I heard of 2 instances that people were in it and 1 of these the fire department had to get a couple out. The morning we checked out I went around 8AM to get a cart and the elevator was broke. I called and reported it 3 times. We had to check out @ 10 and ended up taking all our stuff down 6 flights of stairs.
This view by an unknown photographer is from the site of the Bixby Inn later known as the Crocodile's Tail Restaurant. Bixby Bridge is one the most-photographed man made structures on the West Coast. It is 13.3 miles South of Carmel on California's Highway One. At its completion, it was one of the largest single-arch concrete bridge in the world.
Bixby Bridge by Big Sur on the Pacific Coast HighwayPhoto by Donna Dailey. If you want to drive the Pacific Coast Highway then you can do it in half a day. Officially it's less than 130 miles long, running between Dana Point and Oxnard in southern California. lot depends on the season you're traveling. If it's heading towards summer you might want to drive towards the north, to give it time to warm up in Oregon and Washington. If it's past the peak of summer, maybe do the north first and drive towards California, where you know the sun will linger longer.