The Preserve, RI’s Luxury Sporting Club, Opens the Hilltop Lodge Hotel and Spa
RICHMOND — The Preserve Sporting Club & Residences held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to call attention to the newest feature on its campus, the Hilltop Lodge, which opened this summer. The lodge is a mix of condominiums, hotel and spa, and joins the golf course, shooting ranges and sporting-goods store on the property off Route 138. The four-story building is built into the top of the hillside, with one floor below ground level on one side but leading to a patio with a pool on the other. The upper three floors hold one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom suites — 18 in all — that resemble hotel rooms on steroids. One of the largest measures 2,600 square feet, larger than many three-bedroom suburban houses. Each suite features the requisite number of bedrooms — which range from having a single king-sized bed to two twin beds – each with its own bathroom. Each suite has spacious living, dining and kitchen areas, plus a private deck overlooking the wooded hills of The Preserve. And they come fully equipped with upscale stoves, refrigerators, stone countertops and double-sized deep sinks. Each suite is for sale, and the owners can place weeks they will not be there into the rental pool, which also includes units that haven’t been bought. The introductory room rates to stay at the lodge range from $500 to $4,250 a night.
Gov. Dan McKee talks with Stefan Pryor, left, secretary of commerce; Dant Hirsch, second from right, president of the Ocean House Collection; and The Preserve’s chairman, Paul Mihailides, right, at the entrance to the newly opened Hilltop Lodge, a spa and luxury sporting club hotel at The Preserve Sporting Club and Residences in Richmond.