Coastal Motels in the Northeast

Sandaway Suites & Beach

Oxford, MD

A private sandy beach and a row of screened porches face west across the Tred Avon River, so the whole property tips toward the water and the evening sun. It is a Victorian estate turned waterfront hideaway, quiet enough that the loudest sound is a rocking chair on the boards.

A Room at the Beach

Bridgehampton, NY

A modest roadside motel restored into a hushed garden retreat, where an allee of towering redwoods and a country-house garden screen a handful of rooms into a private-feeling estate. Swim in the small pool, warm up in the cedar sauna, and bike to the beach with passes the owners hand you at the door.

Bar Harbor Motel

Bar Harbor, ME

Fourteen acres with drive-up rooms, gear loans, and nightly s'mores, with a free shuttle to Acadia National Park departing from the property. The kind of setup that turns a base camp into the stay itself.

Breezeway Boutique Hotel

Westerly, RI

Three fountain courtyards, a private beach, and a heated outdoor pool that has been running since 1970. A family-owned beachside compound that is still being built out.

Dogfish Inn

Lewes, DE

The craft brewery behind it stocked every room with a growler, a beach chair, and a canvas tote, then parked cruiser bikes out front for the ride into town. A fire pit, chicory coffee, and a paneled lobby full of board games make it the kind of coastal basecamp you plan a whole weekend around.

Drift Oceanside Inn

Camden, ME

Drive-up rooms and cabins scattered across a rocky ledge over Penobscot Bay, a mile north of Camden, where the porch looks straight at the water. A path through the woods reaches a private beach, and the day ends at a fire pit with the tide coming in below.

Journey East Hampton

East Hampton, NY

A design-led roadside hideaway between East Hampton and Amagansett, where clean lines and natural materials wrap a backyard built around a year-round saltwater pool. Bike to the beach, book the infrared sauna, and end the evening with s'mores by the fire, all at a pace the rest of the Hamptons forgot.

Ocean View Terrace Inn

Hampton Bays, NY

A 1950s Greek family-run property on the bay with a dark marine blue exterior, pink doors, individually styled rooms, and a private beach. A character that takes decades to develop, and here it has.

Pier450

Ridge, MD

A 1940s fishing camp reimagined with individually themed rooms, a scratch-kitchen restaurant, a 450-foot pier, and a private beach with fire pits. Adults 25 and older only.

Seascape Motel & Cottages

Belfast, ME

Record players, a 750-title vinyl library, fire pits, and a heated pool in a renovated 1964 coastal property. Cottages have full kitchens and private decks.

Silver Sands Motel

Greenport, NY

A 1957 waterfront property with a long stretch of private beach, a working oyster farm, and a salt marsh wellness sanctuary with sauna and cold plunge. A mid-century diner on site.

Sisu, A Boutique Motel

Plymouth, MA

A near-century-old Plymouth guesthouse rebuilt by hand into a calm coastal retreat, where warm wood, quality linens, and a private patio wait at every door. Evenings gather around a fire pit the owners keep burning, a short walk from the harbor on a quiet side street.

Starlux Hotel

Wildwood, NJ

The neon showpiece that helped spark Wildwood's whole Doo Wop revival, from the boomerang facade down to the lava lamp waiting in every room. Days here loop from the courtyard pool to the mini golf next door to the beach two blocks away, a summer-of-1960 fantasy that leans all the way in and delivers.

The Inn On Main

Chincoteague, VA

A revived roadside motel where each room carries its own retro-beach personality, wrapped around a saltwater pool with two solar tubs and a fire pit right on Main Street. The pull-up-to-your-door ease of an old island motel meets fresh renovation, a screened grill pavilion for your day's catch, and a walk to Chincoteague's shops and water.

The Lincolnville Motel

Lincolnville, ME

Brought back in 2015 by a Camden native with gallery and restaurant experience, with record players and books in every room, no TVs, and a pool with ocean views. There is also a resident golden retriever.

The Towne Motel

Camden, ME

A 1955 Camden motel run with the heart of a bed and breakfast, where the innkeepers open their own living room each morning for coffee and homemade blueberry muffins. Immaculate retro rooms sit two blocks from the harbor, close enough to leave the car parked all weekend.

The Waypoint Rehoboth

Rehoboth Beach, DE

The 1946 Green Book property in West Rehoboth, taken down to the studs and reopened in 2025. A complimentary beach shuttle and a local craft brewery moving on-site in Summer 2026.

AWOL Provincetown

Provincetown, MA

A vintage motor lodge at the wild West End of Provincetown, remade in spare maritime modernism where dune grass and open moors do the decorating. Every door opens to a private patio or balcony, and the evenings belong to the pool, the fire pits, and the sunset over the marsh.

Bar Harbor Villager Motel

Bar Harbor, ME

Family-owned and in a prime downtown location, with a seasonal pool and the kind of genuine hospitality that earns specific, personal praise. The simplest things here are done well.

Cape Motel

Cape Charles, VA

A vintage-modern motor lodge just minutes from downtown Cape Charles, where a poolside bar built from a shipping container, a nightly fire pit, and resident chickens and bunnies turn a stopover into a hangout. It feels less like a place you sleep and more like a little Chesapeake yard party you were lucky enough to book.