Fodor's Expert Review The Dunmore

This charming, retro-glam hotel with private cottages evokes a 1940s club in the tropics—with its mahogany bar, casual yet elegant dining room, and faded paperbacks in the clubhouse library, it's a favorite with the New England yachting set. A guest-to-staff ratio of almost one-to-one services the 18 cottages scattered throughout the grounds, which are tastefully decorated with white slanted ceilings and spacious marble bathrooms that have separate sink-vanity areas and stand-alone showers.