Watch Hill Inn named one of favorite hotels in world

THE EDITORS at Conde Nast Traveler named the Watch Hill Inn in Westerly one of their favorite hotels in the world. / COURTESY WATCH HILL INN
THE EDITORS at Conde Nast Traveler named the Watch Hill Inn in Westerly one of their favorite hotels in the world. / COURTESY WATCH HILL INN

WESTERLY – Watch Hill Inn is one of the top hotels in the world, according to Conde Nast Traveler’s 2015 Gold List, which was compiled by its editors.
It was the only hotel in Rhode Island to make the list. Only one other New England hotel was recognized – Hidden Pond in Kennebunkport, Maine.
According to Conde Nast Traveler, a prerequisite for a Gold List property is a “high standard of service, luxury and beauty. Yet what earned each winner a spot on the list was the unforgettable special touches that bring a hotel’s ethos to life. The housekeeper at the Belmond Hotel Cipriani (in Italy) who delivers a message to the tooth fairy after hearing a young guest has lost her tooth, the scent of lavender in the air at the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa (in California), or the feeling of picking a mango from your balcony at Strawberry Hill in Jamaica.”
The magazine had this to say about the 19-room Watch Hill Inn: “A stable of Mercedes vehicles are available for touring.”
Daniel A. Hostettler, president and group managing director of Ocean House Management, which includes Watch Hill Inn, said, “We are absolutely thrilled that our newest addition to the Ocean House family has made this very prestigious travel listing in its first year of operation, testament to the hard work of our manager Amanda Tokarski and her team.”
Hostettler said the three properties – Watch Hill Inn, Ocean House and Weekapaug Inn – share eight vehicles from Mercedes Benz including four convertibles that guests can check out for the day, free of charge, to tour the area.
“It’s a program in which MB provides the vehicles to us and insures the drivers, and we provide the gas, so guests have free use of the cars; we have one of almost every model that Mercedes makes,” he wrote in an email.
The inn was established in 1845 as the Narragansett House. It was renovated in 2006 and 2013.
View the list HERE.
Conde Nast Traveler Editor-in-Chief Pilar Guzman said the list “is a group-written love letter to the properties that inspire memories that linger long after we’ve left them. Like travel itself, the best hotel experiences often can’t be measured by a point system – they’re as ineffable as memory itself.”
The 2015 Gold List is published in the January issue of Conde Nast Traveler.

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