past. Unfortunately, the buffet was very disappointing. A decent salad, decent turkey breast, awful sad bone-dry overdone swordfish that tasted like pressed protein powder. A prime rib carving station was ok. Service was almost non-existent, we had to get soft drinks at the bar because nobody came to our table for close to 30 minutes to check on us. The dessert choices were a slice of cheesecake (decent, not great) and some little chocolates like you'd get in a Whitman sampler. No wine or drinks included. Very disappointing and not worth it. But what was much worse was that when my friend went to the lodge the following morning to get a latte, she was told at the front desk that since she wasn't UCLA-affiliated, she couldn't go to the area where the espresso machine was. They literally put yellow wristbands on my friend's family, where the UCLA people wore blue ones. I feel extremely embarrassed to have recommended this experience to my friends. And I think it is extremely ill-advised to set up a caste system in this kind of lodging setting. We also found out that the UCLA people had a much fancier buffet dinner up on the second floor. If we had been told this ahead of time, we would not have booked this place. I was really happy to hear that they had opened up the Lodge to non-UCLA people, but I will now be very leery of recommending or visiting it unless I'm with a UCLA friend.