travel42 Hotel Review: Castle Hill Inn and Resort

Castle Hill Inn and Resort travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Sitting high on a peninsular hillside, with lawns stretching to the rugged rocky shore, three miles southwest of downtown Newport, this hotel melds a New York-society setting with classic coastal New England living, drawing a romantic and well-heeled crowd.

Thornton Wilder wrote here, and many have proposed on the premises. A smattering of outbuildings and updated cottages supplement the grand, turreted 1874 mansion, reached via a paved road lined with pr...