New Hampshire’s Lakes Region has always offered a bit of everything for travelers: From roadside inns and upscale waterfront rentals, to spider-filled second homes with moldy showers.

What the region has been lacking — at least according to one development team — is something at the very high-end. Fancy. Five star.

And they’re hoping their new project, the Lake Estate, will fill that gap. The 114-room hotel, nestled on the western shore of Lake Winnisquam in Tilton, is scheduled to open next month.

“When you walk into the hotel, you see the exterior and interior, you're going to see the quality of this, and you're going to say, ‘Boy, I can only imagine what the investment must have looked like,’ ” Ed Rocco, an owner and general manager, told me recently from the inside of a construction

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