Bright and beautiful Charlotte is North Carolina’s biggest city, filled with excellent museums, restaurants and stacks of family-friendly activities. Popular with both business and leisure travellers, there is a considerable variety of accommodation on offer, ranging from intimate B&Bs to chic, contemporary hotels. Our pick of the best places to stay in Charlotte includes a lavish centrally-located property, a historic mansion and an expansive resort with lots for everyone to do.
Having grown rich during Carolina Gold Rush, and later benefitting from the cotton and textile boom, the city is now one of the largest banking hubs in the USA. Its centre dominated by futuristic skyscrapers, Charlotte remains a funky, lively city, with top-notch museums, galleries and historic sites to explore. Big hitters include the Levine Museum of the New South, the Charlotte History Museum and the Mint Museum Uptown. Uptown — as Charlotte’s downtown area is known — is also home to restaurants aplenty, as well as one of our favourite luxury hotels. Head to trendy NoDa, where cool cafés and hip breweries are housed in old textile mills, or to the boutiques and eateries of Plaza Midwood, for a real sense of the city. Don't miss admiring beautiful edifices — including that of one of our other hotel recommendations — as you stroll through the historic neighbourhood of Myers Park, to the south.
Beyond the city limits, the Historic Latta Plantation and the Billy Graham Library will be of particular interest to history aficionados looking to delve deeper into the South’s complex past. Adventurous travellers of all ages, on the other hand, will adore adrenaline-fuelled fun at the US National Whitewater Centre, the race-car simulator at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, and learning about birds of prey at the Carolina Raptor Centre.
Whether you're in the city on business, dreaming of a romantic hideaway or keen for an active family holiday, the best places to stay in Charlotte promise beautiful bedrooms, fantastic facilities and a wonderful Southern welcome.
