Want a relaxing getaway in Orange, Virginia? If you make a reservation for a stay sometime between Sunday and Thursday at The Mayhurst Inn, you will get 20% off your entire stay!

Depnding on the room and date, the regular rate is $179-$229. With this special deal, rates are reduced to $143.20-$183.20.

Guests who visit this historic home will be enveloped in Southern hospitality and history. The Italianate Victorian home is 9,200 square feet and sits on 37 acres of lawn, gardens, fields, and forests. It has eight guest rooms, all with private baths. Amenities include lush robes and slippers, luxury linens, free WiFi, fine chocolates, fireplaces, and Jacuzzi tubs in some rooms.

Generals Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson and A.P. Hill once stayed here. Mayhurst is located amidst three presidential mansions, six Civil War Battlefields, 10 of Virginia's finest Wineries, and over 15 excellent restaurants.

Please contact the inn directly at +1-540-672-5597 to redeem this deal.

By Emily Starbuck Crone

This tasty recipe comes from Inn at Riverbend in Pearisburg, Virginia. The B&B overlooks the Appalachian Mountains and the New River, and all rooms open up to decks and terraces with stunning vistas. With private baths, robes, and gorgeous views, this seven-room inn is perfect for a romantic getaway.

Ingredients:

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  1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking Soda
• 1 cup sour cream
• 16 oz. can solid packed pumpkin
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/3 cup butter or margarine
• 2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup nuts, chopped

Step 1:
Batter: Cream butter, sugar and vanilla in mixing bowl. Add eggs, beating well. Combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Add dry indredients to butter mixture alternately with sour cream.

Step 2:
Pumpkin mixture: In a separate bowl, combine pumpkin, beaten egg, 1/3 C sugar, and pie spice. Spoon half of the batter into a 13" x 9" x 2" prepared baking pan. Spread to corners.

Step 3:
Streusal: Cut brown sugar, butter and cinnamon together until blended. Stir in nuts.

Step 4:
Sprinkle half of streusal over batter. Spread pumpkin mixture over streusal. Carefully spread remaining batter over pumpkin mixture. Sprinkle streusal over top.

Step 5:
Bake in slow oven (325F degrees) 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove and cool on wire rack.

If you're interested in learning about colonial America, the city of Williamsburg, Virginia is the perfect place to go. The town is teeming with incredible history, and there are many historic bed and breakfasts there to welcome you. For an even richer experience, stay at A Williamsburg White House--the oldest home operating as a bed and breakfast in Historic Williamsburg.

It's only a four-block walk to Colonial Williamsburg, a massive living museum that shows what life was once like here. The inn gets its name because all of the rooms are named after a U.S. president: Lincoln, Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, Jefferson, Adams, and FDR. Other areas of the B&B are also nods to famous politicians. You can read a book in the inn's JFK Library, eat breakfast in The Reagan Dining Room, mingle and enjoy fine drinks and snacks in the Diplomatic Reception Room, and stroll in the Churchill Garden. Here are some of the photos of this B&B that will make you feel as though you've stepped back in time:

The century-old estate is surrounded by gardens:

The two-bathroom Lincoln Suite:

The FDR Bed Chambers:

The Adams Bed Chambers:

The Washington Suite:

The Diplomatic Recreation Room, which adjoins the JFK library:

Maison Beliveau Bed & Breakfast is located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The French country-style inn sits on 165 rolling acres and features five spacious guest rooms. Joyce and Yvan Beliveau turned their private property into a B&B, where guests enjoy hiking the property's trails and relaxing in the gazebo by the pond or hilltop pavillion. Joyce kindly took some time to answer questions for us about her lovely B&B and her city. Please keep reading for the interview!

1. What do you enjoy most about being an innkeeper?
I LOVE preparing breakfast and hearing guests who have never met before sitting at the breakfast table howling with laughter. It always makes me smile!

2. How long have you been an innkeeper?
I have been an innkeeper for 3.5 years.

3. What was your inspiration for your creating your inn?
 Our 165 acres are spectacular. My husband and I would often sit at the hilltop pavilion sipping wine, watching the sunset, and say, "We have to share this place with others!"

4. Why did you choose this inn and this city?
The inn is our private home, which we converted to a B&B once we decided to share our property with others.

5. What sets your B&B apart from others?
Our B&B started as an old farmhouse that is now blended in with two add-on renovations.  My husband is a builder and has created a B&B floor plan unlike any other. It has a European feel with two fieldstone fireplaces, yet the brightness and clean feeling of a new inn.  We have an on-site vineyard (wine to be made later this year).  We often set breakfast up at the picnic table in the vineyard, which overlooks the valley.  My husband also leads 8 a.m. weekend hikes on the property before breakfast, now dubbed the 8AM Hiking Club.

6. Why do you think travelers should choose B&Bs over hotels?
B&Bs are all different and each B&B experience is different.  Hotels are pretty routine.

7. Does your B&B have any special history?
The original part of the house was built by one of the first builders in Blacksburg, Virgina.  Many children were raised here. We wanted to add on to the history with renovations, carrying the history forward.

8. What makes your town worth visiting—are there any interesting local attractions or activities?
Blacksburg, VA is awesome!  We’re a small town with a large university, Virginia Tech.  Recreation includes rafting, fishing, boating on the New River, hiking the Appalachian Trail, and biking the state bike route, which is just a mile from our inn.

9. Do you have any food specialties?
I love cooking for my guests and trying new recipes.  Guests love my rosemary sausage strudel served with a potato casserole garnished with a sprig of rosemary. My herb garden is right outside my kitchen. I use fresh herbs a lot, both for flavor and garnishing.

10. Do you have any special offers coming up?
We are offering a "Valentine’s Enchanted Evening" Package: It includes a one-night stay in room with fireplace and air jet tub (large enough for two!), roses and chocolates in the room, a four-course dinner with bottle of wine, and a couples board game for use in the privacy of their room. It’s $435.00 plus tax.

Greg and Lori Dusenberry are the dedicated innkeepers of The Inn at Tabbs Creek, which sits on eight private acres in peaceful Port Haywood, VA. It is surrounded by 800 feet of waterfront property, along with a private dock and boat ramp. The inn consists of the Captain Billups House (circa 1880), which has three newly remodeled guest rooms, and the more modern Garden Cottage, which has one guest room and two luxury suites. Here, you can dine on fresh crab and oysters directly from their creek, plus vegetables from their organic garden. It's also an incredible spots for watching sunsets. Lori kindly answered several questions for us about what makes The Inn at Tabbs Creek and Port Haywood a unique place to vist!

1. What do you enjoy most about being an innkeeper?
We love meeting new people from all walks of life, and sharing this beautiful part of the world with them. Also the joy that people get from being able to get away from it all, relax and enjoy nature.

2. How long have you been an innkeeper?
Just 18 months!

3. What was your inspiration for your creating your inn? Did you have a certain vision for it?
Our biggest inspiration was actually the region itself--a small county on the Chesapeake Bay that is very protected with little development.  The county has recently become more dedicated to eco tourism and a resource for educating people about the region and its history as well as ecology, and that was exactly our vision. We wanted to be more than your average B&B offering our guests who are interested the chance to get out on the water via boat, kayak or paddleboard, as well as the chance to tour our organic garden and learn about the oysters we are raising. We are also in the process of partnering with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to act as a local resource for classes and educational seminars that will be open to both our guests as well as local residents. We hope to be able to give back to our community as much as possible!

4. Why did you choose this inn and this city?
In addition to the above reasons, we chose the location because it had fallen into disrepair and needed a lot of work, which we were happy to do as we are interested in green remodeling and building. But most of all, it had a great set up for us, plus 800 feet of waterfront on a secluded creek.

5. What sets your B&B apart from others?
The water, secluded setting, and relaxed atmosphere.  We all eat breakfast together in the morning family style (unless someone has a special time or request, of course). This gives guests an opportunity to get to know us and each other. People seem to feel more comfortable, and we often find them hanging out together later around the pool, having a drink in the library, etc. It’s like hosting a party every day only the guest list is always changing!

6. Why do you think travelers should choose B&Bs over hotels?
It is more of an experience than just a place to sleep. You get to meet other interesting people, and of course the food is usually better. By finding out of the way locations such as ours (there are no hotels in our county), people have a much more authentic travel experience. No “tourist traps”  or crowds.

7. Does your B&B have any special history?
It was built sometime in the 1800s, but the records for our county were destroyed in the Civil War, so we only have a limited history.

8. What makes your town worth visiting—are there any interesting local attractions or activities?
Flat country roads for cycling, the Blueways water trails system for kayaking, kayak rentals, stand-up paddle lessons, rentals and tours, motor and sailboat tours, lighthouse, birding, fishing, great seafood and small town charm.

9. Do you have any food specialties (for breakfast or otherwise)?
We grow as much of our own food as possible and try to locally source the rest (local eggs, fruit, locally roasted coffee, Virginia wines, etc.). In the summer, we specialize in crab quiche or poached eggs with crabmeat. Crab is caught right off our dock and is fresh. Winter we also feature Oysters with our wine and cheese gathering on Saturdays, and the oysters are also fresh from our creek.

10. Do you have any special offers coming up?
We are featuring 20% off for winter special and we will have a similar weekday special during our high season from April to October.