Want to host Thanksgiving for your friends but your apartment kitchen can't fit a turkey, let alone the table? The case for renting instead is pretty simple: a handful of East Coast Airbnbs offer big dining tables, serious ovens, and enough bedrooms to keep everyone happy through the long weekend.
Condé Nast Traveler's editors have rounded up 12 options across six states, all vetted for Superhost status, guest ratings, kitchen quality, and general charm. A few standouts show what's on offer.
In the Hudson Valley, a restored 1843 farmhouse in Old Chatham sleeps eight across four bedrooms, with sliding barn doors opening onto a dining room that seats six, wood-burning fireplaces, board games, a stocked bar cart, and a separate restored barn with its own service kitchen. Nearby in Saugerties, a white-brick farmhouse sits on 30 acres with private hiking trails and Catskills views — plus a barrel sauna, gym barn, and vintage pinball machine for six guests.
Vermont brings the mountain views. A minimalist property near Woodstock has a Thermador double oven, five-burner range, a table seating 10, and floor-to-ceiling windows framing Mount Ascutney's fall foliage. A second Vermont home in Bridgewater pairs 30 acres of pasture and woodland with an indoor infrared sauna, rain showers, and a basement movie room with a foosball table.
Up in New Hampshire, a lakeside log cabin near Sunapee delivers the full cabin fantasy — five wooded acres, rocking chairs, a game room, and a $99 pet fee if the dog's coming — while an inn-style Tamworth property sleeps 10 beside the Bear Camp River, with a kitchen one reviewer called the best-stocked they'd ever seen and 80 acres of woods for post-feast walks.
There are quirks worth knowing. The Connecticut farmhouse in Litchfield County comes with Le Creuset cookware, a record collection, and a chicken coop — and resident roosters who will wake you up. The Nantucket option, designed by NYC interior designer Samuel Masters, sleeps 13 across three floors with Casper mattresses and seats 10 for dinner, a short walk from Francis Street Beach. Smaller groups can try an 18th-century stone row house in Stockton, New Jersey (sleeps five, pet-friendly, antiques everywhere), or a '70s bungalow in Hampton Bays, New York, with bunk beds for kids and offseason beach strolls.
The appeal goes beyond the meal. These are whole-weekend houses: hot tubs, saunas, firepits, and hiking trails mean the trip doesn't end when the leftovers are boxed up. It suits friend groups of five to 13, two families sharing costs, or anyone who wants the harvest-table hosting experience without owning a farmhouse. The catch — and it's a familiar one — is that these properties book up fast for the Thanksgiving window, so if a late-November weekend is the plan, reserving well ahead is the move.