Pelican Cove Inn in Carlsbad Village is a 10-room Victorian-style boutique hotel at 320 Walnut Avenue, originally built as a four-room inn in 1985 and expanded twice before reaching its current footprint. Each room carries a San Diego neighborhood name — from the La Jolla suite's champagne-and-black palette to the Coronado room's coastal blues — and the property sits on the same Village dining grid as Vigilucci's Cucina Italiana on Carlsbad Boulevard. Private entrances, gas fireplaces, and individual bathrooms give every room a stand-alone feel uncommon in Carlsbad's hotel inventory, and connecting-door configurations between the Balboa and Carlsbad rooms accommodate traveling families. The inn occupies a residential block two blocks from the sand and three blocks from the shops on Carlsbad Village Drive, with a gazebo-covered firepit in the courtyard and an adjacent 11-person vacation house available for reunions or group bookings. Walk-to-Village positioning also puts guests within range of the seasonal Handel's Homemade Ice Cream lines that spill onto the sidewalk along State Street. Select rooms include spa tubs and queen sofa beds, and the Del Mar suite adds a step-up king captain's bed with a dedicated sitting area facing the garden.