In Tiburon California, you'll find the new Waters Edge Hotel, located smack dab on the water -- so true to its name! As a nearby resident, I was thrilled to see it open and offer the only waterfront accommodation in this town. I arranged a mid-week night at the Water’s Edge Hotel through the Travel Club, and was very pleased to see what a charming boutique hotel. There are many extras that are included, like a CD and video player, entrance to a local athletic club, and complimentary wine in the late afternoon. The lobby is very inviting, almost like a private living room, with overstuffed chairs and sofas, plus artistic tables with reading material available, making it a most welcoming atmosphere. The guest room was large and beautifully decorated, and included a fireplace (complete with a duraflame log!) and a small deck (where we ate our luxurious continental breakfast, consisting of of cereal, juice, coffee/tea and pastries, served right to our room at our appointed hour -- fantastic! And newspaper too). The bed was too comfortable for its own good; we could barely get out from under the goosedown duvet!
Outside the large communal sundeck, which is off the 2nd floor and where we spent the entire first night sipping wine and eating nibblies, is a carpet of bay and boats. To the right is the Corinthian Yacht Club, looking as if it came straight from the Mediterranean with its white façade and blue trim.
Of course, we locals rarely go to Fisherman’s Wharf, and I wouldn’t recommend anyone stay there either, when for the same price of a touristy chain hotel at the Wharf, you can spend the same amount and be lavishly treated in Tiburon at the Waters Edge Hotel. Business people are catching onto this idea as well, smugly knowing they can take a ferry into the Financial District from virtually outside their hotel door, and arrive 1/2 hour later, refreshed, not stressed, and what a lovely way to travel!