

Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort.Hotels near Bluffton United Methodist Church.Hotels near Bluffton Arts and Seafood Festival.Hotels near Palmeto Oaks Sculpture Garden.Hotels near May River Golf Club at Palmetto Bluff.InterContinental (IHG) Hotels in Bluffton.In fact, the whole property in many ways feels stuck in time: Guests can travel around by bicycle or even horse, the grounds are lit at night with flickering gas lamps, and the pace of life is wonderfully slow. The crumbling columns and brick foundations of the grand Wilson Plantation House, built around 1910 and burnt to the ground in 1929, evoke the bygone days when guests arrived to Palmetto Bluff by steamship and train for lavish parties. The River House looks like a classic southern mansion, with a two-story porch, gabled roof, and off-white wood siding, and in front of it are the ruins of an actual, historic southern mansion. The property includes the main River House, which offers sweeping views and plenty of cozy common spaces - a wide front porch, a library, and a small lobby numerous small white cottages dotting the landscape a chapel and ample recreation facilities (which are shared with the residents of the village). Montage Palmetto Bluff is the gem of this development, and offers what are among the most luxurious accommodations on the entire east coast.

It sits along the May River, a tributary to the Atlantic Ocean, and is blissfully tranquil: Visitors will drive along a private road (blocked off by a security gate) under a canopy of trees to reach the main square of the picturesque Palmetto Bluff Village, and the development's facilities - including the golf club, fitness club, boat house, and pools - never feel crowded. Palmetto Bluff, a 20,000-acre real estate development about 20 miles east of Hilton Head Island, and 20 miles north of Savannah, embodies some of the best of what Lowcountry has to offer. It's a place that feels at once exotic and distinctly American, a place where time seems to have stood still the Gullah inhabitants and language (a blend of Creole and English) still thrive, historic architecture has been preserved, and the magical natural beauty has remained relatively untouched. That's because this region along the southern part of the South Carolina coast, home to wetlands, rivers, saltwater marshes, and mossy forests, is all of those things. People will often describe the Carolina Lowcountry with words such as mystical, ethereal, and hauntingly beautiful.
