Luxury holidays in San Luis Obispo
Halfway between LA and San Francisco, San Luis Obispo – SLO to the locals – serves up the Central Coast’s classic free-spirited fun with an added dash of rural charm. Pacific-kissed Pismo Beach and Morro Bay promise golden sands, great surf and stacks of freshly caught seafood; inland, forest hikes abound. Handily, the city is home to one of the state’s finest farmers’ markets, so you won’t be short of adventure fuel. Haute-Californian restaurants and hill-clinging wineries showcase the city’s Sunday best, but life in the SLO lane isn’t strictly strait-laced – catch its quirky side at fuchsia-hued kitsch-a-thon Madonna Inn, or add your sticky signature to Bubblegum Alley.
When to go
Blessed with a Mediterranean-style climate, SLO’s summers and autumns are sunny and mild. November to February can be on the soggy side.