The Best Hotels in Prince Edward County

The splendid red-brick facade on Picton's main street nearly came down before someone decided wine-country tourism had other ideas. A Michelin Key hotel, the Royal is a full-service stay with a spa, sauna, and seasonal outdoor pool, plus a kitchen that leans hard into Prince Edward County farms and local wines. Heritage bones, contemporary rooms, and the kind of place you book when a winery weekend calls for something more than a roadside inn.

A 19th-century foundry turned boutique hotel on Lake Ontario, Drake Devonshire sits in Prince Edward County wine country with twelve rooms that range from a skylit nook called the Stargazer to a full A-frame suite. The design is all contemporary art and warm farmhouse bones, and the outdoor restaurant draws a sociable crowd that arrived carrying the cult energy of the original Drake in Toronto. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

A red brick Gothic Revival mansion a block from Picton Harbour, Merrill House is the kind of boutique hotel that makes you wonder if you've quietly teleported to an English village. The owners split their time between here and London, and the décor takes that seriously, inside and out. Prince Edward County's wine country surrounds it, but the house itself is all anglophile calm, quiet enough to feel quasi-rural despite sitting just off Main Street.

A renovated roadside motel in Prince Edward County wine country, The June sits just outside Picton with views over a protected bay. The 16 rooms run mod-bohemian, very photogenic, and the lobby bar carries the day from morning coffee through late-night cocktails. Guests eventually migrate to the garden firepit when the weather holds. The makeover was compelling enough that a second project earned its own Netflix series.