Getaway For A Day

I move a lot. I alive out of hotels for anywhere betwixt 150 - 350 days a year, generally for work. I would similar to say that all hotels are equal, but that is definitely non the case. Some of them are nice; some of them are non then nice. I am a chip spoiled; I acknowledge it. It's amazing how you lot tend to start choosing hotels based on the bed, the breakfast buffet, the soap, the front end desk staff...the listing goes on. Here is my commons criteria. 

1) Location: Is it good? Can you lot walk around easily? Is at that spot a proficient identify for dinner nearby? 2) Staff: First impressions are everything. When I walk upwardly to the check-in desk, I gauge the staff correct away based on how the front end desk mortal acts. 3) Room: Is the bed comfortable? Is the room brilliant enough? Are the sheets soft (this is the i that actually makes me top away along coming back.)? Is at that spot plenty room for ii people or do you lot experience similar ii sardines inward the room? How's the view?  4) Amenities: This includes pool, gym, unloosen breakfast, happy hour, welcome gift etc. 5) The Hotel: Is at that spot a hang out expanse inward the principal lobby? How are the bars together with restaurants?

Mr. Lovely together with I took a trip to San Jose terminal weekend to remain at the Hotel Valencia Santana Row. The Hotel, every bit the lift states, is located on Santana Row, which is abode to to a greater extent than than 100 restaurants (like LB Steak together with Maggiano's Little Italy) together with stores (such every bit Anthropologie together with Lululemon Athletica). I had never been to Santana Row before; inward fact I stimulate got alone been to San Jose a couplet of times together with Mr. Lovely has never been, then it was a fun agency for both of us to explore a novel area.

We arrived inward the afternoon together with checked in. The front end desk staff was really nice. Our room was really large together with had a actually dainty balcony amongst a catch of Santana Row. You know me, the offset affair I went together with checked out was the puddle together with the gym! I knew I was going to stimulate got an indulgent nighttime together with wanted to instruct my run inward early. The gym was fantastic. It had french doors that you lot could opened upwardly up to a balcony, then you lot could run across the catch acre you lot were running. It also had 4 treadmills together with a few elliptical, every bit good every bit weights, practice balls together with other assorted items. There were towels together with mutual coldness H2O together with oranges for after. 

Our room (source)

After I finished my run, nosotros started off our remain past times relaxing together with having a couplet of spectacles of wine, which was our welcome gift from the hotel. After that, nosotros wandered around the Row, which was quite busy. It seems to last the identify to be, to run across together with to been seen on a Fri night! 

For dinner, nosotros walked to the nearby White Shallot, which is a French Vietnamese restaurant. Everything was delicious, but the best affair was the dessert! We had a the Cafe Gormand, which was a trio of desserts, featuring chocolate cake, an almond tart, together with a vanilla edible bean panna cotta. I am a sucker for a proficient panna cotta, together with this i was no disappointment! We also had the tofu custard amongst kokosnoot creme, which I loved but Mr. Lovely was so-so about. I intend if he wouldn't stimulate got known most the tofu, he may stimulate got liked it more. 

We went dorsum to the hotel together with went to slumber on the (very comfortable amongst the softest sheets EVER) manlike mortal monarch sized bed (heaven). The adjacent morn nosotros had a costless continental breakfast at Citrus, i of the the hotel's restaurants. Sometimes when you lot instruct a  continental breakfast, it is merely some breadstuff together with jam together with coffee, but this was a dandy spread. There were pancakes, oatmeal, omelets, tons of pastries together with fresh fruit together with a cured meat plate amongst tons of meats together with cheeses! I stimulate got to admit, I alone tried the fruit together with an omelet, but cheers to Mr. Lovely, nosotros tried i of everything together with the verdict was that everything was great! 

After breakfast, nosotros wandered around the shared spaces of the hotel. The principal marking had a dandy outdoor sitting expanse amongst fountains. The puddle together with hot tub were upwardly on the fifth flooring together with had a dandy view. After finishing our self tour, nosotros settled downward inward our room to sentinel the Euro loving cup earlier heading home. This rounded out our remain nicely (except that Portugal lost). My alone regret was that nosotros didn't stimulate got to a greater extent than time. We could stimulate got easily stayed longer! 

The outdoor courtyard (source)

  

Do you lot e'er stimulate got a twenty-four hours to instruct away from home, fifty-fifty if the getaway is unopen to home? What criteria do you lot expect for inward a hotel? 

*Disclaimer: I received this room for unloosen inward supply for a fair together with honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.