Portland, Maine, United States

Longfellow Hotel

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Style

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Setting

Winsome West End

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Feelgood in every sense, adults-only Longfellow Hotel brings wellness and well-considered luxury to Portland’s pretty, Victorian West End. Timeless rooms have been designed in tandem with sleep experts for optimal shuteye, spoiling spa treatments foster self-acceptance, and there's a nourishing café to fuel your flâneur-ing around Portland’s indie boutiques and seafood spots. Sound sustainability creds boost the warm fuzzy feeling — as will an evening in the lobby bar, a Cognac and the works of the hotel’s namesake poet for company.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

48, including four suites.

Check–Out

11am, and check in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates are room-only, but a wellness-boosting breakfast menu is available at Twinflower Café for an additional charge.

Also

Three rooms have been adapted for guests with limited mobility. The Accessible Grand Standard Room has audio-visual doorbell alerts and a bathroom with grab bars and a roll-in shower. The Accessible Gabriel Suite and Standard Room with Balcony each have a bathroom with grab bars, a lowered vanity and a roll-in shower. The hotel’s entrance and communal spaces are wheelchair accessible, too, and there is elevator access to all floors.

At the hotel

Bikes to borrow, free hotel car service, boutique and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Loftie alarm clock, French press with locally roasted coffee, tea-making kit, free bottled water, bathrobes, and Grown Alchemist and Voya bath products.

Our favourite rooms

To start your day gazing cinematically out to sea, go for a Grand Standard Room with Back Cove Views.

Spa

All the restorative stops have been pulled at Astraea Spa, where wellness is guided by a welcoming, inclusive ethos. Organic Voya and Luzern products work their magic in tailored treatments, seaweed wraps and tension-melting facials that embrace ageing. There are bedtime rituals involving breathwork and rhythmic massages to help reset your sleep schedule, plus private infrared sauna suites and zero-gravity meditation loungers — leaving here unsoothed would be some feat. The spa is open daily from 9am to 8pm, and there’s a 24-hour fitness center, where weekly yoga sessions take place. And in an extra-feelgood twist, the spa donates a portion of proceeds to a local children’s nonprofit.

Packing tips

A poetry collection to thumb through, and a pen in your back pocket in case the muse strikes as you’re walking the wild Maine coast — or nursing an extra-dry martini.

Also

You’ll find a guest pantry on each floor, where you can stock up on sustainably packaged shower caps, shaving kits and other essentials, so there’s no stress if something slipped your mind (or you’re saving suitcase space for a Maine blueberry pie).

Pet‐friendly

Dogs up to 65lbs are welcome in all rooms except those with balconies. There’s a $100 fee for each pup, and they'll have goodies including a custom bandana, bed, bowls and treats waiting for them. See more pet-friendly hotels in Portland, Maine.

Children

The Longfellow Hotel may not technically be adults-only, but as most rooms sleep only two and the ambience lends itself to indulgent downtime, you may want to make other plans for your little Smiths..

Sustainability efforts

The hotel is free from single-use plastic, and is dedicated to sourcing locally and ethically made products (the quest for Earth-kind tea bags alone took a year). Real keys are used instead of key cards, you’ll find refillable bath products in rooms, and the restaurant and bar menus are fuelled by a network of New England farmers and small local suppliers.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

There's peak people-watching to be had from one of Twinflower Café’s window-side chairs.

Dress Code

Take a leaf from Longfellow’s book and aim for slow fashion made with thoughtfully sourced fabrics.

Hotel restaurant

Twinflower Café is a wholesome hangout for breakfast and lunch, set in the hotel’s lobby space where Scandi minimalism meets rustic New England sensibilities. There’s a nourishing, plant-forward menu of sandwiches, salads, bowls and baked goods, all made with local produce, to get the hygge flowing. Pair with a cup of joe from neighboring roastery Burundi Star Coffee, and you’re set for a day’s wandering.

Hotel bar

The lobby bar, Five of Clubs, takes both its name and style cues from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s literary club. The salon-style space, trimmed in oak and velvet, makes a fitting backdrop for lofty chats in well-read company — or for working your way through the classic cocktails, each made with small-batch spirits. There are rotating local craft beers and a sommelier-picked wine list, too, plus a menu of small plates, charcuterie and Maine-made seafood.

Last orders

Twinflower Café is open daily from 7am to 2pm. Five of Clubs pours from 3pm to 10pm (11pm on Friday and Saturday).

Room service

You can order dishes from Twinflower Café’s menu up to your room from 8am to 2pm.

Location

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Address
Longfellow Hotel
754 Congress Street
Portland
04102
United States

You’ll find Longfellow Hotel in Portland’s West End, a well-preserved and walkable Victorian neighborhood.

Planes

The hotel is under a 15-minute drive from Portland International Airport.

Trains

Amtrak’s Downeaster service runs up the East Coast from Boston to Portland Transportation Center, around a five-minute drive from the hotel.

Automobiles

Portland’s West End and its surrounding neighborhoods are walkable, plus the hotel has bikes to borrow and an electric car available for free outings within a three-mile radius, but your own wheels might come in handy for exploring further afield. If you do bring a car, there’s valet parking at the hotel for $45 a night, with electric vehicle charging stations available.

Worth getting out of bed for

Start with a mooch around the cool boutiques and historic red-brick mansions of the West End. Then, it's a few minutes’ stroll to the Arts District, home to Portland Museum of Art along with indie galleries and live music venues, and Old Port, where cool bars butt up against the working waterfront. Across town, East Bayside has a thriving brewery and café scene. The Eastern Promenade is a scenic park that curves around Casco Bay; and back near the hotel, the leafy Western Promenade has stellar sunset views. For a skyline-gazing stroll or cycle, hit Back Cove Trail, a revered route along Baxter Boulevard. See a different side of the city on a historical walking tour, which the concierge can arrange, or a trip around the surrounding islands on the Casco Bay Mailboat. 

It’s worth the trip beyond the city to see Portland Head Light, the quintessential Maine lighthouse. Mackworth Island makes a whimsical outing — the circular trail is famed for its fairy rings; and at Kettle Cove, you’ll get a dose of Maine’s classic rocky coastline. For a bucket and spade sort of day, head out to Higgins Beach.

Local restaurants

Fore Street Restaurant is the place for elevated, wood-grilled dishes; grab a table with a view of the hearth, where fine Maine seafood, meat and produce is slowly turned over the applewood fire. For fresh shucks and modern New England seafood, head to Eventide Oyster Co. Set right on the historic waterfront, Scales serves seasonal seafood dishes that balance comfort and quality — if you have cockles in need of warming, you can’t beat the buttery lobster roll.

Local cafés

Burundi Star Coffee was founded by the daughter of a coffee farmer, and couples a lifetime of expertise with a commitment to fair trade and empowering Burundian women and girls. Tandem Coffee and Bakery has a cult following thanks to its sticky buns, buttermilk muffins and biscuit breakfast sandwiches. Luckily, it’s right next door to the Longfellow, so you can be first in line.

Local bars

Novel is a bookshelf-lined spot a short walk from the hotel, by day a café with its own roasting room and by night a cocktail bar; whatever time you come, you can browse, read and buy the books. Over in Old Port, Blyth and Burrows serves craft cocktails with a vintage maritime bent.

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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 mindful hotel in Maine and unpacked their lobster forks and local crafts, a full account of their wellbeing-boosting break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Longfellow Hotel in Portland… 

A love of his New England home infuses Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry. And following in its literary namesake’s footsteps, Longfellow Hotel is an equally doting ode to all things Maine. Local craftsmanship takes center stage in East Coast-via-Copenhagen interiors, from the locally made furnishings down to the hand-thrown coffee cups. Regional produce powers the café’s healthful menu, and spa treatments draw their glow-boosting goodness from Atlantic seaweed.  

And then there’s the concierge staff, AKA your Portland fairy godparents. They'll point you towards surf-blessed beaches and scenic coastal cycle routes, then snag you the epicurean city’s most coveted tables and sort a ride in the hotel’s car, no ‘shotgun not the designated driver’ necessary.

The thing about all that passion is it’s infectious — ensconced in the warmly lit bar, somewhere between your fourth Maine oyster and first Negroni (made with locally distilled gin, natch), you’ll catch yourself waxing lyrical about this place, too.

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