Winter in New York City is brutal \u2013 soot-encrusted snow, skyscraper wind tunnels in Midtown, shoes soaked through with slush. Get back in touch with how beautiful winter can be on a trip to upstate New York. A few hours north of the city, snow is gentle, silent, and white, and strong wind is something you watch from inside, next to a wood-burning fireplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Find an AirBnB or HomeAway rental (like this\u00a0grand farmhouse<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0this chalet<\/a>), take a crisp, short winter hike, and then seriously consider spending the evening with your friends relaxing over some\u00a0hot cider<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0mulled wine<\/a>. Book a sprinter van there and back, and forget logistics for a few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NYC area is littered with spa resorts tucked into bucolic settings, designed to serve harried city slickers. Perhaps the most well-known and luxurious among them, Mohonk Mountain House<\/a> offers sprawling grounds with elegant rooms, plentiful spa services, daily meals and snacks included for all guests, and, if you\u2019re feeling inspired, activities<\/a> like ice skating, snow tubing, and snowshoeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re looking for something a bit more laid-back, try the Buttermilk Falls Inn<\/a>, where you can bond over group spa treatments. Try hydrotherapy at the Roosevelt Baths and Spa<\/a>, or focus on alternative wellness at the Cooperhood Retreat and & Spa<\/a>. Book a limo to get out there \u2013 you deserve this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Hudson Valley is full of history, including dozens of grand old estates now open to the public. Curate a weekend of historic sightseeing, and offer your friends a chance to be transported to another time. Pick your favorite styles and stories from a long list of homes<\/a>, and spend a few days house-hopping. When you\u2019re done admiring and touring, retire in the evenings to your own grand residence at the Castle Hotel & Spa<\/a> in Tarrytown. You\u2019ll feel like a titan of industry in another era \u2013 just make sure you book your chauffeur as well. An executive coach seems appropriately grand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Craving sun and sea in the middle of dark and windy winter days? Visit the super-luxurious Gurney\u2019s Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa<\/a> in the off-season. You might even find you prefer their huge, heated saltwater indoor pool to the open ocean. Enjoy the peace of their seawater baths, their saunas and steam rooms, and spa services, and the drama of the winter water views \u2013 without the summer crowds around. Forget high-season travel woes on the way there and back \u2013 on a Sprinter van with comfy seats and big windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All this too mellow for you? Sometimes you just have to throw relaxing in the trash and go to a casino resort. Visit the Borgata Hotel<\/a> in Atlantic City and treat yourself to more luxury than you can actually absorb in a weekend. They have five pools, five restaurants, and 85 poker tables, so you can dive in, wear sequins and say things like, \u201cluck be a lady!\u201d \u2013 if you\u2019re into that. And if you\u2019re not interested in table stakes, move on to the Borgata\u2019s nightclub mur.mur, or post up at one of their twelve bars. Obviously take a party bus out there to set the tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. See the pretty side of winter on a weekend upstate Winter in New York City is brutal \u2013 soot-encrusted snow, skyscraper wind tunnels in Midtown, shoes soaked through with slush. Get back in touch with how beautiful winter can be on a trip to upstate New York. A few hours north of the city,Continue reading “5 indoorsy weekend getaways to book this winter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charter-bus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. Take a nice hot mudbath \u2013 on a spa weekend<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
3. Go historic-house-hopping in the Hudson Valley<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
4. Enjoy peaceful Montauk in the off-season<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
5. Atlantic City\u2026 the opposite of natural beauty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n