I began staying at the Hotel San Jose in 2001 and have been known to schedule my vacation trips to Austin around the Hotel’s availability. If I can’t get a room at the hotel (where most of the musicians stay, making demand quite high and availability quite low) during the Austin City Limits Music Festival, I simply won’t go to the festival. I love the hotel that much. I won’t visit Austin whatsoever unless I can stay at this hotel. It’s part of my overall Austin experience, as is Jo’s Coffee stand next door and El Sol y La Luna Restaurant three doors down.

From the landscape design to the linens, I worship this place. After my first stay, I called them to ask where they got EVERYTHING from the ashtrays (I ordered them from the hotel and they shipped them to me) to the pillows (Company Store). I modeled entire rooms in my home after the style of this hotel’s rooms. It’s nothing short of superb.