Private villas on the Point Leo Estate property, sculpture park, bay views, and the hatted restaurant directly below.
Known for Sculpture Park AccessLaura Restaurant ProximityPrivate Estate TerracesBay Views from Merricks
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Why we’d goThe only Peninsula stay where you wake up inside the sculpture park and walk down to a two-hat breakfast, not as a privilege, just as the morning.
Point Leo Estate's villas are the overnight continuation of one of the Peninsula's most complete destinations. The villas are small in number and private in layout, they share the estate's 16-acre sculpture park, the gardens, and the kitchen-to-lawn movement between the three restaurants, but each has its own enclosed terrace and a scale that makes them feel more like retreat accommodation than hotel rooms.
The stay makes sense because of what it unlocks: a Laura degustation booking without worrying about the drive home, a morning walk through the sculpture park before the day visitors arrive, and direct access to the Pt. Leo Terrace for a casual lunch without needing to leave the property. The wines are poured from the estate's own cellar at dinner; the Chardonnay program is as serious as anywhere on the Peninsula.
Book a villa around a Laura reservation. Walk the sculpture park at sunrise. This is the Peninsula's most considered one-estate overnight experience.
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Book a villa around a Laura reservation and walk the sculpture park before the gates open to day visitors, the estate at 7am is a different place.
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