The Top 4 Hotels in Palo Alto
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A twenty-three-room boutique hotel in Palo Alto where a personal chef and concierge attend to every detail, from room service to valet, with nothing left to arrange yourself. The shared living spaces and twenty-four-hour pantry—stocked with local Tin Pot Creamery ice cream—extend the fiction that you're simply staying home.
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The El Prado's modest exterior gives way to a contemporary luxury interior that recalls refined European boutique hotels, with guest rooms of particular distinction. It stands as Palo Alto's rare departure from the region's disposable hospitality vernacular.
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A 1929 brick building near Stanford wears its collegiate swagger in maximalist guest rooms and a rooftop bar overlooking downtown Palo Alto. Lou and Herbert's, the ground-floor café, serves coffee and cocktails beneath Spanish colonial arches, anchoring the hotel's unapologetic embrace of ornament.
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A Japanese-inspired hotel in downtown Palo Alto, Nobu opts for the restraint of an urban ryokan rather than the spectacle of its San Francisco counterparts. The tranquil courtyard garden and considered interiors suggest a deliberate step back from the noise, even if you're steps from the shopping district.