PRICE:
Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

The Adobe & Pines Inn seeks to create a magical escape, and it succeeds. Much of it's in a 150-year-old adobe directly off NM 68, less than half a mile south of St. Francis Plaza (about a 10-min. drive from Taos Plaza). The inn is set around a courtyard marked by an 80-foot-long grand portal and surrounded by pine and fruit trees. Each room has a private entrance and fireplace (three even have fireplaces in their bathrooms), and each is uniquely decorated. The theme here is the use of colors, which are richly displayed on the walls and in the furnishings. There's Puerta Azul, a cozy blue room with thick adobe walls, and Puerta Turquese, a separate whimsically painted guest cottage with a full kitchen. The two rooms, completed in 1996, have bold maroon and copper-yellow themes. The walls have handprints and petroglyph motifs, and each room is furnished with rich and comfortable couches. Most of the inn's rooms also have Jacuzzi tubs. Three rooms have private outdoor fenced hot tubs. Because this inn is near the highway, at times cars can be heard on the grounds, but the rooms themselves are quiet. Morning brings a delicious full gourmet breakfast in the glassed-in breakfast room. A courtesy computer with Internet is available for guest use.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque, 12th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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