"My fiancé and I arrived at the River House at Odette’s, in New Hope, Pennsylvania, on a Saturday afternoon, just before sunset—and I doubt we could’ve timed it more perfectly. The 36-room hotel, which opened in late September last year, sits right on the Delaware River; and as we made our way onto the balcony of our suite, the shoreline across the river in Lambertville, New Jersey, began to glow wildly with the day’s last light. It was just the sort of change of scenery we’d been craving after long days holed up in our apartment. The next morning, we meandered out of our cozy hotel room for a snowy walk along the riverbank (with a detour to town, with stops at curio shops like the quirky Celt-Iberia Traders and Fred Eisen Leather). We returned with just enough time to cozy up by the fireplace before heading to Roof, the hotel’s guests-only bar and restaurant, for a swanky dinner: a shellfish platter—mussels dressed in a light, mustardy sauce, plump shrimp, and cherry-red lobster tail—followed by an impressive plate of lamb chops on a bed of creamy spinach. We left the hotel (or waddled out, really) the next day, our appetites—and our desperate need for a bright new view, however fleeting—totally sated."
