Amelia Island Florida House Inn
| address | 20 S. 3rd St, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034 |
|---|---|
| telephone | 800/258-3301; 904/261-3300 |
| web site | www.floridahouseinn.com |
| neighborhood | Around Town |
Frommer’s Review
Built near a railroad in 1857, this clapboard Victorian building is Florida’s oldest operating hotel. Ulysses S. Grant stayed here, as did Cuban revolutionary José Martí, and the Rockefellers and Carnegies broke bread at the boardinghouse-style dining room that still provides family-style traditional Southern fare, live music, and old school Carolina shag dancing! You can rock away on the two gingerbread-trimmed front verandas or on a back porch overlooking a brick courtyard shaded by a huge oak tree. The 11 rooms in the original building, all mostly up to modern standards, are loaded with antiques. Most have working fireplaces; some have claw-foot tubs. Four rooms are in a wing added in 1998; one of these has log-cabin walls, the others are done in country style, and all have fireplaces and whirlpool tubs. The second-floor carriage house has two king bedrooms and one small queen with private balcony.
| price | $139-$249 double; $299-$349 carriage house. Rates include full breakfast |
|---|---|
| location | Between Centre and Ash sts |
| in rooms | A/C, TV, coffeemaker, hair dryer, iron |
| pets | Dogs accepted ($10 nightly fee) |
| facilities | Restaurant; bar; coin-op washers and dryers |
| credit cards | AE, DISC, MC, V |
| fax | 904/277-3831 |
Excerpted from Frommer's Florida 2009, © 2009, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
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