The Top 14 Hotels Near Seminary Hill Orchard & Cidery
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A restored pair of houses in the Catskills holds a seventeen-room hotel furnished in austere, considered style, while a modern cidery across the property grounds its pastoral setting in sustainable architecture. The Boarding House trades luxury for restraint, asking you to find elegance in Shaker proportion and the cider house's honest materials.
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Rank 2. Kenoza Hall
Old-World Continental
An 1880 Victorian on fifty-five acres of Catskills lakefront, now a boutique hotel where modern comfort nods to the building's boarding-house past. The bungalows and cottage scattered across the grounds offer the particular quiet of a place made for staying put.
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A 1905 manor house that survived the Catskills' cyclical booms by never taking itself too seriously, Callicoon Hills traffics in the understated pleasures of an earlier resort era—croquet on the lawn, unhurried meals, the company of people genuinely at ease. The place feels neither nostalgic nor trendy, simply itself across a century of modest refinement.
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A sixteen-room lodge on eighty acres of Catskills woodland, where hiking trails and a greenhouse justify the isolation as much as the quiet itself does. The Tavern anchors the property as the gathering point, a bar and dining room where guests and locals meet in the manner of places built to last.
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In the Catskills, this wellness resort trades New Age severity for a more approachable camp atmosphere, its Quaker-minimal interiors and 230 acres of woodland offering quiet refuge without dogma. The programming here respects the land as much as the guests—a distinction that, across seasons, feels less like hospitality and more like stewardship.
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The Rex Hotel sits modest in the Poconos, a ten-room refuge where rustic setting meets urban comfort, drawing city dwellers back to northeastern Pennsylvania's quieter corners. Its small scale and deliberate styling suggest a place that understands what people actually want from a country escape.
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The Gothic facade of this Milford hotel promises period rusticity, but the interior reveals a cosmopolitan sensibility that refuses the tired trope of rural simplicity. What emerges is a place where Pennsylvania's contradictions—farmland and sophistication, isolation and worldliness—coexist without apology.
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In the sparsely populated Catskills hamlet of Oliverea, the Eastwind Hotel channels Nordic austerity through the vision of founders rooted in Germany and Lithuania. The spare interiors and rural setting suggest a deliberate retreat from the crowded Northeast corridor, though the promise of Scandinavian restraint remains the real draw.
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A whimsical mansion-hotel where each room commits fully to a single theatrical theme, from a recreated blacksmith's shop to an ice-white fantasy. The Catskills' answer to the car-trip revival, three hours north of the city, designed with the same playful excess as its sister motel.
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A beautifully restored mid-century motel in the Catskills that wears its retro identity without irony, the Starlite sits at the intersection of nostalgia and genuine hospitality. Its dedication to period authenticity suggests a proprietor who understands that the appeal of such places lies not in kitsch but in the integrity of their original design.
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A 40-room compound in the Hudson Valley where minimalist cabins and a farmhouse converge around communal dining, wellness facilities, and a nine-hole course. The kitchen draws on Mediterranean techniques to honor local produce, and the whole venture reads as architect Taavo Somer's vision of thoughtful retreat made tangible.
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A working farm in Gardiner transformed into a hushed resort of sixty-five cabins, where the Auberge Collection's expertise in rural luxury meets genuine seclusion. Clay, the on-site restaurant, channels the valley's produce and a catholic wine list into cooking that tastes of where you are.
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A 1950s motel reborn as a creekside boutique inn, where mid-century bones meet the careful curation of locally roasted coffee and Apotheke soap. The Leeway succeeds not by pretending to be something it isn't, but by understanding precisely what Brooklyn wants from the Catskills.