Golf and Tennis Getaways in Newport, Rhode Island

August is creeping up on us and before you know it the summer will have came and went. Take off a day off in your busy life and enjoy the warm weather while it’s still here. The Legendary Inns of Newport has the perfect vacation day planned for you at an outstanding value. Begin with a relaxing game of golf on what Golf Week Magazine claims the number one in the state of Rhode Island. Newport National’s Orchard Course endows ravishing views of the Atlantic Ocean and Narragansett Bay from 200 acres of 100% seaside bent grass. Prominent golf architect Arthur Hills and his associate Drew Rogers designed this phenomenal course over what once was farm land.

Once you’ve rested, turn to the very first, yet finest, tennis courts in America. The Legendary Inns of Newport coincided with Tennis Hall of Fame to bring you 13 courts of where the best tennis players since 1881 have been playing that now you can too.

Golf Details- Reserve before your scheduled arrival to get the best time. Reservations are held with a credit card. If you’re a Preferred Guest you can save 15% on green fees. Green fees are per player. Tee times subject to availability and weather conditions. Available through late Fall. 

Weekdays are $95 (Monday – Wednesday and Sunday after 1PM).

Weekends are $125 (Thursday – Saturday and Sunday until 1PM).

Tennis Details- Reserve before your scheduled arrival to get the best time. Reservations are held with a credit card. If you’re a Preferred Guest you can save 15% on court time. Court time subject to availability and weather conditions. Preferred club dress is tennis whites. Available through the end of September.

An hour and a half of singles play is $77.

For further information call 800-845-1811 or 401-847-1811

or e-mail reservations@legendaryinnsofnewport.com

Newport RI AAA Four Diamond Award: Cliffside Inn Makes It Five-Years In A Row

Distinctive Inns of New England founding member Cliffside Inn has received the prestigious AAA Four Diamond award for the fifth consecutive year. The luxury Newport RI bed and breakfast is one of five Distinctive Inns hotel or inn properties that are AAA Four Diamond rated, the others are Vermont’s Rabbit Hill Inn, New Hampshire’s Manor on Golden Pond and Inn at Thorn Hill, and The Captain’s House on Cape Cod.

The Cliffside Inn joins its sister Newport RI bed and breakfast Abigail Stoneman Inn with the AAA Four Diamond distinction. Owned and operated by the same family under the name Legendary Inns of Newport, the group is now in the unique position of running more than a quarter of all the AAA Four Diamond inns or hotels in Rhode Island.

The coveted Four Diamond award is given each year to only about three percent of the more than 32,000 AAA rated inns and hotels in America. Only seven Rhode Island bed and breakfasts, inns, or hotels have been honored with AAA Four Diamonds for 2008. Cliffside Inn was the first Newport RI bed and breakfast or inn to be awarded AAA Four Diamond status in Rhode Island. Check availability at Cliffside Inn. See all DINE inns.

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.

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

Four Diamond Celebration for Distinctive Inn-siders

Newport Rhode Island luxury bed and breakfast, Cliffside Inn and its sister property, Abigail Stoneman Inn, have helped set a new luxury inn standard in Newport, by both being honored recently with AAA Four Diamond Awards. The pair are owned and operated by the Legendary Inns of Newport, which now has the distinction of running one-quarter of all the AAA Four Diamond luxury hotels, inns or B&Bs in Rhode Island.

Cliffside is also a founding member of the Distinctive Inns of New England. And to celebrate our unique Four Diamond achievement, Cliffside is inviting all Distinctive Inn Innsider members to enjoy 10% off all suites and rooms not only at Cliffside, but also Abigail Stoneman Inn and the Adele Turner Inn in Newport Rhode Island.

You can check availability on line but to book a room, please call our reservation office 800-845-1811 and present your Innsider number. This Four Diamond Celebration Special is available from April 2 – 30, Sundays through Thursdays only.

The Legendary Inns collection features a trio of meticulously restored, historic Victorian inns, known for seamlessly blending today’s most luxurious amenities — whirlpools, steam baths, fireplaces, grand beds, fine linens, wireless internet — with exquisite design and decoration, antiques and artwork, refined elegance, personal service and warm hospitality.