The San Antonio Fairmount is flanked by the drearily predictable chain hotels of Hiltons and Marriots, of which there are far too many in this town. By contrast the Fairmount gave us the most memorable long weekend, Friday through Tuesday, in a beautiful and quiet room, with excellent front desk staff, informative and intelligent in response to our needs. All at a very reasonable price. The hotel has a lot of charm in its architecture (delightful interior courtyard, curving staircase, and homely lobby with hotel dog Luke–a great hit with our own son Luke). If there were more hotels like this around the world I'd be very happy. The adjacent restaurant, just opened, was a big advantage for us. It had great food and very friendly service. They should have a terrific future. I went for one breakfast at the nearby Hilton, but it was really terrible quality, and expensive. This is like a classy 4 star hotel in Venice, if you were lucky enough to make the booking. A great reason in itself for going to San Antonio and now our well-travelled 10-year old son's favorite hotel, particularly for the quality of the room And he's extremely fussy.
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