When you think of the world’s top hotels, do you picture cabins?
A new retreat nestled on 140 flower-filled acres in Upstate New York is here to ensure you do.
Wildflower Farms, sprawled across petal-filled meadows in the Hudson Valley, has been named one of the 100 best new hotels in the world by Travel + Leisure. The hotel is one of the more unique stays on the impressive list: Instead of one structure, Wildflower Farms is comprised of 65 freestanding cabins and cottages on a working farm complete with breathtaking views of the dramatic Shawangunk Mountains.
The Gardiner retreat made the “2023 It List” alongside Cosme, a beachfront boutique hotel in Greece, and Botanic Sanctuary Antwerp, a resort built in and around a 15th-century monastery in Belgium.
Wildflower Farms, part of the Auberge Resorts Collection, is just 90 minutes from New York City. With floor-to-ceiling windows and private patios, the cabins are meant to “merge outdoors with in”, the hotel said.
Travel + Leisure praised the cottages’ cozy, “Arts and Crafts” vibes and the quiet luxuries of the property.
“It’s a working farm with a spa and lounger-lined pool, where you can hike around its 140 acres before buying a cashmere sweater in the lobby boutique, a collaboration with chic gardening apparel brand Gardinheir,” the magazine wrote in its review. “The cabins are clustered close together, but each has a back balcony secluded amid the trees from where you’ll hardly see another soul.”
Clay is Wildflower Farms’ on-site restaurant which offers three meals a day made with ingredients grown on the hotel’s namesake farm. Guests can enjoy coffee or cocktails on the hotel’s open-air Great Porch and participate in a number of “culinary experiences” that range from farm foraging to pickling.
Source: newyorkupstate.com
Photo Credit: Wildflower Farms
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