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Edgartown hotels and inns street by street, from North Water Street to Upper Main and Katama: rooms, breakfast, parking, pets, minimum stays and season as each property states them, with rates by band and how to book for 2027.
Edgartown has the deepest bench of good rooms on Martha's Vineyard, and the highest prices. The inns sit within a few blocks of Main Street and the harbor, in whaling captains' houses and the hotels that grew up around them, so once you are here the town is easy on foot. The catch is getting here: no year-round boat lands in Edgartown, so you arrive by the fare-free bus from Vineyard Haven or Oak Bluffs, or in summer on the little Pied Piper from Falmouth.
This guide goes through the town's hotels and inns street by street, with what each property's own website said when we read it on November 1, 2026: address, rooms, breakfast, parking, pets, minimum stays and whatever it states about the season. Rate bands come from our island-wide lodging research. If you are still choosing a town, our Oak Bluffs vs Edgartown post makes the case for each, and the Oak Bluffs lodging guide does for that town what this one does for Edgartown.
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North Water Street runs from the shops to the lighthouse past the finest row of captains' houses on the island, and the Harbor View Hotel at number 131 sits at the far end of it, across from the light. It opened in July 1891 and has since been restored and redesigned; it has a heated outdoor pool, three places to eat and drink (Bettini, the Behind the View lounge and the Roxy Pool Bar), and since August 2026 a voluntary one percent community fee that goes to the Martha's Vineyard Community Fund. Summer rooms run $500 to $1,000 and up, and the shoulder seasons come down a long way. It stays open through the holiday season, when Christmas in Edgartown fills the porch, and it is one of the few places on the island that puts you to bed a hundred yards from a lighthouse.
A pair of woven elephants on the Harbor View lawn, crowned with fall flowers for October.
The Edgartown Light against a violet sky, the Harbor View glowing behind it.
The 1891 landmark dressed for December. In August the same porch runs $500 a night and up.
Back toward town, The Coco at 22 North Water Street has eight rooms in an 1892 sea captain's house, opened in 2023 as part of the Edgartown Collection, with the restaurant l'étoile on the same property; its guests take breakfast around the corner at the Sydney. Vineyard Square Hotel and Suites at 38 North Water Street is the bigger, less formal choice on the street, the former Colonial Inn, with standard rooms through one-bedroom suites, a fitness center, a limited number of pet-friendly rooms and a continental breakfast in season.
The front garden at The Coco on North Water Street, an eight-room inn that shares its address with l’étoile.
North Water Street on a summer morning, with the sign for The Coco and l’étoile hanging over the brick sidewalk and shops across the street.
A lane down to the water near the Harbor View Hotel in October, hedges on both sides and the harbor at the end.
Main Street climbs gently from the harbor past the Old Whaling Church, and the inns here are the ones with breakfast. The Hob Knob at 128 Main Street has seventeen rooms and suites, a farm-to-table breakfast and afternoon tea included with every reservation, pet-friendly rooms booked by phone with a fee, and a Michelin Key in both 2024 and 2025, one of two on the island. Spa treatments are arranged off site.
Brick sidewalks, white picket fences and big white houses under the trees. Nantucket has cobblestones, and the Vineyard has six towns that each look different.
Across the street, The Ashley Inn at 129 Main Street is the rare inn that publishes its whole rate card. For 2026 it ran from $195 to $225 a night in January through April, $375 to $565 from mid-June to the end of July, $525 to $625 from August 1 to September 7, $395 to $495 through October 12, and $205 to $250 from Halloween to December 15, single or double occupancy, before the 5.7 percent state and 6 percent local taxes. Three nights are required on peak-season weekends and four over the Fourth of July, and children are welcome from age ten. The Richard at 104 Main Street is the plush one of the Edgartown Collection's five hotels; the Collection's policies are in the next section. The Jonathan Munroe House at 100 Main Street, an 1860s Victorian bed and breakfast opposite the Whaling Church, is also here, but its website did not load when we checked, so confirm by phone.
Lower Main Street in Edgartown on October 10, 2026: The Atlantic’s yellow umbrellas on the left, a bike rental shop on the right and the plane trees turning gold.
Riding through the old village in October: white and shingled houses, brick sidewalks and picket fences.
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The Harborside Inn at 3 South Water Street calls itself the only waterfront hotel in Edgartown, with 90 rooms, a heated pool beside the harbor and a dock, and free parking for guests. It is usually the cheapest of the big names, and its booking terms are the clearest in town: a two-night minimum (three on holiday weekends), a full deposit for stays of three nights or less and half for longer stays with the balance taken fifteen days out, refunds minus a $100 fee only for cancellations fifteen or more days before arrival, and no pets.
Edgartown Harbor marina from above in summer, boats at the slips.
Faraway Martha’s Vineyard at 23 Kelly Street is the old Kelley House, which dates to 1742 and put up the Jaws crew, renovated and relaunched under the new name in July 2023 with a Michelin Key, six lodging houses and a private pool. The Newes from America pub downstairs is open all year and the Pelican Club from June to mid-October. Breakfast is not included (coffee in the lobby from 7 to 11), on-site parking is free but limited with a second lot at 24 Winter Street, check-in is at 4, and select rooms take one pet for $100 a night off season or $150 from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
The Dock Street lot by the harbor on a Saturday in October 2026, full by midday during the Derby.
The Chappy ferry slip beside Memorial Wharf, with the harbor and the Chappaquiddick shore beyond: the crossing the film made famous.
The Edgartown Collection is five small hotels in the historic core, all reviewing well: the Edgartown Inn at 56 North Water Street, a modern farmhouse in the 1798 house of Captain Thomas Worth; the Richard at 104 Main; the Christopher at 24 South Water Street, fifteen colorful rooms; the Sydney at 22 Winter Street, fourteen rooms and a lounge with a stone fireplace; and the Coco above. The rules are the same across the five: a complimentary breakfast, a couple of free first-come parking spots at each hotel and guaranteed spaces at $50 a day, no pets, most rooms limited to two people with extra guests at $50 a night, two-night minimums on most weekends and three on holiday weekends and in peak season, and a deposit refund minus $25 with fourteen days' notice. The Collection's own advice is to leave the car behind.
Dusk settling over L’Etoile’s corner of Edgartown, string lights coming on over the garden.
Ten minutes up Main Street the brick sidewalks give way to the roads out of town, and the lodging gets more practical: parking, kitchens, rooms for six. The Edgar Hotel at 227 Upper Main Street is open year-round, with 41 modern rooms and suites, ample complimentary parking, the Town Bar and Grill on site and a ten-minute walk to the harbor; it is a Choice Hotels Ascend Collection property, the closest thing the island has to a chain, and the moderate option among Edgartown's names at roughly $170 to $480 by season.
The Edgartown Bicycles sign at 212 Upper Main Street in October 2026, with the shingled shop beside it and leaves along the road.
The Franklin Hotel at 222 Upper Main Street, across the road, has 18 rooms including the King Penthouse Loft, a two-story room with a spiral staircase, a king and two twin bunk beds that sleeps six, one of the few in-town setups for a bigger family without renting a house. It is labeled pet-friendly and gives a discount for three nights or more booked three days ahead. It shares an owner with the Edgar and with the Morgan in Oak Bluffs.
The Franklin Hotel at 222 Upper Main Street in Edgartown on an October day in 2026: grey shingles, a white picket fence and a few chairs set out on the lawn.
Two places on this side of town come with a kitchen. The Lightkeeper’s Inn at 25 Simpsons Lane, reopened in June 2026 after a remodel, has five suites with a full kitchen, living room and private entrance, plus a cottage that sleeps five, with 24-hour self check-in, one parking space per room at $50 a night in peak season and $25 off peak, two-night minimums on most weekends, and no pets. Edgartown Commons at 20 Peases Point Way North is a condo-hotel steps from Main Street where every unit has a fully equipped kitchen, around a saltwater pool, a playground and a barbecue area, with complimentary parking and a discount for booking on its own site. It is a repeat Best of the Vineyard budget pick.
The porch at Kismet Outfitters on Upper Main Street, October 2026: blue Adirondack chairs on the lawn, mums in the window box and the shop sign by the road.
A quiet lane with the marsh on one side and shingled houses and picket fences on the other.
Three miles south of town, the Winnetu Oceanside Resort at 31 Dunes Road is the family resort, a ten to fifteen minute walk over the dunes from South Beach. It has hotel studios, suites and cottages plus weekly rentals of townhouses and homes with one to four bedrooms, two pools, a complimentary kids' club on spring and summer mornings, weekly clambakes, the Dunes restaurant and a water taxi across Katama Bay to dinner in Edgartown, and no resort fee. Travel and Leisure readers voted it the top resort in New England in 2024. Four types of accommodation take one dog each, at $200 a night plus tax from June through September and $100 the rest of the year.
Low sun on a long open beach, footprints below an eroded dune edge and the surf rolling in.
It is seasonal: for 2027 the main pool is posted as open from May 14 to October 11 and the Dunes from May 15 to October 17, and the resort says rates for 2027 weekly rentals go online around late December. The cancellation terms are strict in summer (refundable minus ten percent only 120 or more days out for stays from the third Monday in June to Labor Day), so read them before you pay. The fare-free Route 8 bus links Katama with Church Street in town; our South Beach guide has the beach itself.
In August a mid-range room in Edgartown runs about $250 to $450 a night, against $200 to $400 in Oak Bluffs, and the luxury tier starts around $600 and passes $1,500. Massachusetts room tax plus the local option adds 11.7 percent on the island, so a $500 room bills closer to $560. Breakfast comes with the inns (Hob Knob, the Collection, Vineyard Square in season) and not with the hotels (Harbor View, Faraway, Harborside, Edgar). Parking is free at the Harborside, the Edgar and Edgartown Commons, limited and free at Faraway, $50 a day guaranteed at the Collection and the Lightkeeper's in peak, and unstated elsewhere, which in this town means the time-limited street spaces or the free park-and-ride on the edge of town.
Derby headquarters on Dock Street during the 81st Derby, with Edgartown harbor and its boats behind.
Edgartown has more year-round rooms than Oak Bluffs. The Charlotte Inn at 27 South Summer Street, the island's most formal address (Relais and Châteaux, Forbes Four-Star, nineteen rooms and suites, no children under 12, no pets, deposits refunded minus five percent only 30 or more days out), is open all year; the Edgar states that it is year-round; the Ashley Inn publishes winter rates; the Harbor View keeps the porch lit through Christmas in Edgartown in December. Most of the rest do not state a season on their sites, so for January to March, write first. Summer 2027 is already on sale: the Collection and the Harborside take bookings online now, and Winnetu's weekly rentals open around late December. Booking direct usually gets the best rate, and the island's lodging association at marthasvineyardlodging.org lists the members in one place.
The Harbor View at blue hour in the holiday season: garland on every rail, the Bettini sign lit, the little lighthouse cupola glowing over the porch.
From mid-May to October the Pied Piper runs from Falmouth to Memorial Wharf, the only boat that lands you in Edgartown itself. Otherwise you land in Vineyard Haven (year-round) or Oak Bluffs (summer) and take the fare-free VTA Route 13, about thirteen minutes from Oak Bluffs and half an hour from Vineyard Haven; the ferry guide has every boat and the bus page the timetable. In town, Main Street, the harbor, the lighthouse and the Chappy ferry on Dock Street are all within ten minutes on foot, Route 8 runs to South Beach, and the downtown lots have posted time limits with a free park-and-ride on the edge of town, covered in the parking guide.
The Pied Piper, the Falmouth to Edgartown ferry: the only boat that lands you in Edgartown itself, straight from Falmouth harbor.
The Charlotte Inn and the Edgar say so on their sites, the Ashley Inn publishes January to April rates, and the Harbor View stays open through the holiday season. Winnetu, the Pelican Club at Faraway and the Harbor View's pool are seasonal. For the others, ask; most sites do not state a season.
The Harborside Inn on South Water Street calls itself the only waterfront hotel in town, with a pool beside the harbor. The Harbor View looks across to the lighthouse and the outer harbor from North Water Street.
Winnetu at Katama for the pools, kids' club and beach; in town, the Franklin's penthouse loft sleeps six, Edgartown Commons and the Lightkeeper's have full kitchens, and the Harborside has a pool. Several inns limit rooms to two people or set a minimum age, so check before booking with children.
No. Everything above except Winnetu is on foot from Main Street, the fare-free buses reach the beaches and the other towns, and parking is the one thing the inns here are short of. If you bring a car, book a place that states it has parking.
Hob Knob (with afternoon tea), the five Edgartown Collection hotels, Vineyard Square in season and the Charlotte Inn's dining room. Harbor View, Faraway, Harborside, the Edgar and the Franklin do not include it.
How we checked: we read each property's own website on November 1, 2026 (Harbor View, the Edgartown Collection and its five hotels, Vineyard Square, Hob Knob, Ashley Inn, Harborside, Faraway, Edgar, Franklin, Lightkeeper's, Edgartown Commons, Winnetu) and quoted only what they state; the Charlotte Inn's site gave no policies that day, so its details are from our August 2026 lodging research, as are the Edgar's room count, the rate bands and the Jonathan Munroe House, whose site did not load. Ferry and bus facts are from the Steamship Authority, the Pied Piper and the VTA; the room tax is the state rate plus the island towns' local option.
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