If you choose to stay at Casa Blanca, here are some delights you will experience: Elegant main house with ample places to relax; lush, naturalized gardens with flowers, bushes, mature trees, fountain, gazebo and quiet areas; friendly, helpful staff with Lynda at the helm; breakfast with fresh fruits, cereals, juices, breads, hot coffee, an egg dish (the Huevos Rancheros are delicious and include inn-grown veggies); Chaco Casita, a huge, immaculate suite with kitchen (including coffee beans, a grinder, and half-n-half in the 'frig); beehive fireplace; simple but elegant SW decor including hand-woven textiles as drapes and magnificent bedclothes; brick flooring with handwoven SW area rugs; luxury marble bath with jetted tub, art niche, folk-art painted basin sink; glass-block wall, open shower, cotton bathrobes, thick towels scented with lavendar (from their own garden?); objets d'arte spread around the suite, not bolted down, with a sewing kit inside one box; quiet, serene grounds with no street noise, and a covered veranda with deeply-carved support posts, hung with grape vines and edible grapes. If you choose to eat outside, your own private table and leather chairs for that.
If you go--take a walk around the lush gardens and take your camera--you will need it. Suites and rooms are tucked into the foliage, private and luxurious. The rates for the Chaco Casita were the same as for a cookie-cutter hotel room at one of the better chains, but were in a totally different league. The only odors at Chaco Casita were lavendar and fresh air--the windows open!
My husband is a rock-and-roll drummer and doesn't notice decorator details, fabrics and lavendar-scented anything, but he was so impressed, we booked another night as soon as we arrived and saw our Casita. He settled in as if he were home.
Casa Blanca is a gem, and we can't wait to get back!
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