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Bed and Breakfast
There was a time, and it wasn’t so long ago, when finding a bed and breakfast was a rarity in the United States of America and abroad. Travelers made do at a hotel or motel; there was no alternative. The few bed and breakfasts were scattered across the rural areas of New England and California. B&B’s as they are often referred to as, were little known to most travelers; often their only advertisement was by word of mouth.
But in a few short years that has changed, and changed in a way that could be called dramatic. There has been an explosion in the number of bed and breakfasts, both in the United States and around the world. Today, bed and breakfasts can be found in every state, and often in every city; they have become true alternatives to a chain motel room or the city hotel with its hundreds of cubicles.
This sudden increase in bed and breakfast establishments started less than two decades ago when Americans, faced with higher costs for foreign travel, began to explore the back roads and hidden communities of their own country. Other factors have influenced the growth and popularity of bed and breakfasts. Among them, the desire to get away from the daily routine and sameness of city life; the desire to be pampered for a few days; and also the desire to stay in a place with time to make new friends among the other guests.
Restored older homes have become the bed and breakfasts answer to those desires. The setting most often is rural; the innkeepers provide the service – not a staff with name tags – and the parlor is a gathering place for the handful of guests. They are a home away from home.
An effort to collect as much information about as many bed and breakfasts as possible in one source has been overdue. Now that has been remedied. You are visiting the results at your fingertips.
- Richard Paoli, Travel Editor, San Francisco Examiner
Cozy and charming, a bed and breakfast can be a refreshing change of pace from staying in a cookie-cutter hotel or motel. Whatever your destination, LanierBB.com uncovers the best small, to medium and large bed and breakfasts around the world. Besides searching geographically, you can specify whether you’re looking for a family place or a romantic getaway, select such amenities as historic locale or vegetarian food, and even limit your choice bed and breakfasts to what you may book online. Most bed and breakfast pages feature an extensive photo gallery and link to a map describing the exact location of the property. Some even tell you which room is the best in the house, so you know what to ask for.
The traditional definition of a bed and breakfast is a private residence, several rooms of which are set aside for overnight guests whose paid accommodations, including breakfast. A bed and breakfast can be anything from a home with three or more rooms to, more typically, a large house or mansion with eight or nine guest accommodations where breakfast is served in the morning.
If you’ve never stayed at a bed and breakfast, now’s your chance. Never is any one bed and breakfast exactly the same as another bed and breakfast. They are as unique and different as people are. The next time you’re looking for a night or two away from home, choose a bed and breakfast, you may just be pleasantly surprised by how well you are treated and by how comfortably you sleep.
We're committed to providing the most accurate, extensive and up-to-date information on bed and breakfast properties anywhere, and have been doing so for the past 25 years. Thanks for visiting us and enjoy your stay at a bed and breakfast!
- Pamela & Marie Lanier, A Family Company
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