Not every getaway needs a special occasion. Sometimes, all you need is a little space on the calendar and a reason to escape the everyday. Before fall brings busier weekends, fuller schedules, and another round of plans, make time for a night or two in the heart of San Antonio. Settle in for great food and cocktails, discover local art and live music, ease into a slow morning, and enjoy downtown at your own pace without trying to fit the entire city into one trip.

The Gunter Hotel, our iconic home on East Houston Street, puts you right in the center of it all. Come for the change of scenery, stay for the atmosphere, and rediscover how good it feels to simply slow down and enjoy the city.

Start the Getaway Slowly

Forget the itinerary for a moment. Your downtown San Antonio weekend can start simply with good coffee, a relaxed morning, and the city waiting just outside.

That effortless flexibility is part of what makes a stay at The Gunter feel like a true escape. Make plans when you want to, leave room for spontaneity when you don’t, and enjoy the freedom of experiencing the city entirely at your own pace.

Let Jots Put Something Seasonal on the Table

A late-summer escape should taste like one, too. Throughout the month of August, Jots is featuring a Culinaria menu with specially curated selections and seasonal offerings. As part of The Gunter’s renewed dining collection, Jots Restaurant offers an inviting setting where guests can gather, enjoy a memorable meal, and turn dinner into an experience of its own.

Late summer is also the perfect time to take your meal outside. An open-air extension of The Gunter’s storied interiors, the patio at Jots invites guests to gather, linger, and experience the energy of downtown San Antonio from a fresh perspective. Settle in for seasonal flavors, enjoy the warm evening air, and take in the atmosphere of East Houston Street as the city moves around you.

Choose a table indoors or a seat on the patio, dinner at Jots gives you another reason to stay a little longer and enjoy the slower pace of a late-summer escape!

Give August 28 Its Own Getaway

Burger lovers, consider this your sign to make a night of it. National Burger Day on August 28 brings a half-price Jots burger special and the perfect excuse to turn an ordinary evening into a little downtown escape. Check into The Gunter, gather your friends for burgers, stay for cocktails, and let the night unfold from there. No flights, no vacation days, no packed itinerary just good food, good company, and a change of scenery that makes a night in San Antonio feel like a getaway.

For San Antonio locals, sometimes a fresh setting is all it takes to see the city differently. After dinner, keep the evening going with cocktails at Keystone Club, The Gunter’s lobby bar and one of the hotel’s on-site food and beverage experiences. It’s another inviting place to settle in, enjoy the property, and extend the evening. With great drinks, good music, and your room just steps away, there’s no need to rush simply relax, enjoy the atmosphere, and let the night unfold.

Experience the New Gunter

There’s something special about returning to a place you thought you knew and discovering it all over again! The Gunter has entered a new era, blending the character of its 1909 beginnings with a fresh, thoughtfully reimagined experience. Following a major transformation, the hotel continues to celebrate the history that has connected it to downtown San Antonio for more than a century, while offering guests a renewed sense of style, comfort, and place.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, recognized by Historic Hotels of America, and part of Marriott Bonvoy’s Tribute Portfolio, The Gunter offers a stay that feels distinctly San Antonio.

To celebrate this exciting next chapter, guests can book the Restored. Reimagined. Remarkable. Tribute Portfolio Hotel Offer, which includes up to 26% off the Best Available Rate, a champagne toast for two upon arrival, access to the hotel’s curated Vinyl Library, weekly live music, and late checkout based on availability.

It’s more than a downtown stay it’s an invitation to experience a San Antonio landmark in an entirely new way.

Book the Restored. Reimagined. Remarkable. Offer

Take the Easy Escape Before the Calendar Fills

Soon enough, weekends will fill with plans, events, and everything fall brings with it. For now, there’s still time to make room for something a little more spontaneous. Start the morning with coffee downstairs and let the day unfold from there. Dress up for dinner and drinks, discover the seasonal Culinaria menu at Jots, meet for cocktails at Keystone Club, or turn National Burger Day into the perfect excuse for a night away.

No packed itinerary. No complicated planning. Just good food, great drinks, a little music, and the freedom to enjoy downtown San Antonio at your own pace.

Sometimes, the best late-summer escape is the one that makes it easy to simply say yes. At The Gunter Hotel, our newly transformed downtown setting, growing dining experiences, seasonal programming, and unmistakable San Antonio history offer plenty of reasons to make that escape happen before fall takes over the calendar.