Orange County Hotels
Montage Resort & Spa
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30801 S. Coast Hwy
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Tel. 866/271-6953, 949/715-6000
Fax. 949/715-6100
A mom looking for a quiet break enjoys spa pampering at Laguna Beach's Montage resort while staying at the Laguna Reef Inn, a lower-priced lodging option nearby.
In the search for a luxury getaway, the coastal strip of south Orange County makes for easy hunting. The Ritz-Carlton and the St. Regis resorts are practically within a hot tub splash of each other in Dana Point. Most recently, the Montage Resort & Spa in Laguna Beach joined the group with a Craftsman-style ocean-side spread that exudes California-casual elegance. But the problem with luxury, even casual luxury, is that it comes with a luxury price tag.
A night at the Montage, for example, is $490, even in the cheapest rooms, and the hotel has a two-night minimum on weekends.
Fortunately, right across the street from the Montage is one of the better-kept secrets of Laguna Beach: the Laguna Reef Inn, long among the least expensive places to stay here. Because it's a couple of miles south of downtown, off a shopping strip and without the cachet of the Montage, its prices are lower. A Saturday night at the inn, with continental breakfast, was $145 plus tax.
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