If you want to get married at the Inn at Longshore during prime picture-taking-by-the-Sound months — April through October — you normally must book it waaaaaay in advance.
(Pro tip: Some brides roll the dice, and grab a date even before grabbing a mate.)
But these are not normal times. The Inn’s owner — Greenwich Hospitality Group — is about to begin an $8 million renovation.
The original timetable was pushed back, after revisions to plans involving an elevator.
So while the Inn is set to close next month, it will open back up in the first week in April. Events and rooms will be available through October. It will then close again, for more work during the slower late fall and winter months of 2025-26.
Artist’s rendering of the new Longshore ballroom.
Because the operators planned to be closed this spring and summer, they did not accept any bookings. Usually, 90 weddings and 40 events would already be scheduled.
In other words: The Inn will be open, but there is nothing on their calendar.
Grab your wedding date now! (Christine Hussey wants to hear from you: chussey@innatlongshore.com.)
The closure sounds like bad news for Inn employees. Fortuitously, the owners — who also own Delamar Hotels in Greenwich, Southport and West Hartford, and are renovating the former Westport Inn — are also opening a 31-room Delamar and event space in Mystic.
Many staff members will head east, to help open that venue.
Meanwhile, La Plage — the Inn’s restaurant — will close for renovations on January 2, after a New Year’s Eve gala, and New Year’s Day brunch. It too will reopen in the spring.
Maybe you can have your rehearsal dinner there too.
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