Mankas Inverness Lodge, Inverness, California

Restaurant; room service; in-room massage; movies on request; personal music library; free Wi-Fi. The lodge consists of a superb restaurant on the first floor, four rooms upstairs (room nos. 1 and 2 have large private decks), and four rooms in the Redwood Annex. Two spacious one-bedroom cabins, behind the lodge and on the water, have living rooms and bathrooms with vintage 6-foot double-ended tubs and private outdoor showers opening up to the sky.

14 units, including 4 cabins. MP3 player with CD library, phones in guesthouses, redwood soaking tubs in some rooms

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