Burlington, United States

Blind Tiger Burlington

Price per night from$209.62

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Style

Va-va-vintage

Setting

South End resident

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Blind Tiger Burlington is a storybook boutique hotel that you can judge by its cover: its turreted, red-brick-manor façade is as whimsical as its mid-century interiors. Curated vintage pieces adorn each individually styled room; a bright-all-day solarium is poised for breakfast bagels and board-game afternoons, fueled by the pantry’s help-yourself coffee and snacks. Your hosts are laidback like their Burlington locale, but outdoorsy activities add some adventure to this romantic tale. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

14, including five suites.

Check–Out

11am. Check-in, between 4pm and 6pm. If you’ll be arriving later, let the hotel know so that they can send you an access code.

More details

Rates at Blind Tiger Burlington include breakfast and round-the-clock drinks and snacks from the pantry.

Also

Unfortunately, this historic home is not suitable if you have reduced mobility. There isn’t an elevator, and third-floor rooms have sloped, low ceilings.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: waffle kimono robes, slippers, and Firsthand Supply and Apotheke bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Each room at Blind Tiger Burlington is named after a local artist or business, and you’ll find a note from your namesake to get to know them better. Styled by design duo Elder & Ash, interiors are largely curated with handmade, antique or artisan furnishings. Forever Tomgirl pays homage to a Burlington juice bar, but in this suite you’ll drink in original wood floors, a spacious fire-warmed seating area and tiled bathroom with an antique bath tub. Wannabe writers might like the desk in the bay windows of Horizon Times, which overlooks the garden (and the lake seasonally).

Packing tips

You won’t find any screens at this guesthouse, instead plenty of corners that are made for curling up with a good book in — your room’s tub, the sunny solarium, candlelit bar, deckchair-dotted lawn.

Also

The all-female team are on hand to help with bags and give recommendations between 7am and 7pm. You can call them outside of these hours, but otherwise enjoy Blind Tiger’s home-from-home approach to hospitality.

Children

Welcome, but this boutique bolthole is better suited to grown-ups. Gather, a two-bedroom suite that sleeps four, is the hotel’s only option for bigger clans.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

The solarium’s wrap-around garden views mean that any table is bathed in sunlight and backdropped by greenery.

Dress Code

Follow in your host's footsteps with your favorite second-hand or vintage threads.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no formal restaurant here, but each morning the bright-and-airy dining room is set up with a help-yourself spread of homemade bagels, bread and yogurt, with fruit and seasonal toppings. Tuck into your picks next door in the sun-washed, plant-filled solarium, which overlooks the garden. There’s drip coffee on the side first thing in the morning, and an espresso machine is on hand for all-hours brews. The bar is stocked with locally made snacks and drinks, which are included with your stay.

Hotel bar

The cozy, vintage-style bar area is rather virtuous, with its selection of board games, seltzers and snacks. For something stronger than soda or tea, you’ll have to head into town or the hotel is happy for you to bring in your own tipple of choice.

Last orders

Breakfast is served between 8am and 10.30am; drip coffee is available in the solarium from 7.30am, and you can help yourself to the espresso machine and pantry around the clock.

Location

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Address
Blind Tiger Burlington
349 South Willard Street
Burlington
05401
United States

Blind Tiger Burlington is in its namesake city’s residential South End, a few minutes' drive from the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont, which overlooks neighboring New York’s Adirondack Mountains.

Planes

Burlington International Airport is a 15-minute drive from the guesthouse.

Trains

Amtrak’s Ethan Allen Express is a slow but scenic way to reach Burlington station, which is a five-minute drive from the hotel; the journey takes over seven hours from New York City, with stops in Hudson and Saratoga Springs.

Automobiles

Burlington is easy to navigate without your own wheels, but you might like some to take in Lake Champlain and Vermont’s outdoorsy pursuits, plus Stowe is a 45-minute drive away. There are free parking spaces just outside of the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Life in Burlington balances cosmopolitan pursuits with outdoorsy adventures — and Blind Tiger Burlington is well-placed to tap into both. Your morning might start with a mooch in downtown, around convivial Church Street Marketplace’s shops and eateries or to decades-old Crow Bookshop. 

A stroll along the lakeside Burlington Greenway is an all-seasons introduction to the region’s natural potential. Get a closer look at Lake Champlain by bike ferry, which will drop you to one of the islands for coastal cycles, or on a boat cruise. Scale Mt Philo or the stone tower at Ethan Allen Park for picturesque vantage points; head to Bolton Valley Backcountry or Stowe for off-piste tours and skiing or snowboarding sessions. 

Local restaurants

Its thoughtful menus may change with the seasons, but Hen of the Wood’s delicious cooking, craft cocktails and rustic-chic design are its constants. Hearty mountain fare gets a bit of French je ne sais quoi at old-school Leunig’s Bistro. Wood-fired, Neapolitan-style pizzas at Pizzeria Verità would make Nonna proud, as would its aperitivi and cannoli. 

Local cafés

Breakfast sandwiches, strong cuppas and freshly baked treats make August First a tempting port of call in Burlington. Lingering brunches at Deep City spotlight local, seasonal ingredients in polished takes on reimagined comfort dishes.

Local bars

Sample innovative, homemade brews at Burlington Beer Co with its tropical IPAs and maple-infused amber ales. The Whiskey Room is warm in spirit — in both senses: its wood-clad interiors are cozy, and its literature-themed tipples are guaranteed to keep you toasty. 

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this bijou hotel in Burlington and unpacked their artisan produce and market finds, a full account of their bon vivant break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Blind Tiger Burlington in Vermont… 

If you shrunk down Blind Tiger Burlington to toy size, it wouldn’t look amiss on a child’s Christmas list: the red-brick manor has a fairytale quality with its vine-laced walls, tiled turret, pitched roofs and cream-colored cornicing.  

Instead of in a department store, however, it sits pretty in Burlington’s residential South End, and has done since 1881. Inside this dollhouse, you’ll find spaces to play: the bar is stocked with board games and local snacks, and a stretching lawn encourages cartwheels — or romantic picnics. But it's the solarium that shines (literally) with its light-welcoming windows and leafy houseplants, providing a photogenic backdrop for homemade breakfasts. 

Like its Smith-approved outposts in Asheville and Portland, this Blind Tiger boutique hotel is colored by its locale — you’ll be introduced to Burlington’s cultural scene via your room name, each dedicated to a local maker or business. Lake Champlain outings or road trips to ski in nearby Stowe are also set to spark some child-like wonder. 

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