City: Santa Fe, NM

Category: Accommodations

Telephone: (505) 988-4455, (800) 955-4455

Address: 309 West San Francisco St.

Description: A favorite with visiting celebrities, the newly renovated Eldorado is an enormous luxury hotel in the heart of downtown Santa Fe, just 2 blocks from the Plaza. The hotel boasts 219 elegant rooms and suites, many featuring kiva fireplaces and balconies or terraces with views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, as well as triple-sheeted beds, reading chairs, flat screen TVs, and WiFi. The Eldorado pampers guests with plush terry-cloth robes, nightly turndown services, extended room service, and valet parking. It even provides private, English-style butler service with deluxe rooms and suites. Guests have access to a rooftop swimming pool and whirlpool along with a fully equipped fitness center and saunas.The Nidah Spa offers treatments inspired by the Native American concept of harmonizing seasonally with the four directions, using southwest blue corn, mud, essential oils, and other approaches. The award-winning Old House Restaurant—housed in the historic home around which the hotel was built—was the first four-star restaurant in the state. It offers fine dining seven nights a week featuring creative gourmet dishes with a southwestern touch. Less formal dining is available for breakfast and lunch in the Eldorado Court, which on Sunday serves a lavish prix fixe champagne brunch, buffet style, with prime rib and other meats carved to your liking; bottomless bowls of fresh shrimp; smoked meats and fish; gourmet salads; omelet and waffle stations; and a decadent dessert table. For live nightly entertainment, guests need go no farther than the adjoining lobby lounge. Children under 16 stay free with paying adult.