This was a beautiful hotel, conveniently close to stores, restaurants, and thoroughfares yet snugged into a hillside to create feeling of detachment. The bistro inside served excellent quality American pub fare and the courtyard was wide, deep, & pleasantly accommodating.
However, there were 2 incidents during my 1-night stay that served to drop the score to 3 stars. While sitting outside smoking my cigar and chatting with the other folks there, we all noticed the gas in the fire-pit flaring explosively several times and then spreading from the center of the pit toward the wall where the gas line entered the pit, indicating a leaking gas line, so they turned the gas off. Sitting around a fireless firepit was a bit of a bummer, but ultimately it was less about the experience than the overall sketchy impression. The second thing was that a toaster in the kitchen set off a fire alarm around 5 am, only the fire alarms was linked into EVERY alarm in the entire hotel, so even though the kitchen was isolated and the smoke alarm dealt with fairly rapidly, the strident klaxons & strobe lights in Every. Single. Room. And. Hallway. rudely roused every occupant in the hotel out of their slumbers at that early hour. I understand the preventative approach to a worst-case-scenario that was behind linking all the fire alarms together, but I still find it frankly absurd that a toaster in a hotel kitchen can set off a fire alarm in a separate wing.