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.
The hotel occupies the upper floors of the Gottlieb Building, which has stood on this corner of Arnold Avenue since 1906. 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
Each room was drawn separately. Its own wallcovering, its own colours, its own furniture. What follows is the scheme each room was designed to.
Room names, occupancy and rates are still with the client. The grid holds its shape at any count.
Wallcovering image to come.
Wallcovering image to come.
Colours and wallcoverings are taken from the interior design boards. The images show the wallcovering, not the finished room, and photography follows once the rooms are complete. Reservations run through Cloudbeds, and the button opens live availability once the property is connected.
Downstairs
Familiar flavors, reimagined through a creative and modern lens.
Imer Jose Garcia, Executive Chef
Gourmand occupies the ground floor of the Gottlieb Building, which has stood at 641 Arnold Avenue since 1906, when it sold dry goods. The rehabilitation kept the original structure rather than smoothing it away.
The kitchen reinterprets the classics, Caesar and lasagna and rigatoni, alongside dishes that belong to nobody else, and buys its fish and scallops off the inlet a few minutes north. Mocktails are built at the table from a cart.
The name is the French word for someone who takes food seriously enough to enjoy it properly. Three ways to dine: the main room, a private room behind a closed door, and a chef's table with eight seats in front of the line.
At Avontuur
Spa copy to come. Guests book directly with the spa, and the link here will point at the spa's own site once it exists.
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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Reservations
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Arrive
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.