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5/11/2012

Florida's Finest Inns and Bed & Breakfasts (Florida's Finest Inns & Bed & Breakfasts) Review

Florida's Finest Inns and Bed and Breakfasts (Florida's Finest Inns and Bed and Breakfasts)
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Bruce Hunt is a native Floridan who has authored an ideal travel guide to the Sunshine State's most quaint, historic, romantic, and eclectic lodgings. Whether a traveler on business wanting an alternative to corporate chain hotels and motels, a vacationer seeking a truly special memory, or a resident wanting a holiday day trip, Florida's Finest Inns And Bed & Breakfasts can offer lodging ideas and recommendations to fit every budget, circumstance, and desire. If you are planning a trip to or through Florida, begin with a thorough browsing of Bruce Hunt's Florida's Finest Inns And Bed & Breakfasts!

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From warm and cozy country bed & breakfasts to elegant and historic hotels, author, photographer, and illustrator Bruce Hunt has composed the definitive guide to Florida's most quaint, historic, romantic, and often eclectic lodgings.Come along for the ride as Bruce rambles around the state, stopping for a spell at 135 of the best inns and bed & breakfasts Florida has to offer. Written in an engaging, personal style, Florida's Finest Inns and Bed & Breakfasts relates the histories of many of the places Bruce visits as well as the personal stories of innkeepers and caretakers. Additionally, in the Foreword, Bruce discusses the lives of Henry M. Flagler and Henry B. Plant and their considerable contributions to Florida's architecture. Looking to spend some time in a Victorian house in a quiet, tree-filled neighborhood or at a seaside cottage that evokes memories of summers spent at the beach? Perhaps you'd like to stay in a grand Henry Flagler–era hotel where Vanderbilts, DuPonts, and Rockefellers wintered. You'll find theme rooms filled with offbeat antiques, claw-foot tubs, wicker furniture, canopy beds, and bay windows, along with heaps of old-fashioned hospitality and scrumptious, homemade food. Bruce personally visited each of the places he describes here and lets you in on which rooms are his favorites, what he had for breakfast, and even where to catch up with a few ghosts!Florida's Finest Inns and Bed & Breakfasts is required reading for road-weary travelers searching for a quiet respite from the hustle-bustle world.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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6/18/2011

Flagler's St. Augustine Hotels: The Ponce de Leon, the Alcazar, and the Casa Monica Review

Flagler's St. Augustine Hotels: The Ponce de Leon, the Alcazar, and the Casa Monica
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Dr. Graham is an awesome teacher, I highly reccomend his book even though I have not read it. Although, anything by him must be good. Read Brinkley!

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Near the end of the nineteenth century Standard Oilmillionaire Henry Morrison Flagler ventured to St. Augustine, Florida,America's Oldest City, and transformed it into an exotic traveldestination for the social elite. He raised magnificent, fancifulSpanish Renaissance hotel palaces on what had been orange grove andsalt marsh. Then he connected his creation with the outside world bybuilding a modern railroad system.Flagler's hotels stand as monuments to innovation in architecture and engineering. They were the first large buildings in the United States constructed of poured concrete, and they pioneered use of novel amenities like electric lights, steam heat, and elevators. They are still a vital part of modern St. Augustine. The Ponce de Leon, Flagler's preeminent hotel, now houses Flagler College; the Alcazar now holds the City Hall and the Lightner Museum. Only the Casa Monica (previously called the Cordova) is presently a hotel.

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