Must-see hotels in Eastern USA

  • Hickory Landing

    Florida Panhandle

    There's drinking water and 10 campsites here, but not much else, other than a bucolic forest setting.

  • Bel Air House

    Virginia

    Almost always booked months in advance during summer. Sleeps up to six persons.

  • Off Soho Suites

    East Village & Lower East Side

    While no one would accuse this converted apartment building of trading in luxury accommodations, the price and location are stellar. Rooms are rough…

  • Hawk’s Cay Resort

    Florida Keys

    The Cay is an enormous luxury compound with silky-plush rooms and nicely appointed townhouses, as well as countless island activities. The resort's most…

  • 463 Beacon Street Guest House

    Back Bay

    This c 1880 Back Bay brownstone is showing its age, but at least it retains architectural frolics, including a spiral staircase (no elevator), wrought…

  • Blue Moon Boutique Hotel

    East Village & Lower East Side

    You’d never guess that this welcoming brick guesthouse was once a foul tenement back in the day (the day being 1879). With touches including original wood…

  • BPM

    New York City

    With a trance/techno soundtrack humming away in the background, sleek BPM (short for 'beats per minute') is an unorthodox, music-loving bolt-hole, north…

  • Murray Hill East Suites

    Midtown

    The dated brick facade is a suitable introduction to the rooms, where uninspiring furniture and carpet date to the era of shoulder pads. If you can…

  • District Hotel

    Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights

    Home to some of the smallest rooms in DC, the District Hotel has spartan quarters that will work for low-maintenance budgeteers and those who don't mind…

  • Crenshaw Guest House

    Alabama

    Five rooms and two small cottages are on offer at this property, a Victorian mansion from 1890 built by an Auburn mathematician. The rooms range from…

  • Holland Inn

    Mount Desert Island

    In a quiet residential neighborhood a walking distance from downtown, this restored 1895 house and adjacent cottage have 13 homey, un-frilly rooms…

  • Fireside Inn & Suites

    Inland Maine

    Waterville isn't endowed with loads of lodgings. This hotel is in a pretty featureless part of town (beside a mall, just off the I-95), but rooms are very…

  • Hotel Arras

    Asheville

    Pack Sq’s BB&T tower, a 50-year-old modernist classic that’s the tallest skyscraper in Asheville, is being revamped and overhauled to house this luxury…

  • El Govenor Motel

    Gulf Coast

    This beachfront motel is pretty dated, but the rooms are clean and some have kitchen facilities. All have balconies overlooking the gulf. The motel is…

  • Harbor Inn

    Northern Minnesota

    A decent last-resort option, the Harbor Inn offers plain-Jane rooms, but they're comfy. The location is within easy walking distance of downtown…

  • Hampton Inn & Suites Ybor City

    Tampa

    The red-brick Hampton Inn offers a good level of comfort, a free shuttle downtown and a tiny pool. Its location on 7th Ave means rooms at the front can be…

  • Grand Bohemian Charlotte

    Charlotte

    This luxury Uptown hotel, due to open in late 2019, soars 16 stories above Uptown, with 254 rooms between its ground-level restaurant and rooftop bar.