Monday, June 7, 2010

The Inn at Entrada

My wife and I don’t travel together nearly often enough, but when we do we want it to be memorable. We want to have an environment where we can relax and enjoy each other’s company. Recently we had the chance to get away for a few days and we found the perfect little spot.

We visited St. George recently and stayed on a beautiful golf course at a place called the Inn at Entrada.

The Inn is a unique little property. It sits on a private golf course designed by PGA great Johnny Miller. The course is exclusive, requiring members to buy into the club. However, by staying at the Inn you automatically gain access to the course as if you were members of the club. By staying there we were eligible to use the golf course, the club house and all of the great amenities there.

It was great to wake up and look out the window over the pristine course and the red-cliffs that surround the area. The Inn is just down the street from Snow Canyon State Park so the area is stunning with beautiful vistas.

Perhaps the most important thing to my wife was that the Inn at Entrada was the filming location for High School Musical 2. The pools and greens were each associated with memories from the movie. What I didn’t tell her until after we left was that we actually stayed in the same casita that Zac Efron stayed in while filming the movie. She has bragged about it ever since.

The casita was great; it had ten-foot ceilings, and was beautifully furnished with a queen bed, flat screen TV. A jetted tub let me relax at the end of the day, and an adjoining patio let us watch the sunset.

It was nice to have our own garage and kitchen, we were able to pull our car right up to our casita and really feel like we were home.

I would suggest the Inn at Entrada as a great place to stay while visiting Zion National Park or Snow Canyon State Park or the Tuacahn Outdoor Theatre. You can stay there to enjoy the golf and the spa available at the Inn at Entrada, or just to relax and get away for a few days. My wife and I loved it.