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Buy Everything But The Bed (But Try The Bed) At The Alluvian
We’re always suckers for hotel tat – whether it’s nicking a pen and notebook from the room, buying branded crockery or saving up for one of those Kimpton animal print bathrobes.
So imagine our excitement when we popped in to see the posh Alluvian hotel in Greenwood, Mississippi and found that, as well as the beds in the rooms (which we couldn’t hunker down on, what with not being hotel guests), there’s a bedroom for visitors to try out in the hotel shop across the road.
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Inside The Shotgun Houses of The Shack Up Inn
After we loved our stay in the Tallahatchie Flats last week, a friendly Mississippi local told us we should see the Shack Up Inn about five miles outside of Clarksdale (home to Morgan Freeman’s blues club, Ground Zero and restaurant, Madidi).
So we popped along and, sure enough, we thought it was great. The Shack Up is set on what remains of the Hopson Plantation (part of the official Blues Trail). It’s bigger than the Tallahatchie Flats – there are 10 shacks, one house, and 10 “bin” rooms in the old cotton gin. Shacks cost from $60 a night, and the bin rooms from $65.
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Back To Basics, Shotgun Style: Inside The Tallahatchie Flats
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. Not only can it make you think fondly of the bad times (Wham! reunion, anyone?), it can also make spending the night in a little shotgun house off a cornfield in the Mississippi Delta sound like a good idea. So when we found out about the Tallahatchie Flats - a collection of six original plantation cottages, transported to a field outside Greenwood, Mississippi - we had to go straight there.
Room Reaction:
We asked for the cheapest cottage – which costs $65 – but the manager/all-round man about the flats, Les, upgraded us to the bigger Red House, worth $85, because he’d already turned the air con on in that one. Nice! So we ended up with a choice of four beds (a king in the master bedroom, two singles in the second bedroom, and a sofa-bed in the living room) and a living room, dining room and kitchen as well – plus two porches to sit on and chew tobacco.
It was big, but don’t expect luxury – it’s as you’d expect a shotgun house to be, with plain wooden floors and walls, old pictures of JFK and Martin Luther King on the walls, and a seriously teeny bathroom. But the bed was comfy and we slept like logs – the only noise out here is from the frogs outside (don’t underestimate them, though, they’re loud little buggers).
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Room With an Anti-View: Bland Outlook from Jackson Marriott
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
Avoid a room on this side of the Marriott Hotel Jackson in Mississippi unless you have a particular fascination with parking lots. Personally we'd rather stare at closed curtains than look out over these pretty bland buildings and endless rows of cars.
The Marriott Jackson website does freely admit that the hotel is in the heart of the business and government district, and since they've just done a multi-million dollar renovation, the inside must be looking much better than the view. Rates start at $139 a night with romantic getaway packages (romantic view not included) from $149 including champagne and strawberries.
[Photo: Jim Frazier]
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Dirty South Oven Maker Also A Hotel Maker
[Ed. Note: Hotel Maven Tim Leffel got all Betty Crocker on us, checking out some high-end ovens only to discover they were made in Mississippi. Naturally, when you follow the oven, you're bound to find a hotel. Er..not quite but read on to find out what hotel is worth a stop down South.]
Greenwood, Mississippi has a population of only 17,344 and one substantial employer. But when that employer is an upscale appliance maker, a swanky boutique hotel starts to make lots of sense.
Inc. Magazine is not a publication we normally turn to for advice on hip boutique hotels, but a story on the hometown of Viking Range caught our eye. The high-end stove company was founded in little Greenwood, Mississippi and is still headquartered there. The founder, Fred Carl, was tired of bringing sales reps to town and having no decent place for them to stay. So he took things into his own hands and financed the development of the Alluvian Hotel, in a restored building downtown.
This lovely boutique hotel is to the existing highway motels in town what a Viking stove is to a Kenmore starter model. As one "admirer" says in the article, "It don't belong in Greenwood!" Picture fine fabrics, stylish furniture, attractive lighting, commissioned art, and all the attention you would expect in an upscale hotel. There's a plush lobby and bar, plus a great restaurant (also owned by Viking) on the corner. It's $175 a night for one of the 45 regular rooms, but plan ahead to get a reservation. They're so booked up that they don't even let you do it on the web--you have to call and see where they can squeeze you in.
Image via DeepFriedKudzu/Flickr
Related Stories:
· The Alluvian Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]
· August 2006 [Inc. Magazine]
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