The best surf & yoga hotels · Montauk
The Surf Lodge
Jayma Cardoso bought a 1967 motor inn on Fort Pond in Montauk in 2008 and spent a year rebuilding it into something that didn't exist on the East End — a hotel built around surf culture rather than Hamptons wealth. Twenty waterfront rooms on the pond, a restaurant with an Australian chef cooking fresh-caught seafood, a deck that became a live music venue, surf lessons at Ditch Plains in the morning and yoga on the property, concerts by early evening. The Surf Lodge runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The rest of the year, Cardoso takes the operation to Aspen. Ditch Plains — Montauk's main surf break, a consistent beach break that draws the closest thing to a real surf community on the East Coast — is a ten-minute ride. The Surf Lodge is the hotel that made Montauk make sense for a certain kind of traveller, and it has spent fifteen years not having to explain itself.
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The hotel
The Design
A 1967 motor inn on Fort Pond. Rebuilt in 2008. The deck became a concert stage.
The renovation drew from historic European design, sun-soaked seaside villages, and the local surf community — natural textures, eclectic elements, light handled carefully. The waterfront rooms have private decks with hammocks facing the pond. The aesthetic is bohemian without being effortful, which is harder to achieve than it looks.
The Design
A 1967 motor inn on Fort Pond. Rebuilt in 2008. The deck became a concert stage.
The renovation drew from historic European design, sun-soaked seaside villages, and the local surf community — natural textures, eclectic elements, light handled carefully. The waterfront rooms have private decks with hammocks facing the pond. The aesthetic is bohemian without being effortful, which is harder to achieve than it looks.
The Surf
Ditch Plains is ten minutes. The closest thing to a real surf community on the East Coast.
Ditch Plains Beach is Montauk's primary break — a consistent Atlantic beach break that works on NW and NE groundswells and draws surfers year-round even when the hotel is closed for the season. The Surf Lodge runs surf lessons at the break each morning through the summer. The Atlantic here is cold even in August. The surf is real.
The Surf
Ditch Plains is ten minutes. The closest thing to a real surf community on the East Coast.
Ditch Plains Beach is Montauk's primary break — a consistent Atlantic beach break that works on NW and NE groundswells and draws surfers year-round even when the hotel is closed for the season. The Surf Lodge runs surf lessons at the break each morning through the summer. The Atlantic here is cold even in August. The surf is real.
