New England - Connecticut

Bee and Thistle Inn

A Karen Brown Recommended Hotel / Inn

A Select Registry Property

Innkeepers: Linnea & David Rufo 100 Lyme Street Old Lyme, CT  06371 USA Visit Website Contact Property Request Reservation Information

Karen's Review Of This Property:

One of the most charming villages in Connecticut must be Old Lyme where the Bee and Thistle Inn was built as a private home in 1756. Its second owners found its location too close to the road; so they moved it back from the wide main street of this village to its present gracious setting with a welcoming curved driveway, adding enhancements such as the lovely sunken garden which you should stroll around. In the late 1930s this home was transformed into an inn, now updated to offer 11 guestrooms. From the welcoming front hall there’s a lovely carved staircase that takes you up to the tastefully decorated bedrooms on the upper floors, all decorated in Colonial style, with flowered wallpapers, quilts, and Oriental rugs. The rooms, with sitting areas and full bathrooms, have everything that a guest might want. The inn is noted for its award-winning restaurant and wine list, and the several dining rooms with their individual fireplaces are as attractive as the common areas where guests are invited to relax while staying at the inn. Readers of Connecticut Magazine voted this restaurant the most romantic in the state. I stayed here over 20 years ago and find everything about this inn to be as charming today as it was then.

Located along these Karen Brown Itineraries:

Sturbridge & Connecticut Shore
Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard & Newport

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Credit Cards Welcome: ALL MAJOR
11 Rooms, Double Occupancy: $140.00 - $275.00
*Service: $8.00 per room, per night

Open: all year

Phone: (860) 434-1667   Fax: (860) 434-3402
  Tollfree: (800) 622-4946

Directions: From I-95 traveling south, take exit 70, turn right off the ramp to the third building on the left. Traveling north on I-95, turn left off the ramp and right at the second light, go to the end of the road, then turn left to the inn.

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