This time last year we were preparing for an amazing USA
West Coast Road Trip from San Francisco to Las Vegas.
I was extremely excited
as we decided to splash out on the hotels which allowed hours of perusing
beautiful hotel websites. Here are the best of where we stayed:
A world of quirky cool fun complete with a metallic dogs (and you know I love a dog), a
giant Plinko* Wall, graffiti décor and huge chandeliers made from coloured
reading glasses.
*For anyone not familiar (which includes me) Plinko seems to
be like a penny arcade machine but with a basketball instead of a coin… fun
though!
I loved this hotel, warm natural wood tones and leather contrasted with bright pops of colour. In the bedrooms urber cool bedside table lamps, luxurious bed head and amazing book shelf wall paper
in the ensuite made it feel like we were staying in a cool city loft- which I suppose we were.
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| BROKEN GLASS DECORATIVE CEILING IN THE LIFT LOBBY |
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| YES THAT IS A CHANDELIER MADE FROM COLOURFUL READING GLASSES |
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| THE BEST BOOK WALLPAPER OF ALL TIME |
Monterey- Portola Hotel and Spa
Monterey is the only other place I would want to live, it is
truly idyllic and we saw more amazing wildlife on our morning walk than you
would see on an average trip to a British zoo.
Monterey may be the best place in the world or I may have
been swayed by the WARM chocolate chip cookie presented to us on arrival.
It was a shame we only stayed here for one night and didn’t
have time to explore the spa which is connected to the hotel via a large
covered courtyard illuminated by fairy light decorated tress but we did partake in the
Micro-brewery bar (with its fire pit tables) and I really enjoyed the décor of
the rooms.
They were simple with gorgeous white sheets bold nautical
prints and beautiful white wooden shutters with views to tree lined streets.
The show stopper for me was the en-suite and when we redo our bathroom I will
be stealing more than a few details from this design.
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| OTTER CUDDLY TOY A BARGAIN AT ONLY $20- I WASN'T ALLOWED |
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| THE OTTER STEALER! |
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| MOSAIC FLOOR TILES AND WHITE SUBWAY TILES COMBINED WITH SLEEK GLASS SHOWER SCREEN |
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| MARBLE TOPS, OAK UNITS AND A DEEP OCEAN BLUE WITH LIME/OLIVE HIGHLIGHTS- I JUST LOVE IT |
This hotel was pure cool, dark and luxurious.
En-suites
We all know ensuites in hotels are wonderful but the three in the hotels I've shared about were examplary- everything was exactly where you wanted it before you even know that you needed it- and that is the best design compliment ever.
Watch this space for California Chic influeneces coming soon.
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