The Asbury’s fifth-floor rooftop space, Baronet, with its white picket fence-enclosed artificial lawn and lifeguard station.
The hotel is housed in a red brick-clad former Salvation Army building, and boasts a new greenhouse-like addition.
The hotel is housed in a red brick-clad former Salvation Army building, and boasts a new greenhouse-like addition.
The white marble and white oak reception desk also functions as a grab and go, across from which a cloud-like chandelier (one of several in the lobby) made from rattan shades hangs above picnic tables.
Soundbooth bar—done in white swimming pool gutter tiles and aqua green-painted fluted paneling with custom plywood seating and tables—sits next to a wall filled with vinyl records, CDs, and cassette tapes hand-selected (”Each one has a meaning,” says Dowd)from New Jersey record stores.
The greenhouse addition houses a brightly colored sunken seating area, a communal table, pool table, and blue wooden bleachers where guests can watch nightly music performances.
At rooftop space Salvation, done in a color palette of mostly black and white, the bar is set under a twinkling steel trellis that’s painted a dark green hue.
Around the pool, teak furniture sits beneath, and is suspended from, scaffolding-inspired cabanas done in bamboo and blue metal.
Around the pool, teak furniture sits beneath, and is suspended from, scaffolding-inspired cabanas done in bamboo and blue metal.
At night, lawn chairs and beanbags fill Baronet’s lawn, where guests and locals can watch movies projected on a large wall.
Channeling the hotel’s tailored beach town feel, guestrooms feature gray-and-white checkerboard flooring, plywood headboards, colorful striped rugs, and black and white images of local scenes.
A painting of Asbury Park’s founder, James Bradley, holds court over the lobby’s bookshelf-wrapped sunken seating area, which is set next to the building’s original brick façade.