Choose a luxury hotel in Newport Rhode Island with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to bask in the opulence and refinement of a gilded age. Stroll past cliff top mansions and indulge in fresh East Coast seafood while looking out onto Narragansett Bay.
Luxury things to do in Newport
Enjoy a classical ensemble performance at Fort Adams State Park on Newport Harbour. A leisurely stroll down Spring Street reveals a tangle of luxury boutiques selling 19th-century porcelain and rugs. Take a private sunset charter to sail past the rocky cliffs of Brenton Point State Park. A tour of the Newport Art Museum reveals paintings by talented local artists like John La Farge and George Inness.
Luxury architecture in Newport
The city’s Cliff Walk is lined with sumptuous mansions like Astor's Beechwood fronting onto the Atlantic Ocean. Admire The Breakers, a majestic Florentine Renaissance-style palazzo built by America’s famous Vanderbilt family. Its 70 elegant rooms are rich with marble and alabaster pillars. During your private tour of neoclassical The Elms, you’ll marvel at the beauty of its graceful ballroom and sunken gardens.
Gourmet Newport
The timber-beam dining room of a colonial mansion is a perfect spot to taste sautéed lobster or stuffed zucchini blossoms. Sit waterside to enjoy freshly shucked oysters and a glass of Sauvignon Blanc. Beneath a stately gambrel roof, pork tenderloin comes served with goat’s cheese in puff pastry. Savour creamy chowder at a lopsided beach shanty festooned with marine artefacts.
Book your luxury hotel in Newport with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to stay in a converted mill house with contemporary boutique furnishings, marble bathrooms and atmospheric exposed brick walls. You can take tea on the roof deck overlooking a harbour bobbing with graceful yachts.