Recommendations for luxury resorts with 'cottage' style accommodation in the US
Dec 1, 2013, 4:53 pm
#32
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Near Jacksonville FL
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Over the last couple of years we have visited many hotels on vacation and those resorts that we have liked the best were those with separate cottage-style accommodation, rather than those where all the rooms are in a single building in the traditional hotel style.
We enjoy the ease and convenience and privacy that this type of accommodation brings, and to be honest its nice not to have to walk down corridors and use an elevator whenever we leave the room. Its fine in Paris or Tokyo but when we are on summer vacation in the US we have found that this type of accommodation suits us best.
Some examples would be :
Bel Air
Four Seasons Biltmore Santa Barbara
Four Seasons Scottsdale
And to a lesser extent the Four Seasons Residence Club at Aviara
The first two we particularly like because of the history and character of the hotels.
Does anyone have any recommendations for us for next year for resorts with similar types of accommodation? There are just the two of us and we don't need a large villa as it just seems excessive. We'd like somewhere warm!
Any ideas or thoughts most welcome! Thanks in advance!
We enjoy the ease and convenience and privacy that this type of accommodation brings, and to be honest its nice not to have to walk down corridors and use an elevator whenever we leave the room. Its fine in Paris or Tokyo but when we are on summer vacation in the US we have found that this type of accommodation suits us best.
Some examples would be :
Bel Air
Four Seasons Biltmore Santa Barbara
Four Seasons Scottsdale
And to a lesser extent the Four Seasons Residence Club at Aviara
The first two we particularly like because of the history and character of the hotels.
Does anyone have any recommendations for us for next year for resorts with similar types of accommodation? There are just the two of us and we don't need a large villa as it just seems excessive. We'd like somewhere warm!
Any ideas or thoughts most welcome! Thanks in advance!
OTOH - a place like FS Scottsdale is super cheap in the summer - but you have to be very heat tolerant to enjoy it. And the only thing worse than the heat in the summer in Scottsdale is the heat combined with the "monsoon" season (which can actually be somewhat dangerous in terms of flooding if you're not used to it). FWIW - I have family in Scottsdale - and have visited them in the summer just because it's cheap as dirt then at the Four Seasons. But I couldn't even play 9 holes of golf there at 8 am in July (it's worse than Florida).
Also - I can't particularly understand the advantage of being in an attached multi-story casita at the FS Scottsdale when it's 90+ degrees outside at 7 am. Just means you're walking to breakfast/to the valet/to the spa outside in the heat instead of through an air-conditioned corridor.
Overall - my #1 pick for great weather with not bad crowds in north America in the summer is the Pacific Northwest. Unless you have a specialty interest like diving - fishing - etc. I think it will be easier to narrow down specific properties once you narrow down locations/what you're looking for in terms of a location.
Note that we've stayed at the kind of properties you've described here in the southeast (like the villas at Callaway Gardens in Georgia - condos on Sanibel Island - etc.). But none would be appropriate for a summer vacation IMO (too hot). Robyn
Dec 1, 2013, 5:46 pm
#33
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"too quiet" is a new one.. im not sure i can understand, whereas i can understand the comments here about being alone in a sizable aman restaurant
i enjoyed private swimming pool, and garage, and kitchen at sanctuary
FS hotel has private plunge pools, and residence club private rentals have parking
personally, im fine with heat when one is not soaking wet (no humidity)
I can't particularly understand the advantage of being in an attached multi-story casita at the FS Scottsdale when it's 90+ degrees outside at 7 am. Just means you're walking to breakfast/to the valet/to the spa outside in the heat instead of through an air-conditioned corridor
FS hotel has private plunge pools, and residence club private rentals have parking
personally, im fine with heat when one is not soaking wet (no humidity)
Last edited by Kagehitokiri; Dec 2, 2013 at 8:54 am
Dec 4, 2013, 2:35 pm
#34
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: RDU
Programs: Marriott PLT, Starwood, American Gold, Delta
Posts: 447
Just as others have said:
Inn at Blackberry Farm
Palmetto Bluff
Lake Placid Lodge
Hotel Hana Maui (another name now)
Some others:
Mauna Lani Bay (bungalows)
Tu Tu Inn (Oregon - some cottages)
Cave B Inn - Washington
Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch - Idaho
The Swag - North Carolina
Hastings House - Salt Spring Island (Canada)
Sooke Harbor House - Vancouver Island
Canoe Bay - Wisconsin
Post Hotel - Lake Louise
Jenny Lake Lodge - Wyoming
Dunton Springs - Colorado
Inn at Blackberry Farm
Palmetto Bluff
Lake Placid Lodge
Hotel Hana Maui (another name now)
Some others:
Mauna Lani Bay (bungalows)
Tu Tu Inn (Oregon - some cottages)
Cave B Inn - Washington
Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch - Idaho
The Swag - North Carolina
Hastings House - Salt Spring Island (Canada)
Sooke Harbor House - Vancouver Island
Canoe Bay - Wisconsin
Post Hotel - Lake Louise
Jenny Lake Lodge - Wyoming
Dunton Springs - Colorado