Traveling as a vegan is easier than ever, especially as numerous restaurants across the country are joining the vegan movement. However, the concept of a fully vegan hotel is a relatively new phenomenon that goes beyond food and extends to pet-free bedding, furniture, cleaning products, and free soap and shampoo for guests. Since the Hilton Hotels unveiled its first vegan suite Within the Bankside location in London, England in 2019, other hotels and resorts have followed suit to cater to the growing number of vegan and eco-conscious travelers. In the US, these seven hotels will help any vegan sleep a little better.
Best Friends Roadhouse and Mercantile
1. Best Friends Roadhouse and Mercantile (Kanab, UT)
Whether you volunteer nearby Best Friends Animal Sanctuary or just through, Best Friends Roadhouse and Mercantile receives a gold star in its vegan-friendly offers. The rooms are pet friendly and perfect for an overnight stay with a dog or cat from the sanctuary. Vegan actress Mayim Bialik recently visited with her two sons and an adorable pit bull named Ariadne. Plus, the bathroom amenities are animal and cruelty free. Each room has a large format photo of an animal shelter. And while there isn’t a dedicated restaurant, the hotel has a shop that offers guests vegan snacks, drinks, and a free breakfast. If you want to eat out, you are within walking distance of a surprising number of vegan-friendly restaurants in this small town of Kanab, largely due to the vegan inclination of the founders of Best Friends.
St. Julien Hotel & Spa
2. St. Julien Hotel & Spa (Boulder, CO)
Health and wellness are the focus of this environmentally conscious ResortNo wonder when you consider that it is located in one of the most active and sporty cities in America. This is one of the reasons the hotel offers a very vegan package at various times of the year that includes two vegan cocktails, a vegan spa treatment, and $ 50 food and drink credit. Be sure to dine at Jill’s Restaurant & Bistro, an on-site restaurant that offers a variety of vegan options such as Roasted Moroccan vegetables, spaghettini alla checca and vegan Caesar salad on the menu. And on many Monday evenings you can enjoy vegan-tasting dinners.
Stanford Inn by the sea
3. Stanford Inn by the sea (Mendocino, CA)
This eco-friendly, pet-friendly resort with great views of the Pacific is possibly one of the most vegan resorts in the US. Stanford Inn is home to the critically acclaimed vegan restaurant The Ravens, which sources organic ingredients from its gardens and serves a free breakfast each morning. At night, the restaurant becomes a gourmet experience (and you can be sure that all food waste is composted and glass, cardboard and paper recycled). Each afternoon the resort also offers a free dessert and coffee or tea. To round off your physical and mental wellbeing, the Stanford Inn offers a wide variety of wellness courses, including those that focus on cooking and gardening. You can also encounter real animals, either guests or rescued animals that live on the resort’s property.
Dreamers welcome
4. Dreamers welcome (Wilmington, NC)
This ornate, cozy oasis In historic downtown Wilmington, B&B acts as a B&B for vegans and their dogs. All furniture and beds are vegan, as are the hand soaps (black charcoal from Puerto Rico) and toiletries (vegan Castilian soap products). Upon arrival, you will receive a card with recommendations from the staff for vegan-friendly establishments in the neighborhood. Each morning, guests enjoy a free vegan breakfast with dishes like quinoa porridge and cherry and pistachio scones. The vegan kitchen also serves other breakfast items that you can purchase, as well as packed lunches and special dinners. Do you fancy wellness? Book an in-room massage or take an on-site yoga class. Or just hang out on the old porch with your puppy.
The Bel Air tree house
5. The Bel Air tree house (Los Angeles, California)
If you want to ground yourself, restart your wellbeing or immerse yourself in a mindful life. the Bel Air should be your contact person. This eco-friendly boutique hotel is run by a vegan couple who practice friendliness, sustainability and zero waste. It has four spacious suites, each with eclectic travel-inspired artwork. At check-in, guests are greeted with vegan delicacies and rose tea, and maybe even a visit from the house cat. Organic, fair trade and biodynamic products are offered throughout the resort. The kitchen serves a free vegan breakfast each morning (lunch and dinner are available on request), along with coffee and other high-vibration elixirs and smoothies for a natural high. Complete your trip by booking a yoga session, massage, or numerology reading.
Park Lane Guest House
6. Park Lane Guest House (Austin, TX)
True to his word, Park Lane Guest House is perhaps the greenest little hotel in this vegan-friendly city. The cottages are solar-powered, the free coffee is fairly traded, chemical cleaning agents are never used and the care products are not only organic but also free from animal testing. And every morning, guests wake up to vegan options like ginger-lemon and rosemary-buckwheat waffles or breakfast tacos – an Austin staple – with vegetables. You can even try the organic grapefruit, picked straight from the trees on Park Lane.
Gray barn
7. The gray barn at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary (High Falls, NY)
What vegan wouldn’t want to stay in Gray barn Where is a private tour of the Woodstock Farm Sanctuary included with every stay? The lounge area also offers beautiful views of Shawangunk Ridge and the pasture where the sanctuary’s rescued goats graze. You must join Woodstock to stay here, but basic membership is only $ 40. This gives you a five percent discount on your stay. You can then sleep in one of the five bedrooms (you have your own bathroom and terrace), each named after an animal in the sanctuary. Every morning, an organic vegan breakfast is served in the common room at this non-profit hotel. As this is a purely vegan organization, guests are asked not to bring non-vegan food into their rooms.
Karen Asp is the author of Anti aging hacks and award-winning journalist as well as a fitness professional who is certified for plant-based nutrition, world record athlete (in Nordic walking), vegan mentor at PETA, fur mother and volunteer in an animal shelter and a farm animal sanctuary.
Photo credit: Stanford Inn by the sea
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