2 Best Hotels in Troy, Albany and Central New York

This sunny bed-and-breakfast offers family-style hospitality, lovely furnishings, a common parlor, and card games on the weekends. The rooms are housed in a late-19th-century home, and attended to by the owner.

The cheerful brick inn a block from the Hudson River is a good alternative to chain hotels. Standard rooms tend to be a bit run-of-the-mill and have either two double beds or a king. Suites, double the size of the standard rooms, have king-size beds, an adjoining sitting room, a refrigerator, and a whirlpool tub.