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Listening to a Creek Babble Behind a Spa-Hotel in Sonoma, California
Glen Ellen’s Gaige House Inn is a work of balances. It’s both vintage and modern, Japanese and Victorian. It’s in the thick of both the Sonoma and Napa wine trails, but still feels like a remote hideaway. It’s a community, but a well-spaced one among three lush acres filled with sprawling gardens and meandering pathways along Calabazas Creek. And it succeeds, splendidly. Five of the 22 rooms are in a grand 1890 Victorian house, restyled with a smart collection of European and Asian furnishings. The rest are spa suites, built just a couple of years ago. They overlook a shaded creek, and have all the requisite top-flight amenities, like dimmer switches on perfectly positioned halogen lights, and zillion-thread-count linens. The bathrooms are the focal point, with tubs of hollowed-out granite boulders, their interiors polished to a mirror shine, their exteriors left rough as a rock. The tubs are so big that you need a step stool to get in them. Connecting the bathroom to the bedroom is a Japanese meditation garden, perfect for zoning out after a scalding-hot soak. If you want to hop in and out of water—and bed—all weekend long, these are the rooms to book. The...
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