13 RI Hotels Honored With 2019 AAA Diamond Ratings

A Rhode Island hotel has received the highest distinction possible from AAA: the Five Diamond Award. A dozen other local hotels were also awarded Four Diamond status in 2019.

Each year, AAA surveys more than 27,000 hotels across North America and selects just 121, or approximately 0.4 percent, to receive the Five Diamond rating. This year, the organization chose the historic Ocean House in Watch Hill as part of the list. The hotel first achieved the Five Diamond rating in 2011 and has maintained it every year since.

The hotel, now an iconic part of Rhode Island history, opened in 1868. Due to neglect and disrepair, the hotel closed in 2003, and worked began on a replica of the original the next year.

12 other Rhode Island hotels received the Four Diamond Rating for 2019. The date shows what year the hotel first attained the Four Diamond rating.

Bristol

• Point Pleasant Inn & Resort (first honored in 2003)

Newport

• Cliffside Inn (2003)
• Forty 1 North (2017)
• Grace Vanderbilt (2011)
• Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina (2018)
• Hydrangea House Inn (2005)
• Newport Marriott (2017)
• The Chanler at Cliff Walk (2004)

Providence

• Hotel Providence (2005)
• Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel (2008)

Watch Hill

• Watch Hill Inn (2016)

Westerly

• The Weekapaug Inn (2013)
  

“The Five and Four Diamond ratings are impressive accomplishments that recognize the upper echelon of hotels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean,” said Lloyd Albert, AAA Northeast Senior Vice President of Public and Government Affairs in a press release.

AAA will release its list of Four- and Five Diamond restaurants for 2019 in February.

Photo Courtesy of Ocean House