Hotels near Longwood Gardens.
The du Pont display garden in the Brandywine Valley — a thousand acres of fountains, conservatory and meadow, best on a summer fountain-show night.
The 7 independent hotels we list within about an hour of Longwood Gardens, ranked by drive time and the Le Hotelist Score. No chains.
- 49 min · 27.6 miclosestGuild House Hotel· 8.1Philadelphia, PA · $$$ from $425 · restaurant
A 19th-century former women's club in Rittenhouse — twelve rooms, female-forward design, under-the-radar.
- 48 min · 27.1 miLa Reserve B&B· 7.8Philadelphia, PA · $$ from $185
An 1850s Rittenhouse Square B&B — seven rooms, grand piano in the parlor, breakfast included.
- 50 min · 27.9 miKestrel Hotel· 8.1Philadelphia, PA · $$ from $295
Clean-lines modernist in West Philly — quiet, specific, the opposite of the Marriott downtown.
- 50 min · 28 miMorris House Hotel· 7.9Philadelphia, PA · $$ from $265
An 1787 Georgian townhouse on 8th and Locust — 15 rooms in the historic district.
- 51 min · 28.5 miLokal Hotel· 8.1Philadelphia, PA · $$ from $325
Six mini-apartments in Old City designed by a local creative collective — the best Airbnb-style stay in Philly.
- 51 min · 28.7 miPenn's View Hotel· 7.7Philadelphia, PA · $$ from $225 · restaurant
Fifty-one rooms in a 19th-century Old City warehouse — balconies over the Delaware, one of the city's oldest continuously operating inns.
The hotels within a short drive of Longwood Gardens are mostly chains and mid-scale boxes on the approach roads. The ones above are the independent alternatives — inns, converted buildings and small design hotels run by the people who own them. Each has a Le Hotelist Score built from five sub-scores (design, location, service, value, quiet), and the distance shown is straight-line; real drive times run a little longer on back roads.