Dallas, United States

Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek

Price per night from$669.71

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Style

Lone Star socialite

Setting

Uptown pearl

Southern hospitality runs DNA-deep at Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek — the Twenties estate has played host to Dallas high society for a century. Today, making yourself at home here entails poolside G&Ts and French-influenced fine dining, before live jazz lures you to the cocktail bar. Grand period features have been preserved, but there’s no resting on past glories here: with modern art-strung suites and clued-in local staff, this is still the guest list to be on.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

142, including 16 suites.

Check–Out

Noon. Check-in is at 4pm, but both are flexible, subject to availability and an extra fee.

More details

Rates are room-only, but sumptuous breakfasts are served at the Mansion Restaurant for around $35 a person.

Also

All the communal areas are wheelchair accessible, including the lobby, steam room, sauna and pool deck. There are chair lifts for access to the pool and the fitness center. A portable ramp is used for access to the restaurant and bar. There’s elevator access to all floors, and corridors have both visual and audible alarms. Several rooms have been adapted for guests with limited mobility, with wheelchair-accessible doorways, roll-in transfer showers and grab bars in bathrooms, plus TDD phones for guests with hearing impairments. Rooms on floors two to nine, and all elevators, have raised letters and Braille signs.

At the hotel

Free local car transfers, paid laundry and shoeshine services and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Bluetooth speaker, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, minibar, free bottled water, hairdryer, bathrobes, slippers and Diptyque bath products.

Our favourite rooms

In a Deluxe Patio room, days can start with breakfast out on your private terrace. It’s hard not to be bowled over by the Rosewood Suite and the Penthouse, with their vast rooftop terraces, but the Estate Suite’s pretty garden views give them a run for their money.

Poolside

Cloistered away from the uptown hubbub, the heated outdoor pool is a calming spot framed by magnolias and parasol-shaded sunloungers. Post-dip, stretch out catlike with a spritz from the poolside bar. The pool is open daily from 8am to 10pm.

Spa

There are a few small treatment rooms on-site, and in-room massages can be arranged on request. If you’re in need of a more serious glow after one too many margaritas, the hotel has partnered with the skincare mavens behind Dr Barbara Sturm Dallas Spa and Boutique — a 10-minute drive away — for their signature facials. The hotel also has a fitness center with Peloton bikes, TechnoGym equipment, treadmills and free weights, plus a steam room and sauna.

Packing tips

Tennessee Williams penned Summer and Smoke while staying at the mansion back in the Forties — worth breaking out a new Moleskine and seeing if the muse takes you, too.

Also

There are private dining spaces, if you’re feeling inspired by the mansion’s history of high-society soirées. The chef’s table on the original verandah is a sunny spot for small parties, and the wine cellar makes a sultry setting for larger groups.

Pet‐friendly

Furry pals are welcome. They’ll get a treat on arrival, plus a bed, bowl and guide to Dallas’s pet-friendly spots. Dogs aren’t allowed in the restaurant, bar or pool, must stay on a leash and can’t be left in rooms. There’s a minimum fee of $175 a pet. See more pet-friendly hotels in Dallas.

Children

Little Smiths of all ages are welcome and well catered for.

Best for

All ages are welcome and well provided for.

Recommended rooms

Most room types have the option to add a rollaway, and several rooms and suites have connecting options. Cots can be added to rooms on request.

Activities

The Children’s Park at nearby Klyde Warren Park has a climbing tower, super-size slide, paddling fountains and more. Any residual steam can be let off on adventures along the Katy Trail.

Swimming pool

The pool is child-friendly, but under 12s must be accompanied by an adult.

Meals

The Mansion Restaurant has a children’s menu, and there are room service options for kids, too.

Babysitting

Babysitting can be arranged with 24 hours’ notice.

No need to pack

With advance notice, the hotel can provide a baby bath tub, bed rails, a nappy bin and in-room bottle warmers, plus child-size bathrobes and slippers.

Also

An in-room baby-proofing service is available on request.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Soak up the morning sun over brunch in the covered verandah. If there’s wooing to be done, dinner in the library works a charm.

Dress Code

Understated elegance, like an off-duty Roosevelt.

Hotel restaurant

A meal at the Mansion Restaurant feels a little like stepping into a Clue board. The home’s original rooms have been transformed into atmospheric dining spaces, period architectural frills all carefully restored. The former drawing room is a lavish, light-filled spot, but if you catch us red-handed in the library with the candlestick, it’s a fair cop — with its hand-carved ceilings, oak paneling and stained glass windows, it makes a romantic spot for dinner à deux.

Against this opulent backdrop, executive chef Charles Olalia’s French-accented menus make the most of seasonal local produce. Dishes range from classics like steak au poivre and lobster thermidor to distinctly Texan specialties — the tortilla soup is a time-tested favorite, and chilaquiles are a weekend brunch staple. There’s also a seven-course tasting menu, and separate vegetarian menus, too.

Hotel bar

Back in the Twenties, it took six master carpenters eight weeks to complete the inlaid wood ceiling that now crowns the clubby Mansion Bar. Today, the craft cocktail menu is no less a labor of love. Signature drinks include the Mansion G&T, made with Makrut lime leaf and homemade tonic, and the jalapeño-spiked Texas Margarita. There’s also a sommelier-picked wine list and a collection of rare spirits, plus a seasonal menu of elevated bar bites. From Thursday to Saturday, when candle-flickered evenings sway to live music from local acts, it’s not hard to see why the Mansion Bar’s long been the city’s favorite spot for a nightcap.

Last orders

Breakfast is 7am–10.30am; for lunch or brunch, it’s 11am–2pm; dinner is 5.30pm–9pm, Tuesday and Wednesday (9.30pm, Thursday to Saturday). The bar pours from noon to 11pm on Thursday (1am on weekends). On Sunday, it's 3pm–10pm (11pm, Monday to Wednesday).

Room service

There’s a separate room service menu, so under-the-duvet dining is on the cards.

Location

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Address
Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek
2821 Turtle Creek Boulevard
Dallas
75219
United States

Rosewood Mansion is a high-society stalwart of Turtle Creek, a leafy, well-heeled neighborhood in uptown Dallas.

Planes

The nearest major hub is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a 30-minute drive away. Alternatively, domestic flights from cities including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta touch down at Dallas Love Field, a 15-minute drive from the hotel. Staff can arrange transfers from either airport on request.

Trains

Victory station is a three-minute drive from the hotel. The TRE service to Dallas Union Station links you with Amtrak inter-city trains, and you can hop on the DART Green or Orange line to head downtown. Station transfers can be arranged on request.

Automobiles

For those bringing their own wheels, there’s valet parking for $70 a night. Otherwise, you can book one of the hotel’s Lexus sedans for free transfers within five miles of the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Stroll, cycle or commune with nature along the Katy Trail, which runs for miles along a historic railroad line. Dallas has a huge, walkable Arts District — wander around, delving into esoteric exhibitions and craft beer bars as the mood takes you, or make a beeline for the Dallas Museum of Art’s millennia-spanning collection. Either way, take advantage of the free historic trolley that runs all the way down there from uptown.

Catch a show — or just coo over the modernist curves — at the Kalita Humphreys Theater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. And architecture buffs should also check out State Thomas Historic District, a time-capsule neighborhood of 19th-century homes.

 

Local restaurants

Steak, barbecue and Tex Mex are this city’s culinary (holy) trinity. Al Biernat’s is a polished steakhouse with a focus on fine American produce. Las Palmas serves elevated Tex Mex classics, with the added plus of being a sub-five minute drive away. And if you ask the local carnivores, they’ll tell you that Terry Black’s takes some beating in terms of barbecue.

Local cafés

Union Coffee is a local café with a conscience where the community focus and ethically sourced craft beans make for a serious case of the warm fuzzies.

Local bars

Set in a historic uptown home, Bowen House is a chic little spot serving craft cocktails alongside a menu of finely spun French bar bites. For a more downhome feel, try the Katy Trail Ice House’s bustling, fairy-lit beer garden.

Reviews

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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 historic hotel in Dallas and unpacked their craft tequila and Cowboys jerseys, a full account of their Texan city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek…

Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek has a legacy to live up to. Back in the Twenties, the original owners toured Europe, clinking champagne coupes with the Continent’s beau monde and borrowing design ideas in the process. A modern makeover has preserved these period features — Renaissance Italian pillars here, stained glass from an English manor there. And the hand of a hundred years of hosts-with-the-most can be felt in the French-influenced fine dining, magnolia-fringed pool and damask-draped suites. A century on, and this is still the last word in laidback uptown luxury.

But for all the hotel’s cosmopolitan flair, the truly priceless inheritance is the sense of hometown pride. Menus brim with regional produce, and equestrian motifs dot the cocktail bar, where locals gather to hear homegrown musicians. A stay here is singularly Dallas experience.

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