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Ain't Hotels Grand?

Where: Mountain View Road [map], Whitefield, NH, United States, 03598

What makes a hotel grand? Generally, we consider grand hotels to be large, opulent and stately--an architectural icon of some sort complete with a rags to riches, Gatsby-esque history. Or else they are the faux-grand hotels of Vegas.

Well, The Mountain View Grand Hotel has most of the former, including a renovation that was completed in 2002. Now, they will have some of the latter when they complete their expansion.

The resort's plans include a golf course, indoor skating rink, hundreds of homes and condos, an outdoor amphitheater, a movie theater and polo field among its 1,800 acres.

Sounds like a Vegas to us, minus the polo field, of course.

For now,the resort-hotel/soon-to-be-hotelopolis sits on 400 landscaped acres, that left one recent guest awestruck:

When we drove down the road to the hotel, I was overwhelmed at the site of this huge yellow hotel with the mountain view....I took advantage of everything- I swam, worked out, I toured the ballroom and the gardens, saw the horses in the fields and the stables, used the fitness room, had early morning coffee in the library, and read a Nancy Drew reprint from the '30s sitting on the porch(I imagine this is the sort of place Nancy stayed at with her "chums").

For lovers of grand hotels, check out Amazon's collection of books on this very niche subject matter.

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· Mountain View Grand hotel wants to be grander [Boston Globe]
· Grand Hotels [Amazon]
· Mountain View Grand Hotel Reviews [Trip Advisor]