Midweek inns, small tables
The office on Washington Avenue is a bed and breakfast travel agency in Towson that reserves two midweek nights at small inns within a few hours' drive. We pick an inn for each request, ask the innkeeper which rooms are free, and send one written quote. The list runs by guest rooms, fewest first, because each room is one place at the breakfast table.
Phone answered Tuesday to Saturday, 7:30 to 10:30 am Eastern: (410) 821-4736
Frostburg, Sharpsburg and Strasburg set four to six places, a small table where breakfast feels like a kitchen. Solomons, Gettysburg and Upper Black Eddy set seven to eleven, with more company and more choice of rooms. Browse the full catalog to reserve a bed and breakfast getaway, or read small inn getaways from Baltimore for how rooms are counted.
A small table: four to six rooms
Four rooms, four place settings: a brick townhouse on a mountain college town's main street, where breakfast is a small table cooked to order.
from $240 for twofrom $120 per person · 2 nights, one room, taxes extra
Five rooms, five place settings: a multi-course breakfast at 8:30 am, served at separate tables in a house on the village's one street.
from $400 for twofrom $200 per person · 2 nights, one room, taxes extra
Six places at one shared table: enough company for easy conversation over a cooked breakfast, still small enough to feel like a family kitchen.
from $240 for twofrom $120 per person · 2 nights, one room, taxes extra
A longer table: seven to eleven rooms
Seven places at the table mean a mid-sized breakfast: enough company to meet other travelers, and a choice among five house rooms and two in the carriage house.
from $400 for twofrom $200 per person · 2 nights, one room, taxes extra
Nine places at one shared table: enough company for easy talk over breakfast, with a room on every floor and the town square a block away.
from $360 for twofrom $180 per person · 2 nights, one room, taxes extra
Eleven places at the table means plenty of company at breakfast, a choice among many rooms, and a river village a long morning's drive from Towson.
from $600 for twofrom $300 per person · 2 nights, one room, taxes extra
At the Washington Avenue office in Towson, a person answers the phone Tuesday to Saturday, 7:30 to 10:30 am Eastern, and visits are by appointment Tuesday to Friday, 11 am to 3 pm. Every step from form to check in is described when you reserve an inn room with a travel agent.
Write in by noon on a weekday and the reply goes out by 5 pm that day; after noon, by 5 pm on the weekday that follows. The form takes requests at any hour; the page of bed and breakfast offers in Maryland and Pennsylvania shows what inns have passed on.
Each room is one place at the inn's breakfast table, so the count tells you how much company sits at breakfast. Four rooms is a kitchen table with few other guests; eleven is a long table with more company. The order lets you pick the size first.
Yes. The form has a rooms field, and a request can ask for up to three rooms at one inn. The office asks the innkeeper whether that many are free for your nights and writes one quote covering them.
Nothing is owed for the quote. After you approve it in writing, the inn takes its deposit or payment directly under its own policies, and the inn pays the office a commission after the stay. The traveler pays the office nothing.
The office suggests the nearest size instead: a table with a similar number of rooms, in another town if needed. You see it in the same written quote, and nothing is held until you approve.