Most design hotel rooms today for the booking photo. Our inn design is for the second stay. That sounds like a line, I know. But it’s the simplest way I can explain how we design rooms at Stanton House Inn.…
Acadia National Park is a reward for masters of slow travel. It punishes the traveler who tries to do everything. That’s this whole post, really. But it’s worth a few thousand more words. The difference between a calm first trip…
Tell someone from Boston you walked the Freedom Trail and ate at Quincy Market, but skipped Harvard Square and never saw the swan boats. Then, watch what happens. I dare you. They’ll look at you like you insulted their mother.…
Providence is the city most people pass on their way to somewhere else. They drive through on their way to Newport or Cape Cod. Like this writer, for years and years. But the best things to do in Providence, RI…
I used to think excellence at an inn came from trying harder. Care more. Stay later. Wear every hat. If something wasn’t working, the answer was effort. That’s a slippery slope, though. I almost slid off it. If you’d rather…
New Hampshire’s White Mountains are not a weekend trip. The drive alone would take you the better part of the weekend. It’s around six hours each way from New York, give or take traffic. And all for two days in…
There’s a myth in hospitality that good service means being endlessly available. Always on. Always accommodating. I believed that for a long while myself. Then I hit the winter of 2019 completely spent. Not tired. Spent. Like butter scraped over…
Most people who come to Greenwich in summer already half-know what they’re signing up for: They’ve seen summer in Greenwich, CT, on social media. They’ve driven through on I-95. What surprises them is how unhurried it all feels. This isn’t…
I’ve been visiting Untermyer Gardens for years. And then, somehow, I forgot all about it. On a recent spring weekend though, we drove over from Greenwich. I remembered immediately why it had stuck with me. And walking the grounds again…
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