Frommer's Review
This property is looking a bit worn and dim, but still offers a homey ambience and personable service. In addition, the inn provides hotel-like amenities, such as a fine restaurant, wireless Internet access, and a fitness center. The inn occupies twin 1864 Victorian brick town houses (with a newer wing in converted stables across an interior courtyard) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Guests enter via a turn-of-the-20th-century drawing room, with Victorian furnishings and lace-curtained bay windows. Beyond this room lies a suite of lovely public spaces including the inn's restaurant. Only a couple of years ago, the Morrison-Clark's location was considered out of the way, but with the 2003 opening of the immense convention center a couple of blocks away, the inn is now in the thick of things.
The inn's high-ceilinged guest rooms are individually decorated with original artworks, sumptuous fabrics, and antique or reproduction 19th-century furnishings; all rooms are equipped with free wireless Internet access. Most popular are the grand Victorian-style rooms, with chandeliers and bedspreads. Four Victorian rooms have private porches; many others have plant-filled balconies. Guests and locals can enjoy breakfast and dinner served daily in the Victorian dining rooms. Come the warm weather, the inn hosts Big Easy cocktail receptions every Thursday, 5:30 to 7:30pm, on the veranda; come mingle with locals, sip the inn's signature "Steel Magnolia" cocktail, and munch on complimentary hors d'oeuvres, like the crab-cake puff.
Facilities:
Restaurant (American-Southern); tiny fitness center; concierge; business center; room service during restaurant hours; same-day laundry service; dry cleaning
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