What are the advantages of a bed and breakfast?

What are the advantages of a bed and breakfast?

Catharine Hamm (Travel Editor, LA Times) gives expert video advice on: What are the advantages of staying at a motel?; Are bed and breakfast rates comparable to hotel rates?; What are the advantages of a bed and breakfast? and more...

Bed and breakfasts offer a much more intimate experience. For example, often when you arrive you'll be greeted with cookies or an invitation to join for a cocktail. Bed and breakfasts can have a sherry hour where they'll invite you to meet and mingle with other guests. There are sometimes group activates. Also, I think you get much more personalized service. For example, it is very easy to ask proprietors if they have a favorite restaurant or if there is a favorite hike that they like to do. You get a much more detailed experience, I think, when you stay at a Bed and breakfast.