Owner Sandy Wilson's parents opened it in 1946 she now runs it with her daughter Deborah, serving breakfast till noon. You'll find the Purple Palace (Railroad Avenue, 20, $3.50-$8.50) with its chef statue on the roof. The hotel has just built a function hall next door, the Union Bluff Meeting House, with plenty of room for your wedding.įuelAficionados of York Beach traditions will be happy to find many old standbys remain. Rooms have refrigerators, wireless Internet, cable TV, phones, and some have gas fireplaces and/or Jacuzzis the extra-special ones have private balconies overlooking the beach. The Union Bluff Hotel (8 Beach St., 80, 20,, doubles $59-$269), which dates to 1868, has been rebuilt since it burned in the 1980s.
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A full vegetarian breakfast, with offerings for vegans, starts your day healthily. If you need more help unwinding, Candleshop Inn B&B and Holistic Retreat Center (44 Freeman St., 88, 20,, doubles $80-$185) has a studio on the grounds for yoga classes, reiki, and massage treatments. Many of the charming small rooms overlook the beach, and the sitting room and porch offer plenty of comfy couches, rocking chairs, and board games. com, doubles $65-$145) for 19 years and has kept the old summer-cottage feel intact.
She's owned the Katahdin Inn (11 Ocean Ave. RestRae LeBlanc grew up spending summers in York Beach. Newly opened is the restored 19th-century Atlantic House, with upscale shops, condos, and Blue Sky on York Beach, the new restaurant by Boston restaurateur Lydia Shire, of Locke-Ober fame. The town's been getting a facelift for the past few years, in part to repair an estimated $9 million in damage from flooding in 2006. Which is not to say that York Beach isn't changing. York Beach continues along Long Sands Beach another mile or so to York Harbor.
Ignore the makes and models of cars on the street, and you could believe you were in a scene from "Beach Blanket Bingo." Short Sands Beach here has the look and feel of an old-fashioned family-friendly summer town: salt water taffy and kettle corn, bowling and a game arcade right on the beach, with the Ferris wheel and elephants a block away. The New England coast doesn't have many places left like York Beach. ODD FACT: In the early 1600s, Native Americans in the area that is now York Beach shot at and turned back European explorers trying to come ashore. POPULATION: 13,306 for all of York, which also includes York Village, York Beach, York Harbor, and Cape Neddick.