The Summer Edition of the AAA Member magazine features an article on the “Best Little Beach Towns on the Great Lakes”.  

We are pleased and proud that Sodus Point was listed as one of the top ten beach towns on the Great Lakes, and that the Carriage House Inn was recommended as the place to stay in Sodus Point. 

Of course, there are a lot of great places to dine and stay in our village known as “the Jewel of Lake Ontario”, and we hope that you will take the time to experience it yourself. And when you do, come stay at the Carriage House Inn, where it always “feels like home”

It’s almost summer here at the Point, and we’re excited about the coming season!  Sodus Point is dressed up for the summer–all the businesses are open and ready for action.  We have been sampling the wares at local eateries, and can attest that they are ready for your patronage.

Here at the Carriage House Inn, Claudine and I have been sprucing things up for your comfort and enjoyment.  We are upgrading the mattresses, adding some vintage furniture items, and honing our breakfast menu.

So make your plans now for a relaxing visit to the “Jewel of Lake Ontario”, which includes, of course, a stay at the Carriage House Inn, where it always “feels like home”.  You can make a reservation request online at our website, www.carriage-house-inn.com , or calling the Inn at 315-483-2100, or Jerry’s cell, 262-490-8293. We’ll be waiting for you!!

2018 has been  a great  at the Point.  After all the flooding in 2017, this year was a pleasant return to normal.

Claudine and I want to thank all of our Carriage House friends, new and old, who graced us with their presence this year.  After hundreds (thousands?) of chocolate chip cookies, hundreds of breakfasts, and countless stories and songs, we are drawing an end to our 2018 season, and closing for the winter.

Our last day this season was Oct 16.  We will reopen on May 1, 2019, and look forward to seeing all of you next summer.  If you would like to make a reservation, please visit our website and look under the “Accommodations” tab and click on “Rates and Reservations” where you will find an email link, or feel free to call Jerry at 262-490-8293.

If you are on our website, www.carriage-house-inn.com, take some time to browse around all the wonderful information developed and maintained by Cherie Layton at TMB Studios.

Thanks again for  staying with us at the Carriage House Inn, and we look forward to serving your lodging needs even better in 2019!

Claudine and I would like to let you know that The Carriage House Inn will be closed during the period of Sept. 6 2017 to April 30 2018, reopening on the first of May. If you would like to make a reservation for late spring and summer 2018, you can make your requests through our Rates & Reservations page. Thanks for your patronage, and we look forward to seeing you in 2018.

One of the joys we get at the Carriage House Inn is getting to know guests from other countries and cultures.  Recently, a family of four from Cologne, Germany showed us how found out about us in order to make a reservation during their U.S. vacation.  They produced their well thumbed and annotated copy of Iwanowski’s 2015 Travel Guide for the Northeast USA and showed us the review of the Carriage House Inn on page 497

Iwanowski Travel Guides are well known and well regarded travel publications. They feature guides to countries around the world, and are similar to  AAA travel guides in this country.  We were surprised and pleased to see this section in the guide calling the  Carriage House Inn “one of the 50 best”.

Roughly translated, it says: “This historical house in one the 50 best bed and breakfasts in the Northeast U.S. The …..rooms all have their own bathrooms and are located in the Victorian main house built in 1870….right next to the Lighthouse Museum at Lake Ontario”

Also, on page 472, the Carriage House Inn is listed as one of the “special recommendations” for places to stay  when visiting the Northeast U.S.

Even if you don’t have a travel guide, we’re pretty easy to find.  We are right here in our quiet neighborhood a Wickham and Ontario Streets in beautiful Sodus Point, New York, “the Crown Jewel of Lake Ontario”.  Be sure to visit Claudine and I at the Carriage House Inn, where you will truly “feel like home” (Did I mention the bottomless cup of coffee and chocolate chip cookies?).

We look forward to seeing you soon!

When operating a Bed and Breakfast, one is always in the subtle process of acquiring new skills.  You may not even realize these skills are developing until one day they emerge, fully formed.

Such a case happened this week. We were preparing a batch of blueberry buttermilk pancakes for Thursday morning breakfast’s main course.  The challenge with pancakes is always the quest to achieve a perfect golden brown on the outside of the cake, while the inside batter is fluffy, completely cooked but not overcooked.  A fine balance indeed!  That skill has thus far eluded me, but Claudine has mastered it quite well. Thursday I discovered why.

I was getting the coffee carafe ready for a round of refills, and Claudine was at the griddle, pouring the batter on.  As she was tending to the pancakes, at the critical point, I saw her lean over and speak to them!  She was talking to them in a low voice, saying “Come on guys, you can do it!”.  She nurtured and coddled those hotcakes with a little vocal coaching until they were just right and transferred them to the plate.  They were ready to be served.

And now I know the truth–my wife is a Pancake Whisperer!  That just might be what makes the Carriage House Inn pancakes so special.  I only hope to follow in her footsteps to be a worthy whisperer myself.

To those who might debunk the whole idea of “Pancake Whispering”– and there are those who do–I offer the following photographic evidence along with this report.  You can draw your own conclusions.  As for me, well, you had to be there.

One of the biggest treats Claudine and I get at the Carriage House Inn are the impromptu musical events that  occur out of the blue, unplanned and unannounced. Over the past five years we’ve experienced a bluegrass breakdown on a snowy winter evening, a folk hootenanny on a midsummer eve, a mother and daughter violin mini-concert, and some old time acoustic rock and roll.  We’ve even had a bagpipe performance (thanks, Sandy Wallace!), and others too numerous to  mention.  We enjoy every moment of music that has wafted out of our dining room and parlour, and look forward to the next surprise musical interlude.

This week, musical lightning struck twice in a 10 hour period.  A guest who  recently moved to the USA from China shared some Chinese folk songs on the twelve string guitar, as well as his rendition of “Country Roads”   The following morning a young woman from northern Germany played about 20 minutes of variations of jazz keyboardist Gary Burton’s “Times Like These” on the piano.

And at times like these, the Carriage House Inn really does feel like home.  So when you are ready for your next travel adventure, come and stay  with us…..you never know what unexpected delight you might come to experience here!