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Hotel San Jose
Once a Thirties motor inn, it’s been renovated in a sort of Texas-Zen style, with bare concrete exterior walls under red tile roofs and crushed granite walkways traversing a courtyard garden planted with native vegetation. The former motel rooms and bungalows have been redesigned in a stripped-down modern style, with queen beds, sparkling white bathrooms stocked with Malin + Goetz bath products, writing desks with Eames side chairs, curated minibars, and custom Sferra linens.
Five-star amenities, of course, are not what this place is about. Here you have a shot at seeing some honest-to-goodness local color, whether socializing in the lobby lounge or sipping iced coffee with the locals at Jo’s, the coffee stand/sandwich shop across the parking lot, with outdoor seating and a front-row view of South Congress. The essentials are all covered: high-speed internet access, room service breakfast, even a modestly sized swimming pool in the courtyard.
There’s a ten percent discount for traveling musicians, which may not apply to most guests, but at least makes for interesting lobby-bar conversation, and the San Jose is just far enough from downtown to avoid most of the conference business.
Best of all is the price: it’s possible to spend close to three hundred dollars a night for one of the suites, but standard rooms are well south of that figure, and the three “European-style” rooms above the lobby lounge can be booked individually (with shared bathrooms) for under a hundred dollars.
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Guest Score & Reviews
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Beautiful clean room! Soft comfortable bed and pillows soft clean towels and bathroom. Friendly staff let us leave our things with them because our room wasn’t ready at 3 took our things to the room when our room was ready. Cool comfortable quiet night.
great hotel! location, staff, design…great!
The location can't be beat. Housekeeping does a great job. The common spaces were well kept.
Veronica was so helpful! Yummy food and drinks. Big bathroom size and tranquil landscape.
Rooms & Rates
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Grand Standard
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Fits 2 people
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1 Queen Bed
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240 ft²/22 m².
Views: Courtyard.
Includes:
- Adjoining room on request (charges apply)
- Air conditioning
- Arm chair
- Bathtub/shower combo
- Concrete floor
- Desk
- Phones
- Television
- Wake up service
Petite Suite
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Fits 2 people
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1 Queen Bed
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320 ft²/29 m².
Includes:
- Air conditioning
- Arm chair
- Concrete floor
- Desk
- Patio
- Phones
- Sofa
- Stand up shower
- Television
- Wake up service
Grand Suite
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Fits 2 people
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1 King Bed
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456 ft²/42 m².
Views: Garden.
Includes:
- Adjoining room on request (charges apply)
- Air conditioning
- Arm chair
- Concrete floor
- Desk
- Phones
- Rollaway bed (on request)
- Stand up shower
- Television
- Wake up service
