Mayflower Inn & Spa

Mayflower Inn & Spa Review

Though the most-expensive suites at this inn cost a wild $1,400 a night, the Mayflower is often booked months in advance. Running streams, rambling stone walls, and rare specimen trees fill the country manor-style inn's 28 manicured acres. Fine antiques, 18th- and 19th-century art, and four-poster canopy beds define each of the rooms. The colossal baths have mahogany wainscoting, marble, and Limoges and brass fittings. The Mayflower's 20,000-square-foot spa has earned a reputation as one of New England's finest such facilities—treatments like antioxidant-rich violet facials and Moor mud wraps are highly popular. Dine in the superb restaurant ($$$-$$$$), where the changing menu might include Nantucket Island diver scallops with sweet corn puree or ricotta-stuffed summer squash blossoms in a yellow tomato marinara sauce.