Top places to stay in Palm Beach, Florida.
Palm Beach offers accommodations that range from renowned oceanfront resorts and historic luxury hotels to elegant boutique properties and secluded waterfront retreats, placing visitors within easy reach of pristine Atlantic beaches, designer shopping, championship golf, and one of America's most exclusive coastal destinations. Each area reveals a different perspective on the island, where palm-lined avenues, Mediterranean Revival architecture, and Gilded Age estates define South Florida's most iconic resort community.
Central Palm Beach remains the island's defining hospitality district, where Worth Avenue, The Breakers, The Royal Poinciana Plaza, and miles of Atlantic shoreline create an exceptional base for experiencing the destination. Landmark accommodations including The Breakers Palm Beach, The Colony Hotel Palm Beach, The Brazilian Court Hotel, White Elephant Palm Beach, and Palm House surround visitors with luxury boutiques, acclaimed restaurants, private beach clubs, and effortless access to many of Palm Beach's most celebrated attractions, while neighboring Mid-Town Palm Beach combines elegant residential streets, waterfront estates, and refined boutique accommodations that reveal another side of the island's timeless sophistication. Beyond the Atlantic coastline, the Lake Worth Lagoon waterfront surrounds visitors with marinas, scenic promenades, and striking views across the Intracoastal Waterway.
As Palm Beach extends beyond its central districts, North End blends quiet beaches, historic estates, and secluded oceanfront retreats into one of the island's most tranquil settings, while neighboring West Palm Beach reveals another perspective through CityPlace (The Square), Clematis Street, the Norton Museum of Art, and contemporary luxury hotels including The Ben, Autograph Collection, Hilton West Palm Beach, and AKA West Palm just across the Intracoastal Waterway. Across the area, renowned beachfront resorts, elegant boutique hotels, luxury waterfront properties, and exclusive private retreats provide distinctive perspectives on Florida's Gold Coast. Between iconic oceanfront resorts, refined historic hotels, and sophisticated coastal accommodations, Palm Beach offers stays that complement every style of travel while showcasing the remarkable elegance and enduring prestige of one of America's premier resort destinations. Foresyte may earn a commission when you book.
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5. The Brazilian Court Hotel & Beach Club
The Brazilian Court Hotel opened in 1926 on Brazilian Avenue during the building boom that established Palm Beach as one of America's defining winter enclaves. Architect Rosario Candela, celebrated for the apartment houses he designed along Park and Fifth avenues in Manhattan, created the original Mediterranean Revival complex around intimate courtyards and loggias. Maurice Fatio subsequently designed an expansion, adding the work of another architect deeply associated with Palm Beach's interwar residential architecture. The property underwent a major restoration in the early twenty-first century that preserved its tiled roofs, arcades, courtyards, and residential scale near Worth Avenue. The Brazilian Court concentrates two influential architects and the island's 1920s development into one of Palm Beach's most architecturally distinguished small hotels.
4. The Colony Hotel
The Colony Hotel opened in 1947 near Worth Avenue as Palm Beach entered a postwar period that extended the island's established winter social culture into a new generation. Architects Simonson and Holley designed the building in the British Colonial mode, creating a vertical counterpoint to the Mediterranean Revival estates and commercial buildings that had defined earlier Palm Beach development. The hotel became closely associated with the island's seasonal social circuit, drawing generations of prominent residents, designers, entertainers, and visitors to its location between Worth Avenue and the Atlantic. Sarah and Andrew Wetenhall acquired the property in 2016 and initiated a series of transformations that brought extensive collaborations with fashion and design figures into its interiors and public spaces. The Colony translates Palm Beach's postwar social history into a hotel whose architecture and design have evolved alongside the island's enduring culture of seasonal residence.
3. Palm House Hotel Palm Beach
Palm House opened in 2024 on Royal Palm Way after a long-stalled hotel project on one of the principal routes connecting Central Palm Beach with the Atlantic. London-based L+R Hotels completed the property and introduced it as the first United States member of its Iconic Luxury Hotels collection. Cooper Carry shaped the architecture around the established Mediterranean influences of Palm Beach, and Muza Lab developed interiors combining elaborate decorative surfaces, custom furnishings, and references to the island's tropical setting. The opening returned a prominent site to active hospitality use after years of interrupted construction and changing ownership. Palm House represents a new cycle of investment in Palm Beach hospitality built within the architectural style established during the island's formative twentieth-century development.
2. Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach
Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach occupies an Atlantic shoreline site in the town's quieter southern reaches, beyond the dense concentration of historic hotels, estates, and retail surrounding Worth Avenue. The property originated as the Inn on the Ocean before joining Four Seasons, placing its evolution within the broader expansion of Palm Beach hospitality beyond the island's early resort core. A major transformation completed in 2019 introduced interiors by Martin Brudnizki and landscape work by Fernando Wong, recasting the property through a distinctly residential interpretation of Palm Beach design. Low-rise buildings, gardens, and direct ocean frontage preserve a physical scale closely aligned with the surrounding coastal environment. Four Seasons represents the southward evolution of Palm Beach resort development from the grand architectural statements of the early twentieth century toward a lower, garden-oriented model of oceanfront hospitality.
1. The Breakers Palm Beach
The Breakers Palm Beach traces its origin to Henry Morrison Flagler, the Standard Oil co-founder whose Florida East Coast Railway transformed the state's Atlantic coastline and made Palm Beach accessible to wealthy winter travelers. Flagler opened the Royal Poinciana Hotel beside Lake Worth in 1894 and the Palm Beach Inn on the ocean in 1896, with the latter eventually taking The Breakers name from its shoreline location. Fires destroyed earlier versions of the hotel, leading to the completion of the present Italian Renaissance Revival building in 1926 under architects Schultze & Weaver, later designers of major hotels including New York's Waldorf Astoria. Its soaring lobby, arcaded spaces, frescoed ceilings, and oceanfront composition translated the scale of European palaces into the architecture of the Florida resort era. The Breakers remains under the ownership of Flagler's descendants, preserving an extraordinary institutional connection to the railroad entrepreneur whose investments fundamentally shaped Palm Beach and modern Florida tourism.
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