Just in time for Thanksgiving, this all-suite hotel in southwestern Pennsylvania will open on Nov. 20 at Nemacolin, a sprawling resort with three hotels and other types of accommodations such as estates, homes and townhomes. Set amid the Laurel Highlands, the Grand Lodge has 56 suites, each with a dedicated butler. Some suites also have balconies. At the new farm-to-table restaurant, Fawn & Fable (open for breakfast, lunch and dinner), you can savor Parker House rolls brushed with smoked olive oil and Greek sea salt and served with whipped butter, along with steakhouse classics. For cocktails there’s the Circle Bar, a lounge that adjoins the Study, where you can slip away for quieter conversations.
The holidays are no small affair at Nemacolin, and families will find plenty to do, including ice skating, a 5K turkey trot, movies, crafts, painting classes, golf, horseback rides and, on Nov. 24, a light show where everyone can sip hot cocoa, join carolers in song, and pose for a photo with Santa. Also beginning on Nov. 24, you can visit the resort’s Hardy’s Holiday Village, where there will be dance performances by “elves” and places to sip cocoa and savor sweets. You can kick off your holiday shopping at Magical Maggie’s Mittens & Scarves, where you’ll find winter apparel, as well as at Santa’s House toy store and PJ’s Peppermint Emporium, where candy-cane-striped products are the theme, be they socks or blankets. On Thanksgiving, a feast — roasted acorn squash and kale salad, sweet potato casserole, sugar- and spice-cured turkey breast, and double chocolate fudge cake are on the menu — will be available from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. ($175 a person; $75 for ages 5 to 12). Prices for the Grand Lodge start at $2,000 a night.