It's kinda hard to describe the rooms, but the simple version is that every room at the hotel is built around a theme of some sort. We stayed in a room for the first two nights called the Old World Suite that is almost indescribable without actually seeing it yourself!
You had to walk down into a cave-like, basement-like area to get to it. The actual room number was 192. Note the downward-pointing arrow:
View from the door, looking out:
On the inside, the walls and floor were rock. Not fake rock. Real rock. And they built the bathroom within that rock! This is a pic of the vanity:
I'm in the shower here, took this picture for scale; no, not because my husband enjoyed snapping naked pics of me. :) You can even see the waterfall falling behind me!
The living room:
Steve was especially obsessed with the fireplace. It was pretty awesome, and since this hotel is on the central coast, the highs were in the low 60s and we were able to use this fireplace in August!
The last night, we stayed in the room called Just Like Heaven. It was painted entirely in blue, and had baby-sized cherubs all over the room. They were a little bit creepy but cool just the same. The furnishings look like they should be dusty and musty and stinky, but in reality they were luxurious and beautiful. I fell just as in love with this room as I did the Old World Suite! What made it kinda neato was that right in the middle of the room was a spiral staircase leading to a lookout tower above the room. You could climb up into it and have the highest view from the hotel, of the valley below.
We parked behind the hotel, and walked to our room via a little bridge.
Steve climbing the stairs:
Using my photographic talents for seeing light (haha), I took this view from the ground floor looking up at the spiral staircase (going into the watch tower) in the evening sunlight:
I thought the sink in the bathroom was just beautiful:
And last but not least, the creepy cherub. Why on earth these things are religious icons, I'll never know. They reminded me more of little demons. :)
The last pics are taken in the hotel's restaurant, where the wine was great and the food was fab. The best part? The decor. Check out the pink, and notice the gigantic roses hanging down from the ceiling. Borderline gawdy, but absolutely fantastic:
No matter what, this hotel is absolutely fantastic! I had wanted to go there for a decade, and finally made it with my best friend. 3 nights was hardly enough time, and if I ever go back, I'll stay in a different room every single night. I can't imagine not enjoying any of them!
If you get the chance to stay there, do it!! Definitely a very unique experience.
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