Most Stylish Beach Hotels 2025

It’s hard to compete with a gorgeous beach, but these 18 beauties pull it off. Discover your next ultra-photogenic getaway—from the Bahamas, Mexico, and the Caribbean to the islands of Italy and Greece, from the shores of California and Florida to the coast of Maine and beyond. Time to pack your bags

- Tracey Minkin

Coral Sands Inn & Cottages

HARBOUR ISLAND, BAHAMAS

THE VIBE: Meet the sassy ingenue (pages 28–29 and below) that this Bahamian enclave needed: a yearlong transformation of a local institution founded in 1968 by Hollywood actor Brett King and his wife, Sharon, and now owned by AJ Capital Partners. First stepping out in 2024 were 14 cottages (six garden facing, eight oceanfront) flaunting colors as bold and beguiling as the lush foliage that surrounds them, plus alluringly updated public spaces. Look for more reveals, including the inn’s guest rooms and Briland House, in late 2025.

STYLE MOMENT: The resort’s Pink Mermaid restaurant is a true expression of Bahamian joie de vivre and local craftsmanship, including 7,000 shells hand-pressed into its columns.

BOOK IT: Rates start at $800; coralsands.com.

Hôtel de la Plage

CAP FERRET, FRANCE

THE VIBE: What a difference a vowel makes. Do not mistake this superbly revived, lovingly curated small hotel’s location as that bougie one on the French Riviera. That’s Cap Ferrat. Here in Cap Ferret, on France’s serenely authentic southwest coast, the tastes in this oyster-farming village run to shellfish, sunny strands, simple pleasures, and superb meals—all minus the hype—at the newly launched first hotel of Bordeaux restaurateurs Nicolas Lascombes and Stessy Faber. Taking two years to revive a 19th-century former dormitory and canteen for pine resin workers, the pair have created a jewel box of 12 rooms that is somehow both soulful and fun.

STYLE MOMENT: The main building’s painstakingly restored exteriors don a dreamy Gallic palette of cream and red.