Conde Nast Traveler places these four California hotels among the world's 75 best

By Mary Forgione

April 19, 2017 7 AM PT

Four California hotels are among 75 picked as the world’s best by Conde Nast Traveler editors, writers and photographers. The magazine’s announced its Hot List 2017 on Tuesday.

The listed favored Golden State properties that are intimate, out-of-the-way hotels, most with ocean views, rather than luxury big-brand names.

(Room rates below were found online for May 12 and 13 and exclude tax and fees.) They are:

Casa Laguna Hotel & Spa on 2510 South Coast Highway in Laguna Beach is small, with 23 rooms. It was built in the 1920s and redesigned in 2016. Rooms start at $349 a night.

Malibu Beach Inn at 22878 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu has just 45 rooms and suites in its oceanside perch at Carbon Beach.

Rooms start at $609 a night.

Single Thread Farms-Restaurant-Inn at 131 North St. in Healdsburg, Calif., is indeed a farm with an heirloom fruit orchard, beehives, a cattle pen and more. There are just five rooms on the second story of the restaurant. Rooms start at $1,000 a night.

Timber Cove Resort is located at 21780 Highway 1 in Jenner, Calif., on Sonoma County’s coast.

It sits on a rocky bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and is described on the website as “one part hippie chic and two parts rustic modern ...” Rooms start at $350 a night.

How did Conde Nast pick the top hotels? Here’s what a release from the magazine says: “Our team of editors, reporters, and photographers flew a collective 529,500 miles, slept in roughly 200 beds, and had passports stamped in more than 50 countries to select this year’s winners.”

In all, 21 of the hotels are in the U.S.

Here’s the rest of the unranked list:

11 Howard, New York City

28 Kothi, Jaipur, India

Ace Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana

Amanemu, Shima-shi, Mie, Japan

Antara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort, Oman

Anantara Peace Haven Tangalle Resort, Sri Lanka

Andaz Scottsdale Resort & Spa, Scottsdale, Ariz.

&Beyond Metetsi River Lodge, Zimbabwe

Atemporal-Hotelito in Lima, Peru

Banyan Tree Tamouda Bay, Morocco