The Pool at Hotel San Jose

"The pool is small but pretty, and the courtyard lounge serves bar snacks, beer, wine and select cocktails, like their signature champassions (champagne and passion fruit juice with raspberries)"

"Local hotelier Liz Lambert has revamped a 1930s-vintage motel into a chic SoCo retreat with minimalist rooms in stucco bungalows, a lovely bamboo-fringed pool and a very Austin-esque hotel bar in the courtyard that's known for its celebrity-spotting potential"

"There's a small swimming pool, an outdoor lounge serving drinks and snacks, and the locally famous Jo's Coffee next door"

"Restored from an old motel, it has a variety of minimalist rooms, some with shared bath, along with lovely gardens, a tiny pool and a cool coffeeshop, Jo’s, on site"

"The Shangri-La courtyard is abuzz every evening with clued-in locals who watch enviously as you take a dip in the mini pool"

"An "alternative to mainstream lodging", this revamped 1930s motor court is now a "cool boutique" in a "crazy-prime" South Congress location ("within walking distance of restaurants and trendy shopping"), offering "comfortable as hell, gorgeously modern" rooms with "minimal furnishings" that "make you feel like an artist waking up"; the "ultrahip" bar has outdoor seating in a "lush courtyard" – a "fantastic" place to "meet up with friends" – and perks include a pool, bike rental and music library"

"Only steps away, along crushed granite pathways, palms shelter a small pool, fish pond and sundeck"

"Bento boxes of breakfast by the pool the next morning take the edge off the kind of hangover Jeff Bridges won an Oscar for portraying"