Unless noted, the following hotels are in Nantucket town, and prices listed are for high season, which begins in July. Among the best of Nantucket's many guesthouses are a pair owned by the Carl family. The service is impeccable, though some of the 35 rooms are so cozy that you feel you'd better pass up room service for lack of space to put the tray. The tuna martini is the best appetizer on the island. The main dining room feels more like a country-club banquet hall in suburban Maryland, but regulars know to ask for seats in the handsome bar, where the presence of smokers makes it all the more French.
Breakfast is the specialty, though the coffee is a tad pedestrian.
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