Best Decorated California Inns for the Holidays
SACRAMENTO, CA [November 21, 2016] – Check into the spirit of the holidays with a stay at a bed and breakfast inn this season. Beginning this month, inns in California will be stringing lights, decking the halls, and bustling with holiday festivities. Below are just some of the best decorated inns in California. Find more photos of festive inns on CABBI's Pinterest board.
For the holiday season, the stately Victorian Inn in Ferndale glitters with thousands of twinkling lights. A magnificently-decorated, 18-foot Christmas tree stands near fireplace in the main dining room and becomes of the backdrop for dozens of guests’ holiday photos every year. Outside, the entire historic village of Ferndale is decorated in festive lights, including the largest living Christmas tree in the United States, just a short distance from the inn. Visitors can attend the tree’s official lighting and sing carols on December 4 or enjoy the late shop hours and complimentary treats of Hospitality Night on December 2. Ferndale celebrates the season with a variety of joyful, old-fashioned traditions, including the Lighted Tractor Parade on December 18. The Victorian Inn features beautifully-appointed, nostalgic guest rooms with lofty ceilings, vintage fixtures and furnishings, and private baths.
At the Martine Inn in Pacific Grove, the innkeepers hang wreaths, wrap the banisters and fireplace mantels with boughs and holly, and put up individually decorated trees in every guest room. They also trim a large tree in the library and decorate their porch tree with miniatures of local historic buildings made by the docents of the Monterey History Art Association. The Martine Inn will host its open house for the annual Christmas at the Inns Tour on November 29, 2016. Guests of the inn receive two complimentary tour tickets, which includes tours of eight inns decked out in their Christmas splendor, entertainment and refreshments. The oceanfront Martine Inn overlooks Pacific Grove’s rocky coastline and features museum-quality American antiques, wood-burning fireplaces and claw foot tubs.
The day after Thanksgiving, the Christmas elves at the Benbow Historic Inn in Garberville start their work of transforming the inn into a holiday wonderland with a Toyland Christmas theme. All public areas including the lobby, dining room, lounge and entrances are festooned with decorations. Outside, the inn is strung with thousands of twinkling lights. Guests are welcomed with a warm, wood-burning fire in the lobby, Christmas décor and music all around. Some guests return to the inn year after year for an array of holiday traditions including addressing holiday cards and singing carols in the lobby, meeting Santa and enjoying a lavish four-course Christmas dinner. The historic inn is nestled amid the redwoods on the banks of the Eel River and features an award-winning restaurant and wine cellar.
A Victorian estate tucked amid an acre of hushed gardens in Santa Barbara, the Simpson House Inn pulls out all of the stops in decorating for the holidays. Poinsettias line steps to the wide, wraparound porch, where red candles flicker. Garland and ribbons weave along the stair railings and trim the front door, where an enormous wreath is framed in the glow of the glass door panel. Inside the front parlor, a towering Christmas tree glitters with lights and ornaments and is topped with a Victorian angel. Vintage toys encircle the tree beneath its boughs. The inn evokes a timeless elegance with antique wood beds, oriental rugs, clawfoot tubs and wing back chairs flanking wood-burning fireplaces.
The McCaffrey House Bed and Breakfast Inn in the High Sierras offers a winter wonderland escape for the holidays. The beautifully decorated inn sparkles with tinsel, snow globes, and Santa figurines amid the warm glow from the fireplace. A German LGB train runs around the base of the Christmas tree while train ornaments hang from the tree’s boughs. The charming three-story B&B is nestled in the quiet forest hollow. All of the guest rooms feature handmade quilts, woodstoves, private baths, and exquisite views of the forest surrounding the inn.
The holiday decor at the historic Queen Anne Hotel in San Francisco evoke scenes reminiscent of a Charles Dickens novel. From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, the hotel is dressed to the nines with the warm glow of festive lights and decorations, mixed with ornate Victorian furnishings and flickering fireplaces. Guests can bask in the holiday sparkle of the parlor and library with a hot cup of tea or cocoa. An easy stroll from the hotel leads guests to the cable cars where they can make their way to Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill, Union Square with its giant Christmas tree and festive department store windows, or Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory and Fisherman’s Wharf. Guests can also take in the San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker, the Great Dickens Christmas Fair, or any of the city’s other performing arts events.
For more information and to find holiday lodging specials at California bed and breakfast inns, visit www.cabbi.com.
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