Pacific Coast Highway Hotels 2014

by Mike Gerrard, Donna Dailey

This is the only guide there is to the best hotels, inns, bed-and-breakfasts, resorts, motels, and other accommodations along the Pacific Coast Highway through California, Oregon, and Washington. It also covers California’s wine country and is published by the number one online source for PCH www.Pacific-Coast-Highway-Travel.com. Updated by the authors every year. This brand new and fully updated 2014 edition Over 150 of the best hotels along PCH Fifty top hotels in Napa, Sonoma, and Paso Robles wine country Eight overview maps showing locations from Seattle to San Diego Full contact details for all hotels Index of places, alphabetically and geographically Hotels, Inns, Motels etc There are accommodation choices in 64 towns and cities along the Pacific Coast Highway, including Seattle, San Francisco, Big Sur, Carmel, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego. Listings are rated in three Expensive, Moderate, and Budget. Full contact details are given, along with a summary of the hotel’s facilities. The authors have highlighted the accommodation they have chosen as their Personal Favorites from the hotels they have stayed in. Maps Eight maps show locations of places with recommended hotels from Seattle to San two for Washington, two for Oregon, and four for California. Photos The guide contains 30 photos of accommodation chosen as Personal Favorites by the authors. 5-Star Review for 2013 Edition Essential reading if you are planning a trip on the Pacific Coast Highway February 19, 2013 By Susan Byron Amazon Verified Purchase At long last I am finally going to California in May. As this a very big ticket, bucket list trip for me (all the way from Ireland) I certainly do not want it to spoiled by making any wrong choices accommodation wise. Mike and his wife Donna have huge experience of all kinds of lodgings along this route and have kindly shared that knowledge in this priceless guide. I am now perfectly happy with my selection and wildly excited about my trip of a lifetime. The Authors Mike Gerrard and Donna Dailey have won several awards for their travel writing, including a Benjamin Franklin Award for a guidebook to Paris. Donna has won an award from the Visit USA association and several awards from the British Guild of Travel Writers, including runner-up as their Travel Writer of the Year. Mike is one of the Press Gazette’s 50 Most Influential Travel Journalists in the UK, and was recently chosen as the AITO Online Travel Writer of the Year. They have written guidebooks for almost every major travel guide publisher, including National Geographic, Dorling Kindersley, Michelin, AA, AAA, Fodor's, New Holland, Berlitz, Insight, and many more. Mike has written guides to the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District for the AA, while Donna has written driving guides to Scotland and Ireland for Thomas Cook. Mike and Donna also publish the Beyond Travel guides, whose titles include Amsterdam and Beyond, Lyon and Beyond, Bordeaux and Beyond, Toulouse and Beyond, Montpellier and Beyond, and Marseille and Beyond, all available for the Kindle. In addition to their Pacific Coast Highway Travel website, they also publish the Beyond London Travel and Greece Travel Secrets websites.

96 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2010

About the author

Mike Gerrard is the author of Cask Strength: The Story of the Barrel, the Secret Ingredient in your Drink, out in July 2023 from the Matt Holt imprint of BenBella Books.

Before branching out into writing about spirits (the kind you drink), Mike was a prolific and award-winning travel writer.

AWARDS
I’ve written on travel for newspapers, magazines and websites in the UK, the USA, Australia, Africa and Asia. I’ve won several awards for my writing and photojournalism:

Travel Distilled gained 3rd place in the AITO Travel Blogger of the Year Awards
A Travelex Award for Best Consumer Magazine Feature. The story, for London’s Time Out, was about eating snake in China and is now the title piece in my collection of travel writing, Snakes Alive!
A British Guild of Travel Writers Award
Two Awards for Excellence from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild
A Benjamin Franklin Award in the USA for a guidebook to Paris
AITO Online Travel Writer of the Year
Named as one of the 50 Most Influential Travel Journalists in the UK by the Press Gazette
GUIDEBOOKS
I’ve also written or contributed to over 40 guidebooks for major travel publishers, including the AA, AAA, National Geographic, Fodor’s, Insight, Dorling Kindersley, Thomas Cook, Michelin, Moon Guides and many more.

FOOD AND DRINK
I have always loved writing about food and drink for the travel pages, and as well as visiting distilleries I’ve toured vineyards in France, Greece, New Zealand, the UK and even Arizona. I’ve toured breweries in many countries, written about Bernachon’s chocolate shop in Lyon, visited the Champagne region of France and the sherry bodegas of Jerez. I’ve interviewed chefs including Raymond Blanc and Alain Ducasse, and worked for a week as a waiter in a taverna in the Greek islands. (As a result I now leave bigger tips.)

EXOTIC TRAVELS
My more exotic travels have taken me camel-trekking in the Sinai Desert, walking in the Great Rift Valley of Tanzania to raise money for charity, learning to jive in Barcelona, looking for orang-utans in the rain forests of Sumatra and staying with a farming family in China.

OTHER WRITING
As well as hundreds of travel pieces and dozens of guidebooks, I’ve also written a podcast for American Express, worked on mapping software for Microsoft, written hotel reviews for Google, written a crime novel, a collection of travel writing, an erotic novel, and three radio plays for the BBC.