Free parking is available about four steps from your room. Then: This is the pink palace that road trips built, in more ways than one. The man behind the inn’s opening was Alex Madonna ...

But none are as quintessentially pink — or recognizable — as the long, hand-peeled ribbons of custom-dyed white chocolate atop the pink Champagne cake at the Madonna Inn. The Central Coast’s ...

Picture-perfect and pink, Madonna Inn’s signature cocktail matches the famous San Luis Obispo hotel in every regard. The Pink Cloud is the most ordered drink at the inn’s Silver Bar ...

Just beyond the bakery and the Copper Cafe is the inn’s culinary crown jewel: the ornate Alex Madonna’s Gold Rush Steak House, a red-pink-gold dreamscape of a restaurant decorated with a 28-foot-tall ...