What are our picks for the most Romantic Hotels, Northeast US this year? As your Romantic Getaway experts, the Getaway Mavens were busy throughout 2024, staying in boutique hotels, inns, and Bed and Breakfasts all over the world, with a concentration in the Northeast United States.
From modish to traditional, sprawling to intimate, in bustling cities, coastal towns, or as remote as humanly possible, the following 16 new or renewed lodgings, listed in geographical order from Maine to Virginia, deliver on the most romantic escapes and enticing places to stay with your beloved in 2025. Try one or all for a serendipitous weekend with your true companion.
16 Romantic Hotels Northeast US To Stay At In 2025
Lincoln Hotel, Biddeford ME
If you want to stay in the sexiest hotel in Biddeford ME – or maybe in all of Maine – book a room at The Lincoln Hotel. Guest rooms are perfect for a smolderingly affair, or, if you just need a night to lift your spirits. Suite-sized chambers are kitted out with in-wall gas fireplaces, industrial-height ceilings, walls of both original brick and deep saturated colors, and oh the bathrooms!
Seesaw’s Lodge, Peru Vermont
Don’t you just love a renovated hotel/inn/B&B with a nefarious yet glamorous backstory? Well, Seesaw’s Lodge in Peru Vermont – in the foothills of several smallish ski mountains – has one. And, not only that, but it’s been rebuilt as a thoughtfully designed rustic-chic lodge and restaurant – celebrated for its food, friendliness, and location, near the base of Bromley Mountain, Magic, and 15 minutes from Stratton. Find out more to do in nearby Manchester VT.
76 Main: Ink Press Inn, Nantucket MA
Built in 1883 for a sea captain, this stately Main Street Nantucket home is now the sophisticated and fun 76 Main: Ink Press Hotel. Under new ownership, and renovated in 2024, this newly chic hotel features twenty themed rooms: each one an intricate riff on a recognizable cultural icon (aka, celebrity) from various media, with an emphasis on publishing. Looking for things to do outside of the Hotel’s doors? Check out our Romantic Things to Do in Nantucket post.
Dockside Inn, Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard MA
This small Oak Bluffs hotel makes it on our Romantic Hotels Northeast list by virtue of its location and cornecopia of freebies. Sure, there are larger, more luxurious, and full-service hotels on Martha’s Vineyard. But, if you’re going for as close-to-the-HyLine-Ferry Dock as you can get (I mean, RIGHT off the dock), cute clean updated rooms, and amenities aplenty – with several good restaurants a minute’s walk away, book a room at Dockside Inn.
Wellsworth Hotel, Southbridge MA
The upscale Wellsworth Hotel is not small, or intimate. It won’t stop you in your tracks stylistically. It was built for large groups as a conference center, and, near Brimfield, hosts hundreds of antique-hunters who swarm here for the thrice a year Brimfield Antique Flea Market Show. But if you’re curious about scientific Americana, or optical innovations during the Industrial Age, or brilliant women of science – and if you are in the throes of a love affair with a like-minded soul – you’ll both groove to the backstory, not to mention the comfort, of this place. Plus – it’s a few minutes drive to one of the best living history museums in the country: Old Sturbridge Village.
Renaissance Hotel at Patriot Place, Foxboro MA
The 4-Star Renaissance Hotel Patriot Place is a polished luxury hotel with rooms decked out in the highest quality accoutrements. It abuts the Patriot Place pedestrian mall – just off its back door – and a football’s throw from Gillette Stadium. So, if you and your best buddy are infatuated with football, stay here. Huddle on a tufted couch in the lobby after the game to gaze at each other, bathed in the Stadium lights that shine brightly through the floor to ceiling windows.
Whalers Inn, Mystic CT
In 2011, Kim Kardashian stayed at main street Mystic‘s The Whaler’s Inn – which was consequently completely booked for months. Since then, it’s been updated and expanded with several outbuildings: PLUS – the addition of award-winning dining experience on-site – The Shipwright’s Daughter.
Marmara Hotel NYC
The Marmara Park Avenue NYC is in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. A ten-minute walk from Grand Central Station, the location of the hotel is known more for its boxy storefronts and affordable (for the City) first apartments than for charming cobblestone streets (SoHo) or high end shopping (Madison Avenue). But this 126-room hotel woos a huge number of international visitors who seem to know what many locals and Americans don’t: that The Marmara is an alluring, kinda sexy, and wholly original boutique hotel that contrasts with its ho-hum surroundings.
Andes Hotel, Andes (Delaware County) NY
At the Andes Hotel, in New York’s Great Western Catskills, it’s Mountain Lodge meets 40’s farm-kitchen in the tiny town of Andes NY. Single story, motel-ish guest rooms out back hug a beautiful courtyard filled with plantings and patio seating. Walk around and you’ll see touches just short of tacky: a large rooster atop a roof, a pink tin pig in the breezeway, and the like might even crack you up. Although not as well known as the nearby Roxbury Motel, the adorably cute Andes Hotel and its surprisingly good casual tavern, will surely satisfy your off-the-radar-loving souls.
Bent’s Opera House, Madina NY
Bent’s Opera House, in Orleans County NY, is a knockout from head to toe, a shining star in a tiny town, and totally unexpected. Jaded globe trotters, and artsy people looking for a saucy, romantic getaway, staycation, or just a luxury overnight while biking the Erie Canal path will love it. Reimagined as a rather edgy boutique hotel, rooms, with names that correspond to each decor – like Bohemian Crash Pad, Dark Arts, Purple Hazel, Mid-Century Twisted, Very Well Read, and Green With Envy – are individually decorated and stylized to the max.
Farmers Creekside Tavern and Inn, Leroy NY
Five luxury boutique rooms above – an excellent restaurant below. What more could you want from a small-town inn? The Farmers Creekside Tavern and Inn, in Genesee County NY, makes for a romantic staycation – or a stop for those traveling from NYC to Niagara Falls. Book the Honeymoon Suite that envelopes guests in the lap of luxury. With a graceful four-poster canopy bed, wingback chair, gas fireplace, and original brick and stone walls and bathroom sporting a double sink, double-sized rain shower, deep soaking tub, and dark floor made of octagonal matt-black tiles – its sexy in the most traditionally elegant way.
The Hen Houses, Wildwood NJ
One of the most luxurious, romantic lodgings in Wildwood isn’t an inn or even a hotel. And it’s not on the waterfront. It’s a cluster of 7 not-so-tiny houses that surround a heated pool – billed as a Micro-Resort – in the heart of Wildwood, a couple of blocks from the ocean. Its name, The Hen Houses, belie the swanky aesthetic of these modern farmhouse-esque 2-story dwellings. Need ideas on what to do nearby? Check out our Wildwoods NJ post.
Bookhouse Hotel, Kennett Square PA (The Smallest on this Romantic Hotels Northeast list)
The smallest hotel on this list, with just 4 rooms, the Bookhouse Hotel is a model of creative vision. If your fantasy is staying inside a bookstore overnight – with luxury appointments, and a bathroom seemingly ripped from the pages of a romance novel – then, you’re in luck. The Bookhouse Hotel, Kennett Square PA, delivers. Far from commonplace, the Bookhouse Hotel rooms are both witty and “literally” fun.
Ashore Resort and Beach Club, Ocean City MD
An East-Coast-ocean resort town, Ocean City Maryland features countless hi-rise lodgings and condos that line its main beach road for miles. But once you walk through the doors of the newly renovated Ashore Resort and Beach Club, it stands out among its neighbors: not for its size, or even the expansive ocean views, but for its new cool interior design and stylish guest rooms. Ashore is now, many say, the highest-end place to stay in Ocean City MD.
Pier450, Ridge MD
If ever you need to escape “real life” – to feel a bay breeze on you face, and sip a glass of wine with your toes digging in the sand of a makeshift beach while watching a tantalizing sunset – wend your way down to the bottom of St. Mary’s County to snazzy Pier450 in teeny Ridge MD – population somewhere around 600. The hotel’s dining room, POV (Point of View) Restaurant, offers top-notch meals with a sunset view from nearly every window. DC’ers have been known to make the two-hour drive just to dine here.
The Publisher, A Tribute Hotel, Fredericksburg VA
Tribute branded hotels typically pay homage to institutions that are deeply rooted in the towns and cities they choose to open, integrating hospitality and style with nods to local culture. In Fredericksburg VA, the boutique Publisher Hotel was built on the footprint of the former office of Fredericksburg’s city newspaper, The Free Lance Star. Opened in the Fall of 2024, The Publisher is Fredericksburg’s only full-service downtown boutique hotel. Trendy and cosmopolitan, it’s just a quick walk from most of the sites, shops, and restaurants that make this city fun for both history buffs and foodies.
