travel42 Hotel Review: Chatham Bars Inn

Chatham Bars Inn travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

On 25 manicured oceanfront acres, atop a dramatically landscaped hill surveying Chatham's namesake sandbars and the Atlantic, this sprawling Roosevelt-era summer camp has the crisp, classic, white-washed New England appeal that inspired the Kennedys—and countless other notable guests—to stay.

Since 1914, this has been the bellwether of Cape Cod comfort and a catwalk for summer fashion, and it finally earned its five-star rating from Forbes in 2023. Not ev...