• 1. Where to Stay
• 2. Where to Eat
• 3. What to Do
• 4. Insider’s Tip
• 5. An Oddball Day

Each of the Rhinecliff Hotel's nine rooms has a balcony overlooking the Hudson.   (Photo: Courtesy of the Rhinecliff Hotel)

Look out over the Hudson at the Rhinecliff Hotel (from $160), the recently renovated boutique hotel where rooms come with balconies, wide-board flooring, and giant whirlpool baths.

Be one of few guests at the Madalin Hotel (from $199), where Eastlake-style antiques are paired with flat-screen TVs in the eleven-room inn decorated by the team behind the Chelsea Hotel's renovation. Have a nightcap at the gorgeously restored, nineteen-foot-long 1909 bar downstairs.

Cook for yourself in the airy, high-ceilinged guest cottage at the Sheeley House Bed and Breakfast (from $200). The stately brick main house dates back to the 1830s.

Published on Dec 17, 2009 as a web exclusive.