Downtown Newport, Rhode Island Marriott Room Tour
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Newport Marriott
25 America's Cup Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island 02840 USA +1 401-849-1000
Rest easy along the waterfront at our downtown Newport hotel
Rewards Category 6 · Points needed per night
Placed amid the historic downtown district, Newport Marriott offers scenic luxury along the shimmering Rhode Island waterfront. Find your respite in expansive, nautical-themed hotel accommodations, generously appointed with luxurious amenities and spa-like bathrooms with walk-in waterfall showers. Ignite your senses with flavorful American fare, draft beers, fine wines and innovative cocktails at our restaurants and bars, enhanced by breathtaking views of the waterfront. Discover Newport's most celebrated attractions including Regatta Place, Fort Adams, Naval Station Newport, Belle Mer, Cliff Walk and Thames Street. Find your inspiration in more than 20,000 square feet of versatile event space, enhanced by expert planning and custom catering. Cap a satisfying day of business, sightseeing or fun at the beach with a massage, beauty treatment or wellness therapy at our full-service hotel spa. Unlock a world-class experience at Newport Marriott and discover a luxury haven along the downtown waterfront.
Highlights
Celebrate and succeed in versatile downtown event space designed for flawless meetings, elegant weddings and unforgettable social engagements.
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Refresh your well-being during your visit to Newport in our luxurious hotel spa and salon, featuring soothing massage and lavish beauty treatments.
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Relax and socialize in our stylish lobby bar or at our exclusive M Club Lounge, which showcases inspiring views of the downtown Newport Harbor.
Highlights
Celebrate and succeed in versatile downtown event space designed for flawless meetings, elegant weddings and unforgettable social engagements.
LEARN MORE
Refresh your well-being during your visit to Newport in our luxurious hotel spa and salon, featuring soothing massage and lavish beauty treatments.
LEARN MORE
Relax and socialize in our stylish lobby bar or at our exclusive M Club Lounge, which showcases inspiring views of the downtown Newport Harbor.
Landmarks
Heart of Newport
Touro Synagogue - 6 min walk
International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum - 17 min walk
Naval War College Museum - 27 min walk
The Breakers - 42 min walk
Beechwood Mansion - 42 min walk
Newport Mansions - 26 min walk
Easton's Beach - 29 min walk
Getting around
Newport, RI (NPT-Newport State) - 9 min drive
North Kingstown, RI (NCO-Quonset State) - 26 min drive
Kingston Station - 31 min drive
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)