travel42 Hotel Review: Ventana Big Sur, an Alila Resort

Ventana Big Sur, an Alila Resort travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Set on 243 gated acres, sprawled across a devastatingly beautiful redwood-spangled hillside, this lavish but slightly more laid-back version of Post Ranch was named after the exotic Ventana Wilderness, which lies just east of the hotel and provides the visual counterpart to its stunning and much-lauded ocean views to the west.

Located nearly 3 miles south of the modest back-to-the-earth Big Sur Lodge, this upscale eden changed dramatically following its a...