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The Best B&B Getaways: Bowman’s Hill

38 miles from Philadelphia (50 minutes by car) Compared to many local inns and B&Bs, Bowman’s Hill is just a baby — not a renovated […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: Swann House

140 miles from Philadelphia (2 hours and 40 minutes by car) Surrounded by grand Victorian mansions on the oak-lined streets of the historic Dupont Circle […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: The Atlantis Inn

65 miles from Philadelphia (1 hour and 15 minutes by car) After an afternoon spent on the porch watching myriad Lexuses and BMWs drive by […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: The William Page Inn

128 miles from Philadelphia (2 hours and 20 minutes by car) Innkeeper Robert Zuchelli says many of his guests at this four-square cedar-shake-shingled inn come […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: The Inn at Montchanin Village

32 miles from Philadelphia (45 minutes by car) We’ve never strolled through a hotel quite the way we strolled through the Inn at Montchanin Village: […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: Cromwell Manor Inn

148 miles from Philadelphia (2 hours and 45 minutes by car) There are a million things to do up in the mighty hills of Cornwall, […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: Hambleton Inn

125 miles from Philadelphia (2 hours and 45 minutes by car) The small harbor town of St. Michaels was first settled in the mid-1600s, and […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: The Gables

67 miles from Philadelphia (1 hour and 45 minutes by car) At this lemon-lime-and-raspberry-sherbet-painted B&B a block from the ocean, you sit down to breakfast […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: Old Gratitude House

100 miles from Philadelphia (2 hours by car) At Old Gratitude, Mikey and Jamey greet all chicken-neckers — that’s local-speak for out-of-towners — with equal […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: Bykenhulle House

160 miles from Philadelphia (3 hours by car) Nestled on a quiet residential street in the Hudson Valley, Bill and Florence Beausoleil’s sprawling white manse […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: King’s Cottage

65 miles from Philadelphia (1 hour and 30 minutes by car) The writers of the tourist tome 1,000 Places to See in the USA and […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: Haddonfield Inn

10 miles from Philadelphia (20 minutes by car) You’d never know it in the midst of Center City, but 10 or so miles southeast of […]

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Class Acts: The $212,000,000 School

I have seen the future of education, and it seems to have a lot in common with a Phillies luxury suite. [sidebar]Okay, I’m exaggerating, but […]

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The Best B&B Getaway: The Woolverton Inn

It’s not just the understated English decorative touches that so enhance the experience here, or the owners’ English springer, Tom, who romps around the property, […]

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The Best B&B Getaways: The Inn at Irving Place

As the brownstone’s imposing door, marked only with an equally imposing door knocker, swings open, you’ll be sure you’ve accidentally stumbled into a high-society soiree. […]