La Posada de Santa Fe, a Tribute Portfolio Resort & Spa

The downtown location offers easy access to the city center and attractions. Guests appreciate the friendly staff, comfortable beds, and clean rooms. However, no specific disadvantages were mentioned in the reviews.

Elegant but beautiful low-key campus-style resort with rambling pathways leading to guest rooms, pool, full-service spa, fountains and many "easter egg" vignettes and mini-plazas to enjoy and relax in. Pleasantly-rustic but functional room furnishings, exceptionally comfortable beds and pillows. Excellent food. Not cheap, but you get what you pay for.

The location and the patio restaurant are the highlights of this hotel. The location is excellent - two or three blocks from the plaza, as well as about three blocks from the beginning of Canyon Road and its art galleries. While there are some hotels closer to the plaza, they would be a longer walk from Canyon Road. I’m in my late 60s, and easily walked from the hotel to the main stretch of the Canyon Road galleries (and back). The outdoor patio was a delightful setting for both dinner and breakfast. Marriott elites should be aware that the free breakfast for Bonvoy platinum and above offers only a limited choice of 4 or 5 items, and does not include the tip. I passed on that, and ordered the fruit plate for breakfast, which was very nice and quite large - one of the best fruit plates I’ve had. I booked a Sage room (over the spa) to be sure I would have access to an elevator, since other rooms are either ground floor (where people walk past your windows) or require climbing steps. My room had a small balcony that overlooked a rooftop- other rooms on this level had larger balconies with apparently nicer views. There is a nice open air sitting area one floor above this level, which apparently few people notice. The hotel grounds are pretty and atmospheric, and help make up for rooms that could definitely use a refresh. My room was a decent size, but rather dark, and the furnishings needed updating. The hotel offers an on-demand shuttle service to Museum Hill or certain other areas (I think they said within 2 miles) but I did not use it.