Bonner Garden Bed & Breakfast

Located in the heart of Monte Vista Historical District is a magnificent two-story, award-winning Italian Villa surrounded by lush gardens, a 45-foot swimming pool and a full rooftop patio which overlooks downtown San Antonio. The home was completed in 1910 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Press:

The Bonner Garden Bed & Breakfast was featured in the November 23, 2003 issue of The New York Times Travel Section.

Bonner Garden was most recently recommended in the "Readers Recommend" column found in the January 18, 2009 Los Angeles Times Travel Section.
The Bonner Garden Bed & Breakfast was also praised in the "Follow the Reader" column found in the Sunday, May 29, 2005 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle. The mention in the Chronicle's column sparked more kudos in the May 31, 2005 edition of the San Antonio Express News.

Saturday, October 22, 2005, the Bonner Garden Bed & Breakfast was featured on the Monte Vista Historical Society's Home Tour.

Hosts: Your hosts, Margi and Jim Herbold are sure to make you feel welcome. They constantly strive to maintain a clean, comfortable oasis for their guests, where everyone can feel at home. The Inn maintains a AAA 3 diamond rating, and was honored by the San Antonio Historical Society at the time of its restoration in 1988.

A full gourmet breakfast is served daily at our dining room table between 8 AM and 10 AM.

Breakfast consists of your favorite beverage (coffee/tea/milk), fresh juice, a home baked breakfast bread/coffee cake, a sweet or egg based entree, and a breakfast meat (bacon/sausage). We offer a different entree each day, normally rotating the sweet and egg base.

If you notify us in advance of dietary concerns or biases, we will try to accommodate you and offer you an acceptable alternative.

Refreshments and beverages are available at all times. Fresh cookies are provided each evening.

Amenities

Rooms: Each room has a queen size or king size bed. We can add a roll-away to our suites or the Portico room. All rooms have private bath rooms. Our suites and the Portico room have fire places. All bathrooms have a shower. Some bathrooms have Jacuzzi tubs and the Ivy room has a regular bath tub. See our Rooms Page for the details of each individual room and its private bathroom.

Amenities: Each room also has a flat screen television with cable service, a DVD/VCR player, a telephone, and a clock radio with alarm. Local calls and domestic long distance calls are complementary.

Additional amenities provided include robes, hair dryers, makeup remover, Neutrogena shampoo, conditioner, body wash and soaps, high density cotton sheets, large thick luxurious pima cotton towels, and hypoallergenic non-down pillows. Down pillows are available upon request.

Each room and all public areas of the house are serviced with complementary high speed Wi-Fi Internet access. Lap desks are available upon request. A video library containing over 300 titles and growing Texana book collection are available for our guests' enjoyment. Our guests receive discount access to Spectrum Athletic Club at Concord Plaza.


Living Room
Our goal here is to provide a comfortable setting for our guests to relax. Play a game of Chinese checkers, solitaire or Scrabble. Plug your laptop computer into a high speed internet connection to do research, e-mail or surf the web. The comfortable chairs and sofa are perfect to curl up on and read a book (pick out Texana books from the front shelves). Enjoy the artwork, admire the antique secretary and put some soft music on the stereo.

Dining Room
The focal point of the dining room is a working fireplace decorated with Italian tiles (chosen by Mary Bonner on one of her trips to Europe) and topped with a Mercer mantle piece. Over the fireplace is a painting of a Spanish conquistador. It is unknown whether this was originally installed when the home was built or at a later date. The large dining table seats eight people comfortably.

Bonner Garden Bed and Breakfast is conveniently located minutes from downtown San Antonio, the Riverwalk, the Alamo, Brackenridge Park, the San Antonio Zoo and Botanical Gardens, the Witte Museum, the McNay Art Institute, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Quarry Market, the Pearl Brewery, the North Star Mall, Fort Sam Houston, Trinity University, San Antonio College and the University of Incarnate Word. Guests enjoy easy access to both Sea World and Six Flags Fiesta Texas, as well as many of the fine area restaurants.

Guests enjoy walking and jogging through Monte Vista, with its magnificent homes built near the turn of the century.