Since we both had to work on Valentine’s Day this year, we decided our gift to ourselves would be a fancy weekend in a hotel right here in downtown Houston! It turned to be a perfect weekend to stay in one place, with incredible thunderstorms passing through on Friday and Saturday.
We checked into the Four Seasons on Friday evening and headed downstairs to dinner at Quattro. Truffled fries, veal cheek bolognese, lava cake, oh my! I was glad we didn’t have to drive home because I was so full from the amazing food.
Saturday we started with an amazing room service breakfast and spent the rest of the day in the spa, enjoying massages and having the fourth-floor outdoor whirlpool to ourselves. We finished the day with another room service meal. You can get 24-hr room service at the Four Seasons (required to earn a five-diamond rating from AAA), which is awesome — not that I can stay awake late enough to need it after a spa day. What is it about relaxing all day that makes me so tired?
I was probably most excited for brunch today, which was even better than I’d imagined. There was a breakfast station (eggs, bacon, french toast, etc), a dessert station and a savory area (it requires you to walk into the kitchen, which is interesting) that appeared to have some of everything offered throughout the hotel: seafood, Italian, sushi, meats, cheese & charcuterie. I usually like to keep to traditional breakfast foods before noon, but I had to try some grilled chicken, pasta and bacon-wrapped quail.
I would pretty much like to live at the Four Seasons now, please. The room was elegant, quiet and comfortable, and the service throughout the hotel was befitting of royalty. I wish the spa had a little more going on as far as relaxation areas, but that’s all I would change.
It was finally sunny and pleasant today, so after we brunched and checked, we wandered over to Discovery Green to walk around and sit in a butterfly garden. If the weather were always like this, I would never want to live anywhere else! Finally we made our way back to the hotel to get our car, but not until we wandered through the new downtown Phoenicia Foods and picked up a little something to take home.
It was an indulgent weekend, but we won’t be able to do this kind of thing when Mark is in school, so we’re enjoying the flexibility now. Hopefully we can squeeze in one more weekend like this before then!
