The George, College Station

Richly figured wood and leather set the tone at this boutique hotel inside Century Square, a 60-acre development that effectively dropped a small urban neighborhood next to the Texas A&M campus. Rooms run from swanky Kings to 800-square-foot Executive Suites, and the 1791 Whiskey Bar downstairs gives you a perfectly reasonable excuse to never leave the building, though an upscale chophouse is right outside if you do.