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One Perk of Staying at La Maison Blanche in the Hamptons? A Seaplane!

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 11 Stearns Point Road [map], Shelter Island Heights, NY, United States, 11965
May 19, 2011 at 9:05 AM | by | Comments (0)

Which of the following sounds more appealing: hours by car on the Long Island Expressway, followed by a $12 ferry ride from North Haven to Shelter Island? Or, as convenience would have it, a chartered seaplane that flies you directly from NYC's Chelsea to Crescent Beach? Sound Aircraft, a Long Island-based airplane and helicopter service company, is currently hoping you choose the latter.

What's that, you're afraid to part with so much money?Come on, it's a seaplane! Didn't you ever watch Raiders Of the Lost Ark?

The newly-opened La Maison Blanche, whose on-site bakery and pétanque courts caught our attention a week ago, recently allied with Sound Aircraft to offer this super-convenient promotional service to prospective NYC-based guests.

The trip costs $495 per person each way, though preferred rates are available by simply "mentioning La Maison Blanche." The pickup location is a heliport on the East River in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood, and the trip ends at Crescent Beach.

Helicopters, which are a big part of Sound Aircraft's business, are something of a controversy right now in lower Manhattan. The noise of heliports and overhead flight routes has driven residents to complain, and as a result, there have been fewer sight-seeing helicopter tours. Hopefully, for our sake, the same problem won't be true for seaplanes?

[Photos: La Maison Blanche]

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