Why Savannah and The Ann Are the Girls Trip Worth Taking

The best girls trips are the ones that don’t require a group vote on every decision. Someone wants to hit the Forsyth Farmers Market by 9am. Someone else hasn’t moved from the kitchen with her coffee and a book and has no intention of doing so. Both of these are correct choices, and neither person has to justify herself to the other. That’s the version worth planning.

Savannah is an unusually good city for this. It’s walkable in a way that actually matters: the grid of squares means you can wander without getting lost, the Historic District keeps everything within reach, and the pace of the place makes it easy to be somewhere without performing your enjoyment of it. There’s a reason people come here for a weekend and start quietly looking at real estate.

The Ann Savannah is where the accommodation logic catches up with the city. The four-bedroom loft suite at this mass timber building in the Historic District gives a group of four to six something that a block of separate hotel rooms and most Airbnbs genuinely can’t: enough space to be together without being on top of each other, a full kitchen that makes Sunday morning feel like Sunday morning, and a building interesting enough that you’ll bring it up when you get home. Not because you feel obligated, but because the wood ceiling and the grain running through it are actually worth talking about.

The Four-Bedroom Loft Suite at The Ann Savannah

The Ann Savannah sits at the western edge of the Historic District, two blocks from SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), on the street named for General James Oglethorpe’s wife, Ann. The CLT construction gives the interior a structural warmth that most downtown hotels don’t have, the kind you register before you’ve had time to think about why.

The four-bedroom loft suite is the right configuration for a group of four to six. It spans two floors with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a full kitchen, a dining area, and a living room large enough to hold the whole group at once. You get a private exterior entrance, so the suite functions more like a townhome than a hotel. That means the late sleeper gets her room. The early riser gets the kitchen to herself at 7am. No one has to negotiate, and no one is waiting outside a shared bathroom, either.

Meals here have a different quality, too. The full kitchen means someone can make a real breakfast, or serve up mimosas without calling room service. You’ll find in-suite laundry if the trip runs long (which it will want to).

Friday Evening: Little James at 5pm

Start the weekend downstairs. Little James, the Mediterranean-inflected café and cocktail bar on the ground floor of The Ann, is exactly the right room for a group arriving with good intentions and an empty glass. It’s a playful homage to General Oglethorpe himself. A few blocks south, Ann Street meets Oglethorpe Avenue, and the bar brings them closer. It opens at 7am for coffee and runs until 10pm, which means it’s useful at almost any moment of the day.

It often becomes the neighborhood living room with jam sessions, group meetups, and game night — and the energy is exactly right for it: laid-back, warm, already moving. The cocktail list leans Mediterranean, with citrus-forward drinks and a bourbon julep that accounts for the Georgia heat.

Saturday Morning: The Scatter

The Forsyth Farmers Market runs every Saturday from 9am to 1pm at the south end of Forsyth Park, about a mile from The Ann. It’s a food-only, producer-only market: 60-plus vendors on any given Saturday, all sourcing within 150 miles of Savannah, selling seasonal produce, pastured meats, local honey, artisan dairy, craft breads, and prepared foods. The runner who left at 7am will loop back through it, but you can be there by 10am and not have missed a thing.

While that’s happening, Broughton Street is already open for business. Savannah’s main shopping corridor runs a short walk north of The Ann through the Historic District, past independent boutiques, bookstores like E. Shaver, and the kinds of shops that reward wandering without an agenda. The grid of squares helps: each one is a natural pause, a place to sit under the live oaks for a few minutes before the next block.

Saturday Afternoon: Reconvening

The suite is built for exactly this moment. Everyone returns with something: flowers from the market, a book, a tote bag, a story about the couple they spoke to at the cheese stand. The kitchen becomes the table for all of it. Someone puts together a late lunch from the market finds. The living room absorbs the group easily, which a standard hotel room never could.

Saturday Evening: Rooftop Research

Savannah’s rooftop bars are worth your time, and Saturday evening is a good moment to find out which one suits the group. Peregrin at Perry Lane Hotel holds strong views over the Historic District and a botanical cocktail program redesigned in partnership with SCADPro. Myrtle & Rose at Plant Riverside District offers a different view: out over the Savannah River, with an entirely different atmosphere and crowd.

The walk back to 110 Ann Street runs through the squares, which in Savannah after dark have a particular quality: the Spanish moss, the light through the canopy, the low murmur of other people’s Friday nights. It’s one of those walks that takes its time.

Sunday Morning: Staying a Little Longer

The real gift of the apartment-style suite is Sunday morning. The espresso machine is in the kitchen. The group reconvenes at whatever pace feels right, and there’s no pressure to vacate for housekeeping or to sit in a hotel dining room waiting for a table.

For groups accustomed to booking separate hotel rooms or managing an Airbnb from a distance, The Ann Savannah offers a different arrangement altogether: one suite, one address, one group, one kitchen. The only trouble with a weekend here is keeping it to one. Savannah has a way of making that difficult, and The Ann gives you no good reason to resist.

Book the four-bedroom loft suite at The Ann Savannah.