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One is in Massachusetts.
An island escape, quaint cottages by the sea, and a boutique hotel named after a famous poet were just named among the most exciting new hotels in the world this year, and they are all in New England.
The following New England hotels made Travel + Leisure‘s It List 2025, which highlights the 100 best new and renovated hotels worldwide: The Brant on Nantucket; The Dunes on the Waterfront in Ogunquit, Maine; and Longfellow Hotel in Portland, Maine.
Nantucket’s The Brant, refurbished last spring, offers 26 rooms across four buildings and a “lush” lawn full of lounge chairs and yard games, wrote the publication.
“The Brant’s location is particularly appealing because it’s less than a 10-minute walk to the heart of Main Street, and a short bike ride from one of the best beaches to catch a sunset, Steps Beach,” wrote Travel + Leisure.
The 48-room Longfellow Hotel, which opened last spring in Portland’s picturesque West End, “is the city’s first truly luxurious mid-size boutique stay,” wrote Travel + Leisure. It is named after Portland native and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
“The sweeping lobby lounge, with its soaring windows, geometric brass chandeliers, and gilt-framed oil paintings, is an elegant marriage of classic and contemporary,” wrote the publication.
About The Dunes on the Waterfront in Ogunquit, which also opened last spring, Travel + Leisure wrote, “This seaside haven looks like it was plucked from a mid-century souvenir postcard, but a recent $10-million overhaul by Maine hotelier Tim Harrington has ushered the 89-year-old resort into the modern era.”
The hotel offers 21 “airy and fresh” cottages on 12 acres and plenty of seaside activities such as kayaking, swimming, and taking the resort’s Cabana Cruiser pontoon boat to Ogunquit Beach.
The publication determined the 100 best new hotels on its 20th annual list by visiting and reviewing hundreds of new and renovated properties in 44 countries over the past year.
Check out Travel + Leisure‘s It List 2025.
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