The Madonna Inn is a garish, but good natured, theme-driven inn. All of this dwells on 2200 acres of the most beautiful country in the United States in quaint and lovely San Luis Obispo on the coast of Central California. Built by Alex and Phyllis Madonna, the first 12 rooms were ready for business Christmas Eve of 1958. To give you a hint about what kind of people the Madonnas are, that night they gave those rooms, with their compliments, to the first 12 travelers to stop at the Inn. They designed each room thereafter to be markedly distinct from all of the others.
Some rooms are so unique and sought after that they require reservation a whole year in advance.
The most popular, the Cave Man Room, features stone floors, walls, ceiling and rock waterfall shower. The bedspreads and accents are leopard skin print. If you're a family needing more space, the Jungle rock room sports a similar theme with rock waterfall and two king-size beds. If leopard skin isn't to your taste, there's another room with zebra skin, stone floors and trees. There are also more elegant rooms available, as well as suites that sleep nine.