The Top 10 Hotels Near The Alna Store
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Pine forests give way to Atlantic views at this East Boothbay inn, where weathered porches and nautical touches evoke a vanished summer-colony era. Kayaking, schooner sails, and lobster rolls from Adirondack chairs frame days oriented entirely toward Linekin Bay.
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A nineteenth-century harbor-view mansion now operates as a boutique bed and breakfast run by two Dutch owners who've modernized its bones while preserving its period charm. The result feels like staying in someone's carefully curated second home rather than a hotel, all exposed beams and deliberate restraint.
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A Victorian mansion overlooking Penobscot Bay, The Norumbega channels its 1887 origins through eleven idiosyncratic rooms, some with fireplaces and bay views. The real reward is the unhurried pace itself—a cocktail on the grounds where time seems to move at the speed of the water below.
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A century-old brick shell overlooking Camden harbor holds twelve rooms dressed in period restraint, each with a gas fireplace that whispers rather than roars. The place trades boutique posturing for the genuine article: a preserved industrial bones and a location so proximate to the water you can taste the salt.
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An 1880s inn restored to deliberate simplicity—no screens, no phones, only ferry access and park-lodge common rooms—where the rooms themselves surprise with vintage furnishings and local art. The restaurant, helmed by a Portland chef, builds each plate from island lobster, mussels, and farm produce in a way that makes the isolation feel like the point.
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A restored 1823 Federal house on a lively Danforth Street corner, where Lark Hotels' renovation has preserved the building's bones while layering in contemporary comfort and a convivial spirit. The name nods to the Prohibition speakeasy once hidden in its basement—a small historical wink that fits the place's unhurried, decidedly Portland temperament.
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A six-room guest house in a quiet residential pocket, appointed with vintage furnishings and local art, that somehow balances intimacy with genuine warmth. Lark Hotels' sensibility runs through it—small enough to feel like a friend's place, open enough that you want to linger in the common rooms.
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The Press Hotel occupies a 1923 corner building in Portland's Old Port that once housed the Press Herald, its brick facade and vintage details now framing a 110-room refuge for guests drawn to genuine newspaper history rather than theme-park pastiche. The lobby's archival references feel earned, not imposed—a place where the conceit matters because the building's own past does.
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A brick-fronted harbor hotel in Portland's Old Port brings nautical restraint to contemporary rooms, many fitted with soaking tubs and fireplaces overlooking cobblestone streets. BlueFin, its restaurant, commits to the straightforward proposition of fresh North Atlantic seafood without apology or embellishment.
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At Longfellow, a converted Portland landmark, even the room key signals intention—brass, substantial, a thing to hold. The café brews with precision, the spa leans toward healing over indulgence, and Shaker simplicity meets contemporary ease throughout.