Alexander’s Inn

Specialties

Our traditional Santa Fe casitas, featuring New Mexican furnishings and décor, full kitchens and patios, are perfectly suited for family vacations or romantic holidays.

Guests rave about our heavenly beds, made up with fine linens, down comforters and feather pillows. We provide daily maid service, luxuriously soft robes, phones, wireless internet, cable TV, DVD & CD players and air conditioning. Also available is a guest membership at the full-​service El Gancho Health Club. Each arriving guest is welcomed with a basket filled with homemade cookies, fresh fruit, coffee & teas, wine, chips & salsa.

We also offer spa packages at our nearby spa, Absolute Nirvana, selected by Conde Nast as «One of the Hottest New Spas in the World». Our staff of master-​level therapists offers traditional Asian spa rituals & facials, therapeutic, Thai & hot stone massage, along with luxurious rose petal baths.

History

Established in 1997.

Alexander’s Inn was opened as a traditional B&B in 1987, named after owner Carolyn Lee’s one year old son. The inn began with four rooms, and expanded to nine rooms over the course of the next 18 years. In 2005, Carolyn and her family (with the addition of twins Madeleine and Nicholas) moved in to the main house and continued renting the remaining four detached casitas, now known as Alexander’s Inn Vacation Rentals. These are a cross between vacation rentals and inns, providing concierge service, daily maid service and a welcome food basket upon arrival.

After a visit to Bali in 2004, Carolyn was inspired to open a spa, which operated just a few blocks from Alexander’s Inn and open to guests of the inn.

Meet the Business Owner

Carolyn L.

Business Owner

Carolyn Lee has been an innkeeper for the past 23 years, opening Alexander’s Inn in 1997, shortly after moving to Santa Fe from Paris, France. As the daughter of a career diplomat, Carolyn has lived in many different countries, including Germany, Canada, Turkey and France. Her first career was as a dancer with Pennsylvania Ballet and Wisconsin Ballet. She later attended Tufts University, getting her degree in International Relations. Upon graduation she moved from Boston to New York and worked on Wall Street as well as in the field of advertising. From New York she moved to Paris, where her son Alexander was born. In 1986 Carolyn moved to Santa Fe and opened Alexander’s Inn with just four rooms. As the business expanded, so did Carolyn’s family. She is currently married to artist Ted Larsen and now has three children — Alexander and the twins, Madeleine and Nicholas. In 1998 she purchased two new inns, naming them after the twins. Absolute Nirvana Spa was opened in 2005.