GETAWAYS • Santa Rosa
Midcentury modern revival The Flamingo Resort, with its roots as a celebrity hideout for Hollywood stars like Humphry Bogart and Jayne Mansfield, is akin to a jaunt to Palm Springs (without leaving the Bay Area).
Designed in the wheel-and-spoke style popular among 1950s hotels, the Flamingo surrounds a central courtyard hosting the resort’s main attraction — a swimming pool heated year-round. Fall is the perfect time to visit, as rowdy summer crowds and Sunday DJ sessions give way to a more relaxed vibe. A vintage poolside trailer serves up everything from frosé to shrimp Louie, delivered to a lounge chair or private cabana.
Newly renovated rooms and suites are airy and light-bathed, filled with design nods to the hotel’s history — retro room dividers, period artwork, and brass finishes. More au currant touches include Malin & Goetz bath products and sleek Fellow kettles.
There’s daily poolside yoga and meditation, as well as a sprawling sports club offering tennis and pickleball courts, a Peloton-equipped cycling studio, a separate lap pool, and a modern weight room. The spa offers the expected menu of massage and facial services, but it’s also the only Sonoma County resort spa to offer the Hydrafacial, a suite of treatments popular with the influencer crowd.
The property’s indoor-outdoor Lazeaway Club serves an all-day Cal-Pacific menu with dishes like a heirloom tomato and pickled melon salad and grilled maitake “magic” mushrooms with miso-garlic dressing. The most popular item on its cocktail menu is a signature guava punch slushy, made with Bayou white and spiced rums.
Some use the Flamingo as a jumping-off point for tasting room visits, and some local wineries host pouring events on-site. But with all its amenities, the hotel works just as well as a standalone destination for a weekend (or longer). –Allison McCarthy
→ Flamingo Resort (Santa Rosa) • 2777 4th St • Rooms from $286/night.