LA.com Goes Inside Thompson's Gaige House

August 26, 2008 at 2:29 PM | 0 Comments

LA.com recently wrote up the winery scene in Sonoma County and guess what? This place has just as many good vineyards and restaurants as Napa Valley. And of course, once you're up there gorging and boozing you are in no condition to drive home or even be driven home. (Wine-tasting, eating and car rides don't go together at all.)

So LA.com's Eric Rosen checked out the hotel scene in Sonoma and spent a night in Gaige House, the Northern California step-child of the Thompson Hotels group. This hotel was acquired by Thompson back in late 2006 and since then it has been officially "Thompsonized." As Rosen writes:

Gaige House is hands down the hippest place to stay in Sonoma. It was built in 1900, and after a checkered career as a private home, schoolhouse and bed and breakfast, it was converted by the Thompson Group into one of its signature modern-style properties.

Rosen cites the hotel's small size (just 23 rooms and suites), its out of the way location in the hamlet of Glen Ellen and its "well-tended tranquility" (i.e. no kids running about) as the highlights of spending a night here.

And as for that Thompson service, the bellboys took all luggage upon check-in and guests were given a tour of the property (with cookies and spring water) before being shown to their room.

Guests can choose from the 10 standard rooms or the 13 spa-suites designed by Paul Davis. If you choose the latter, Rosen recommends an in-room spa treatment. It's pretty much a no-brainer. Also worth it? Paying $15 extra a day for a gourmet breakfast with a new menu each morning.

Tags: Thompson Hotels / Sonoma Hotels

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