Snazzy Marker gets details right, with guestrooms a riot of color – lipstick-red lacquer, navy-blue velvet and shiny-purple silk – plus substantive amenities like high-thread-count sheets, ergonomic workspaces, multi...

Peace is quite posh following a $15-million renovation and greening of this 100-year-old downtown jewel...

San Francisco's first all-green-practices hotel uses sustainably grown wood, chemical-free cleaning products and recycled fabrics in its soothingly quiet rooms...

If you're drawn to bohemian-chic environs with Turkish rugs, old-world antiques, rooftop bars and fine booze, then these suites may be for you...

San Diego’s iconic hotel provides the essential Coronado experience: over a century of history , a pool, full-service spa, shops, restaurants, manicured grounds, a white-sand beach and an ice-skating rink in winter...

Despite the name, Little Italy's la Pensione isn't a pension but an intimate, friendly, recently renovated hotel of 68 rooms with queen-size beds and private bathrooms...

Featured in the Bravo TV series Welcome to the Parker, this posh resort highlights whimsical decor by Jonathan Adler. Drop by for a cocktail at Mister Parker’s or a posh brunch at Norma’s five-star coffee shop...

The only hotel in Pacific Heights, a stately 1903 apartment-hotel tucked between mansions, stands high on the ridgeline...

Our favorite boutique hotel is a love letter to the Beat era, with moody color schemes, Chinese umbrellas as light fixtures and photos from the Beat years on the walls...

Carneros Inn’s contemporary aesthetic and retro, small-town agricultural theme shatter the predictable Wine Country mold...

Think vistas. This is the only motel on the east side of the highway, and the views from some of the rooms are phenomenal. Its boutique-style rooms have comfortable beds with thick duvets and swank bathrooms.

Perched above the highway and overlooking Westward Beach is this humble shingled inn with an array of fairly large rooms drenched in corny florals. But they all have sun patios and some have massive sea views.

The French-flavored indulgence may look dated, but this faux castle has long lured A-listers with its five-star mystique and legendary discretion...

This remodeled motel is to wine-country lodging what IKEA is to interior design: a budget-friendly, trendy alternative. Crisp, modern rooms have bright Danish flag bedspreads and iPod docking stations...

Walls at this perennial pleaser are a bit thin, but otherwise it’s a charming base of operation with large, modern rooms, exceptional staff and a petite courtyard pool where days start with fresh pastries and gourmet...

Formerly three separate motels, this 7-acre complex has the feel of a laid-back country club, complete with trams that carry guests effortlessly from the lobby to their buildings...

Lots of charm and color at this convivial hostel in a former Victorian-era hotel. Look for cheerful rooms, a full kitchen, a communal lounge for chilling and in-house parties and beach barbecues...

Just off Limantour Rd, this rustic HI property has bunkhouses with warm and cozy front rooms, big-view windows and outdoor areas with hill vistas, and a newer LEED-certified building with four private rooms (two-nigh...

If you prefer high heels to hiking boots but can't afford the Ritz, the Warwick presents a way-less-expensive alternative...

Heads of state choose the Fairmont, whose magnificent lobby is decked out with crystal chandeliers, marble floors and towering yellow-marble columns...

Because its 1912 building originally housed apartments, the Beresford has bigger-than-average rooms, some with kitchens...

Built in 1910, this old-fashioned tourist hotel has creaky floors but provides good-value accommodations and adjoins an atmospheric English-style pub...

Rooms are tiny at this repurposed, vintage-1928 YMCA hotel, but designers compensated with pull-out drawers under platform beds and attractive textures and colors. Book a bay-view room (trust us)...

The Queen Anne occupies a lovely 1890 Victorian mansion, formerly a girls' boarding school. Though the chintz decor borders on twee, it matches the stately house...

Many rooms overlook the blinking neon and exotic streetscape of Grant Ave (expect noise); they're generally clean (never mind the excessive air-freshener) but blandly decorated with generic furniture...

Rooms in this 1906 hotel have been dressed up in heavy Victoriana, with brass beds, fringed lampshades and floral-print carpet...