In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- For a family or two couples, the elegant cream-beige Carriage House is a two-bedroom, two-bathroom cottage in the garden that’s more urban in style than the main house – with khaki-cream plain walls, vaulted ceilings upstairs and gleaming cherry furniture. Romantic Room Six with softly patterned fawn wallpaper and coral-blossomed curtains should really be called the Garden Room, with its private porch entrance onto the lawn. And oyster-striped Room Five feels like a private cosy-cream annexe, in the attic with its own staircase and separate bathroom.
- Packing tips
- A cashmere layer to take the chill off terrace dining or ocean-side evening strolls.
- Also
- Picnic on the beach with an indulgent hotel hamper tailored to your tastes (book the day before).
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- 20 per cent off any treatment (massage, facial, peel) at Naturopathica Spa on Montauk Highway in East Hampton
- Current special offer
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The 1770 House
Hamptons, United States[view map]
- Style
- Clapboard colonial villa
- Setting
- By-the-beach Hamptons village
The 1770 House boutique hotel in East Hampton is a picket-fenced posy of lush gardens, antique furnishings, primly pastel wallpaper, swags and valances. Wifi, iPod docks and flatscreen TVs keep its homely nostalgia in check, as does the impressive restaurant, where a seasonal menu of locally sourced surf and turf is served in a deceptively modest, candlelit dining room.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Seven, including one two-bedroom cottage.
- Rates
- $295–$1,495 including breakfast and, in high season, a beach parking pass. There’s an additional 9.375 per cent tax and five per cent service charge.
- Check-out
- 11am (later by request when feasible); earliest check-in, 2pm.
- Facilities
- Gardens, free WiFi. In rooms: flatscreen TV, iPod dock, Dean & Deluca snacks.
- Poolside
- None on site, but you can use the pool and patio tucked behind a thicket of white pines at sister property, East Hampton Point (up Three Mile Harbor Road).
- Also
- No pets. You’ll need to stay at least three nights over July, August and public-holiday weekends.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- In this candlelit 12-table dining room, oriental rugs, rattan chairs and floral seat cushions feel as homely as Thanksgiving at auntie’s, but chef Kevin Penner’s menu, featuring dishes such as roasted Iowa pork loin and pan-fried diver scallops, is no turkey, with ingredients that are seasonal and local wherever possible. Take it onto the terrace and dine around the fountain on starlit summer nights.
- Dress code
- Preppy chic – take your finest Ralph Lauren Polo casuals and Ray-Bans.
- Top table
- Ask for table 10 for whisper-in-the-corner romance; table six to overlook the twinkling garden lights; table seven to seat a crowd in the bay window.
- Last orders
- 10pm; drinks can be ordered to your room until the Tavern bar closes, between 10.30pm and midnight.
- Room service
- Order anything from the restaurant menu (iced oysters, for example) during restaurant hours, from 5.30pm.
- Hotel bar
- Historic speakeasy, the Tavern is a small, dimly lit bar in the basement with bench seating, stained glass windows and exposed brickwork. Here, you can dine informally on burgers, oysters, clams and the like. A cosier spot for a glass of cabernet is the library in the main house, which has fireside sofas.
Also worth knowing
- Children
- The hotel is primarily for adults, although children are welcomed. Book a cot for US$75.
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The 1770 House
143 Main Street
East Hampton
NY 11937
