San Francisco, From $108 a Night
This festive hotel package is valid over the holidays and includes ice-skating at Union Square.
The patio looks over citrus groves in a valley to the snowcapped peak of Mount Etna beyond.
Ten of Villa Nettuno's rooms have tiny balconies that look over the gardens to the sparkling sea far below.
In downtown Palermohalf a block from the main drag, Corso Vittorio Emanuelethe hotel's rates are phenomenal.
The scenic countryside surrounding the Monaco di Mezzo estate seems made for horseback rides.
The counts of Pilo di Capaci built this imposing villa in 1778 so they could tend the estate's vast citrus groves.