Bristol Hotel, Los Gatos

This hotel is somewhat anachronistic from top to bottom.

It looks like it's come from pre-WW1, but with aircon, candelabra, HD TV, comfy armchairs, a giant portrait of Helmut Kohl, a giant portrait of the young Queen Elizabeth II, quite a few Romanesque nude statues dotted around the place and some German flags.

"What do you think of it so far?"  "Rubbish!"

There's even a bust sitting on the table just inside my room, which gave me a start when I first went in.  It's really heavy too, so it's not just some cheap cast that they've had made.

In fact, it reminded somewhat of the Morecambe & Wise sketch with Glenda Jackson, with the talking head.  I took some photos, and I met another lady who was also taking photos of the corridors, as we agreed that neither of us had ever stayed anywhere quite like it.



The rooms opened directly onto the passageway, even right by the front door of the hotel - room 101 is just inside the front entrance before you even approach the lobby desk.

There are a lot of decorative lights everywhere .

And urns.  And statues.