
Five Key Hotels and Venues Opening in the Northeast
The Northeast has always been one of the most sought-after hotel markets in the U.S., with planners reporting little room for negotiation. These five new/newly renovated properties are also certain to be in high demand.
The long-awaited reopening of the Waldorf Astoria has again been delayed to the fall, with planners eager to get a peek at the Art Deco Park Avenue landmark, the flagship of Hilton's Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts brand.
Already highly sought-after is Convene's new location in Hudson Yards, which is set to reopen in September, with views of the city's iconic skyline from the 24th floor.
Both Boston and Philadelphia, the Northeast's most popular markets after New York, are seeing renovations of historic properties as well.
Here's what's new in the Northeast, and take a look at our just-released report on 135 hotels for meetings and incentive travel here.
Explore 135 exceptional new properties hand-picked for meeting and incentive planners
The Bellevue
The Bellevue
Philadelphia, PA
The Bellevue, a historic hotel in downtown Philadelphia, reopened in February 2025 after a full renovation. It offers 184 redesigned guest rooms, including 39 suites. The hotel has 30,000 square feet of meeting and event space across three floors, including the Grand Belle Ballroom and several historic rooms with original architectural details. It also features a rooftop restaurant, a large wellness center, and access to coworking and social spaces at The Sporting Club.
Convene 30 Hudson Yards
New York, NY
Opening in September 2025, Convene 30 Hudson Yards offers panoramic skyline views from the 24th floor. The venue provides 72,000 square feet of event space, with the largest room capable of holding 780, theater-style. A total of seven separate event spaces can be used simultaneously, complemented by six smaller meeting rooms. The dedicated lobby on the ground floor of the retail center provides guests with an easy entry experience, and access to shopping and dining.
Margaritaville Resort Cape Cod
Hyannis, MA
Margaritaville Resort Cape Cod is a coastal resort in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The resort opened late last year and offers 276 guest rooms and more than 12,000 square feet of meeting and event space, including four meeting rooms that can be divided into a total of seven indoor meeting spaces. On-site amenities include a 30,000-square-foot waterpark, three food and beverage outlets, an outdoor courtyard and pool, and a spa that is opening in late 2025.
Omni Parker House
Boston, MA
Omni Parker House, located in downtown Boston, is undergoing a full renovation, set for completion in summer 2025. The hotel offers 23,000 square feet of meeting space across 18 rooms, including the 3,513-square-foot Rooftop Ballroom with skyline views. Its design blends historic charm with modern updates across 551 guest rooms. Situated on the Freedom Trail, the hotel provides a classic setting for meetings in the city's historic core.
Waldorf Astoria New York
New York, NY
The Waldorf Astoria New York will soon reopen following an extensive restoration that preserves its historic Art Deco features. The hotel will offer 375 spacious rooms and suites and 43,000 square feet of event space. The largest room is the opera-inspired Grand Ballroom, with three additional large rooms and eight smaller boardrooms also available. Guests can enjoy a 30,000-square-foot spa, fitness center, and three new restaurants and bars.

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Instead of a lobby, Château du Sureau has a grand sitting room with a library, where guests can play games, read, or play the piano. It's a half hour from the South Gate, well worth the drive to be enveloped in luxury. Good to know: The on-site restaurant, the Elderberry House, is helmed by head chef Ethan de Graaf and showcases an exquisite three- or five-course tasting menu. Serving French cuisine with Japanese and American influences, the restaurant's must-try menu items include a red wine demi-glace that takes two days to prepare and is served on most entrées. Other favorites include the Brandt Farm ribeye and the cherry wood old fashioned are favorites. The latter is served with a tableside presentation of releasing the trapped cherry wood smoke infused into the drink; its orange oleo ingredient is prepped ahead of time and sits for several days marinating. (Related: Discover the best day hikes in Yosemite National Park.) 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With such a varied history, the ranch has become the permanent home to guests who can't seem to 'check out,' including farmhand Elmer and Sarah, a nurse from the sanatorium days. Ask at the front desk to review the book with previous guests' handwritten ghost encounters. You might end up adding a 'ghost-encounter' entry before leaving this historic ranch. Good to know: Your drive to the South Gate entrance is only 20 minutes. Stop halfway to visit the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad for a scenic ride on a whistling steam locomotive through the Sierra National Forest. Best for: Rustic elegance At the Lodge at Tenaya, just six minutes from the South Gate, the luxurious lobby boasts a lofty ceiling and elaborate iron chandeliers with dozens of tapers, borrowing vibes from the 'parkitecture' era even though the lodge was built in 1990. People gather near the impressive stone fireplace to play chess and chat with strangers. 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9 hours ago
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10 places to stay while you're at Yosemite National Park
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Instead of a lobby, Château du Sureau has a grand sitting room with a library, where guests can play games, read, or play the piano. It's a half hour from the South Gate, well worth the drive to be enveloped in luxury. Good to know: The on-site restaurant, the Elderberry House, is helmed by head chef Ethan de Graaf and showcases an exquisite three- or five-course tasting menu. Serving French cuisine with Japanese and American influences, the restaurant's must-try menu items include a red wine demi-glace that takes two days to prepare and is served on most entrées. Other favorites include the Brandt Farm ribeye and the cherry wood old fashioned are favorites. The latter is served with a tableside presentation of releasing the trapped cherry wood smoke infused into the drink; its orange oleo ingredient is prepped ahead of time and sits for several days marinating. (Related: Discover the best day hikes in Yosemite National Park.) 3. 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According to the property's General Manager Joe Juszkiewicz, the ranch started offering horseback riding on its extensive acreage in April. Good to know: For a family activity that merges nature and sports, try the ranch's forest disc golf course. It features 18 holes across 300 acres. As the hotel's name alludes, a seasonal package in February called the Firefall Express brings guests into Yosemite to see the Firefall phenomenon where a portion of El Capitan appears to be aflame; other excursions can be booked as well. (Related: These are the 10 most popular national parks.) 5. Sierra Sky Ranch, Oakhurst Best for: History and ghost lovers The 150-year-old Sierra Sky Ranch has a long history and ghosts. This was once California's largest cattle ranch with 4,000 head of cattle but it also served other purposes over the years. It housed tuberculosis patients, and after World War II, it became a rest home for shell-shocked U.S. servicemen. With such a varied history, the ranch has become the permanent home to guests who can't seem to 'check out,' including farmhand Elmer and Sarah, a nurse from the sanatorium days. Ask at the front desk to review the book with previous guests' handwritten ghost encounters. You might end up adding a 'ghost-encounter' entry before leaving this historic ranch. Good to know: Your drive to the South Gate entrance is only 20 minutes. Stop halfway to visit the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad for a scenic ride on a whistling steam locomotive through the Sierra National Forest. 6. Lodge at Tenaya, Fish Camp Best for: Rustic elegance At the Lodge at Tenaya, just six minutes from the South Gate, the luxurious lobby boasts a lofty ceiling and elaborate iron chandeliers with dozens of tapers, borrowing vibes from the 'parkitecture' era even though the lodge was built in 1990. People gather near the impressive stone fireplace to play chess and chat with strangers. Ascent, The Spa at Tenaya upscales the experience with a relaxation lounge, steam and sauna rooms, and complimentary yoga classes. Good to know: Guests can book a private cottage or, better yet, an Explorer Cabin with exclusive golf cart use, views of the nearby creek, meadow, or pond, and access to the Explorer Clubhouse with complimentary snacks and wine. Explorer Cabin #41 is completely solar-powered. (Related: See what national parks in the United States first looked like.) 7. Yosemite Valley Lodge, Yosemite Valley Best for: Access to the continent's highest waterfall The motel-style rooms at the Yosemite Valley Lodge are clean and serviceable but dated—but that's negligible considering you're an easy walk to Yosemite Falls, North America's highest waterfall. With three separate drops, it plunges 2,245 feet and is visible and audible from the lodge. Good to know: This is also the closest lodge to the seasonal Firefall phenomenon; you can walk 40 minutes, drive five minutes, or take the free shuttle to the El Capitan picnic area for optimum viewing. 8. Curry Village, Yosemite Valley Best for: Valley views Guests staying at the historic Curry Village (1899) will have a stunning view of Half Dome and Sentinel Dome. It features 424 tent cabins (wooden framework with white canvas stretched over it), providing an interesting hybrid of cabin and tent, or choose from 46 traditional cabins or 18 motel rooms. Curry Village offers guests immediate sightlines to waterfalls, meadows, and dramatic rock faces. Good to know: In winter, a skating rink goes up for the thrill of carving ice under the majestic rise of granite cliffs. (Related: Avoid the crowds at the 10 least-visited U.S. national parks.) 9. 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Yosemite Bug Rustic Mountain Resort, Midpines Best for: A social California vibe 'Berkeley' meets Yosemite at the hillside Yosemite Bug Rustic Mountain Resort, which began in the 1930s as a Boy Scout camp. This casual spot 25 minutes from the Arch Rock entrance offers stilt cabins, hotel-style rooms, youth hostel bunk bedrooms, glamping tent cabins, and the Starlite House, a rustic space with a 1970s hippie vibe that sleeps seven people. Guests who don't know each other can slide into the communal 10-person stainless steel tub, visit the cedar-walled sauna, join a yoga session, and eat together in this spot that feels like a European hostel with a California vibe. Good to know: At the spa, the 'hiker's massage treatment' dials back stiffness from climbing Vernal Fall or any of Yosemite's strenuous hikes. The spa has many sets of stairs, so guests who may have issues walking or have other physical challenges should let the resort know when booking an appointment. 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14 hours ago
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Exclusive: Amanda Seyfried on the New 'Mamma Mia'—and Why She's Going to Target for Her 40th Birthday
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Her first-hand experiences are exactly what inspired the Mamma Mia star to create the Make it Cute Playhouse Experience at Philadelphia's The Bellevue hotel. Designed for families with young ones, the suite stay includes a welcome kit, Levain cookies, valet parking, and most importantly, an assembled plastic-free playhouse from Make It Cute, the company Seyfried founded with her childhood friends in 2021. The best part? Families can take the playhouse home with them when they check out. 'Any good hotel makes you feel like there's a familiarity and coziness,' Seyfried said. 'Having these really cute playhouses is incredibly distracting for the kids, so the parents can unpack and have some semblance of peace—not to say that you don't have peace when you have kids, but it's harder to find.' She says the play houses don't just give kids something to do, but that it also gives little ones their own space since, "hotel rooms just aren't geared for kids to have fun.' 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'It was just crazy to have a baby in a tiny village on an island—we had to bring all of our diapers beforehand!'Aisle or window? in your hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania?You can't visit Allentown without going to Mary Ann Donut Kitchen and Yocco's hot dogs. You just can' spot where you live in Upstate New York?Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, because you can hike to the top, and then go up the water tower, where you can see all of the Catskills—sometimes even further. You're just on top of the world up there. It's magic. There's also an abandoned hotel that's [made of only] stone halfway through the place you've filmed?It's a hard one, but I think I have to say Skopelos, Greece, for "Mamma Mia." Verona for "Letters to Juliet" was also a really beautiful place to live, and I found it to be so welcoming and warm, and the food was epic. It's a very livable city, and every perfect little town in Italy has a do you hope the third 'Mamma Mia' will film?It's going to go back to Greece. I know that, not for a fact, but it will. We need to bring it home. But it would be so fun if "Mamma Mia 3" filmed on a new island in Greece or Croatia where I haven't been has been a big part of Seyfried's daughter's life from an early age. They've mostly centered around Seyfried's work, plus occasional family trips. 'It's just so easy to travel with her now,' Seyfried admits. 'She's 8, but she's like a little adult.' Their first true family vacation was to Budapest, and they even brought their dog, who had to travel with 80 pounds of special JustFoodForDogs meals. They also considered taking their bearded dragon along, but ultimately decided against it. 'My second kid is a pandemic baby, and it was wild bringing him overseas last year,' she said. 'It was a pain to get there, but everything falls away once you land and you're like, 'We live in a crazy, beautiful world with a lot of amazing people.'' Once the family was there and settled in, Seyfried realized that the Hungarian capital was pretty kid-friendly, and she loved taking her children to its beautiful parks. Seeing her kids interact with other children was especially moving to her. "You realize that kids have the capacity to relate and can communicate with anybody," Seyfried said. "It was just the most beautiful thing in the world ... Kids need to see things, meet people, and swim in oceans and engage in things that aren't home.' When she was a child herself, Seyfried developed a deep love for travel, especially for trains. One time, after driving to Florida from Allentown, the Seyfried family took the Auto Train back. 'I just remember thinking, this is heaven on Earth, because we're just going so fast from south to north, with our big minivan on the train somewhere,' she said. She still loves trains and takes the Amtrak weekly from her upstate home to New York City. She enjoys watching the views along the Hudson River. 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'I'm entering a period of my life where I am responsible for making sure my family travels, but I just feel like there's never a right time because of work,' she said. 'But I know once we land in the Serengeti, Tokyo, Oslo, or Buenos Aires, it'll be just epic. With kids, it doesn't ever feel like the right time. Just book the tickets and travel.' Read the original article on Travel & Leisure