The Best Hotels Near CATCH, by the Record
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A Queen Anne house from the 1890s turned guest house, a Michelin Key holder, sitting just off Wilmington's riverside downtown. The rooms swing between serene cream-and-blond-wood calm and full-on Klein blue intensity, with contemporary art and one-off antiques keeping things from tipping into boutique-hotel cliche. There's a reading room, proper porches, and a vegan breakfast from a Californian chef that earns the morning.
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Three historic buildings stitched together in Wilmington's waterfront district make up this Palisociety hotel, where rough post-industrial edges meet genuine Southern charm. Whimsical wallpaper, antiques, mid-century pieces, and contemporary furnishings share space without apology, the way a good thrift store wishes it could. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key, and it earns the designation by feeling local in a way that most boutique hotels only gesture at.