The Top 2 Hotels in Half Moon Bay
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Half Moon Bay's Ritz-Carlton sits where the Santa Cruz Mountains meet the Pacific, a formal outpost in a town that has resisted development and kept its quiet character. The spectacular coastline thirty minutes south of San Francisco remains the real draw here—a landscape that makes the hotel feel almost incidental to the view.
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Perched on a bluff above Half Moon Bay's fishing harbor, the all-suite Beach House Hotel trades urgency for the rhythm of fog and distant lighthouse calls. Its position between Pacific swells and the Santa Cruz Mountains feels less like escape than permission to stop.