Showing posts with label Monterey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monterey. Show all posts

February 15, 2013

Monterey: Hyatt Regency Monterey; hotel review + restaurant review

1 Old Golf Course Rd., (800) 233-1234, (831) 372-1234.  4 stories; 550 rooms; $$-$$$.  2 heated pools; 2 hot tubs; fitness room; full-service spa; 6 tennis courts (some night lights).  3 restaurants; room service.  $20/day resort fee. 

The sprawling Hyatt Regency Monterey resort is located away from town, adjacent to the scenic Del Monte Golf Course (1300 Sylvan Rd., (831) 373-2700.)--the longest continuously operating golf course west of the Mississippi (for more than 100 years).  Bicycle rentals are available, and Camp Hyatt operates for ages 3 through 12. Choose from two restaurants.  Knuckles Historical Sports Bar has a casual but sleek atmosphere and 20 flat-screen TVs tuned to the action.  A three-sided “Table Tender” booth with its own self-serve spigot in the table’s center can be reserved.  Larger, more sophisticated TusCA Monterey offers a choice of breakfast menu or a buffet that includes an omelette station.  Dinner brings on a delicate artichoke bisque, tender ricotta gnocchi with sautéed garlic, and delicate ravioli stuffed with a pear-gorgonzola mix and topped with a delicious rich Cognac cream.  Pastas are housemade, and pizza is also an option.


More things to do in Monterey.

More ideas for exploring Northern California.

image ©2013 Carole Terwilliger Meyers

July 18, 2012

Monterey: Colton Hall + The Old Jail; things to do

exterior of Colton Hall in Monterey, California
1 South

Colton Hall  

570 Pacific St./Madison St., (831) 646-5648.  Daily 10-4.  Free. 

Built in 1849, this New England-style building was the original town hall and later a school.  Colton Hall was built of Carmel stone amid a sea of adobes and was the largest building west of the Rockies at the time.  California’s first constitution was drafted here in 1849, and today the second floor assembly hall is restored to appear as it did when the Constitution Convention met here.

Behind Colton Hall. 

was constructed of thick Monterey stone granite in 1854.  Featuring thick, narrow doorways and iron doors, it replaced the old adobe jail that, according to historian Dennis Copeland, “people could dig out of with rain and a spoon.”  No one ever escaped from this one. 





June 20, 2012

Monterey: Cannery Row Antique Mall; things to do

 471 Wave St./McClellan Ave., (831) 655-0264.  M-F 10-5:30, Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5. 

merchandise at Cannery Row Antique Mall in Monterey, California
merchandise at Cannery Row Antique Mall in Monterey, California


More than 140 dealers operate here in the huge Cannery Row Antique Mall warehouse--the largest antiques mall on the central coast.

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