Old hotel right on Misquamicut Beach. Unique with low ceilings, floor elevation changes inside rooms. We stayed on upper floor, corner room overlooking beach. Storm hit the night we stayed, up to 50 MPH winds out of south directly at hotel. I was worried about noise from leaky windows/door walls, waves crashing. Room was very quiet, I was pleasantly suprised. Food at restaurant was pretty good; fried calamary was tasty, Andrea burger was good.

The Andrea is a cute little hotel with its feet planted firmly in the sand of Misquamicut Beach, RI. It is cute, fun and even a little frisky.
The hotel was built around the turn of the last century, when it opened as a tea room/bed and breakfast. In 1938 the Great New England Hurricane wiped most evidence of human habitation off the landscape of Misquamicut and washed it out to sea. Along with present-day Paddy’s, the Pleasant View hotel, and the Atlantic Beach Casino, the Andrea was one of the only four buildings out of 400 that were not destroyed or swept away.
In 1946 the Ralph Colucci Sr. and his family bout the tea room and re-inaugurated it as The Andrea. The family continues to own and operate it today.
The hotel is fun and informal. All the rooms have balconies and either a side view or a front view of the ocean. The views are spectacular, in fact, especially at dawn and sunset.
On the first floor is a small game room and a fairly extensive lounge and dining area. For just under $10 you can score a reasonably good breakfast with unlimited seconds. You can eat it in the dining room or take it out to the patio café to inhale some salt air with your scrambled eggs, bacon and pancakes. For lunch and dinner the menu includes very good hamburgers and fries, flounder fish and chips, crab cakes, wraps, scallops fried or baked, a variety of salads, some interesting soups including clam chowder and a first-class lobster bisque. The wait staff was great. The guys were sunny and helpful and the girls were young, beautiful and charming, if you like that sort of thing.
From lunch to lights out there is an engaging party atmosphere pleasing to adult tastes and still well enough under control that you can bring your young children. The vino –and scotch, gin, vodka and Tequila— is constantly flowing to a background of well-chosen music. In weekend evenings there may be a live band playing with the general hilarity ramped up once the kiddies have gone to bed.
The rooms are pretty basic (and can be on the small side) but ideal for real beach vacationers. They include a shower, air conditioning, a comfortable bed and a mini-fridge. The constant roar of the waves makes a great white noise background for inducing slumber.
On the next round of remodeling (The Andrea remodels frequently) I think it woul be great to install a swimming pool and an elevator. The lack of those amenities was a minor annoyance. The visit was a major joy. The hotel closes in mid-October but will probably reopen for April of 2013.
Did I mention that the rooms were reasonably priced? If nothing else, The Andrea is a bargain.

This is a good hotel for a party crew. Would not recommend for a family. VERY loud till 1am when the band or DJ stops. Nice outside bar, lots of party people. Room smelled very musty, AC was good...typical beach motel

The location of the beach & hotel was great.We didn't have to leave. The restaurant,bar & DJ were right there in the hotel. When the rooms were booked. We were not told that only one car per room was included & any additional cars were $10.00. In total there were ten girls with 5 cars in total for all three rooms. Meanwhile they were charging to rent out spots in the hotels parking lot during the day for people not staying at the hotel & wanted to spend the day at the beach. So the parking was very limited for hotel guests during the daytime. The rooms were small & very old looking. The rooms had pipes going through it & all along the hallway,which was very, very narrow. Felt like we were in the lower deck of a ship. The main bathroom on the lobby level which was used by guests, people from the beach & people in the restaurant bar, was absolutely disgusting . The floors were wet & sandy with toilet paper all over it. To top it off it was about 99 degrees in there, no exhaust or air conditioning. To top it off only 3 stalls for hundreds of people.on the last day four of us were the last to check out, all in 1 car. While we were packing up the car the cleaning lady came running down in a rush & asked what we thought was room #207. She said a Kindle was left in the room. We took it stating three of our friends had Kindles in room #207. One of which had to leave earlier that morning, due to a family emergency. So we would take it & give it to whomever it belonged to. We were already pretty much in Boston when the hotel called & said we were given a kindle by accident and the lady whom it belonged to was irate & could we come back & return it. Was explained we were pretty much home & would be happy to put it in the mail the next morning & send it back to the hotel as requested. I was sent back early the next morning cost $30.00 to mail. Called hotel & spoke with front desk to give them a courtesy call to let them know the Kindle was mailed. I believe that i should have been reimbursed the $30.00 that was spent from my pocket. After all i was kind enough to take my time to go to the post office & return it to the hotel ASAP. The least they could have done was reimburse the money. She became very unprofessional and rude on the phone, refusing to refund the money. Stated we could not return to the hotel & was putting us on a no return list. There were no complaints made against us by any guests or hotel staff during our stay. The manager who is also a firefighter, comes & goes as he pleases. Was very unhappy looking man, never smiling & not much help. It was our annual girls weekend trip & now we feel very disappointed with their mannerism. So all in all we will never recommend this place to anyone! PS SAW ALOT OF UNDERAGE DRINKERS!!!