What People Are Saying
In the Media
- The Best Hotels in Big Sur, VOGUE, 2025
- An Exclusive Tour of Carmel’s Historic La Playa Hotel, NBC CA Live, 2024
- Where to Eat & Drink California, Sunset, 2024
- Post Company restores hotel known as birthplace of Apple’s Macintosh computer, dezeen, 2024
- Historic La Playa: From an Artist’s Retreat to a Hotel of Distinction, Carmel Magazine, 2024
- This Carmel-by-the-Sea Landmark Gets a Spirited Restoration, Galerie, 2024
- Three historic NorCal hotels are revived in time for romantic Valentine’s escapes, 7×7, 2024
- Carmel’s La Playa Hotel Stages a Hollywood-Worthy Remodel Debut, Haute Living, 2024
- The 11 Best Places to Travel in 2024, VOGUE
- Book This, The New York Times’ T Magazine T List, 2023
- This Chic Northern California Hotel Just Reopened, Travel + Leisure, 2023
- Top 20 Hotels in Northern California, Condé Nast, 2023
- Modern Guide to Carmel-by-the-Sea: Quaint Seaside Stays, Locally Grown Eats + All the Wine, 7X7, 2022
- How to Plan the Perfect Escape to Carmel-by-the-Sea…, Travel + Leisure, 2022
- California Reverie: An Ethereal Elopement Along the Pacific Coastline in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Style Me Pretty, 2020
- The ‘Big Little Lies’ Travel Guide to Monterey County, California, Brit + Co 2019
Awards & Accolades
- 2025 Forbes Best Beachfront Hotel In Carmel-by-the-Sea: La Playa Hotel
- 2025 TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice (Award Received 10 Years Consecutively)
- 2024 Carmel Chamber of Commerce Award of Excellence for Best Accommodation
- 2024 Carmel Pine Cone Best Hotel On The Monterey Peninsula
- 2024 TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice
- 2024 Hospitality Design Awards, Winner Visual Identity
- 2023 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Award
- 2022 Charmel Chamber’s Award of Excellence
- 2022 TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice
- 2022 Carmel Pine Cone Best Bartender on the Monterey Peninsula (Bud’s)
- 2021 Carmel Pine Cone Best Hotel On The Monterey Peninsula
- 2021 Hotels.com Loved by Guests Award
- 2020 Hotels.com Loved by Guests Award
- 2020 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Award
- 2020 US News and World Report Best Hotels in Carmel Beach
- 2019 Carmel Chamber of Commerce Award of Excellence
- 2019 Hotels.com Loved by Guests Award
- 2018 US News and World Report Top Romantic Weekend Getaway
- 2018 Today Best Resorts of the US
