travel42 Hotel Review: L'Auberge Carmel

L'Auberge Carmel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Located a few blocks from tony Ocean Avenue shops, seven short blocks downhill to the beach, a scenic two-hour drive south of San Francisco, this is an excellent location for a romance-filled weekend. It is convenient to shops and dining, and almost everything is walkable.

The inn was originally an apartment complex, and Carmel's first, built in 1929 in a naive Bohemian style. The building was transformed into an inn back in 2004, with a focus on the rest...