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romantic, rock-star rowdy & the unusual
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- The Caveman
Room at Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo, Calif. With its natural
rock floors, walls and ceilings and in-room waterfall, this he-man haven
is the hands-down favorite at the 42-year-old inn midway between Los
Angeles and San Francisco. There's even a rock shower and stone basin in
the bathroom
- The Italian
Gondola Suite at The Anniversary Inn, Salt Lake City. You and
your loved one sleep in a gondola and enjoy an oversize
''Mediterranean'' bathtub. Big spenders who have a yearning for the
simple life, there's Swiss Family Robinson Suite, where you bunk in a
tree. Romantics can ponder the wherefores of their unions in the Romeo
and Juliet Suite, complete with in-room balcony.
- Cinema Suites at Holiday
Inn Family Suites Resort at Lake Buena Vista, Fla. A 60-inch
TV, surround-sound stereo system and dual recliners in a separate
home-theater room are the stars at this new theme resort near Disney
World
- The
CanCan Room at Forget-Me-Not Lodge & Aurora-Express
Fairbanks, Alaska. Guests sleep in restored Alaska Railroad cars
decorated in late-1800s themes. The red-and-gold CanCan room, decked
with period knickknacks.
- The Edgar Allan Poe room at
Sylvia
Beach Hotel, Nye Beach, Ore. There's a pendulum over the bed
and a stuffed raven in this blood- red-and-ebony hideaway. Other rooms
in this literary- themed bed-and-breakfast on a cliff overlooking the
ocean about 100 miles south of Portland evoke authors including Jane
Austen, Mark Twain and Alice Walker. TVs, radios or phones are absent
from rooms, but there are lots of books. The B&B is named for Sylvia
Beach, who ran the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore in Paris and
befriended Ernest Hemingway.
- An African Safari Tent at Safari
West Wildlife Preserve and Tent Camp, Santa Rosa, Calif. Can't
get to Kenya? Giraffes and zebras roam near this 15-tent enclave in the
Sonoma wine country. Each private tent boasts hardwood floors, bathroom
and king-size bed or two doubles.
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- The Veneto Room at Gingerbread
Mansion Inn, Ferndale, Calif. A mural of Venice by a local
artist gives guests the feeling of staying inside a piece of art. Other
options at this 11-room lodging 4 1/2 hours north of San Francisco in
redwood country include the palatial Empire Suite with stained-glass
doors, pillars, two fireplaces and a reading nook, and the Rose Suite
with flower motif and claw-foot tub near a fireplace.
- The John Lennon Suite at Alexis
Hotel, Seattle. Limited edition Lennon artwork Oh My Love and
We Made Our Bed, both signed by Yoko Ono. There's a fireplace and stereo
stocked with Lennon music.
- The Dorothy Parker Suite at The Algonquin Hotel, New York. Fans of
Parker's acid pen can peruse unpublished letters, memorabilia, poems and
posters while sipping a decanter of sherry with a loved one (men do make
passes at women with glasses, to paraphrase the author). Other suites at
this refurbished literati favorite include The Hirschfeld (with drawings
by the famed caricaturist) and The New Yorker (containing archival
covers of this Manhattan institution). Information: 212-840-6800.
- Snoopy Rooms and Suites at the new Radisson Resort Knott's Berry
Farm, Buena Park, Calif. The cartoon strip that whelped him may be
history, but the beloved beagle lives on in 16 rooms and suites
decorated with Snoopy bedspreads, clocks, stuffed animals and shower
curtains. Snoopy and the Peanuts gang frolic in murals in the halls.
Information: 800-333-3333.
- The Blues Brothers Suite at House of Blues Hotel, Chicago. One of the
suits Dan Aykroyd wore in Blue Brothers 2000 is here, along with a wet
bar, a dining room that seats six and an entertainment center. Information:
312-245-0333.
- The Party Like a Rock Star Suite at Hotel Monaco, Chicago. Enter this
night roost to see a TV that appears to have been thrown through a
window (courtesy of the Steppenwolf Theatre prop shop). The décor,
created in collaboration with radio station WXRT, also includes gold
records, a video jukebox, electric guitar, concert photos and sunken
Jacuzzi. Information: 800-397-7661.
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Sleep in a Tree
- Ariau
Amazon Towers, 888-462-7428
Manaus, Brazil
- Elfin Treehouse, 541-783-2697
Chiloquin, Oregon
- Village
Nature Lodge, The island of -Réunion, 011-262-447-087
- Fur
'n' Feathers, 011-617-409-65364
Tarzali, Australia
- Post
Ranch Inn tree houses, 800-527-2200
Big Sur, California
- Tropical Treehouse, 787-823-0147
Rincón, Puerto Rico
- Tree
Houses of Hawaii, Near Hana, Maui, 808-248-7241
Maui, Hawaii
- Parrot
Nest Lodge, Near San Ignacio, 011-501-9-37008
San Ignacio, Belize
- Cedar
Creek Treehouse at Mount Rainier Near Ashford, 360-569-2991
Ashford, Washington
- Out
'n' About Treesort, Near Cave Junction, 800-200-5484
Cave Junction, Oregon
- Tropical
treehouse A bamboo appointed vacation rental in the hills of
Rincon, Puerto Rico. Features a bamboo treehouse master bedroom
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Related Info
National Trust for Historic
Preservation Through its Historic Hotels of America program, the
National Trust recognizes lodgings that have maintained their original
architecture and ambience.Historic Hotels of America
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