Nestled in quaint Aptos Village, and adjacent to the lush greenery of the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park, sits the former Bayview Hotel, one of the oldest buildings in Aptos and likely in all of Santa Cruz County at more than 150 years old. The landmark has reached the end of an era, with the family that owns the property moving toward closing on a sale.
The current owner, Cristina Locke, 70, has seen her health decline in recent years, according to her daughter, Andre’a Hicks. Locke, along with her husband and Hicks’ stepfather, Giovanni Guerisoli, purchased the 14-room, 10,000-square-foot hotel in 2002. Guerisoli opened an Italian restaurant in the hotel named Ristorante Barolo, which was featured on a 2012 episode of Food Network’s “Restaurant Impossible”. Guerisoli died in 2017, and the historic property has not been a functioning hotel or restaurant since.
“That was where [my mother] decided that she didn’t really want to return there,” said Hicks, who is Locke’s daughter from her first marriage. “I came there every summer as a teenager from when I was 14 years old until I was 19 years old. So my life has been that Bayview Hotel.”
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