Gourmand
The chef-inspired restaurant on the ground floor. Being able to come downstairs to dinner is most of the argument for staying in a hotel that has a kitchen worth the name.
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Seven rooms on Arnold Avenue, the road a retired sea captain cut to the ocean in 1870. Gourmand downstairs. The Atlantic at the end of the street.
The Hotel
Seven rooms is not a shortage. It is the whole idea. A hotel this size can know who is staying in it, can keep a table downstairs, can tell you which way to turn at the end of the block and be right.
Avontuur sits in the middle of Point Pleasant Beach rather than out on the sand, which means the town is the amenity. More than a hundred shops, fifteen antique galleries and fifteen restaurants are within a few minutes of the front door, and the ocean is a walk rather than a drive.
The hotel shows work by local artists in its rooms and corridors, which is less a decorating scheme than an acknowledgement of where it is. There is a gallery of New Jersey artists directly across the avenue.
The Avenue
In 1870 a retired sea captain named John Arnold built a road from his boarding house to the ocean. People still call it Arnold Avenue. Avontuur stands on it, a hundred and fifty-six years later, and does much the same thing his boarding house did.
Arnold was not finished. In 1875 he helped put the first bridge across the Manasquan River. Then he talked the Central Railroad of New Jersey into extending its line to the shore, handing over the right of way, the land for a depot and about six thousand dollars of his own money. The first passenger train arrived on the third of July, 1880, and the town has been in the business of arrivals ever since.
The borough incorporated in 1886. The first boardwalk went up in 1890 and the sea took it back two years later. The one that stuck was built in 1915 and still runs about a mile along the water.
The Rooms
Room names, descriptions, occupancy and rates are still with the client. The list holds its shape at any count.
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At Avontuur
The chef-inspired restaurant on the ground floor. Being able to come downstairs to dinner is most of the argument for staying in a hotel that has a kitchen worth the name.
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Beyond Avontuur
Point Pleasant Beach has about 4,700 residents and a downtown built for walking. Everything here is a few minutes from the door.
Open since 1928, when the pavilion arrived with a candy shop, a soda fountain and a swimming pool. An aquarium, an amusement park and a mile of boards.
Around fifteen galleries downtown. The Point Pavilion Antique Centre at 608 Arnold keeps sixty dealers under one roof.
Idiosyncrazies at 638 Arnold shows work by New Jersey artists, directly across the avenue.
One mile from the door, about a nineteen minute walk, straight down the road the captain built for exactly this purpose.
Rentals immediately next door, which shortens the walk considerably.
Divi Tree, across the street. Name and details to confirm.
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Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey 08742
Captain Arnold brought the railroad here in 1880 so that people would not have to drive, and the line he bargained for is still running. Point Pleasant Beach station sits on New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, roughly two hours from New York Penn Station, usually with a change at Long Branch. A seasonal weekend express runs straight through.