New England Inns Hotels Top 10 — Travel+Leisure Magazine Names Two DINE Inns New England’s Top 10

“Ten special inns whose warm hospitality is guaranteed to take the season’s chill out of the air, ” is how Travel+Leisure described its early Spring search for the 10 coziest inns in New England. The travel magazine named both Newport RI’s luxury bed and breakfast Cliffside Inn and New Hampshire’s small luxury hotel Manor On Golden Pond to its Top 10 Inns of New England list.

“Roosted above the Atlantic Ocean overlooking Newport’s Cliff Walk, this Victorian manor house and former home of painter Beatrice Turner channels the sort of joie de vivre stylings one might expect in an eccentric artist residence,” writes Adrien Glover about Cliffside Inn. “Enjoy afternoon tea surrounded by turn-of-the-century canvases in a living museum.” The magazine spotlighted the Governor’s Suite with grand king bed, 2 fireplaces, Victorian birdcage shower, whirlpool and iPod sound system. 

“Katharine Hepburn and a doddering Henry Fonda may have made Golden Pond famous, but it’s this New Hampshire Lakes District inn that keeps Squam Lake (the pond’s real name) on the map, ” reports Ms. Glover on the Manor On Golden Pond. “Dinners are elaborate candlelit affairs; the kitchen swings in both directions, offering Chateaubriand for Two as well as special dishes for vegans.” Featured room blue-and-white Churchill Room with king bed, Jacuzzi tub, and fireplace.

Both properties are founding members of the Distinctive Inns of New England and both are AAA Four Diamond rated. Check availability for Cliffside Inn or Manor On Golden Pond. Travel+Leisure Top 10 Slide Show

Romantic Getaways To Newport RI Valentine’s Day: Champagne, Fireplaces, Whirlpools, And Romance Packages

From one-night romantic getaways to sensuous weekend romance packages, Newport, Rhode Island’s top luxury bed and breakfast inns, the Legendary Inns of Newport, provides the extra romantic spark for spicing up Valentine’s getaways this month.

Newport RI Romantic Getaways Valentine’s Week Include Champagne

Escape to the romantic world of Newport RI’s luxury bed and breakfast Cliffside Inn the week of Valentine’s Day, and the bubbly’s on us. Enjoy a bottle of Italy’s red hot sparkler Domenico Prosecco as part of all one-night romantic getaways Feb. 10 to 14 — including Valentine’s Day — with our compliments. Cliffside Inn is Newport’s only luxury bed and breakfast named both America’s Top 10 Most Romantic Inn and Romantic Hideaway of the Year.

New Pillow Menu At Newport RI’s Top Luxury Bed And Breakfast Hotel Abigail Stoneman Inn

Hospitality innovators Abigail Stoneman Inn, Newport RI’s leading luxury bed and breakfast small hotel, are at it again. The Inn, one of the originators of hotel pillow menus and bath bar butler services, has elevated its personalized sleep service up to dreamy new heights with the debut the Dreamy Night Pillow Menu.

The Dreamy Night menu continues the Inn’s focus on personalized sleep with relaxing pillows of all kinds but re-emphasizes and expands the collection of premium goose down — the luxury B&B guests’ top pillow pick.

“The world’s finest down pillows are handcrafted for us right here in New England by our new pillow partners Cuddledown, ” said Abigail Stoneman General Manager Win Baker. “Our Dreamy Night down pillows feature 800 fill power, hypoallergenic, white European goose down. They are quite simply, the best of the best. An incredible night of rejuvenating sleep.”

In addition to the down collection, the complimentary pillow menu features a wide variety of memory foam, buckwheat, pregnancy and anti-snore pillows, 15 selections in all.

The other one-of-a-kind services at the Inn, known for its relaxed elegance and warm hospitality, include the bath bar with 30 of the world’s finest soaps, salts and spa products; water menu with two dozen international bottled waters; and exotic tea collection featuring 30 premium estate teas.

All guest quarters have grand king beds, fine Italian linens, bathing salons with whirlpools or steam bath, fireplaces, antiques, and iPod sound systems. The Inn has a private tea room for two, acclaimed afternoon tea, and Rhode Island’s only water bar.

Abigail Stoneman Inn is a sister property to Distinctive Inns of New England founding member Cliffside Inn, and the newest luxury Inn opened by the Legendary Inns of Newport.

Newport RI Getaway Sale: Holiday Gift Certificates With 20% Savings

New from Cliffside Inn and the Legendary Inns of Newport RI… For the luxury and romance lover in your life, Holiday Gift Certificates with automatic getaway savings to Newport, Rhode Island’s most luxurious Bed and Breakfast Inns.

Buy a Holiday Gift Certificate for $500 – $999 and you receive $100 in Preferred Guest reward savings, good for any Legendary Getaway in 2008. Certificates $1,000+ provide you $200 in rewards.

Gift Certificates $250 – $499 receive $50 in 2008 getaway savings. Available for a limited time only by phone 401-847-1811. Details

The Legendary Inns of Newport Rhode Island, is Newport’s premier collection of small luxury Bed and Breakfast hotels. In addition to Distinctive Inns of New England founding member Cliffside Inn, the Newport Bed and Breakfast group includes Abigail Stoneman Inn, and Adele Turner Inn. Check availability or Book Online for all three Legendary Inns.

Legendary Inns of Newport RI Takes Top Rhode Island Hotel Honors Again — Double AAA Four Diamond Awards For Luxury B&B Lodging

For the fourth year in a row, the Legendary Inns of Newport RI has been honored as Rhode Island’s top AAA Four Diamond luxury lodging group. Both Cliffside Inn (a Distinctive Inns founder) and Abigail Stoneman Inn have again received the prestigious AAA Four Diamond Award.

While just over three percent of the more than 32,000 AAA rated inns and hotels in America are given the coveted Four Diamond Award, the Legendary Inns of Newport owns and operates more than one-quarter of all the AAA Four Diamond hotels or inns in Rhode Island.

Only seven Rhode Island bed and breakfasts, inns, or hotels have been honored with AAA Four Diamonds for 2007. Two Rhode Island restaurants also received AAA Four Diamond Awards at the annual ceremony, held at The Westin Providence Hotel.

“This unprecedented AAA Four Diamond award in Rhode Island for our flagship Newport bed and breakfast inns – four years in a row – is truly gratifying, ” said Winthrop Baker, Group President of the Legendary Inns of Newport. “This AAA recognition speaks to what we’re all about: extraordinary guest experiences, warm hospitality, personal service and grand style, all set in luxuriously detailed, historic Newport, RI inns.”

Each year AAA inspects and rates lodging properties across America. According to AAA Southern New England President Mark Shaw, AAA only awards Four Diamonds to properties that consistently deliver first-class hotel experiences, superior personal service, deluxe amenities, and impressive surroundings.

Abigail Stoneman Inn became Rhode Island’s first luxury bed and breakfast inn awarded the Four Diamond rating in 2003. It was followed later that year by Cliffside Inn.

Named to the “Great Tea Rooms of America,” the luxury Newport, RI bed and breakfast inns also feature a unique array of personal service and deluxe amenities including pillow menus and bath butler soap bars, exotic bathing salons with whirlpools and steam baths, iPod sound systems, in-room spa services and artwork from renowned Newport artist Beatrice Turner.

In addition to Abigail Stoneman Inn and Cliffside Inn, this year’s Rhode Island AAA Four Diamond hotels, inns, and bed and breakfasts include: The Hotel Providence, The Westin Providence, Point Pleasant Inn & Resort, The Chanler at Cliff Walk, and Hydrangea House Inn. The top Rhode Island restaurants include L’Epicureo, and Spiced Pear Restaurant.

The Legendary Inns of Newport is a distinguished group of three luxury Inns. All set in historic, Victorian homes, they have been meticulously restored and seamlessly blended with the finest modern amenities to produce unique, luxury bed and breakfast Inns known for their refined elegance, grand style, warm hospitality and attentive service. The group includes Distcintive Inns member Cliffside Inn, plus Adele Tuner Inn and Abigail Stoneman Inn. Read the release. See all Spring Getaway Specials to Newport Rhode Island

Romantic Getaways Just In Time for Valentine’s Day- Pair Champagne, Chocolates, Fireplaces, and Whirlpools with Newport, Rhode Island’s Top Luxury Inn

From quick one-night romantic getaways to grand, over-the-top weekend romance packages, Newport, Rhode Island’s premier collection of luxury bed and breakfast inns, the Legendary Inns of Newport, which includes Distinctive Inns founding member Cliffside Inn, has assembled a sensuous and enticing group of romantic getaway packages for this Valentine’s season.

“Romantic getaways are a year-round specialty for us but around Valentine’s Day, we like to add a little more spark to the fire,” said Winthrop Baker, Group President, Legendary Inns of Newport. “This year, we’ve added one-night romantic interludes with Champagne and decadent chocolate cake for two, for couples tight on time or money. On the other end of the romantic indulgence spectrum, we’ve taken our Grand Romance Package over-the-top, especially when you pair it with one of our ultra luxury suites with double whirlpools, fireplaces, and grand beds.”

The One-Night Romantic Interlude is a midweek package that includes the best available fireplace suite or room (many with whirlpools), a bottle of top-rated Duval-Leroy Brut French Champagne and a decadent, handcrafted chocolate cake for two. Offered Valentine’s Day week, Sunday through Thursday, February 11-15. The One-Night Romantic Interlude Package price at Cliffside Inn is $210, at Adele Turner Inn $185.

The Legendary Inns of Newport Grand Romance Package is grand in every sense. It includes Veuve Clicquot French Champagne, artisan crafted chocolates, a dozen roses, and a sensuous bath bar collection of Farmaesthetics organic spa products, including orange and rose soaps and bath salts, rose water mister, and lavender milk body lotion.

The Grand Romance Package can be added to any suite or room at all three Legendary Inns of Newport for $165. With the exotic bathing component, the Grand Romance Package is most fully enjoyed in one of the 24 guest quarters with whirlpool tubs.

“We’re seeing all our romance packages both for Valentine’s week and the weekend before go quickly,” said Baker, who expects the three Legendary Inns to be completely booked for the Valentine’s Weekend, February 9th-11th.

In addition to being the first AAA Four Diamond luxury bed and breakfast inns in Rhode Island, the trio of well known Newport B&Bs is also AAA’s top-rated Rhode Island lodging group. Along with the special rates and package extras, all Romantic Getaways also include the luxury amenities and services the Legendary Inns is well known for: warm hospitality and personal service; acclaimed afternoon tea (named one of America’s Top 20); multi-course breakfast; finely appointed guest chambers with whirlpools, steam baths, grand beds, fireplaces, antiques and artwork; pillow menu; signature in-room spa service; and elegant locations near the beach and in-town.

The Legendary Inns of Newport is a distinguished group of three boutique luxury Inns. All set in historic, Victorian homes, they have been meticulously restored and seamlessly blended with the finest modern amenities to produce unique, luxury bed and breakfast inns known for their refined elegance, grand style, and warm hospitality. The group includes Cliffside Inn, Abigail Stoneman Inn, and Adele Turner Inn. For more information visit our media website

Great Hospitality Comes from Doing What You Love

For Win Baker, innkeeper at the Cliffside Inn in Newport, Rhode Island, afternoon tea is an epicurean delight. Named one of the 20 best in American, his inn’s teas are intimate, unique, and unforgettable. You feel the Victorian tea room and this Guilded Age mansion are your own home.

Win’s father opened the Cliffside Inn as an upscale, lavishly outfitted luxury inn. Win carries on the Baker flavor of hospitality built around Victorian architecture, unique antiques, and the artwork of Beatrice Turner, who once lived in the mansion. Her paintings adorn the walls of every room, and Win enjoys telling guests about her enigmatic and tragic story.

“I love people and good stories, and innkeeping is a great way to get a lot of both,” Win explains. Formerly a Silicon Valley entrepreneur involved in starting three technology companies, he sees similarities between that experience and his current one. “Both types of businesses are very focused on the customer,” he adds, “and both require having a unique vision and style, seeing it through, and growing it.”

While the Cliffside Inn remains Win’s “main baby,” he has expanded his innkeeping, now serving as Group President of the Legendary Inns of Newport, which also include Adele Turner Inn and Abigail Stoneman Inn. He sees Cliffside’s membership in DINE as an asset to his endeavors.

“Colleagues with similar, high-end properties that offer guests a luxurious experience make for a great group. Whether coming up with new hospitality ideas or better ways to run the business, my DINE colleagues are a true source of information and inspiration.”

Best of Newport September Getaway Combines Newport Rhode Island’s Top Luxury Inns, Gilded Age Mansions and Vineyards, With Dining and Shopping Deals

Combining the best of Newport, Rhode Island, the Legendary Inns of Newport, has launched a September Getaway Package that features Newport’s famed Gilded Age mansions, vineyards, dining and shopping deals, with the luxurious accommodations and service that have made Distinctive Inns founding member Cliffside Inn –and the other Legendary Inns–Newport’s leading luxury destinations.

“September is my favorite month in Newport. The summer crowds have thinned out. The ocean is still warm. Autumn’s chilly days are still a ways off. All the famous attractions, shops and restaurants are open. It’s just delightful,” said Winthrop Baker, Group President, Legendary Inns of Newport. “Our Best of Newport September Getaway is a great way to experience this special time, while enjoying some equally delightful getaway package values.”

For one inclusive price, guests enjoy 2-nights in the best available luxury suite or guest room at the Abigail Stoneman Inn or Adele Turner Inn, plus the Best of Newport RI Getaway Package. Named by Fodor’s and The Boston Globe as Newport’s top 2006 luxury getaway package value, the Best of Newport mini-vacation package includes tickets to the Gilded Age mansions, vineyard tour and wine tasting, and a booklet with $500 in savings at Newport restaurants and shops.

The 2-night September Getaway package at the Adele Turner Inn is $650, available Mondays through Wednesdays in September. The ultra luxury Abigail Stoneman Inn 2-night package is $790, Mondays through Thursdays. Savings up to $200. For more details, click here.

At the Legendary Inns of Newport flagship property, Cliffside Inn, the September Getaway features 30% off the third night of a 3-night reservation, Sundays through Thursdays.

In addition to being the first AAA Four Diamond luxury bed and breakfast inns in Rhode Island, the trio of well known B&Bs is also AAA’s top-rated Rhode Island lodging group. Along with the special rates and package extras, the September Getaways all include the luxury amenities and services the Legendary Inns is known for: warm hospitality and personal service; acclaimed afternoon tea (named one of America’s Top 20); multi-course breakfast; finely appointed suites and guest rooms with whirlpools, steam baths, grand beds, fireplaces, antiques and artwork; pillow menu; signature in-room spa service; and elegant locations near the beach and in-town.

Summer Vacation Mini-Getaways in Newport — Named Top Fodor’s Pick

Targeting a growing number of summer vacation-time-constrained travelers, Newport’s leading luxury inn group and DINE member, the Legendary Inns of Newport, has launched three late-summer, mini-vacation getaways.

“We’re seeing a lot of two and three-night mini-vacations this summer and less of the three and four or five-night Newport summer vacations we’ve seen in other years,” said Winthrop Baker, Group President, Legendary Inns of Newport. “Our new mini-getaways offer vacation-time-starved guests some very attractive summer getaway values in August.”

The group’s flagship Newport, Rhode Island B&B property and founding member of the Distinctive Inns of New England, Cliffside Inn, is offering 25% off the third-night of a three-night reservation, Sundays through Thursdays. At Adele Turner Inn, guests save 50% off on any Tuesday, when they book Monday and Tuesday together.

The ultra-luxury Abigail Stoneman Inn Mini-Getaway Vacation Package includes two-nights with the best available luxury suite or room, plus the Quintessential Newport Summer Getaway Package, just named by Fodor’s as one of New England’s top three summer getaway package values. It includes tickets to Newport RI’s Gilded Age mansions, vineyard tours and wine tastings, and the Destination Newport coupon book worth $500 at various Newport, RI restaurants and shops. The getaway is available Mondays – Wednesdays for the all inclusive price of $700.

In addition to being the first AAA Four Diamond luxury bed and breakfast inns in Rhode Island, the trio of well known B&Bs is also AAA’s top-rated Rhode Island lodging group. In addition to the special rates and package add-ons, the Mini-Getaway Vacations all include the luxury amenities and services the Legendary Inns is known for: warm hospitality and personal service; acclaimed afternoon tea (named one of America’s Top 20); multi-course breakfast; finely appointed suites and guest rooms with whirlpools, steam baths, grand beds, fireplaces, antiques and artwork; pillow menu; signature in-room spa service; and elegant locations near the beach and in-town.

For complete details and other restrictions on the August Mini-Getaway Vacations, please visit our specials webpage or call 800-845-1811. The Mini-Getaways can only be booked by phone, but you can check availability or reserve other dates online for all Legendary Inns by clicking here.