7 May 13

Four Reasons Business Travelers Love Stonehurst Place

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With the busiest airport in the world and headquarters for many international corporations, Atlanta draws business travelers from all over the world. In fact, the city of Atlanta has the third highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the United States. As many business travelers know, Atlanta is home to Coca-Cola, The Home Depot, Delta Airlines, AT&T Mobility, UPS and many others.

At Stonehurst Place, we’re very familiar with business travelers. Last year, a quarter of our business consisted of business travelers who were returning to Stonehurst Place as their “home away from home” in Atlanta. What makes Stonehurst Place the top hotel pick for so many business travelers coming to Atlanta? Here are the top four reasons.

 

1. We’re in the middle of everything.

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Stonehurst Place is located in Midtown Atlanta, the heart of Atlanta. Many business travelers coming to Atlanta will look specifically in the Midtown area for accommodations. Many global businesses in Midtown are actually walking distance from Stonehurst Place; meanwhile, the Perimeter, Buckhead and Downtown business districts are all conveniently close. We’re easy to get to from ATL Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, by car or on foot using MARTA – just 35 minutes door to door. At Stonehurst Place, our business guests are always exactly where they want to be.

 

2. We’ve got more comfort than you can shake a stick at.

If you’re a business traveler, hotels don’t have anything new that will surprise you. Generic and impersonal, frequent travelers have trouble distinguishing one hotel from another after a while. From look-alike “art” on the walls to scratchy comforters that don’t offer much comfort, even good ordinary hotels provide very little in terms of luxury and ambience. As one business guest put it on TripAdvisor.com, Stonehurst Place “is beautifully decorated with great furnishings, art and bedding.” Another business traveler said, “I am your ordinary road warrior who simply had mega-hotel fatigue. Wish I could share this experience with everyone.” Forget about scratchy sheets and “comforters” at Stonehurst Place. Each of our rooms have beds outfitted in luxurious microfiber sheets and come with a plush bathrobe for your use. Unique, museum-quality art lines our inn’s walls. Our bath amenities are all eco-friendly. In addition, we produce our own honey in our backyard beehives!

 

3. We’re more modern than you might expect.

Luxury is important at Stonehurst Place, but we know that business travelers need high-tech amenities, too. Exceptional bandwidth Wi-Fi is free of charge and each room has an iPod docking station/alarm clock, flat screen TV with premium cable channels and an in-room dual line phone. If you forgot your computer, you can always borrow our guest laptop.  Plus, we are part of the awesome Stash Hotel Rewards program business travelers really love.

 

4. Forget continental breakfasts; enjoy our innkeeper’s home cooking.

business travelers love breakfast at Stonehurst PlaceHotels might offer free, tiny boxes of dry cereal and an occasional waffle maker as part of their free continental breakfasts; at Stonehurst Place, though, we’ll feed you a full gourmet breakfast each morning of your stay — it’s all a natural part of our Southern hospitality. Our beautiful rooms might draw you to Stonehurst Place; our decadent cooking will keep you coming back year after year.

Book Stonehurst Place for Your Next Business Trip

As a business traveler, you deserve to stay somewhere that allows you to truly relax after a hard day’s work. Whether your business stay will keep you in Atlanta for just one night or for several, we know you’ll appreciate the atmosphere at Stonehurst Place. Book a room for your next trip to Atlanta and find out why so many business travelers won’t stay anywhere else but here.

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15 Feb 13

Local Honey from Atlanta?

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Atlanta local honey produced at Stonehurst Place B&B

Health nuts have known how beneficial local honey is for a very long time.  Among other benefits, consuming local honey is a great way to fight off seasonal allergies.

How does local honey help you to fight off allergies? Think about the way that a vaccine works. When you are vaccinated, you are injected with a tiny amount of virus or a look-alike virus. Your immune system notices this enemy and develops antibodies to fight it off. The vaccination is essentially a “practice round” for the body, preparing it for the real fight ahead.  Later, when you are exposed to the full-fledged virus, your body recognizes it and is able to produce the necessary antibodies to ward it off.

Eating local honey works the same way against seasonal allergies. Bees collect pollen and nectar from the same flowers and weeds that make your eyes water and your nose run. When you eat the honey those bees produce from that pollen, the honey functions the same way as a vaccination. This benefit is one of many that local honey provides.

Stonehurst Place Honey is as Local as It Gets

Atlanta local honey produced at Stonehurst Place B&B by Master Beekeeper, Linda Tillman.Besides the fact that Stonehurst Place is an oasis in the middle of the busy city of Atlanta, besides the fact that we’re located just minutes from some of the most enjoyable attractions Atlanta has to offer and besides the fact that each of our rooms and suites provide guests with the height of luxury, at Stonehurst Place we also feature our own on-site beehives to provide guests with the best local honey available.  A few times per year our local master beekeeper, Linda Tillman, swings by Stonehurst Place to check on our bees and later, harvest the honey. The resulting honey has so far been delicious and undiluted.

You might think that the middle of Atlanta wouldn’t be a good place for beehives to flourish. In fact, several of Linda the beekeeper’s hives are located in more rural areas outside of Atlanta. The bees at Stonehurst Place, however, are thriving. They’re doing so well that Linda even allowed a local university graduate student to use our hives as part of a study he conducted.

A Brief History of Stonehurst Place Honey

Atlanta local honey produced at Stonehurst Place B&B, available for sale and the perfect souvenir from your stay! Linda first installed Stonehurst Place’s beehives in the spring of 2011. She placed the beehives carefully behind the Innkeeper’s Cottage so that they wouldn’t be a bother to any of our guests. The hives themselves were constructed by Gary, the life partner of our  innkeeper, Caroline. For her part, Caroline whipped up some sugar syrup for the bees as a welcome meal when they first arrived. At Stonehurst Place we don’t let any guests go hungry, not even our bees!

Linda’s first harvest of the honey at the Stonehurst Place hives came in August of 2011. The bees had only been at Stonehurst for about four months, but during that time, they had been busy bees. She was able to harvest several jars of honey from the hives while still leaving the bees enough honey to last them through the colder winter months. Per our agreement with Linda, she keeps half the honey and Stonehurst Place guests get to enjoy the other half.

We think our fresh honey is one more reason why you should consider Stonehurst Place for your next Atlanta vacation or business trip. The next time you’re in town, we hope you’ll come by for a visit and sample the best local honey Atlanta has to offer.

 

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28 Jan 13

Looking for Wedding Venues in Atlanta? Consider Stonehurst Place

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It’s rumored that when Eddie Murphy married sweetheart Tracey Edmonds in 2008 — a marriage that would last only 14 days — the couple spent more than $500,000 to create a memorable, fairytale event on a French Polynesian island.  Without a doubt, a sunset wedding on a tropical island would be memorable. At Stonehurst Place in Atlanta, however, we don’t think couples should have to cash out a 401(k) in order to enjoy a fairytale wedding. We believe in small, intimate and romantic weddings that are also affordable and pride ourselves on being one of the most unique and beautiful wedding venues in Atlanta.

Eliminate Wedding Stress

Weddings are notoriously challenging events to orchestrate. Between reserving multiple venues, hiring entertainment and getting just the right wedding cake, brides and grooms often find that the day meant to be the best in their life also turns out to be one of the most stressful.

A Stonehurst Place Effortless Elopement takes the stress out of wedding planning… allow us to handle the details! Our inn permits couples to have both the ceremony itself and a small cake cutting and celebratory toast in one  beautiful location. By choosing Stonehurst Place as your wedding destination, there will be no hassle with booking a chapel close to a certain restaurant or coordinating events between multiple locations.

For the ceremony, couples can choose between an outdoor wedding in our intimate rear garden, or an indoor wedding in our Music Room by the fireplace and Mason & Hamlin grand piano. Our exclusive white chocolate signature wedding cake is by Elegant Cheese Cakes® that supply to Saks Fifth Avenue customers!

Intimate and Private

We might be a little biased, but we think Stonehurst Place is the best spot in Atlanta for a small, intimate wedding. We have two Effortless Elopement package to choose from, both with two nights in a gorgeous suite for the couple. We can accommodate up to twelve overnight guests within our inn; choices for the wedding ceremony itself include an additional 10 or 20 non-resident guests depending on the package. Also included is the white chocolate wedding cake mentioned above, keepsake champagne flutes, a bridal bouquet of roses and a non-denominational wedding ceremony.

Minutes from the Heart of Atlanta

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Staying at Stonehurst Place means staying a stone’s throw from the best that Atlanta, GA, has to offer. Located in Midtown Atlanta, we are just minutes from several famous Atlanta landmarks, including the Fabulous Fox Theatre; Centennial Olympic Park; the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell’s house and museum; and the Georgia Aquarium You and your guests will be able to easily enjoy all of the most fun and memorable sites in the city of Atlanta.

Contact Stonehurst Place today to find out more about our wedding packages. We know with us you’ll find the intimate and romantic small wedding of your dreams!

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27 Aug 12

Luxury Hotels in Atlanta or Stonehurst Place?

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luxury hotels in atlantaIf you’re traveling to Atlanta for business or pleasure in the near future, you might be tempted to stay in one of the luxury hotels in Atlanta. After all, there are plenty of Atlanta hotels to choose from; as the hometown of over sixteen major corporations and the busiest airport in the world, Atlanta has plenty of accommodations for visitors who like to travel in style. These hotels are equipped with gyms, pools, concierge desks and sometimes even spas.

However, as comfortable as your stay may be, whichever of the Atlanta luxury hotels you choose will be nearly identical to and as impersonal as every other hotel you’ve ever stayed in. You’ll see the same generic floral wallpaper, the same fancy but uncomfortable couches in the lobby, and the same overpriced-but-bland restaurant meals that you’re used to seeing in the hotels in Atlanta Ga. If you are a frequent traveler, you may even wake up inside your generic luxury hotel room and find it difficult to remember which city you’re in. (“Atlanta? Denver? What day is today…?”)

A Different Kind of Accommodation

At Stonehurst Place Bed & Breakfast, we’re not a hotel — we don’t even want to be compared to a hotel.  Call us an “inn” if you like, but we really prefer the term B&B, because you’ll be delighted by your bed and your room and even more delighted by the incredible breakfast that our Innkeepers will create for you in the morning.

Once you stay with us, you’ll understand why so many of our guests say they’ll never return to any of the look-alike luxury hotels in Atlanta, and why our business travelers insist on only Stonehurst Place when they travel to Atlanta. The fact that Stonehurst Place was voted Citysearch Best Atlanta, GA Business Hotel is no surprise to them.

The Bed

Each room is one-of-a-kind at Stonehurst Place, but certain amenities come standard no matter which room or suite you choose. No matter which room you’re in, you’ll sleep on 1,000 thread-count Egyptian cotton, enjoy plush bathrobes, find a desk with a comfortable chair, and get connected easily with free wifi. Guests love Stonehurst Place bedding so much that they buy it to take home. Why, you can even buy our exclusive-to-the-hotel-trade exceptional mattress sets to create the Stonehurst Place Sleep Experience in your home, through our mattress purchase program.

The Breakfast

Have we mentioned what good cooks our Innkeepers are? Caroline Holder is an Atlanta native whose gourmet Southern meals easily beat any continental breakfast you’d have at a regular hotel. Her cooking alone will be enough to keep you coming back to Stonehurst Place B&B year after year. She is assisted by Sarah Dudys, whose catering background and beautiful food presentation make her breakfasts a feast for the eyes and the soul.

A Still Point in a Busy City

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Stonehurst, a turn-of-the-century southern manor, is located in the center of Midtown Atlanta, on Piedmont Avenue between 8th Street and 10th Street. If you know the Atlanta area, you’ll know that Stonehurst Place’s location means it’s right in the middle of everywhere you want to be in the city.

 

 

 

 

Things to do in Atlanta, places you’ll be minutes away from, include:

  • CNN Center and Studio Tour
  • Atlanta Aquarium
  • World of Coca-Cola
  • Atlanta Botanical Gardens and Piedmont Park
  • AmericasMart
  • Plus, a number of tourist attractions and universities including the High Museum of Art, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Georgia Tech and Emory University, and more.

We’ll Charm You with Our Southern Hospitality

The next time you plan a trip to Atlanta, bypass the Atlanta luxury hotels and book with Stonehurst Place Bed & Breakfast. Whether you come for a romantic getaway or for an extended business trip, we’ll make sure that you’re as comfortable as you would be in your own home, only with better breakfasts!

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