Best Resorts in Texas

Barton Creek stretches across the Hill Country's edge fifteen minutes from downtown Austin with four championship golf courses, the three-story Mokara spa, and pools overlooking the canyon. It's Austin's most complete traditional resort weekend.

Miraval's Texas outpost runs the brand's all-inclusive mindfulness program on 220 acres above Lake Travis — equine sessions, challenge courses, cooking classes, and a spa day built into every stay. Phones stay pocketed. The reset-button resort of the Hill Country.

The JW's River Bluff water park — a lazy river, rapids, and slides across nine acres — plus two TPC golf courses make it the family resort of the Hill Country. It's big enough that school-holiday crowds disperse. San Antonio's default do-everything weekend.

La Cantera crowns one of San Antonio's highest points with five pools, an adults-only floor, and Loma de Vida's cliff-edge spa. Sunset from the resort's terraces explains the name. A more grown-up counterweight to the JW down the road.

The San Luis rises over Galveston's seawall with balcony Gulf views from every room, a tropical pool with swim-up bar, and a spa-and-steakhouse pairing that carries rainy days. It's the island's full-service flagship, steps from the Pleasure Pier.

The 'Queen of the Gulf' has faced the seawall since 1911, and its recent restoration brought back the pink lady's ballroom glamour, veranda cocktails, and lush pool garden. Ghost tours of its own halls included. Galveston's most storied stay.

A creekside spread of rooms, pool, and spa two blocks from Main Street's shops and tasting rooms, the Inn on Barons Creek works as Fredericksburg's resort-style base — big enough for amenities, close enough to walk to dinner and the wine shuttles.

Opened in 2025 just off Main Street, the Albert assembled a block of historic buildings into Fredericksburg's first true luxury property — a pool courtyard, multiple bars and restaurants, and rooms that finally match the wine country around them.