Inn Above The Tide

🌟 The Inn Above Tide, 30 El Portal, Sausalito, California🌟

🛏️ Number of rooms & suites: 33

💰 Price: If you’re ready to splurge, rooms here start at above $600 per night and exceed $1,600 per night for an ultra-posh suite.

🧀 Dining: Although there isn’t a full restaurant on site, the hotel offers coffee and tea all day, an evening wine and cheese reception, and complimentary breakfast each morning.

🗺️ Neighborhood: Steps from the ferry landing as well as Sausalito’s art galleries, wine bars, cafés, waterfront restaurants, shops, and views of San Francisco, all accessible on foot.

📚 Why book: When urban won’t do, this tranquil alternative to a busy downtown San Francisco hotel is a mere 25-minute boat ride across the bay from the historic Ferry Building. Each of the 33 rooms and suites features a private, furnished deck and uninterrupted water views of the San Francisco Bay, city skyline, Alcatraz, and Angel Island. Its central location means you can walk to dinner, shops, galleries, and more.

👀 Nearby attractions: Ice House Museum with free Saturday walking tours, Sausalito Books by the Bay, Kayak and SUP tours and rentals, Bay Area Discovery Children’s Museum, Sausalito Center for the Arts, Heath Ceramics (and factory tour), Bay Model Visitor Center, No Name Bar (with nightly live music), Muir Woods (25 minutes). Read my Sausalito guide here.

💫 Highlights: Views, location, intimate setting, free WiFi, complimentary bikes, Bvlgari bath amenities, car-free living.

❤️ My heartthrob: You can opt to have the complimentary evening wine and cheese, as well as the daily breakfast, delivered to your room if you prefer to linger on the deck in your bathrobe. In-room binoculars let you spy on frolicking sealions.

💔 My heartbreak: The pricing. It’s steep and out of reach for many travelers.

Sausalito is a quaint waterfront town just 25-minutes by ferry from San Francisco

Photo courtesy of the hotel