Best Resorts for Family Reunions
Hotel Iroquois
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Time moves molasses-slow on this car-free isle, but most guests at the Hotel Iroquois wouldn’t have it any other way. The white-shingled Victorian inn hugs Lake Huron’s shoreline, a block away from the island’s quintessential-Americana offerings (think fudge shops and Schwinn rentals). The 46 rooms are a homey alternative to the area’s large-scale resorts.
Guest Tip: Mitzi Vander Kamp and her husband, Dalwyn, of Holland, Michigan, have returned to Hotel Iroquois with their kids and grandkids every summer for 12 years. “We book Rooms 102, 104, and 106—just off the side porch, which we use as our meeting place,” Mitzi says. “We play games on the wicker settees and listen to the clip-clop of horses.” Go on the Fourth of July for the annual stone-skipping tournament, a fund-raiser for the local library for some 40 years.
(Doubles from $320.)
—Kathryn O’Shea-Evans
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