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Beach hotels in Savannah
Beachfront and seaside hotels in Savannah, United States. Expedia filters for properties on or steps from the sand — sea-view rooms, beach-club access, and easy walks to the water.
- ✓Beachfront properties and sea-view rooms across Savannah
- ✓Beach-club access and on-site sun loungers on most listings
- ✓Walking distance to the water — no taxis to the beach
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What's actually worth your time in Savannah
Savannah's draw is the plan itself: Oglethorpe's grid of squares, twenty-two of the original twenty-four still shaded by live oaks, and walking Bull Street through Chippewa, Madison and Monterey costs nothing. Forsyth Park's 1858 fountain and the sculpted plots of Bonaventure Cemetery repay the trip out. River Street is a candy-and-souvenir gauntlet on ballast stone; go once at dusk, then leave. Wormsloe sells an avenue of oaks and little else.
What to eat in Savannah
Shrimp and grits, low country boil and crab stew are the register here. Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room serves fried chicken family-style at communal tables, weekday lunch only, cash only, with a queue down Jones Street. Mashama Bailey cooks at The Grey inside a restored Greyhound bus terminal on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Leopold's has scooped ice cream since 1919; Byrd's sells cookies by the tin.
What things cost in Savannah
Thirty dollars buys seven days across all three Telfair museums, the best value downtown by some distance. Mrs. Wilkes charges a flat cash price around thirty for lunch. A scoop at Leopold's is a few dollars, a ghost tour usually thirty to forty, and metered street parking a couple of dollars an hour. The DOT shuttle and the Savannah Belles Ferry cost nothing at all.
Savannah with kids, realistically
The free DOT shuttle loops the Historic District and the Savannah Belles Ferry crosses to Hutchinson Island at no charge, which reads to a six-year-old as a boat ride. Tybee Island adds a marine science center and a lighthouse with 178 steps to the top. Oatland Island keeps wolves and alligators on a boardwalk trail. River Street's ballast cobbles will defeat any stroller you own.
When the weather turns in Savannah
Afternoon thunderstorms arrive most summer days and pass within the hour. Duck into the Jepson Center, the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum with its cased model hulls, or the American Prohibition Museum and its working speakeasy. The Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist is free and cool. Plant Riverside hides a fossil and geode collection in its atrium, and the Savannah Bee Company pours mead flights.
When to go to Savannah
| Best months for beach-hotels | Avg daily high | Rain days |
|---|---|---|
| October | 25°C / 77°F | 6 days |
| April | 24°C / 75°F | 8 days |
| December | 17°C / 63°F | 7 days |
The month to avoid is July — around 32°C (90°F) with roughly 19 rain days. Prices and crowds track the weather here: October is the sweet spot, July the month most people skip.
Pack for peak season: Summer clothes, plus one light layer for air-con and evenings, Comfortable walking shoes — every guide on this site assumes you'll use them.
Where to base yourself in Savannah
- Historic District — Squares grid — Spanish moss, antebellum mansions, the Cathedral of St. John.
- River Street — Cobblestone waterfront — restaurants, river-cruise dock, candy shops.
- Starland — Hip south district — coffee shops, breweries, the SCAD art scene.