Fatty breakfast. Old Mansion with creaks at night!
This is the problem I have with ALL B&B'S (I only stayed here because my friend insisted) You don't know what you're getting! I'll explain.
First off, Megan manages the front 'desk' and does a wonderful job. She's energetic shows you all around and gives suggestions for places to eat, things to see and do. Great young lady!
We stayed in the Magnolia room. Really nice. Great beds, nice decor. Upstairs room had lot's of light. I thought, "This is gonna be great!" Well - it would have been , however earlier the next morning around 5AM, the person in the next room - seemed to have STAGE IV Tuberculosis. This poor person began hacking up a wet, productive cough ... and wheezing and hacking cough. On and on and on. I could hear it plainly thru either the walls or air ducts. I felt sorry for the person, but aggravated that on a day i wanted and NEEDED to sleep in, I was awakened by that!!!!
Finally around 7a.m. I got up and went to the grand upstairs porch and just watched the morning unfold (still with distant hacking in the backround.) At a Quality Inn or Best Western, we could have had another room, or much better insulation. Buy yeah, you trade charm and character for cookie cutter rooms, but you KNOW what your'e going to get.
BREAKFAST. Right.
If you're heavy in to scrambled eggs, sausages, greasy taters, etc, you'll love it. I did NOT taste the food, so I don't know. I keep a heart-diet that includes fruits, whole grains, etc, The only fruit was three THIN slices or honeydew melon. I read a recent article that said:"Vegetarians are easily accommodated." Really? The owner asked why I didn't touch my breakfast, and we told her about what we liked
NO thought, or options are available to what you will eat. In fact, they do not even have a micro in the dinning area if you did, want to warm something up. We let the owner know what we preferred for breakfast . . . .however.
The next morning I did not go down, because or a SECOND SLEEPLESS NIGHT (more later) but my friends brought up the same three small slices of melon and coffee. There may have been more, but I didn't ask.
THE SECOND night, around 1:30 A.M. we noticed an electrical buzz, like a neon light going on and off, above the ceiling. It went on like clockwork.... every 18 seconds. Buuzzzzzzzzzzzz. Again, you'd never hear that at a Hilton Garden Inn. Neither one of us could sleep and really no one to call about it. I went out on the porch and grabbed a few zzzz's... very few.
I think like most B&B's that are OLD, historic buildings with character and charm -- you get all the creaks, idiosyncrasies of old age, just like with old people. This house was built in 1845.
I would suggest to the owners, since they are not there in the afternoons(mid-week), to have a breakfast checklist that folks can mark selections... so we can eat what WE like, vs. what the owners think is good or healthy.
I would visit the building and tour the gardens, but if you're coming here for a good nights rest, you're taking your chances. And ear plugs will do no good, as I had them.