I stayed in a B&B in Inverness for one night. Fucking horrible. Nylon sheets and the old dear running it insisted on calling my girlfriend my 'wife' just so her own presbyterian sensibilities were not offended.

On the same holiday we stayed at one in Kinloch Rannoch run by a German and his wife. The food was great, even sitting eating dinner & breakfast with two other couples that we didn't know at one big table wasn't a problem. Fresh baked bread and scones in the morning, beautiful.

B&Bs are ok in my book.

I stayed in one outside of Coventry. It had a bar in the basement. It cost about 20 pounds to stay there. The old guy that ran it must have given me about 200 pounds worth of scotch gratis. He told war stories all night with his buddies and was one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life.

I've often thought I should open one like that guy's.

A+, great seller, would buy from again.

I can see it making sense when traveling abroad. Drinking Scotch w/ blimey war vets. Drinking Ouzo with Androkles and Gorgophone, while they tell me about growing olives. Sounds fun. I just hate small talk so powerfully that even the concept of the B&B is hellish to me.

When I went on my pilgrimage to Metropolis, Illinois two years ago, the Lady du mois suggested we do this. I was hesitant, but we did it anyway. I've got to say that it was pretty great. The place was nice. They left us alone and fed us a nice breakfast each morning. They had a nice pond that we'd sit by after coming back from dinner with a bottle of wine, then we'd climb in the huge whirlpool tub with a joint and soak. I'd totally do it again.

Every year on the anniversary we stay at the Lazy Cloud Lodge in Fontana, WI (just west of Lake Geneva). It totally bills itself as a "romantic getaway" place and has more than a few eye-rolling features related to that, but it is way comfortable and the people who run it are nice and leave you alone.

This year we stayed in the room where they say Salinger lived for a summer while writing "The Catcher In The Rye", and supposedly a young and struggling Paul Newman stayed there one summer in the '50s when he was doing theater in the area.

What's also nice is that the place is on a good sized parcel of land, where there are a few gazebos one can walk out to and privately smoke funny cigarettes.

The coolest thing is that it is a couple minutes away from the Yerkes Observatory, a historical must see if you are in the area.

Would the proper plural be "beds & breakfast"?

Never been to one, but sounds a little quaint for my tastes. Though free home-cooked breakfast is a major plus.

Creepy. Crap.

Like anything some are total crap but others are amazing. I've stayed in two in Vermont. One was called the Hydeaway Inn. Great food cool bar area and generally low key accomodations, an excellent cheap ski weekend. The other was near Killington. The woman who ran the place served a huge dinner of roast beef, finishing it all off with homemade ice cream covered in maple syrup from the trees on the property. Very not crap.

When the Wife and I drove round the UK we stayed in a wonderful b&b in Windemere, in the lakes district. great food, nice selection of wines and beers, organic fully cooked breakfast. made from local produce. definately not crap, nicer than most of the hotels we stayed in on that trip.

Why do you say creepy , 'Sup???

lemur68 wrote:Would the proper plural be "beds & breakfast"?

Technically, it's possible.

Beds and Breakfast Provence wrote:The area of Avignon is characterized by a happy variety from natural beauties which give him an original and particularly tempting aspect.

But in common usage, not so much.