Best for: Couples, adults
On-site amenities: Restaurant, pool, indoor/outdoor gym
Pros: The hotel has a picturesque aesthetic and a trendy pool that hosts celebrity DJs on the weekends.
Cons: The standard Queen room can seem small (180 square feet), and on weekends, the pool turns into a day club with a cover fee (even for guests).
Peep the guestlist for the Goodtime Hotel s grand opening on Miami Beach this past spring: Kim Kardashian, David and Victoria Beckham, Future, and Maluma. Sure, the property is totally chic, but getting this sort of star power in attendance may have had something to do with the fact that Pharrell is one of the hotel s owners. For the singer-songwriter s first venture into the hotel business, he teamed up with Miami nightlife and hospitality mogul David Grutman to ensure its success.
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The breakwater at Samoset Resort in Rockport, Me. The resort, along with other properties in the Opal Collection of hotels, is offering 20 percent off rooms through the end of May.Credit.Ocean Properties
By Elaine Glusac
April 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
For a low-season trip to Honolulu in 2019, I scoured the internet for cheap, cheerful lodgings and the best I could come up with in Waikiki started around $300 a night. Looking ahead to this summer, 18 months and one pandemic later, the Ewa Hotel Waikiki has a condo suite with a kitchen and terrace for $129 a night, and the retro White Sands Hotel nearby has rooms from $179.