PRICE:
Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Just a few blocks from the downtown core, where a narrow residential street reaches a quiet end, a nondescript door under a carport leads into a rambling house of rooms ranging from comfortable and inexpensive to grand. It turns out the street side is really the back of the house, which sits at the top of a high bluff facing an unobstructed view of Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna beyond, a view so unlike most urban vistas it is easy to forget you are right in town. A large, gracious common room and breakfast area and an adjoining balcony command this extraordinary view, and its enough to make you stop right there and just spend time looking. Remodeling completed in 2007 filled the house with new furniture. The suite is quite luxurious, but the four rooms that share two bathrooms are the rarer find: cozy and very clean, sharing this prime location, they allow travelers to save money without compromise. A good, simple room with two double beds and its own bathroom rents for $125 double. The hosts, successful journalists, are hospitable Alaskans.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Alaska 2008, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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