NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND Travel Guide: 10 Things to Know

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For the history buffs among your viewers, some points of interest, in addition to the many mansions, are the Touro Synagogue National Historic Site (oldest synagogue in the USA), the Redwood Library and Athenaeum (colonial library in its original building), Newport Tower, the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Newport Museum of History, and, for food, White Horse Tavern (outstanding upscale restaurant in an historic 1673 building -- "America's Oldest Tavern").

Newport seems like a really quaint town in New England, something I've been wanting to visit on my East Coast bucket list so I'm totally adding Newport to that. I loved learning about US History and New England has that 'old money' vibe that I have read in literature. Wonderful video to show that!!

We live just 40 minutes from Newport and have visited it dozens of times; as recently as last Sunday. One of our favorite spots is Brenton Point State Park. Gorgeous vistas of the ocean and THE best place to fly a kite. Awesome restaurants, too. The Red Parrot is one of the best. Last week we took the ferry from Providence for the very first time after driving to Newport the past 45 years. For seniors it’s just $12 RT; which takes 1 hour. We did see the Umbrella art installation at Brick Alley. And took photos. Very cool. Another GREAT take-in is the Audrain Auto Museum on Bellevue Avenue. It’s small, but impressive. They change their exhibitions every three months! The next one begins this Saturday, Sept. 16. Jay Leno, a huge car enthusiast, himself, has been known to drop in every so often as he purchased, a few years ago, the beautiful Seafair mansion set back on Ocean Drive. At our visit last week one of the employees did tell us Jay IS expected at their Concours event at the end of September!

Love Newport! .. so many summer wkends. always fun! ... Christmas time is totally different, but still pretty cool.

I've never visited Rhode Island but it really reminds me a lot of my home here in England!

I’m planning a visit next April to Newport so this is a good overview to help me get started with specifics. Love your style of presenting all of this as well. Thanks for all you do.

Love Newport RI We stayed at The Chanler at Cliff Walk !! Rooms so Beautiful View so Beautiful ❤❤❤ One of my favorite cities

Oh my God! What a small world...I was in Newport, Rhode Island a few weeks ago on a day-trip from Boston for the original trip...We went to Breakers Mansion & also ate at the Lobster Shack!! And seeing you re-post it all again here from your point of view on YouTube feels so amazing! 😃

That Newport Marriott is so great. Stayed there many times, but I won’t pay $500 a night. Id rather give that money to a southern destination

Oh my goodness I actually enjoyed this video so informative it gave me something to think about far as my next vacation. Thank you so very much Chris.

Very informative video. Great job!

Such a great video, Chris! I have always wanted to visit this area! Maybe my mom and I will go sometime relatively soon! So much to see!

Hi Chris. Thanks for the great video of Rhode Island. Love that it still has that old school feel to it. Those mansions were very impressive indeed. Take care.

It's really weird actually seeing a place being talked about on YouTube where I go to school, I quite literally see these locations every day 😭💀

Love the Cliffwalk in Newport. And highly recommend eating at Diegos... an amazing Mexican restaurant in Newport!

Great video Chris. Some fun fats about Newport :: 1 John and Jacqueline Kennedy got married in Newport in 1953, more than likely @ the Church shown in the video and their reception was at her step father, Hugh Auchincloss' estate 2.Marble House was built for William Kassam and Alva Vanderbilt who was one of Anderson Cooper's ancestors. Their daughter Consuelo was a so called Dollar Princess. A Dollar Princess was a name given young wealthy American women of that era to the 1920s (think Cora Crowley, the Countess of Grantham , Elizabeth McGovern's character on ""Downton Abbey") who married English Aristocrats and in exchange, the doweries of the new Duchesses, Countesses, Viscountesses, Marchionesses and Baronesses were used to repair the family homes , the large country estates of their husbands. Winston Churchill's mother , Jennie Jerome and her sister were $$ princesses and they were also two of the many mistresses of King Charles' great great grandfather, Edward VII as was Queen Camilla's maternal great grandmother, Alice Keppel who wasn't a $$ princess. However, Princes William and Harry's great great grandmother on Diana's side (her paternal great grandmother) was a $ princess

Awesome video! Thanks for the info + video!

Great breakdown! We ate at Brick Alley when we were in Newport this summer. Fish sandwich and lobster mac and cheese were fantastic. One of the best meals I had all summer. They have some great drink choices too. For a hotel we stayed at Wyndham in Middletown, which was pretty nice.

Newport is gorgeous is the winter, especially around Christmas time. The mansions are all decorated - it's a great time to go to Newport. I would recommend. Newport never gets super cold in the winter because of the jet stream- unlike more northern areas on New England.