🛖 Destination Inns

I love inns because they’re often nestled in cute small towns, are usually close to nature and they typically have more character than your average hotel. During covid, it also helps that they have a smaller room count. Your travel dollars also will really count here, as inns employ more people than Airbnbs and have more of a connection to the local economy. Make a point to pop into as many other small businesses as you can nearby whichever inn you choose to help these little economies recover! Here’s a guide to the benefits of each: 🌊 - seaside 🛋 - decor 🍣 - food 🏔 - hiking 🖼 - arts and culture Know of other inns that should make the list? Fill me in: abby@thatch.co

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Just a silly fancy meal and spendy inn but it’s truly amazing. If you have an anniversary or something worth a crazy splurge for, you should do it. Breakfast in the room. 3 Michelin stars.

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Urban Cowboy Lodge

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🛋 || 🏔 Funky lodge with intensely decorated rooms from the serial boutique hoteliers who brought you the Urban Cowboys in Brooklyn and Nashville.

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Los Poblanos Historic Inn

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🍣 || 🛋 A splurge for rest and relaxation. The inn has beautiful grounds, a restaurant on-site, great little farm shop with food, herbs, oils, soaps and other things made from the farm. It’s a great home base for a bit of exploring in New Mexico. If you aren’t staying, this is a good stop for walking around and spending a morning. You can buy coffee and a pastry here, plus premade sandos.

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Shack Up Inn

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🖼 Totally quirky spot in the Mississippi Delta, at the famous Crossroads, the home of the blues. They have a venue onsite where artists come to play, as well as a series of unique, rustic cabins. Make sure to explore Clarksdale’s other late night blues clubs, including Morgan Freeman’s club, Ground Zero.

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Harbor House Inn

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🍣 || 🌊 || 🏔 Set on the coast in moody Mendocino. This is on my list because of its restaurant - it has 1 Michelin star and is currently doing meal service on their porch. Dinner is pricey ($220 pp); lunch is a smaller and cheaper affair ($50 pp) and may be better suited to eating outdoors. Great jumping off point for exploring the coast in Northern California, which offers tons of hiking, redwoods, coastal views, and ocean access.

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The Inn at Ocean Springs

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🖼 || 🌊 Ocean Springs, MS is a small town with a lot of Southern charm. There are are galleries, beach access and a number of small restaurants to explore. This inn is an intimate place to spend a weekend exploring!

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Skyview Los Alamos

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🛋 || 🍣 Trendy, recently updated motel-style spot to stay. The Santa Ynez valley has lots of up and coming wineries, restaurants, and outdoorsy spots to explore. This inn is a touch outside town, but you’ll have plenty to do onsite, including eat and lounge by the pool.

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Higgins Beach Inn

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🌊 || 🛋 Relatively recently remodeled (ignore the photos below that look old and dated!). The rooms are small but well appointed and the location outside of Portland means you have access to the city’s great dining but also a quiet stretch of beach to yourself. It’s about a 1 block walk to the beach. There is a restaurant on-site so you can enjoy some drinks at the bar and amble up to your room, but for your big meals, I’d head into Portland.

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The Inn at Four Eleven York

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🍣 || 🖼 Set in the exciting Neon District, this inn is a great jumping off point for further Norfolk and Virginia Beach exploration. Make sure to try the restaurant! Lots of breweries and other spots to hang out in nearby.

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Glover Park Hotel Georgetown

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Abby West

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Cofounder @ Thatch 📍Washington, DC My favorite way to get under the skin of a place is to eat! I always seek out new dishes and ingredients that are local to the place I'm visiting. My ideal day in a new city involves wandering the streets of a new neighborhood to get a feel for its energy, ducking into an art gallery or museum to see something inspiring, and then stopping for an afternoon coffee and chocolate chip cookie. At night, you'll more likely find me in a cocktail bar than a club. I also love to hike, camp, and be near the ocean! I lived for 8 years in San Francisco, and spent extended time in Lima, Peru and Mombasa, Kenya. Even though I've moved back to my hometown of Washington, DC, I still stay up to date on the SF food scene and travel back often for work! I'm pretty tapped into the DC food and coffee scene. Conversational in Spanish. Have some rusty Swahili.

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