This is a wonderful, large bed and breakfast in a gorgeous old home that has been expanded and renovated. It still has a quaint, chill atmosphere and many amenities (try saying that three times fast). There are DVDs to choose from, coffee and ice in the lobby anytime, and it is great walking distance to downtown and also Victoria Park.
We had a modest room, which was small, but perfectly adequate. There were a few different options on the breakfast menu, I got a breakfast sandwich. It didn't blow my socks off but it was very good.
The one mishap we had here is that we had to do laundry. The attendant at the front desk helped us get change, which was needed for the machines ($1 each). We put the laundry in the washer at about 9 PM and it went into the dryer at about 9:45. After checking multiple times, the dryer was finished at about 11, but the clothes were... not dry. The dryer was definitely running and the lint trap was cleaned out, and there weren't an inordinate amount of clothes in there. Not wanting to bother anyone at 11 PM, (no one actually mans the front desk at all times) We went back to our room and started drying them with a blow dryer. This worked somewhat but was taking too long, and I was afraid we were being too noisy, so we hung up all the clothes we could and draped them all over the room and turned up the air conditioning. Then we finished drying any damp ones in the morning with the blow dryer again. We mentioned this to the person at the front desk and she said someone used the dryer for 4 hours earlier that day. I see two possibilities here - the dryer actually takes 4 hours to dry, or they used it so much they burnt it out or something.
Either way, even with that mishap, we had a good time here. I would come back and recommend it, I just wouldn't recommend doing laundry. read more