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.
📚 Why book: Stay in this romantic waterfront inn if a busy downtown San Francisco hotel isn’t your style. The Inn Above Tide is an easy 25-minute boat ride across the bay from the historic Ferry Building, yet it feels worlds away. 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, and galleries, then return to this retreat, cozy up in your bathrobe, and watch San Francisco’s skyline twinkle across the water.
🧀 Dining: Although there isn’t a full restaurant on site, The Inn Above Tide offers coffee and tea all day, an evening wine and cheese reception, and complimentary breakfast each morning.
🗺️ Neighborhood: Sausalito’s art galleries, wine bars, cafés, waterfront restaurants, shops, and views of San Francisco are all just steps from the front door, as is the ferry landing.
👀 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: The complimentary evening wine and cheese, as well as the daily breakfast, can be 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 price. It’s steep for a room and out of reach for many travelers. But if splurge is what you’re after, this one is worth it.
Sausalito is a quaint waterfront town just 25-minutes by ferry from San Francisco
Photo courtesy of the hotel
