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Q. Why do
people stay in a country inn or a bed and breakfast?Why do
people stay in a country inn or a bed and breakfast?
Q. What kind of people come to The Old Town
Farm Inn?
Q. Do you have a dress
code?
Q. Why can't I bring my
children that are under seven?
Q. What do people do when
they stay at The Inn?
Q. Do we need to make
dinner reservations?
Q. How far in advance
do we need to make room reservations?
Q. Can you
hold a room for me if I'm not sure about my plans?
Q.
Can we come for a tour of The Inn?
Q.
What did you do before you bought The Inn?
Q. Why
are all those bridges covered?
Q. Why do people stay
in a country inn or a bed and breakfast?
Bed and breakfasts and country inns thrive today in large
part because they provide an atmosphere of warmth and coziness
that traditional hotels simply can't match.
The Old Town Farm Inn like most B&Bs is owned by the
innkeepers, the Hunters, who live on the premises. It's only
natural to expect that innkeepers who live in their own inns
will bring a different attitude to the job than someone who
works a shift behind a hotel reception desk counting the minutes
till he or she can go home to forget about the customers left
behind.
At B&Bs, the "customers" really are treated as
guests. At The Old Town Farm Inn we will gladly help you find
the best restaurants in the area, point you to the most romantic
or interesting spots. The best of everything in fact from
mountain swimming holes to shopping and more.
Like Most B&Bs and inns, we generate a substantial
portion of our income from repeat business. We do depend on
word-of-mouth recommendations. With these factors in mind it's
easy to understand why we go out of our way to make sure your
stay provides some great memories.
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Activities
available near Vermont's Old Town Farm Inn include
hiking, fishing, antiqueing bicycling, snowmobiling,
and skiing.
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Q.What kind of people come to The Old Town
Farm Inn?
A. In short, all kinds of people. Business men and
women stay with us because they want a setting conducive to rest
and relaxation. Families come up for the area recreation
facilities. We see quite a few couples celebrating their
anniversary, relatives visiting in the area, and a lot of
honeymooners.
Q. Do you have a dress
code?
A. Of course not, at least none beyond common sense.
You are here to unwind and relax. Wear whatever you will feel
most comfortable in.
Q. Why can't I bring my children that are
under seven?
A. The adult population has yet to establish meaningful
diplomatic relations with the under seven year old population. We have found (through trial and unfortunate error) that
children under seven are just not ready to fully enjoy the bed
and breakfast experience. Generally they tend to express their
displeasure in a way that detracts from the experience of our
other guests.
Q. What do people do
when they stay at The Inn?
A. Well, we can't say what goes on behind closed
doors, but most guests arrive mid afternoon or early evening and
then relax in their rooms or in the common room in winter, or on
the patios in the summer before dinner. After a leisurely meal,
then may go for a walk or a drive some may hit the ice others
browse our library and return to their room to read, relax
or...like I said, we don't know what goes on behind closed
doors!
Q. Do we need to make
dinner reservations?
A. Since
we run a fresh kitchen, and making sushi demands the freshest
fish, we can only provide dinners with an advance reservation.
We cannot accommodate walk-ins or last minute reservations. So
please take the time to review our menu and if it looks
appealing to you reserve your dinner as soon as possible
Q.
How far in advance do we need to make room reservations?
A.
Our Inn has only 8 guest rooms. If you want room reservations,
especially for weekend or holiday periods such as Christmas,
President's week or fall foliage season, you should reserve the
room you want as soon as you can. For Presidents weekend its
best to reserve before January.
Q.
Can you hold a room for me if I'm not sure about my plans?
We only have 8 rooms at the inn.
Therefore we can not "hold" a room without a deposit.
The first person who places a deposit on a room gets the room.
We have some who reserve rooms more than a year in advance. So,
in short, you need to reserve a room before someone else does!
Q.
Can we come for a tour of The Inn?
A. Well,
kinda, sorta, probably. Stop by during the middle of the day and
we'll be happy to show you around. We just can't show you any of
our rooms that are occupied when you are here. So we
put together a gallery with pictures of the rooms. We hope you
understand and we invite you to take a virtual tour right here.
Q.
What did you do before you bought The Inn?
A. Michiko
was an instructor of Interior Design, Environmental Design and
Rendering and Presentation Technologies At Sage
Junior College of Albany and a Lighting Designer in New York
City.
Aleks was an industrial designer
designing commercial and monumental window systems and the CAD
and database system engineer for engineering
department. For the last year prior to purchasing the inn,
Aleks worked as a project manager for a construction company in
Manhattan. Aleks still does freelance AutoCAD programming,
database integration, and commercial and monumental window
system design.
Kuniko was a stellar first grade
student.
Q.
Why are all those bridges covered?
The number of stories
people tell about why so many of our bridges are covered is
amazing. Some are funnier than others, all make sense on the
surface, until you think about if for a moment ot two. See if
you can figure out which of the following is the correct reason
for covering bridges.
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People have speculated
that the cover is to keep the snow off, so the steeper the
better. Would you really want to cross a bridge that
couldn't hold the weight of the snowload?
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Others make the more
fanciful supposition that the bridges were built to resemble
barns. The reason for this was to make the horses
comfortable. Obviously this theory did not come from a horse
owner.
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Still others maintain
that in those agrarian days, everybody knew how to build a
barn, so they didn't have any trouble building a bridge
shaped like a barn. By extension everybody in today's
computer age knows how to build a computer.
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One rural legend that
is more difficult to refute is that the builders covered the
bridges to keep the taxpayers from seeing their slipshod
workmanship under the camouflage of the wooden shell.
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Still others insist
that the bridges were designed for travelers caught in
storms. People are friendly up here, and most hospitable,
but if you have thoughts of holding up traffic through a
bridge because its raining, the best advice is to think
again.
Do you give up? We hope
so, because all of the above reasons are wrong. The reality that
wooden bridges were covered to protect the wooden trusses that
gave the bridges their structural integrity. Much as a house is
sheathed to protect the framework from the elements. If the
trusses were left to mother nature's tender mercies, their life
expectancy was about ten years. When people covered them, the
spans' life span increased to over a century."
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