8th Best Bed and Breakfast in the U.S.

Each year, TripAdvisor examines the guest reviews of the many Inns and B&Bs in the U.S. (over 21,000), and using this data, they create what they appropriately call their “Traveler’s Choice” awards. This becomes a list of the top 25 inns/B&B’s in the U.S. as rated by their guests.

2012: 16th Best B&B in the United States

TripAdvisor notified us that Stone Hill had earned a ranking as the 16th best bed and breakfast in the U.S. based upon the reviews that our guests had provided over the previous 12 months. We were 16th! Stone Hill had never won one of these awards before.

Of course, 2 acknowledged the excellent efforts by the original owner and previous innkeepers, and simply worked hard to finish 2012, our first year as owners and without any previous involvement with the hospitality industry, with a goal of neither fumbling a good business nor tarnishing its reputation.

2014: 8th Best B&B in the United States

We were again notified by TripAdvisor that we had earned another spot on their Traveler’s Choice top 25 list. This time we were #8. Our guests' gracious comments earned us a rating that made us the eighth-best inn/B&B in the U.S.

So we thank all our guests for being so wonderful and understanding. We thank our team members who have picked up the pieces that we have dropped so many times. And we give thanks for our faith, for the gifts that we have been given, and the opportunity to use them.

We still have much to learn, and we go forward with a thankful heart, trying to embrace all that has taken place in such a short time: #16 B&B in the U.S. in 2012, and now #8 B&B in the U.S. in 2014. Hard to imagine.