Best hotels in Savannah | A Curated Visual Guide to Top Stays

Welcome to PressBeyond, the ultimate curated visual guide for design-driven hotels! My name is Will Miller and these are my recommendations for the best boutique and luxury hotels in Savannah.

I am the founder of PressBeyond and I am an ultra-meticulous hotel curator who loves clean visuals. I have individually analyzed and tiered each hotel included in this guide based on a variety of criteria (architecture & design, location, brand & brand affiliation, existing reviews, and my own personal experiences), and importantly, I have hand-selected the leading imagery for each hotel to provide you with easily-digestible, yet detailed and complete, like-for-like, high-level visual profiles. I felt this summarization step was a critical missing piece across existing guides, blogs, and booking platforms. My aim is to make it easier for people to identify hotel environments that resonate with them, along with enabling them to visualize the types of social experiences that those environments help foster. My brain doesn't work when exposed to cluttered content, so my goal was to create the opposite.

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An Overview of the Boutique & Luxury Hotel Landscape in Savannah

Savannah was laid out in 1733 according to James Oglethorpe's ward plan — a grid of squares, each anchored by a public green, that remains one of the most coherent pieces of urban design in North America. That structure is not incidental to the hotel experience here. It means that where you stay places you in a specific relationship to the city's street life, its live oaks and Spanish moss, its Federal and Italianate facades. The Historic District, which contains the bulk of those original squares, is where two of the three properties on this list have taken up residence, each making a different argument about what it means to occupy that inherited fabric. Perry Lane Hotel, a Luxury Collection property on Perry Lane, is the more architecturally assertive of the two. The project involved stitching together several historic structures with new construction, and the resulting interiors carry a confident creative energy — the kind of place that leans into contemporary art and a certain downtown social pulse without losing its footing in the neighborhood. The Drayton Hotel, part of Hilton's Curio Collection, takes a quieter position on Drayton Street, its restored bones carrying more of the Historic District's period character. Both sit within easy reach of Forsyth Park and the dense cluster of squares that make this stretch of Savannah so legible on foot. The difference between them is temperament as much as price — Perry Lane courts a traveler who wants design friction alongside the history; the Drayton offers something closer to elegant continuity with it. The third property stands apart geographically and in spirit. The Thompson Savannah sits at Eastern Wharf, a mixed-use development on the riverfront east of downtown, and it reads accordingly — a newer building with river views, a rooftop pool, and the clean-lined aesthetic that Thompson properties tend to favor across their portfolio. It appeals to a traveler who wants Savannah's atmosphere at a slight remove from its most touristed core, with the Savannah River as backdrop rather than cobblestone squares. The tradeoff is a shorter walk to the city's genuinely historic fabric, but for those who find the Historic District's preservation pressure slightly suffocating, the Thompson's position at Eastern Wharf offers a real alternative orientation to the city.

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The Drayton Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton - Image 1

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The Drayton Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton

Savannah • Historic District • OPTIMIZE

avg. $237 / night

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Hilton Honors™ property

The Drayton Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton Design Editorial

At 14 Drayton Street in Savannah's Historic District, a rusticated limestone base and dark brick upper floors signal a building that predates any hotel ambitions — the structure dates to the early twentieth century and carries the civic weight of that era's commercial architecture, its arched ground-floor windows and carved medallions giving the street presence of a minor government building. The Drayton Hotel, which joined Hilton's Curio Collection when it opened in 2021, was fitted into this existing shell with 68 rooms across five floors, the conversion preserving the facade's Beaux-Arts solidity while the interiors take a decisively warmer turn. Inside, the palette shifts from stone to sage. Guest rooms are painted in a deep muted green divided by a cream chair rail, warm-toned oak floors and arched wood headboards grounding the scheme against navy drapes and fringed bedside sconces on articulated black iron arms — a yellow velvet club chair providing the occasional chromatic jolt. The rooftop bar and social spaces move in a different direction entirely: the club lounge dressed in rattan wall paneling, terracotta tile, oversized globe pendants, and a boldly floral custom rug layered with cobalt and fuchsia seating, banana palms completing the conservatory-meets-Low-Country-veranda effect. The bar room above counters that exuberance with white shiplap ceilings, a Carrara marble counter, and cane-back bistro stools — a composed, almost Parisian register that keeps the whole from tipping into pastiche.

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Thompson Savannah

Savannah • Eastern Wharf • OPTIMIZE

avg. $263 / night

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World of Hyatt property

Thompson Savannah Design Editorial

Along Savannah's eastern riverfront, where the Savannah River bends and the city's celebrated historic district gives way to a newer mixed-use district called Eastern Wharf, the Thompson Savannah opened in 2021 as the first significant luxury hotel to stake a claim on this stretch of waterfront. The building's facade negotiates between two registers: a lower podium clad in warm brick that defers to Savannah's traditional architectural vocabulary, and a taller limestone-faced tower rising behind it, its dark-framed floor-to-ceiling windows angled to capture river views across multiple floors. The entry canopy, finished in blackened steel, pulls these two volumes together with a contemporary gesture that stops short of rupture. Inside, the interiors — developed with a design sensibility drawn from the Thompson brand's urbane, art-forward playbook — layer cognac leather, herringbone oak floors, and deep charcoal accent walls against a curated collection of paintings and graphic works that reference the American South without leaning into nostalgia. Suites carry a moodier palette, with tall velvet headboards and brass Sputnik-style chandeliers lending a mid-century edge, while the rooftop bar, Joül&r, trades on its panoramic position above the river: a dark granite bar top, arched bottle display in blackened metal, terrazzo flooring, and cascading greenery suspended from the ceiling frame views that river traffic passes through like a slow, living painting.

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Perry Lane Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel - Image 1

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Perry Lane Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel

Savannah • Historic District • SPLURGE

avg. $339 / night

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Marriott Bonvoy® property

Perry Lane Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel Design Editorial

Savannah's Historic District has never been short of antebellum grandeur, which made the challenge facing the Perry Lane Hotel — how to build something genuinely new within a protected streetscape — all the more interesting. Opened in 2018 across a cobblestoned stretch of Perry Lane, the 167-room property was designed by architecture firm Cooper Carry with interiors by Maven Interiors, and its facade settles the tension with uncommon confidence: dark charcoal brick in a register that echoes Savannah's warehouse vernacular, but punctuated at street level by rippling limestone pilasters with a sculptural, almost Art Deco fluting that signals something contemporary is happening inside. The rooms carry that same dual sensibility — lacquered dark ceilings pressing down against white crown moulding, cognac leather headboards paired with walnut credenzas on tapered mid-century legs, amber glass pendants casting warm light over marble-topped side tables. The palette shifts between rooms from dusty teal to deep slate, with crimson accent cushions and framed archival prints giving each space the feeling of a well-curated private apartment rather than a hotel corridor replicated seventy times over. Up on the rooftop, the tone lifts entirely: a monochrome checkerboard terrace surrounds the plunge pool, oversized striped banquettes frame the deck in bold graphic stripes, and the bar area is clad in cobalt blue tile — the whole level carrying the easy confidence of a mid-century Caribbean club transported to the Georgia lowcountry.