New review just posted on the bed and breakfast .com website about their stay at the Kingsley House Inn: We recently stayed at the Kingsley House and got the Romantic Package. We were so impressed with everything from the wonderful and clean accomodations, to the delicious breakfast. The owner, Dave, was gracious and helpful. THe bed was comfortable and the massages were fantastic! We would definately stay here again.
One of the many things our bed and breakfast guests tell us they love about our breakfast is the variety and selection of coffee and teas that we offer in the morning. We always feature a mildly flavored coffee such as Michigan Cherry, Vanilla Creme or Cinnamon Bun as well as the regular version of the ole’ standy coffee. While many of these flavors can be brewed by guests in the comfort of their own homes, it seems as though it is always a treat for guests when they don’t expect the extra touches such as coffee selections that we offer.
One of the couples here this weekend with us at the bed and breakfast are one of the many couples who were married here at the Inn a couple of years ago. Of the couples on romantic getaways here at the B&B, a fair number of them are repeat guests and some of them have been married here as a part of our wedding package at the Inn. It’s always nice to see our married couples return to celebrate their anniversaries here at the bed and breakfast as they will always hold a special place for the Kingsley House in their heart and in their marriage.
Every year our local community’s biggest festival of the year is the fall Goose Festival, which is a three-day festival that begins today and continues through to Sunday. While Saugatuck, Holland and South Haven all have fall events this weekend as well, the Goose Festival itself includes parades, bands, a carnival, vendors, crafts and more. If you’re lucky, you might even run into “Mother Goose” who is always in attendance every year as well!
It’s rare that our weather forecast for West Michigan includes 80 degree temperatures anytime in the fall, much less in mid October. Yet that is exactly what are forecast is for this coming weekend in West Michigan. Our bed and breakfast guests checking in this weekend for a romantic fall getaway will be surprised to find that they might just need their shorts and short sleeve shirts to be comfortable along the Lake Michigan waterfront and while out searching for that perfect pumpkin and picking apples in the u-pick orchards in our neighboring Crane’s orchards.
Later yesterday we attended the fall social of the Saugatuck Area Business association, of which we are ongoing members. Marro’s Italian restaurant in downtown Saugatuck hosted the event and it was very nice to see so many of our fellow business members of the surrounding bed and breakfast and retail stores in the area. Marro’s did a phenomenal job in providing a fantastic buffet for the event and reminded us all of the wide variety of their menu.
Every year about this time I update our off season specials packages and discounts for the late fall, winter and early spring seasons. Yesterday’s blog post was about updating our Michigan Romantic Getaways page and our Specials and Packages pages with these offers on our own website. For the past few days, I have also been working on populating these specials, packages and discounts on the many vendor websites that we are a part of as well. It’s an annual ritual that we go through to make sure that folks know of our offerings for the year so that they can “find” us. It’s time consuming, but definitely something that is a part of being a successful bed and breakfast.
Throughout the year we are always updating our specials and packages online for visitors to the Saugatuck and West Michigan communities. Over the weekend we just added and updated our off season discounts and specials and they really are GREAT discounts if we do say so ourselves. Our bed and breakfast Inn offers fantastic specials and discounts this time of year and the pace in the surrounding beach town communities is much more relaxed and peaceful this time of year as well.
As we drove through downtown Saugatuck today it occurred to me that we are now in the more relaxed fall season of the year as our resort towns of West Michigan get back to more of a slower relaxed pace of life. Yesterday was the Octoberfest celebration in downtown Douglas and with the autumn season upon us, more of the fall festivals are beginning to kick in during October. In the coming weeks there are numerous fall festivals and events and always so much more manageable to traverse through the towns during this slower more peaceful time of year.
This weekend is the annual Blue Coast Artist’s Fall Weekend Open House. A group of local artistans that have working art studios in the countryside from Saugatuck to South Haven, the fall open house event gives people the opportunity to see their work in progress first-hand and to better understand how their particular art form is created. Whether you are interested in pottery, painting, wire sculptures or wood, it is a great weekend to get out and see the artists first hand.
