The Greenbrier in West Virginia was named the top US resort hotel, according to Andrew Harpers Hideaway Report.
The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel in Hawaii was second, followed by:
The Four Seasons, Hualalai, Hawaii; Auberge du Soleil, California; Blackberry Farm in Tennessee; Post Ranch Inn in California; Twin Farms in Vermont: Ritz-Carlton, Naples, Florida; Rancho Valencia, California; and The Boulders in California.
The Greenbrier, set in a remote valley five hours’ drive from Washington, DC, calls itself a playground for foreign princes and America’s politicians. Twenty-three US presidents have stayed there.
Dinners are six courses. The most elaborate are set with 24-karat-gold vermeil and served by waiters in forest green livery. A fleet of bottle-green stretch limos idles in front of the resort’s columned portico.
Spread over 6,500 manicured acres, complete with golf courses, skeet shooting, spas and a stream stocked with rainbow trout, the Greenbrier has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
The advertising-free Andrew Harpers Hideaway Report has been anonymously rating luxury hotels and resorts for 25 years.
Report by David Wilkening
