Scarborough, Maine, romantic lodging use romance and fantasy to create memorable experiences for guests. Often located in spectacular settings, they feature luxurious lobbies, gracious guest rooms, grand ballrooms, elegant bars, and sumptuous dining rooms. People seek them out because they offer unique and memorable experiences.
Scarborough, Maine, romantic lodging evoke images associated with the classic qualities of romance: heroism, adventure, and mystery – for the anticipation of finding love, sealing a lucrative business deal, or attending a grand social event or a great conference. Hotel spaces are designed in scale and character for both grand and intimate gatherings, conversation and celebration. Guests like to feel that they have traveled to a faraway or more exotic, rustic, or elegant place than they really have.
Romance is often associated with nature, particularly light and water in their various manifestations, including sunrise and sunset, candlelight, firelight and moonlight, the ocean, forests and meadows. A meadow can be evoked through soft textures and materials that facilitate serenity and airiness, such as a grassy courtyard. The right type of carpet, particularly one with a curved edge, can be used in a romantic hotel lobby to create the soft feel of a meadow.
A Scarborough, Maine, romantic lodge can use a lighted pond or fountain to create a water feature in a courtyard or lobby. At one romantic hotel, a grotto-like fountain splashes under the grand stair that takes guests up from the street-level lobby. Moving light from under the water in in the fountain pool plays on the walls and the lobby's vaulted ceiling. Water also can be evoked through materials with sheen or reflectivity, such as polished stone, metal, or mirrors.
Find Lodging in Scarborough, Maine:
- Fairfield Inn By Marriott Portland Maine Mall, 2 Cummings Road, Scarborough, ME
Fairfield Inn By Marriott Portland Maine Mall is a 2 star place to stay in Scarborough, ME. Book a clean, handy, pleasant hotel room and make reservations for rental of lodging accommodations in Scarborough, Maine. - Residence Inn By Marriott Portland, 800 Roundwood Drive, Scarborough, ME
Residence Inn By Marriott Portland is a 2 star place to stay in Scarborough, ME. Book a clean, handy, pleasant hotel room and make reservations for rental of lodging accommodations in Scarborough, Maine. - Towneplace Suites By Marriott Portland Scarborough, 700 Roundwood Drive, Scarborough, ME
Towneplace Suites By Marriott Portland Scarborough is a 2 star place to stay in Scarborough, ME. Book a clean, handy, pleasant hotel room and make reservations for rental of lodging accommodations in Scarborough, Maine. - Lighthouse Inn at Pine Point, 366 Pine Point Road, Scarborough, ME
Lighthouse Inn at Pine Point is a 2 star place to stay in Scarborough, ME. Book a clean, handy, pleasant hotel room and make reservations for rental of lodging accommodations in Scarborough, Maine. - Pride Motel and Cottages, 677 US Route 1, Scarborough, ME
Pride Motel and Cottages is a 2 star place to stay in Scarborough, ME. Book a clean, handy, pleasant hotel room and make reservations for rental of lodging accommodations in Scarborough, Maine. - The Higgins Beach Inn, 34 Ocean Ave., Scarborough, ME
The Higgins Beach Inn is a 2 star place to stay in Scarborough, ME. Book a clean, handy, pleasant hotel room and make reservations for rental of lodging accommodations in Scarborough, Maine. - Comfort Inn & Suites, 321 US Route 1, Scarborough, ME
Comfort Inn & Suites is a 2 star place to stay in Scarborough, ME. Book a clean, handy, pleasant hotel room and make reservations for rental of lodging accommodations in Scarborough, Maine.
