The Best Hotels Near The Rex, by the Record
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Ten rooms in the Poconos, which the owners call a "micro-hotel" with a straight face. What it is, more plainly, is a small boutique hotel that bets on the Poconos having a moment the way the Catskills have been having theirs for a while now. City comforts land in the middle of good northeastern Pennsylvania woods, near Promised Land State Park, for the East Coast urbanite who wants nature with decent bedding.
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The exterior looks lifted straight from American Gothic, all stern clapboard and small-town Pennsylvania gravitas. Step inside and the Hotel Fauchère pivots hard toward cosmopolitan boutique hotel, the kind of place that quietly embarrasses the flyover-country assumption. Milford sits in the long stretch between Philly and Pittsburgh, and this is where city people go when they want the mountains without giving up the thread count. Michelin awarded it one Key.
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Deer drift down from the hills at dusk to feed just outside the lounge windows, and guests tend to go quiet when it happens. This Pocono Mountains resort pairs soaring wood-and-stone architecture with marble and warm timber inside, fireplaces and velvet armchairs keeping things from tipping too far into lodge-grand. Many suites have private heated plunge pools, and the indoor-outdoor pool lets you swim while snow falls.
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A Victorian boarding house that's been around forever sits on 55 lakefront acres in the Catskills, now running as a 22-room boutique hotel with ten freestanding bungalows and a private cottage. Rooms mix modern and vintage touches with knowing nods to the old house, while the bungalows add gas stoves for the months when the Catskills remind you they mean it. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.
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The Catskills are having a moment, and Seminary Hill is at the center of it. The Boarding House, a 17-room boutique hotel run by local hospitality group Homestedt, sits just down from a working cidery in a pair of renovated houses done up in Shaker-inspired contemporary style. Clean lines, considered materials, and a setting that makes you feel like you've earned the fresh air. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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The slogan "a friendly place for nice people" has been the house philosophy here for a long time, which either sounds like a joke or the most disarming resort pitch imaginable. This old-school Catskills property has been around forever, predating the whole Borscht Belt wave, and carries a genuinely laissez-faire looseness that most boutique hotels only pretend to. The rooms and grounds feel like a throwback, but not a dusty one.
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