Daunt's Albatross Motel
Family-run since 1960, blocks from the village and the beach — the last of the honest, unrenovated Montauk motels.
A retro-motor-lodge interior, a reimagined motor lodge. Google guests rate it 4.6★ across 316 reviews.
Late May through September for the water; September in particular, when the crowds thin and the ocean's still warm.
Very good. A genuinely good independent hotel — the sub-scores tell you if it's your kind.
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Daunt's Albatross Motel is a retro motor lodge hotel in Montauk, NY, part of the Hamptons. Family-run since 1960, blocks from the village and the beach — the last of the honest, unrenovated Montauk motels.
It sits in our Retro Motor Lodge category, occupying a reimagined motor lodge, with a playful · retro mood. 21 rooms. Independently owned and operated.
On the property
- Activities: POOL, PADDLE.
A full review is still ahead
We haven’t published our first-person write-up of Daunt's Albatross Motelyet. When we do, it’ll land in the same voice as our Piaule, Troutbeck, and Inness reviews. In the meantime, the facts on the right and the tags above will tell you most of what we know.
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A retro-motor-lodge interior, a reimagined motor lodge.
A quiet spot near the center of things.
Google guests rate it 4.6★ across 316 reviews.
In line with the mid-luxury field (from about $249/night) for the room, setting and design you get.
10–25 rooms.
Based on the data we have so far; expect small revisions as guest reviews and our editorial deepen.
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