All during the month of February 2012, enjoy romance at a Mississippi bed and breakfast located just off the Natchez Trace Parkway.

The Isabella Bed and Breakfast in Port Gibson, MS, is offering this special package, which includes the following:

• One night stay (queen bed, private bathroom)
• Flowers
• Wine or sparkling grape juice
• Dinner for two
• Full southern breakfast
• Add an additional night, based on availability

Follow this link to find additional information and to make reservations!

Headed to or through West Virginia during February? Are you “lovers” looking for a 2012 Valentine’s Day special to fit your travel schedule?

If your answer is “yes”, then this package from A Natures Song Bed and Breakfast in Mannington, West Virginia may be exactly what you are looking for.

Book this Valentine’s Day Getaway … for any time in February. We will be happy to reserve your stay, whenever you can get away in February.

Details include:

• Two nights
• Chocolate-covered strawberries
• Champagne
• Flowers in your room
• Candle light dinner for two the second night of your stay

Total package cost per couple is $320. Call Joanna today to book this special – (304) 986-3401

www.anaturessong.com

Tired of the same old parties?

Here’s a Last Minute New Years Eve 2011 Special, offered by the innkeeper at A Natures Song Bed and Breakfast in Mannington, West Virginia. (link to Google map)

This could be just the night you are looking for. Party hats, candlelight dinner and champagne to toast in the New Year.

Total package cost is only $175

Call Joanna at 304-986-3401

Two nights … Continental Breakfast … Champagne Dinner (by Chef Dan) … New Years Day Brunch.

Sound like a plan for New Years Eve Weekend? Check out this special on their Elkhorn Inn and Theatre Facebook Events Page for more details. Or, see Elkhorn Inn’s contact information here. They happen to be located on the historic “Coal Heritage Trail” in the mountains of Landgraf, WV.

Christmas Special featuring Helen Efaw

Dates for this special are December 1 & 2 or December 13 & 14 (2011).

Looking for a special Christmas gift for that special person that has everything? Take a look at this package.

• Make a drum basket right here in the comfort of A Natures Song B&B. Helen Efaw, a local basket weaver, has been weaving baskets for over 20 years and started teaching basket weaving shortly after.
• This package includes one-on-one instruction from Helen; her hand-dyed reeds, from local plants such as black walnuts, blackberries, elderberry and beets, butternut and hickory hulls; and her newest dye from wild grapes.
• It will take approximately 6 hours to complete your handmade basket. This package is limited to the dates listed. First come, first served.
• This wonderful Package is priced at $384:
  • Two persons
  • Two nights
  • Breakfast each morning
  • Lunch the second day with Helen before making your baskets
  • All the supplies to complete your baskets. $384

For more information, please contact Joanna as soon as possible before your date is taken. 304-986-3401

Go to A Natures Song Bed and Breakfast

Have you ever wondered how many things can be dipped in chocolate?

You can find out with your girlfriends while having a Chocolate Fondue Party as part of the “Girls Chocolate Escape Special” at A Natures Song Bed and Breakfast in Mannington, West Virginia.

This Special Package includes the following:

• Chocolate …
• Flowers …
• Your Favorite Comfie Jammies …
• Relaxing Music …
• Chocolate Waffles for Breakfast …
• Dinner with Chocolate Dessert

Two Rooms for Two Nights with your best girl buddies for a total package cost of $600 ($150 per person).

• Visit the Specials page at www.anaturessong.com for more information and other special packages

Merry Christmas from The Irish Inn!

Winter in The Shawnee National Forest can be mild or frosty, but there is always a beautiful cozy fire burning in the great room, as well as fireplaces and super king-sized beds with seven layers of bliss in each of our sleeping rooms. If you are an empty-nester seeking a relaxing holiday celebration away from it all, plan a visit here.

Christmas may come but one day a year everywhere else, but you can celebrate it each and every day at The Irish Inn in the month of December.

Located on the Southern Illinois Wine Trail, the winter starscapes will amaze you, as well as the rivers, forests, canyons, and waterways of all descriptions. If you seek an easy and delicious holiday, spend this special time with us. Enjoy turkey and ham with all the trimmings upon your December arrival and our trademark full Irish breakfast in the mornings.

This package is available from December 1 through 28, 2010. The complete two-night package is $398, and all you will have to do is relax and unwind. Call (618) 695-3355 to celebrate the best and easiest Christmas you ever had. You’ll feel like you’re coming home again!

Here’s a quick update to the number of participating B&Bs in the West Virginia Bed and Breakfast Association’s “Thank You Veterans” project as of tonight:

• 550 participating Inns
• 48 U.S. States
• 2 Canadian Provinces

Per their site: “B&Bs and Inns are providing free rooms on Wednesday, November 10, in observance of Veterans Day, November 11, to honor servicemen and women currently serving or who have previously served their country.”

Find a list of those B&Bs and Inns here: http://www.bnbsforvets.org/participants.html

2011 Update (10/30/11)

The B&B for Vets promotion has moved to the Better Way to Stay website, which is a “grassroots campaign to help travelers discover today’s inns and B&B experience” developed by the industry group, Professional Association of Innkeepers International.

To see the 2011 Bed and Breakfast and Inn participants in the program, check out the Better Way to Stay B&B for Vets page. Canada’s participating Bed and Breakfasts and Inns can be found on their Bed and Breakfasts for Veterans page.

The Better Way to Stay site says there are at least 495 B&Bs that are participating plus 215 more on the BBCanada site.

This year’s offer of a free room to persons who have served in the military is for Thursday night, November 10, 2011.

Thank you to all of the Veterans who have so sacrificially
served to preserve and protect our freedoms!

2010 B&B for Vets Information

The West Virginia Bed and Breakfast Association is taking their “Thank You Veterans Project” nationwide for 2010. As of today, July 28, 2010, almost 200 Bed and Breakfasts, in over 30 States and 1 Canadian Province*, are set to honor military personnel by offering a free room in observance of Veterans Day.

*August 1, 2010 update: 203 participating B&Bs in 36 States and 1 Canadian province

*October 6, 2010 update: 550 participating B&Bs in 48 States and 2 Canadian provinces

Here are some of the details and suggestions for 2010 participating Inns:

1. Make a minimum of one room available FREE on November 10, 2010, to military personnel
2. Take any reservations for your inn – no coordinating with anyone is needed
3. Send out any Press Releases you wish (if you can combine with other inns, this has greater impact for getting TV and print exposure)
4. Consider contacting American Legion, VFW, military bases in your State/Area
5. Please do not make it a minimum stay or BOGO – the benefit to the B & B will be the publicity needed to tell the military it is available (even the grocery does BOGO)
6. Please state you are joining the West Virginia Bed & Breakfast Association in the “Thank You Veterans Project”
7. To avoid scammers: If you state that a free room can be obtained for anyone who possesses a valid military ID, a valid VA ID card or any valid veteran separation paperwork, then you will have done a great service to veterans. One of these will be possessed by only:
   1. Active Duty
   2. Retired Military
   3. Reserves
   4. National Guard
   5. Veterans who qualify for VA services

A web site is up and running for inns to register as participants, and for Veterans to use to locate a participating inn: www.bnbsforvets.org

To best achieve the goals that drive this project, Bed & Breakfasts should be doing this as a “Thank You” to Veterans for their Service to our Country. This project is NOT a lead gathering device, but is meant to be nothing more than “Thank You”.

Please note that this Project is strictly voluntary, and is “sponsored” by a couple of WV bed and breakfasts, who have borne the costs for the domain name, setting up and hosting the website and other Public Relations and Marketing  costs. Participating B & Bs, if they are so inclined, are simply asked to consider sending a $5.00 donation to help pay for the PR needed to get the most publicity.

Be James Bond, Q, M, Felix Lighter, Solitaire, Octopussy, Zorin, Goldfinger, or any 007 character for 24 hours at The Irish Inn in Ozark, Illinois! Watch our James Bond movies to get you, and the spy who loves you, in the mood for your special mission!

*Special is good from August 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010

Your Deluxe Overnight Stay (valued at $199) includes:

• gourmet secret agent dinner
• flowers arranged by Moneypenny
• chocolates from The Chocolate Factory (the non-explosive kind)
• unlimited 007 viewing (all James Bond films available) and
• a full English breakfast served by 006

Visitors who dress for dinner as characters from 007 films win free bottles of wine, and the most creative guest of the season wins a free night at The Irish Inn!

If you don’t think 24 hours is long enough to achieve your objective, stay for two days for a cost of $359.  You will never say “never” again!

Call “M” at (618) 695-3355 or (618) 695-5683

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