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As many times as I’ve stopped at The Madonna Inn, I’ve never stayed overnight until a trip to celebrate my birthday a couple of weekends ago. I’ve always fantasized about staying there. How could I not with each of the 109 rooms uniquely designed and insanely themed, with names like Love Nest, Old Mill, Kona Rock, Irish Hills, Cloud Nine, Just Heaven, Hearts & Flowers, Rock Bottom, Austrian Suite, Cabin Still, Old World Suite, Caveman Room, Elegance, Daisy Mae, Safari Room, Highway Suite, Jungle Rock, American Home, Bridal Falls, and more? I picked the floral crested Madonna Suite, which was personally decorated in the late 60s by the Inn’s Grand Dame, Phyllis Madonna.
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The first thing that hits you when you walk in is that signature Madonna Inn carpet:
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Next, the generous amount of seating choices:
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It’s hard to tell from the photo but that’s monogramed light pink pony skin on the chair backs:
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And those are rock stools in front of a working fireplace:
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Those are right round the rock from the bed that was way too messy to shoot every time I went to take photos of it. So here’s a close-up of the bespread just to show that none of the lust for pink was lost in more subtle areas of the room.
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There’s also a lot of mirrors.
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Those angels are all over the Inn. This one hangs over the bed:
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This chandelier hangs over the dining room table and pink cowhide chairs…
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…illuminating the Madonna Inn ice bucket and branded glasses…
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…and water.
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Some other water is branded as well, at least until you lift the lid:
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As you can see, I love pink, which reminds me of home:
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All the doors, walls and ceilings in the Madonna Suite are pink too:
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This door leads into the bathroom:
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….that’s lit by nice, simple pink rose lights:
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…over a nice, simple rock sink…
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… with electrical outlets perched periouslously close to running streams of water that zip through every crevice in the rock:
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Everything is embedded into rock, including the Kleenex box…
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…and the light switches:
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All of this is across the rock floor from a waterfall rock shower:
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It’s impossible to see detail here but right above the showerhead a waterfall splashes down from rocks that jut out above it.
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I acquired quite a stash of Madonna branded freebies…
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…collecting every bag, napkin, pen, soap container, toilet sanitation band, and info sheet the place had to offer.
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Though it still didn’t stop me from going a little nuts in the gift shop:
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I’m very attached to The Madonna Suite so will probably end up always bunking there whenever I stay overnight, but here are a few other choices I’m toying with for next time:
Old Mill:
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Caveman:
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Yahoo:
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Barrel Of Fun:
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Austrian Suite:
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American Home:
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Vous:
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How could I go wrong in any of them?!
PART 1 here.
Lisa Rios
Vous for me! I always wanted to sleep in a round bed. Is there a mirror on the ceiling?
Allee Willis
I don’t think there’s a mirror on the ceiling. As crazy as this place is it’s very homespun.
Douglas Wood
“American Home”?! On what planet?!
Allee Willis
I know!
Nessa
I MUST stay there sometime, it looks so amazing! I’m glad you chose the room you did though, the pink is fantabulous. Happy Belated Birthday!
BeeJay
L-O-V-E it!!!! And as always when I see the Madonna Inn – how they heck they clean all this??
childstari
i’ve never stayed overnight here but i stop there whenever i’m in the neighborhood. it’s so awesome!! now that i see the rooms, i will definitely have to do a getaway there!!
Allee Willis
Absolutely!!
Rusty
Oh swoon, the ‘yahoo’ room.
Cheetah Velour
I love the Caveman room, but I wouldn’t be able to sleep a wink with all those rocks embedded in the ceiling!
shirlie williams
Cannot believe I missed this post….Woweeee I love everything about this room, I would think I had died and gone to heaven if I woke up in this room…the chairs, the carpet arrggghhhhhhhhh, and the crazy rock bathroom , I feel quite certain we have NOTHING like this in the UK. Fanbloodytastic…
damaimes
Amazing photos….stayed at the Madonna decades ago, has not changed a bit…this is Kitsch at the edge of scary, but who doesn’t like to be a bit terrified from time to time…
Allee Willis
I think it’s Kitsch on the edge of brilliance. Having been there at least six times this last year alone (1 to stay and 5 to eat) it gets more and more staggering to me. I don’t think its trashy or scary kitsch. It could be exactly what you describe but it’s done with a great sense of design (as tasteful as overwrought Kitsch can be) and hominess. And not a detail or inch left unturned. LOVED the Modaonna Suite. Great food in the coffee shop (cheeseburger, fried chicken and pink cake the standouts) and eyeball-popping great decor in the pinkest way possible in the dining room (not to mention a dance floor). If you’re ever by that way again stop in. I’d be curious to see your take all these years later.