Retro Motor Lodge.
Retro Motor Lodge is the preserved-and-played-up mid-century motel tier. Where Scandi Catskills hotels keep the motel *shape* but clean the interiors into something quiet, the retro tier leans into the saturated color and side-by-side-door quirk. Starlite is the obvious one. These are the affordable, photogenic entries in the region — small rooms, small prices, big personality.
East Rock Inn
Eighteen-room boutique motel at the base of East Rock Mountain, minutes from downtown Great Barrington.
Rivertown Lodge
A 1920s Hudson cinema reborn as the town's most quietly confident hotel, via Workstead.
Scribner's Catskill Lodge
The original Catskills Scandi motor-lodge revival. On a hillside in Hunter.
The Graham & Co.
The Catskills design-motel that started the whole thing.
Hotel Dylan
A Woodstock native's Novogratz-designed revival of a '70s bi-level motel. Turntables in every room.
Dockside Inn
Twenty-two rooms on Oak Bluffs Harbor. Nautical without doing the too-much anchor thing.
Greenporter Hotel
An airy reworked motor inn in central Greenport — cheap, charming, walkable to the wineries.
Silver Sands
A rejuvenated beachfront motel with 1,400 feet of private sand. Condé Nast Readers' Choice 2024.
Sound View Greenport
A 1950s roadside motel on the Long Island Sound, redone with a Halfcall-meets-Scandi sensibility.
Starlite Motel
Wes Anderson energy, Shaker bones, pink and turquoise doors.