Nashoba Valley Wine Tour and Bed & Breakfast – Bolton, Massachusetts

Nashoba Valley Wine Tour and the Charlotte’s House

Bolton, Massachusetts

Up in a hilltop orchard in the charming town of Bolton, Massachusetts, The Nashoba Valley Winery is producing the most superior fruit wines and exquisite foods since 1978. Here’s a brief overview of this fantastic winery that makes them worthy of over 100 national and international medals and perfect destination for your next vacation. Every Saturday and Sunday of the year join the tour-guides and discover the process for making their highly-acclaimed fruit wines, brandies and distillates. The one-hour tour includes a tasting of four selected wines plus two additional standard wines and then receive a commemorative wine glass to take home. As book your wine tour, don’t forget to make the dinner reservation at the carefully restored rustic farmhouse now called J’s Restaurant. Mix up the vacation the next day to check out some of the finest distilled spirits and crafted beers made from the freshest ingredients. If you and your loved one really enjoy everything, Nashoba Valley Winery hosts a stressless and elegant wedding day.

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What Is The Difference?

Many people often wonder the difference between bed and breakfasts, country inns, and historic inns. One kind of bed and breakfast, known as a homestay, is usually a private home with just a few rooms and offers a simple breakfast to its visitors. Homestays are often a part-time operation run as a means of extra family income.

Most bed and breakfasts, however, are professionally run and offer more rooms than homestays. The Camden Maine Stay has nine rooms, while the Cliffside Inn in Newport, Rhode Island, and Captain’s House Inn, in Chatham Massachusetts, have around sixteen. B&Bs are owner managed and operated, and usually employ additional staff to help with cooking, housekeeping, and guest services.

Country inns are bed & breakfast inns that offer dinner service as well as breakfast. Often, their dining rooms are open to the public like Gateway’s Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, which is an ideal getaway for conferences and weddings. Country inns tend to have between five to thirty rooms and, like the Windam Hill Inn and Rabbit Hill Inn in Vermont, or the Chesterfield Inn in New Hampshire, can have a staff of 20-30 people to maintain the inn and care for their guests. Some inns go one step further by offering on-site spas like those found at New Hampshire’s Manor on Golden Pond and Inn at Thorn Hill.

Many inns and bed & breakfasts are also historic inns as they are located in historic areas or are themselves a National Historic Landmark like the Deerfield Inn located in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The Deerfield Inn opened in 1884, and is part of a 350 year old village that is home to an assortment of 18th and 19th century museum houses.

Whether you are looking to visit a quaint bed and breakfast, a renowned country inn, or an inn that is part of history, New England is your destination and the Distinctive Inns of New England offer it all.

Gain up to $400 off from Innsiders Club

Guests of the Distinctive Inns of New England (DINE) save significantly when they become members of the DINE Innsiders Club. All they need to do to enjoy the Innsider benefits is to pick up a DINE brochure during any stay at a DINE inn and use it to keep track of their visits.

Each time Innsiders stay at four different DINE inns, they receive $100 off their next DINE visit of two nights or more. They can do this up to four times, for a total off of $400. This allows Innsiders to explore new inns while also returning to inns they enjoy particularly well.

All DINE inns offer all the services of the finest bed and breakfasts and luxury inns. Their guests enjoy opulent accommodations and a wide variety of recreational activities. The inns themselves are located in historic buildings set in lovely New England settings.

DINE Innsiders already get their money’s worth in comfort and relaxation, plus the inns offer getaway specials, romantic packages, and other lodging discounts. The Innsiders Club provides a bonus savings to recognize Innsiders’ loyalty to the 10 DINE inns.

The inns are (in Rhode Island) Cliffside Inn, (in Vermont) Windham Hill Inn and Rabbit Hill Inn, (in New Hampshire) Chesterfield Inn, Manor on Golden Pond and Inn at Thorn Hill and Spa, (in Massachusetts) Captain’s House Inn, Gateways Inn and Deerfield Inn, and (in Maine) Camden Maine Stay Inn.

The fine print to the Innsider offer is minimal. Some blackout periods and restrictions may be applied by the individual inns. Only $100 DINE dollars can be redeemed at a time. Innsiders need to present their DINE Innsider Card, which is part of the brochure, and have it stamped when they visit inns. There’s no cash value to this offer, and the card expires two years after its issue date.

Innsiders who already use their Innsiders Club card find it an easy process and rewarding too. That extra hundred dollars can buy a special bottle of wine, an afternoon of spa treatments, or some other treat that will make their time away particularly memorable.

New Pillow Menu At Newport RI’s Top Luxury Bed And Breakfast Hotel Abigail Stoneman Inn

Hospitality innovators Abigail Stoneman Inn, Newport RI’s leading luxury bed and breakfast small hotel, are at it again. The Inn, one of the originators of hotel pillow menus and bath bar butler services, has elevated its personalized sleep service up to dreamy new heights with the debut the Dreamy Night Pillow Menu.

The Dreamy Night menu continues the Inn’s focus on personalized sleep with relaxing pillows of all kinds but re-emphasizes and expands the collection of premium goose down — the luxury B&B guests’ top pillow pick.

“The world’s finest down pillows are handcrafted for us right here in New England by our new pillow partners Cuddledown, ” said Abigail Stoneman General Manager Win Baker. “Our Dreamy Night down pillows feature 800 fill power, hypoallergenic, white European goose down. They are quite simply, the best of the best. An incredible night of rejuvenating sleep.”

In addition to the down collection, the complimentary pillow menu features a wide variety of memory foam, buckwheat, pregnancy and anti-snore pillows, 15 selections in all.

The other one-of-a-kind services at the Inn, known for its relaxed elegance and warm hospitality, include the bath bar with 30 of the world’s finest soaps, salts and spa products; water menu with two dozen international bottled waters; and exotic tea collection featuring 30 premium estate teas.

All guest quarters have grand king beds, fine Italian linens, bathing salons with whirlpools or steam bath, fireplaces, antiques, and iPod sound systems. The Inn has a private tea room for two, acclaimed afternoon tea, and Rhode Island’s only water bar.

Abigail Stoneman Inn is a sister property to Distinctive Inns of New England founding member Cliffside Inn, and the newest luxury Inn opened by the Legendary Inns of Newport.

Newport RI Getaway Sale: Holiday Gift Certificates With 20% Savings

New from Cliffside Inn and the Legendary Inns of Newport RI… For the luxury and romance lover in your life, Holiday Gift Certificates with automatic getaway savings to Newport, Rhode Island’s most luxurious Bed and Breakfast Inns.

Buy a Holiday Gift Certificate for $500 – $999 and you receive $100 in Preferred Guest reward savings, good for any Legendary Getaway in 2008. Certificates $1,000+ provide you $200 in rewards.

Gift Certificates $250 – $499 receive $50 in 2008 getaway savings. Available for a limited time only by phone 401-847-1811. Details

The Legendary Inns of Newport Rhode Island, is Newport’s premier collection of small luxury Bed and Breakfast hotels. In addition to Distinctive Inns of New England founding member Cliffside Inn, the Newport Bed and Breakfast group includes Abigail Stoneman Inn, and Adele Turner Inn. Check availability or Book Online for all three Legendary Inns.

Legendary Inns of Newport RI Takes Top Rhode Island Hotel Honors Again — Double AAA Four Diamond Awards For Luxury B&B Lodging

For the fourth year in a row, the Legendary Inns of Newport RI has been honored as Rhode Island’s top AAA Four Diamond luxury lodging group. Both Cliffside Inn (a Distinctive Inns founder) and Abigail Stoneman Inn have again received the prestigious AAA Four Diamond Award.

While just over three percent of the more than 32,000 AAA rated inns and hotels in America are given the coveted Four Diamond Award, the Legendary Inns of Newport owns and operates more than one-quarter of all the AAA Four Diamond hotels or inns in Rhode Island.

Only seven Rhode Island bed and breakfasts, inns, or hotels have been honored with AAA Four Diamonds for 2007. Two Rhode Island restaurants also received AAA Four Diamond Awards at the annual ceremony, held at The Westin Providence Hotel.

“This unprecedented AAA Four Diamond award in Rhode Island for our flagship Newport bed and breakfast inns – four years in a row – is truly gratifying, ” said Winthrop Baker, Group President of the Legendary Inns of Newport. “This AAA recognition speaks to what we’re all about: extraordinary guest experiences, warm hospitality, personal service and grand style, all set in luxuriously detailed, historic Newport, RI inns.”

Each year AAA inspects and rates lodging properties across America. According to AAA Southern New England President Mark Shaw, AAA only awards Four Diamonds to properties that consistently deliver first-class hotel experiences, superior personal service, deluxe amenities, and impressive surroundings.

Abigail Stoneman Inn became Rhode Island’s first luxury bed and breakfast inn awarded the Four Diamond rating in 2003. It was followed later that year by Cliffside Inn.

Named to the “Great Tea Rooms of America,” the luxury Newport, RI bed and breakfast inns also feature a unique array of personal service and deluxe amenities including pillow menus and bath butler soap bars, exotic bathing salons with whirlpools and steam baths, iPod sound systems, in-room spa services and artwork from renowned Newport artist Beatrice Turner.

In addition to Abigail Stoneman Inn and Cliffside Inn, this year’s Rhode Island AAA Four Diamond hotels, inns, and bed and breakfasts include: The Hotel Providence, The Westin Providence, Point Pleasant Inn & Resort, The Chanler at Cliff Walk, and Hydrangea House Inn. The top Rhode Island restaurants include L’Epicureo, and Spiced Pear Restaurant.

The Legendary Inns of Newport is a distinguished group of three luxury Inns. All set in historic, Victorian homes, they have been meticulously restored and seamlessly blended with the finest modern amenities to produce unique, luxury bed and breakfast Inns known for their refined elegance, grand style, warm hospitality and attentive service. The group includes Distcintive Inns member Cliffside Inn, plus Adele Tuner Inn and Abigail Stoneman Inn. Read the release. See all Spring Getaway Specials to Newport Rhode Island