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Boutique Nantucket stay, the Brant delivers buckets of wholesome coastal charm without holding back on the luxury. The cluster of cedar-shingled barns look straight out of the 17th century, but inside, modern rooms balance exposed-beam quaintness with sleek custom furniture and a minimalist palette. Scoop up a hamper stuffed with beach essentials, hop on a bike and freewheel down to the shore, or pass sun-warmed afternoons with a paperback out on the lawn, looking up only to order another Aperol spritz.
11am. Check-in is at 3pm, but both are flexible, subject to availability.
Prices
Double rooms from £772.69 ($977), including tax at 11.7 per cent.
More details
Rates at the Brant include a breakfast of daily-changing hot and cold dishes – the signature homemade granola makes for a particularly pleasing start.
Also
The Brant has one ADA room adapted for guests with limited mobility.
Please note
Bikinis at the ready – the Brant's outdoor pool is opening in June.
Hotel closed
The Brant is closed from the second week of December to the end of February.
At the hotel
Bikes and e-bikes to borrow, beach hampers, lawn games and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Tivoli radio, climate control, minibar, bathrobes, slippers and Further bath products.
Our favourite rooms
For a spa-like experience – or to get sudsy à deux – ask for the suite with the extra-spacious shower.
Packing tips
The hotel has all the beach essentials you’ll need on hand, so you can save suitcase space for handcrafted souvenirs – and, if you’re taking the ferry, bring your sea legs.
Also
There are beach towels, chairs and cooler bags to borrow, so you’re all set for a toes-in-the-sand picnic.
Pet‐friendly
Dogs and cats are welcome (up to two a room), as long as they stay on a leash or in a carrier in communal areas. They’ll be greeted with bowls, beds and other treats. There’s a pet fee of $100 a stay, part of which is donated to the local animal shelter. See more pet-friendly hotels in Nantucket.
Children
All ages are welcome. There are suites and connecting options suited to families, and pack ’n’ plays can be added to rooms on request.
Cloudless afternoons call for cocktails and a cheeseboard out on the lawn.
Dress Code
Your best just back from the beach look – chino shorts or a chintzy dress with a sea salt-tousled ’do.
Hotel restaurant
There’s no formal restaurant, but an all-day menu of salads, sandwiches and Mediterranean-inspired plates allows for alfresco grazing.
Last orders
Breakfast is served from 7am to 10am, and there’s an all-day menu available until 9pm. The bar pours from 10am to 11pm.
Room service
The bar serves local craft beer, a curated wine list and a menu of specialty cocktails. After a coast-skirting cycle, the signature sip – a frozen aperol spritz – is an especially seductive prospect.
In a scene as typically Nantucket as a fog-swirled lighthouse, the Brant is in a cedar-shingled residential neighborhood in Brant Point, with both Nantucket Town and the beach in easy strolling distance.
Planes
Seasonal flights from eastern cities including New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as year-round flights from Boston and Martha’s Vineyard, touch down at Nantucket Memorial Airport. From there, it’s a 10-minute drive to the hotel.
Automobiles
With Nantucket Town and three beaches all within easy walking distance, your own wheels aren’t a necessity. If you do bring a car, free on-street parking is available near the hotel.
Other
There are plenty of ferry routes to choose from, each of which dock just a 10-minute stroll from the Brant. It’ll take just over an hour from Martha’s Vineyard, an hour on the high-speed service from Hyannis, and two hours from New Bedford. For those with sturdier sea legs, the ferry from New York City takes around six hours.
Worth getting out of bed for
If you have the seaside in your sights, there are a handful of beaches within easy walking distance. Hotel staff can send you off, stuffed hamper in hand, in the direction of the best for swimming, crowd-skirting or sandcastle building, but Jetties Beach is a reliable family-friendly option. If you have a hankering for some history, Brant Point Lighthouse is the country’s second oldest. And in town, the Old North Wharf is a time-warp of boat-builders’ workshops, warehouses and cedar-shingled fishermen’s shacks.
Local restaurants
Smith stablemate the Faraway has all bases covered with Sister Ship, a café, restaurant and cocktail club serving elevated Mediterranean plates using finest New England seafood. On an issue as contentious as Nantucket’s best lobster roll, there’s no such thing as local consensus. Force the issue, though, and Millie’s offering would be up there, with rich brioche stacked with fresh meat, crisp Bibb lettuce and a flurry of chives – the glittering Atlantic views are an added bonus.
Local bars
Tucked away on the top floor of a historic house, Òran Mór serves spirited cocktails in an atmospheric setting scattered with antique furniture and seafaring trinkets.
Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this homely hotel in New England and unpacked their deck shoes and Breton-striped threads, a full account of their island break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside the Brant in Nantucket…
If a summer cottage in Nantucket is your personal white whale, we have a proposition for you – call off the search for friends with a little place out east and book in at the Brant, a boutique stay with all the cedar-shingled charm of your coastal pad dreams and plenty of home-from-home touches. A sea salt-scented stroll in one direction takes you to the shore; set out in the other, and you’ll reach the boutique-dotted wharfs of town. There are bikes to borrow if you fancy pedalling further afield, and if your heart’s set on a bells-and-whistles beach day, staff will send you off with a hamper and cool bag, towels and chairs – even a boogie board, if you’re so inclined. But you’re just as welcome to hang out back at the inn, where lawn games are as close as you’ll get to breaking a sweat, and frosty cocktails can be ferried straight to your sunlounger to save you folding down the corner of your holiday paperback – we’d suggest Moby Dick, but when you’re this mellow and sun-sleepy, a breezy page-turner might be more the move.
