United States
4 ranked
hotels in Newport
6 MICHELIN Keys · 1 Forbes Five Star · 0 World's 50 Best placings
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Gilded Age cottages above Cliff Walk and Narragansett Bay
Newport has 4 hotels ranked in the finehotels.world index. The Chanler at Cliff Walk leads on prestige score at 6.38 out of 10, followed by Castle Hill Inn and The Cliffside Inn. Of those, 4 hold MICHELIN Keys, 1 hold a Forbes Five Star rating.
Newport's four ranked hotels all hold MICHELIN Keys, two of them at two keys, and each is anchored to the town's late nineteenth-century summer colony. The Chanler at Cliff Walk occupies an 1873 mansion at Ochre Point, directly above the public path that runs past The Breakers and Rosecliff; The Cliffside Inn is a Second Empire villa a short walk inland.
Castle Hill Inn takes a different position, on a 40-acre peninsula at the end of Ocean Drive where the bay meets Rhode Island Sound and a working lighthouse marks the point. The Vanderbilt, Auberge Collection, holds a 1909 building on the Historic Hill side, closer to the wharves, the sailing traffic and Bellevue Avenue's mansion tours.
| Hotel | Prestige | Distinctions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Chanler at Cliff Walk2 Keys · Forbes · 20 rooms | 6.38 | 2 MICHELIN Keys; Forbes Five Star |
| 2 | Castle Hill Inn2 Keys · 33 rooms | 5.99 | 2 MICHELIN Keys |
| 3 | The Cliffside Inn1 Key · 16 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 4 | The Vanderbilt, Auberge Collection1 Key · 33 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
Prestige score is shown out of 10. Sources: MICHELIN Guide hotel selection, Forbes Travel Guide 2026 Star Awards, The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2023 to 2025, La Liste Top 1000 Hotels.
The ranked properties divide between Ochre Point and Bellevue Avenue, where the mansions and the Cliff Walk are, Ocean Drive's exposed southwestern shoreline, and Historic Hill above the harbour, which is the most walkable to Thames Street restaurants and the sailing docks.
The season concentrates from late June to early September, with the folk and jazz festivals in July and August and the summer sailing calendar keeping rooms scarce; May, September and early October are milder and quieter, and several properties reduce operations or close in deep winter.
By prestige score, the three highest ranked hotels in Newport are The Chanler at Cliff Walk, Castle Hill Inn, The Cliffside Inn. The score is a composite of MICHELIN Keys, Forbes Travel Guide Five Star ratings, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025, and La Liste's hotel ratings. finehotels.world tracks 4 award holding hotels in Newport in total.
Newport has 4 hotels holding MICHELIN Keys in this index and 2 hold two Keys.
Each hotel is scored on a fixed formula built only from award facts, then shown on a scale of 5.00 to 10.00. MICHELIN Keys carry the most weight, a Forbes Travel Guide Five Star rating adds a flat six points, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are weighted equally, and a La Liste rating moves the total slightly. Nothing a hotel supplies about itself enters the score, and the full formula is published on the methodology page so any figure in the table can be reproduced from the awards beside it.
The season concentrates from late June to early September, with the folk and jazz festivals in July and August and the summer sailing calendar keeping rooms scarce; May, September and early October are milder and quieter, and several properties reduce operations or close in deep winter.
The ranked properties divide between Ochre Point and Bellevue Avenue, where the mansions and the Cliff Walk are, Ocean Drive's exposed southwestern shoreline, and Historic Hill above the harbour, which is the most walkable to Thames Street restaurants and the sailing docks.