Page:The Tourist's California by Wood, Ruth Kedzie.djvu/65

 HOTELS RESTAURANTS CUISINE 45 the south. The terms for board and treatment are everywhere moderate. Owing to their distance from supplies and the railroad, many of the rough and ready, semi- camping hotels make a charge which appears dis- proportionate to their service. At the Del Monte one can live for $4.00 a day, and yet at many an inaccessible retreat he must pay half as much for a bed in a tent and meals which, though abundant and good, are oft-times served informally be- neath the trees, and are far from Del Montian. In Connecticut or Michigan, similar accommoda- tion would fetch half as much. There are, besides, heavy rail and stage expenses usually to be added. At most places affected by vacationists there are house-keeping tents and cottages to lease. Fur- nished one- to five-room cabins of canvas or cob- bles bring $4.00 to $15.00 a week. Food need not cost more than 50 cents a day per person. These terms apply to modest accommodations for a lone camper or a group of campers from the Tent City at Coronado and from Idyllwild in the southern mountains to the Geyser Country, the hunting and fishing grounds of the Feather River and the foot-hills about Shasta. At populous beaches like Santa Cruz the rates may rise from $6.00 a week for a single one-room cottage to $42.00 a week for a villa that has fur-