stylish steals: THE WORLD'S BEST NEW BOUTIQUE HOTELS UNDER $150

• Published in: Arthur Frommer's budget travel Vol. 12; no. 9; p. 48
• Main Authors: Appleton, Kate, Berger, Shoshana, Bowes, Elena, Brunner, Jeryl, Lindt, Naomi, Lipp, Danielle, LÓpez-cordero, Mario, Maxfield, A Christine, Rohrs, Alison, Suqi, Rima, West, Charlotte
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Intellitravel Media, Inc 01-11-2009
• Subjects: Art galleries & museums; Furniture; Hotels & motels; Interior design; Tables
• ISSN: 1521-5210

Named after Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller Vertigo, which was filmed on location and plays on a loop in the lobby, the property preserves the dizzying spiral staircase featured in the movie, while also sprucing up most rooms with white tufted-leather headboards and orange-vinyl chairs, hotelvertigosf.com, from $ 129. The lobby and 18 rooms combine authentic artifacts (antique books and suitcases), splashy furniture (bright-orange metal chairs), and creative recycling that pairs the old with the new (a coffee table made from the original fir floorboards). Each of the rooms has a beige duvet covering a white queen-size platform bed, a woven mat on the gray Khmer tile floor, and dark-brown drapes that open onto a private balcony, viroth-hotel.com, from $90 with breakfast.