The Best Hotel in Sacramento and the Gold Country, California

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Sacramento has plenty of full-service hotels, budget motels, and small inns. Larger towns along Highway 49—among them Auburn, Grass Valley, and Jackson—have chain motels and inns. Many Gold Country bed-and-breakfasts occupy former mansions, miners' cabins, and other historic buildings.

The Harper Inn

$ | 3038 Orchard La., Placerville, CA, 95667, USA

Snappy design, full kitchens, and proximity to downtown, wineries, and Apple Hill make this small early-1940s motel renovated in 2022 into vacation rentals a delight for its price point. The aesthetically pleasing suitelike accommodations have separate bedrooms (king or queen beds), walk-in rain showers, 60-inch smart TVs, and responsive Wi-Fi. The husband-and-wife hosts pride themselves on the TLC they've put into the house and the hospitality they show their guests. Some noise bleed-through between rooms and the less than scintillating location in a residential cul-de-sac between stand-alone commercial establishments and a strip mall count as drawbacks, but the pluses for the most part outweigh them in this Gold Country town with few worthy nonchain options.

Pros

  • Responsive Wi-Fi
  • Aesthetically pleasing suitelike accommodations
  • Husband-and-wife hosts

Cons

  • Lacks the amenities of full-service establishments
  • Less than scintillating location
  • Airbnb rental
  • Need to call owner's cell to book a particular room
3038 Orchard La., Placerville, CA, 95667, USA
805-324–2798
Hotel Details
4 rooms
No Meals

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