Almost Heaven Bed and Breakfast, Alexandria

I am a business traveler and needed a long term stay. Almost Heaven Accomodations fit the bill, home away from home. Wireless internet, free parking, quiet, wonderful host. Beds are the best, cleaned daily, private baths with everything I needed. Everything you need to work away from your work place. The closest I could get without being on Ft Belvoir. Easy access to everything, easy to travel to District of Columbia for the weekend. Best stay for a long term visit. Host will spoil you. They really go out of their way to please you and help with anything you need while there. Jake

We loved our stay at the Bed and breakfast. Beds were the best, along with the delicious breakfast daily. No extra fees of any kind, parking was free and on site, extremely easy access to the main sights and main interstate. John and Addie

Our stay at Almost Heaven Bed and Breakfast was everything the host told us it would be. Our beds were very comfortble, the food was delicious. The walk to the metro was wonderful, and the host son drove us to the metro on occassions. We are in our 70s and did not have a car. We enjoyed our bottle of wine on the patio after touring all day. The host are warm and friendly. They were more than accomodating us in all our needs. They offered to take us anywhere we needed to go and did go pick up dinner for us a few times no charge. I found the location to perfect for all the sights of Washington DC, Old Town Alexandria and Mount Vernon. The host have every brochure of DC and Virginia and surrounding areas. Wonderful, we would stay again. Edna and Phil California

Love the pool and jacuzzi, the friendly people hosting us, the food, everything was awesome. Location is the very best. Very friendly, great home, large and well decorated. To many choices for breakfast, wonderful OJ, with pulp. Great place, great people.

Best kept secret deal around. Best location for my business and pleasure. Had everything a traveler needed and wanted. Great host. Highly satisfied and recommend everyone.

We loved our stay a Almost Heaven. We could sleep late, get up when we wanted, had breakfast when we wanted. The pool was most enjoyable, not a crowd of people to share it with. Transportation was simple and so easy to get to all the sights. The breakfast on teh weekends we scrumpous. We sleep so soundly in the deep pillow top mattress. They are so welcoming and numerous pillows. If we needed anything, we just asked our host family and they seem to make it appear. The family lives in the home and they seem to enjoy having us as their guest and sharing their beautifu home with us. We have stayed there 2 times already and will be returning. It was a very enjoyable vacation.

Very warm wonderful host. A beautiful home with a wonderful family. Perfect location. Recommend to anyone, especially traveling alone. Beds are exquisite, down comforters, pillows galore, beautiful furnishings. Wonderful formal sitting area along with an informal fireplace sitting roo, large spacious kitchen and the very best breakfast. Breakfast are made to your specifications. Hearty portions and seconds if you wish. We had a wonderful time chatting with the other guest. It was a wonderful experience and we will stay again at the Almost Heaven Bed and Breakfast. They have all the sight seeing informaton and discount tours we needed. Location is the very best. Janet and Harry California

Perfect location, close to it all. Best beds, mattress are superior to any. Rooms are large and spacious. Breakfast is fabulous, no wait like in the restaurants, served as you sit down at the table. Portions are large. You will not go away hungry. They have all the local tips for getting around. More brochures than a visitors center. They had everything to make our stay perfect and enjoyable. Bathrooms are private, stocked with everything you want. Family is very friendly, cater to your needs. I would recommend Almost Heaven to anyone, that wanted a warm, welcoming place to stay while visiting DC and the area. It is clean and safe. Very inviting. The Stanfords

If you like the feeling of staying at friends house but having to pay to stay there, then is the place for you. Not for my husband and i, though. The room we stayed in, the victorian, wasn't anything special, i thought we were gonna have a private bathroom, meaning it was in our room. No, it was outside our room. Nothing special about the breakfast, i could make everything they offered on the menu, eggs, pancakes, etc. I asked for diet ice tea, i never got it. They must shut off the air conditioning during the day, at night when we got home, it was barely on. I had to open a window in our room we was so hot. Our bed wasn't made when we got back, bathroom not even straightened up. What was i paying for? A roof over my head, that's about it. Found the innkeeper to be ok, again not overly friendly. I wouldn't stay there again or recommend it.

First off, this is not your typical Bed and Breakfast. My previous experiences with B&B's were historic homes in semi-rural locations. That is not the case here. Almost Heaven is located in Kingstowne, VA just outside of Alexandria and not far from the Franconia-Springfield Metro station. It is essentially a large modern house in the suburbs. Imagine if you will, sharing a Bed and Breakfast with a family that lives downstairs. There are family decorations everywhere, toys in the garage, kid's books and trophies in a bookshelf upstairs and myriad reminders that a family is very much in residence. While Ms. Clark is very gracious and a charming host, frankly the other members of the household don't give off the most welcoming of vibes. The rooms are very private and secluded but the common areas are usually filled with family members. Lounging downstairs feels sort of...off-limits. Almost Heaven has no sign outside. Nor is there any other indication to signal that this is actually a B&B. Mapquest got us there but as we were pulling up into the driveway, the man of the house, who incidentally never introduced himself, looked at us as if he had no clue why we were there. Again, not terribly welcoming. We stayed in the "Top of the World" room. The room was large and clean (although there was a leftover container of Carmex and a very used wrist wrap in one of the drawers). The room was also quite warm. There is an air conditioning unit in the room but it's located behind a heavy curtain which reduces its usefulness. There was a large fan in the room and that, in conjunction with the ceiling fan, helped a little. There is a small television in the room but there is no cable or satellite connection. Instead there is a set of "bunny ears" which provide shaky reception at best (and about six channels). If you want to watch TV then rent the basement room. There is no cleaning service on the weekend and your bed will not be made. The bed however, was well appointed and as soft as advertised. The bathroom was clean and well stocked but there's nothing particularly glamorous about it. Just a standard home bathroom with a shower. There were plenty of towels. The complimentary toiletry items though were from other hotels. For example, the shower gel, shampoo and conditioner were all labeled "The Venetian". The bar of hand soap was labeled something else altogether. Upon seeing this, my girlfriend suggested that the name for this B&B be changed from Almost Heaven to "Almost Legitimate". I didn't bring my laptop so I can't vouch for the wireless Internet but Ms. Clark was kind enough to allow me to use the laptop downstairs when I needed to. The pool is nice and clean but due to the presence of an automatic pool cleaner and volleyball net swimming laps is not advised. There are plenty of menus for local restaurants, travel guides and maps located downstairs. I have no doubt that the hosts would have been more than happy to provide information had it been needed. That said, if you need a safe, decent place to stay near Alexandria and understand what you're getting then you could do worse