usa · Memorial Day — Labor Day
East Hampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, Montauk. The summer of the New York principal — Friday helicopter from Manhattan, lunch at Tutto Il Giorno, polo at Bridgehampton, dinner at Le Bilboquet. The American Riviera, with one direction and a season that ends on Labor Day.
Hotels
Book the room — handled personally.
Oceanfront · 5★The only true oceanfront resort in Montauk, with the Seawater Spa that gives the place its name.
Relais & Châteaux · 5★The 22-room Bridgehampton property that anchors most of the serious Hamptons weddings I plan.
Boutique · 4★The clapboard inn on Main Street, reopened by LDV Hospitality, and the most charming room in East Hampton village.
Harbour · 4★Baron's Cove reborn as Faraway, the renovated waterfront inn at the head of Sag Harbor's main wharf.
Festive · clubs, line-ups, long lunches
Reserve the table for the night out — handled personally.
French · WharfThe Long Wharf outpost of the Upper East Side bistro, now in its tenth Hamptons summer and still the loudest table in the village.
Festive · MontaukThe Fort Pond hotel and concert deck that is the most photographed sunset in Montauk every summer.
Festive · SouthamptonZach Erdem's Main Street room — restaurant by day, lounge by night, and the Southampton evening for most of my younger clients.
Authentic · the quiet rooms
Reserve the quiet dinner — handled personally.
Italian · East HamptonThe 1988 Tuscan farmhouse on North Main Street, still the institution where every Hamptons week passes through.
American-French · Sag HarborThe 1846 whalers' inn on Main Street, with one of the eighty-seven Wine Spectator Grand Award cellars in the world.
Southern Italian · Sag Harbor & SouthamptonGabby Karan de Felice's southern-Italian houses in Sag Harbor and Southampton, opened in 2008 and still the quiet table for regulars.
Sport · tennis, padel, polo, golf
Book the court · the green · the chukkers — handled personally.
Polo · Summer SaturdaysThe Saturday-afternoon polo matches that have defined Hamptons summers for thirty years, now produced as Polo Hamptons.
Members · Golf & BeachThe 1891 oceanfront members' club that is the most difficult door to open in East Hampton — and the only beach club on the Atlantic in the village.
Helicopter transfers
Book the transfer · airport, peak, port — handled personally.
BLADE · 40 minutesThe forty-minute helicopter transfer from East 34th Street to East Hampton — the only sensible way to do a Hamptons weekend in July.