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The
Embassy Suites San Luis Obispo Madonna Inn Hotel is conveniently
located in the heart of California's Central Coast, just off
Highway 101, and near the Madonna Inn.
The Madonna Inn is a motel of flamboyant style in San Luis
Obispo, California. Opened for business in 1958, the motel
was the creation of Alex Madonna, who died in April 2004,
and his wife Phyllis.
The motel is a monument of unremitting kitsch, a Swiss-Alp
exterior, and lavish pink common rooms. Each room in the Madonna
Inn is uniquely designed and themed. Its rock waterfall urinal
is a fixture along California's Central Coast. Many tourists
come to visit the urinal, to the embarrassment of males who
genuinely need to use the facilities.
In 1966, the Inn's original units were burned to the ground
in a dramatic fire. It was reopened a year later, and by the
end of the decade, all of the rooms had been rebuilt in all
their luridness as they are known today. There are 109 rooms.
Back in 1982, the Madonna Inn was already world-renowned
and the New York Times interviewed Alex Madonna about his
eponymous creation. "Anybody can build one room and a
thousand like it," he defended with pride. "I want
people to come in with a smile and leave with a smile. It's
fun. What fun do you think Paul Getty got out of his life."
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