This Waterfront Virginia City Has a Stylish New Resort With a Rooftop Bar and Gorgeous Views

Alexandria, Virginia, positioned simply quarter-hour exterior of Washington, D.C., is a vacation spot in its personal proper. The waterfront city, which has additionally been highlighted as among the finest locations to reside in Virginia and certainly one of the perfect cities within the U.S., is an ideal mix of contemporary conveniences and historic attraction. It has a wealthy historical past, gorgeous Georgian and Victorian structure, and a vibrant Previous City, a nationally designated historic district.

Up to now few years, Alexandria’s hospitality scene has grown with a couple of notable boutique openings. The latest addition is the gorgeous Resort Heron, which opens its doorways at the moment.

Housed within the former George Mason Resort, a Colonial Revival gem on the coronary heart of Previous City, and an adjoining new constructing, the 134-key property and its design mirror the spirit of this contemporary metropolis that can also be rooted in historical past. The lodge, developed by Aparium Resort Group, is dreamed up as a neighborhood gathering house and affords a number of meals and beverage ideas, together with a chic restaurant and a shocking rooftop bar with views over all the metropolis. 

“Resort Heron embodies the essence of mid-Atlantic design, with a wealthy shade palette that extends from our public areas to our visitor rooms, that includes colonial-style woods and federal blues, greens, and crisp whites,” Philip Blane, the lodge’s common supervisor, advised Journey + Leisure. 

The trendy visitor rooms include king-sized beds, spacious trendy bogs with walk-in showers, trendy locally-made furnishings, and outsized home windows.

The lodge’s signature restaurant, KILN, helmed by government chef Matthew Maienshein, who was beforehand at JoJo by Jean-Georges, pays homage to Alexandria’s first documented potter, Henry Piercy, and treats patrons to Mid-Atlantic classics with a contemporary twist, in addition to a couple of Chesapeake Bay-inspired dishes.

One of the vital lovely areas within the lodge is its intimate cocktail bar/speakeasy, the place jewel-toned interiors and vintage mirrored particulars create an elegant vibe. Nevertheless, the rooftop bar, Good Fortune, will generate probably the most buzz this summer time season. (The house can be open till October.) With its plush, snug furnishings, greenery, and panoramic views that attain so far as Washington, D.C., and the Potomac River, it’s the excellent spot for sundowners subsequent time you go to the realm.

“Our imaginative and prescient for the lodge was to craft a welcoming place the place each vacationers and locals really feel actually at house,” Blane mentioned. “We’re obsessed with fostering neighborhood connections, which is why we’ve designed month-to-month programming initiatives that embody a rooftop live performance sequence, collaborations with native artists and organizations, and festive celebrations all year long, together with Alexandria’s 275th Birthday on July 13.”

Nightly charges at Resort Heron begin from $239, and you may ebook your keep on heronalexandria.com.