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Policies

April 19th, 2010

Guest Poli­cies

    The Ellwanger Estate at night

    The Ell­wanger Estate at night

  • Open Spring through Fall
  • B&B Open on week­ends, Friday/Saturday; Sun­days on rare exception.
  • Wire­less Inter­net is Avail­able Through­out the Estate
  • No Guest Pets
  • No Smok­ing
  • Chil­dren 8 +
  • Cash, checks, VISA and Mas­ter­Card accepted
  • Check-In 3:00 p.m. Check-out 11:00 a.m.
  • Please notify innkeep­ers of arrival before 3:00 p.m. or after 9:00 p.m.
  • 1 night deposit required to hold your reservation
  • Refunds can be made with a $30.00 fee if can­cel­la­tion is 14 days or more prior to arrival; after that period, refunds are based on rebook­ing of room
  • Off street park­ing is provided
  • Full con­ti­nen­tal breakfast
  • Gift cer­tifi­cates available
  • Cen­tral air conditioning
  • All rooms have pri­vate baths
  • All guest rooms are tele­vi­sion free, the library TV is for guest use.
  • Room rates are based on dou­ble occu­pancy and include a full break­fast, evening dessert and always avail­able cof­fee and tea.

Green Poli­cies

  • Eco-Friendly House­keep­ing
  • To ensure that your room is always clean, com­fort­able and wel­com­ing, we will enter guest rooms daily to freshen bath­rooms, empty the trash­cans, and make the bed. How­ever, we respect our guests’ pri­vacy and pro­vide “Do Not Dis­turb” signs for all of our guest rooms. If a “Do Not Dis­turb” sign is hang­ing on a guest room door, we will not enter the room.
  • As part of our com­mit­ment to the New York Green Lodg­ing Pro­gram, the Ell­wanger Estate proac­tively takes steps to lessen our impact on our envi­ron­ment. We will not change the bed linens, tow­els, or robes in a guest room until after a guest’s sec­ond night with us. How­ever, we want all of our guests to have the best expe­ri­ence pos­si­ble and will hap­pily replace these items more fre­quently if specif­i­cally requested.
  • Environmentally-Friendly Poli­cies The Ell­wanger Estate Bed and Break­fast is com­mit­ted to reduc­ing our impact on the envi­ron­ment. As part of the New York Green Lodg­ing Pro­gram, we proac­tively man­age our oper­a­tions to con­serve water and energy, pro­tect our local water­shed, and reduce waste, while main­tain­ing the lux­ury and com­fort we feel that our guest deserve. Below is a short list of some of the ways in which we are accom­plish­ing our goals.
  • Energy Con­ser­va­tion Com­pact Flu­o­res­cent Light­ing (CFL bulbs)
  • Energy-star appli­ances and computers
  • Timed light­ing
  • Water­shed Pro­tec­tion and Water Conservation
  • Environmentally-friendly clean­ers and detergents
  • High-Efficiency Energy-Star laun­dry equipment
  • Only hypoal­ler­genic soaps and nat­ural shampoos
  • Imple­ment­ing processes and equip­ment to reduce water usage
  • Waste Reduc­tion
  • We recy­cle
  • No dis­pos­able tableware
  • We use recy­cled paper products
  • We offer fil­tered drink­ing water in the guest rooms in refill­able glass carafes
  • One set of news­pa­pers for the entire house, as opposed to room copies
  • 2-sided copy and print­ing policy
  • Exten­sive use of elec­tronic doc­u­ments and records, includ­ing online bank­ing and online advertising
  • We donate all tow­els, robes and linens that are no longer usable to the local ani­mal shelter.
  • Lim­ited use of dis­pos­able clean­ing products
  • In addi­tion, we buy as much pro­duce, meats and cheeses as we can from local pro­duc­ers and the farmer’s mar­ket. Most of our food comes from within a 100-mile radius of our bed and break­fast. Our cof­fee is sin­gle source fair trade and locally roasted.