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Writing about independent hotels. Regional guides, comparisons, deep reviews, event itineraries, the occasional investigation.
The Best Independent Hotels in the Hudson Valley (No Chains, Just the List)
The Hudson Valley is the region that re-invented the American boutique hotel. It happened between roughly 2013 and 2021 — Warren Street in Hudson went from rust-belt quiet to a design-capital-of-the-Northeast commercial strip, Kingston's Up
Hotels Near Tanglewood (Independent Only)
A summer weekend at Tanglewood means three things: Boston Symphony Orchestra on the shed, dinner before, and a bed somewhere within twenty minutes afterward. The third part is where most visitors default to whatever Booking.com surfaces — w
The Chain Hotels Hiding as Boutique
Here's a thing the travel-media economy doesn't like to surface: roughly a third of the hotels that top "best boutique" lists in the Northeast are owned or operated by management companies that run ten, twenty, or more properties. They call