Metro Hotel & Café is a Parisian-themed boutique inn set in an 1870 building on Petaluma Boulevard. Vibrant, distinctive, and recognized by Sunset Magazine and the Wall Street Journal as one of the most unusual places to stay in the western U.S. Includes traditional rooms, two-room suites, Airstream travel trailers, and a two-story cottage.
1870 Parisian-themed boutique with Airstreams, Pétanque, and a #1 TripAdvisor reputation.
Metro Hotel & Café is the kind of property that gets named in lists of the most unusual hotels in America — a 19th-century Petaluma building reimagined as a Parisian-circus-themed boutique inn, complete with bocci ball and pétanque courts, an on-site French café, and a roster of accommodations that includes a pair of vintage Airstream travel trailers parked on the property. The Wall Street Journal called it 'artistic and bright modern Parisian-circus-themed.' Sunset Magazine listed it among the top twenty most unique hotels in the western U.S. TripAdvisor has rated it Petaluma's #1 hotel for over twenty years running.
Beneath the whimsy, the operations are sharp. Rooms have lightning-fast 1GB Wi-Fi, large 4K smart TVs, climate control, clawfoot tubs in many baths, and stocked minibars. Pétanque tournaments run on the courts. Bicycle rentals carry guests into Petaluma's historic downtown a few minutes' ride away. The on-site café serves European-leaning breakfast and pastries. For travelers who want their Sonoma County base to have a sense of humor and a strong design point of view rather than resort-tier polish, Metro Hotel is the obvious choice. Owners Justin and Susan Schoolcraft have run the property as an independent passion project for two decades.
Justin Schoolcraft co-owns Metro Hotel & Café in Petaluma with his wife Susan. The pair brought a European boutique-hotel sensibility to a town that didn't have one, and the property has become a touchstone for travelers who want personality over polish — funky vintage furnishings, a beloved on-site café, and the unmistakable feeling that the people who own the place still tend the front desk.
Susan Schoolcraft co-owns Metro Hotel & Café with her husband Justin. Her instincts run toward the kind of carefully curated, design-forward hospitality that's hard to fake — vintage-French wallpaper, fresh flowers from the garden, the lived-in warmth that distinguishes Metro from every chain along the 101 corridor.
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Metro Hotel & Café is the kind of property that gets named in lists of the most unusual hotels in America — a 19th-century Petaluma building reimagined as a Parisian-circus-themed boutique inn, complete with bocci ball and pétanque courts, an on-site French café, and a roster of accommodations that includes a pair of vintage Airstream travel trailers parked on the property. The Wall Street Journal called it 'artistic and bright modern Parisian-circus-themed.' Sunset Magazine listed it among the top twenty most unique hotels in the western U.S. TripAdvisor has rated it Petaluma's #1 hotel for over twenty years running.
Beneath the whimsy, the operations are sharp. Rooms have lightning-fast 1GB Wi-Fi, large 4K smart TVs, climate control, clawfoot tubs in many baths, and stocked minibars. Pétanque tournaments run on the courts. Bicycle rentals carry guests into Petaluma's historic downtown a few minutes' ride away. The on-site café serves European-leaning breakfast and pastries. For travelers who want their Sonoma County base to have a sense of humor and a strong design point of view rather than resort-tier polish, Metro Hotel is the obvious choice. Owners Justin and Susan Schoolcraft have run the property as an independent passion project for two decades.
Justin Schoolcraft co-owns Metro Hotel & Café in Petaluma with his wife Susan. The pair brought a European boutique-hotel sensibility to a town that didn't have one, and the property has become a touchstone for travelers who want personality over polish — funky vintage furnishings, a beloved on-site café, and the unmistakable feeling that the people who own the place still tend the front desk.
Susan Schoolcraft co-owns Metro Hotel & Café with her husband Justin. Her instincts run toward the kind of carefully curated, design-forward hospitality that's hard to fake — vintage-French wallpaper, fresh flowers from the garden, the lived-in warmth that distinguishes Metro from every chain along the 101 corridor.
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