In 2005, posh Healdsburg got even more chichi with the opening of this opulent hotel. Guest rooms are spacious and elegant enough for French nobility, with 18th- and 19th-century antiques and reproductions. Most of the gleaming, white marble bathrooms have spa tubs in addition to enormous showers. And when you return at night to a box of chocolate truffles and crawl into your canopy bed covered in pristine Italian linens, you might wonder when you've ever had it so good. Rooms on the third floor have soaring ceilings that make them feel particularly large, while the second-floor rooms have a slightly more understated style. Breakfast is served in the adjoining restaurant, Cyrus or in the library, sumptuously paneled with hand-carved black walnut.
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