The Chanler at Cliff Walk

The Gilded Age mansions that line Newport, Rhode Island’s coastal Cliff Walk are an attraction unto themselves; it’s convenient, then, that one of them is open to guests and doing business as the thoroughly luxurious Chanler at Cliff Walk. Not content with a single style, its rooms and villas range across historical periods from Tudor to Georgian and back to the Renaissance. Fireplaces are universal, Jacuzzis nearly so, and some of the views are nothing short of astonishing. Two restaurants, the fine-dining Cara and the slightly more casual Café, gather hotel guests and Newport locals for impressive Mediterranean-accented New England coastal fare.