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Hotel Emma

This hotel has been hand-picked by the StayBoutique team and verified as an authentic boutique hotel

Vibe

Historic Elegance

Location

136 East Grayson Street, San Antonio, TX 78215

A historical hotel, authentic and welcoming, Hotel Emma was once a 19th-century Brewhouse. Now it’s an extraordinary 146-room riverfront hotel and the flagship for Pearl’s culinary and cultural community on the northern edge of downtown San Antonio. When you stay at the Pearl Brewery Hotel Emma, you’ll experience San Antonio as if you are staying at the well-appointed home of extremely interesting friends, your visit peppered with warm social experiences, genuine cultural flavor, insider knowledge, and delightful surprises unique to the hotel, the neighborhood, and the city. The hotel’s design firm, Roman and Williams, is known for work that is distinguished by its unique blending of historical elements with modern references and finely balanced tension between the past and the future. Comfortable and unconventional, the hotel’s historical ambiance proclaims a new standard of South Texas luxury and geniality making it the premier luxury hotel in San Antonio.

Features & Amenities

  • Seven penthouse suites with private balconies, four suites are two-story
  • Culinary Concierge to arrange culinary experiences and cultural happenings
  • Guayabera robes custom-made by Dos Carolinas
  • Merit Roasting Co. coffee service throughout the Hotel
  • 3,700-volume library
  • In-room Ice Box stocked with the true taste of South Texas foodways
  • Frette linens
  • Rooftop pool
  • Fitness center
  • 6,160 square feet of event space
  • Complimentary cruiser bikes for guest use
  • House car

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