Though the most expensive suites at this inn cost upwards of $1,000 a night, the elegant Mayflower is often booked months in advance. Running streams, rambling stone walls, and rare specimen trees fill the country-manor-style inn's 28 manicured acres. Fine antiques, 18th- and 19th-century art, and four-poster canopy beds define each of the rooms. The colossal baths have mahogany wainscoting,...
"Just setting foot in" this "elegant" Relais & Chateaux "country inn" and "destination restaurant" in Washington "will make you feel special" swoon surveyors smitten by the "heaven-on-earth" surroundings and "sophisticated" American cuisine "presented beautifully" by a "caring" staff; while it's "outstanding in all regards for the money-is-no-object set", it may be "overpriced for the...
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Also appeared in the Gold List in 2006, 2005
Amenities: Pool, Spa
The charms of the Continent at a stylish East Coast retreat.:
The Scene
This former school was originally converted to an inn in 1920. The mid-20th century saw it fall to disrepair, but it was revitalized in 1992, when its current owners took the...