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Healdsburg Hotels
Honor Thyself at Healdsburg's Honor Mansion
July 31, 2008 at 4:02 PM | 0 Comments
If you believe that spa treatment is more than just hands on shoulders and should truly get to the heart of how and why we relax, then Honor Mansion, tucked into the heart of Sonoma County's wine country, is the place to immerse yourself in comfort and the quiet bliss of letting go.
Located just 80 miles north of San Francisco in the shopping and dining mecca of Healdsburg, Honor Mansion is a perennial AAA Four Diamond Award winner.
There are just 13 rooms and suites but the amenities galore on-site will keep you busy for your entire stay. There's a 40-foot lap pool, two regulation bocce ball courts, a competition croquet lawn, PGA putting green, quarter mile jogging/walking track, a quarter acre of Zinfandel vines, and on-site massage therapy and spa treatments. It is quite possibly you can do everything on your vacation list and never leave the grounds.
Les Mars Hotel
Les Mars Hotel: Another Planet of Luxury in Sonoma
May 30, 2008 at 9:23 AM | 0 Comments
Once you've taken your first few steps inside the Les Mars Hotel with its shimmering floor-to-ceiling white marble lobby and luxe, walnut-walled library, you know that attention to detail is palpable at every turn. Afterall, this European-styled 16 room masterpiece located in downtown Healdsburg has built its reputation on refined luxury.
From the limestone façade to the wrought iron work throughout, interior designer and antique consultant Helga Horner and the Mars family personally selected each individual 18th and 19th century decorative piece that is found throughout the public spaces of the property.
When we visited the property, in the heart of Sonoma wine country, we used every ounce of our being not to act too geeky and stare at each piece like it was worthy of a being in a glass case.
