No matter where you're
traveling from — or if you're staycationing in your own city! — we hit
all the major corners of the U.S. for a comprehensive couple's weekend
guide. From romantic mountain lodges to cozy bed and breakfasts, these
serene retreats blend history, style and luxury while proffering some serious romance. You'll want to tell all your couple friends, but don't — let these places be you and your love's little secret.
Hotel Saint Cecilia, Austin, TX
Rates start at $460 per night
[post_ads]With rooms painted in opulent colors (think rich blues and reds), Austin's Hotel Saint Cecilia was inspired by the patron saint of music and poetry and both the Beat Generation and rock and roll culture of the late 1960's and early 1970's (the hotel's neon "SOUL" sign at the foot of the pool demonstrates this).
[post_ads]With rooms painted in opulent colors (think rich blues and reds), Austin's Hotel Saint Cecilia was inspired by the patron saint of music and poetry and both the Beat Generation and rock and roll culture of the late 1960's and early 1970's (the hotel's neon "SOUL" sign at the foot of the pool demonstrates this).
Only five suites, six poolside bungalows and three studios make up the entire hotel and the remote, manicured grounds are guest-only — your stay will be an exclusive one. Remote doesn't mean removed, however; guests are just steps away from vibrant South Austin, which boasts a brewery, an Alamo Drafthouse theater (cocktails and cinema!) and the pizza mecca that is Pieous — with pies with names like "Fat Queen," you can't pass this one up.
Poetry Inn, Napa, CA
Rates start at $1,025 per night
With privacy in mind, Napa
Valley's Poetry Inn stands at the end of a gated drive, perched on the
mountainside. Five rooms — all named after famous poets, of course —
make up the entire couples-only hotel, each boasting sanctuary-inspired
bathrooms (they're double the size of the sprawling guest rooms), a
private terrace, wood-burning fireplaces and ethereal views of pastoral
Napa.
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The hotel's smallness works in your favor; a representative
reaches out before your stay to customize your experience. Also included
in your stay is access to and complementary tastings at the inn's
private winery, Cliff Lede Vineyards, located on the valley floor just
across the Silverado Trail. We'd be remiss not to mention the spa —
enjoy couple's services in the treatment room or on your personal
terrace. Leave it to the Poetry Inn to perfect romance...
In a four-acre valley between Vermont's Taconic and Green Mountains, the Manchester Inn offers nature-lovers a breath of fresh air — literally (they don't make air like this in the city!) and metaphorically. The inn is family-owned and operated, so you can expect to be treated like family
during your stay. Wake to the smell of a home-cooked country breakfast,
savor afternoon cocktails next to the fire in a living room-style pub
and rock yourself into a stupor on the porch's rocking chairs while
taking in the lush green view of the mountains.
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the Sweet William suite in the Carriage House — with vaulted ceilings, a
sunken tub and hardwood floors, you might never want to leave the room.
If the Battenkill and Mettawee river fishing, hiking and biking don't
get you moving though, nearby downtown Manchester, with art galleries, restaurants and shops, certainly will. It doesn't get more Vermont than this.
The land on which Zero George, one of Charleston's elite boutique hotels, resides dates back to Revolutionary times — once owned by the American patriot Christopher Gadsden,
the lot was sold and built upon at the dawn of the 19th century,
resulting in a two-story wooden Federal Style house set on high brick
and an accompanying two-story outbuilding.
Those two structures remain
today and, in addition to three more historical buildings, two of which
were transported to and preserved at Zero George Street, are now home to
the hotel's16 studios and suites. The history of the hotel extends into
dreamy Charleston, of course — the leading city in the South from the
colonial era to the Civil War, Charleston balances history and modernity
with ease. Be sure to tour a historic home (try Drayton Hall or the Nathaniel Russell House), window shop on King Street and grab cocktails at The Ordinary (which is anything but).
