- 6 rooms
- Benton, CA
- Phone: (760) 933-2507
- Website
- Rates include tax and use of the hot tubs
- Full breakfast included
- Free parking
- Three outdoor hot tubs, fed by a hot water spring
- Fitness center
- Well-behaved pets welcome
- Non-smoking accommodations
Shared baths, refrigerators, satellite TV, air conditioning
The Inn at Benton, one of our favorite places to get away from it all, is a family-owned bed and breakfast inn housed in a building owned by the same family since it was built in the 1920s. Current owner Diane Bramlette says she and her husband wanted to create a European-style bed and breakfast, a comfortable, reasonably-priced place to stay. She has succeeded admirably, furnishing the six rooms with antiques, decorating them in a warm, cozy style and serving a delicious full breakfast, all at a fraction of the price that you might pay elswhere in California.
Three outdoor hot tubs are the Inn's most appealing amenity, getting their warmth from a natural hot spring on the property. Unlike their fancy counterparts elsewhere, roaring with bubbling water jets and saturated in chlorine, these pools are still and natural, and a soak under the stars in one of them is many visitors' favorite experience.
Things should know about the Inn at Benton:
- Children are welcome and so are well-behaved pets.
- The Inn at Benton is sold out most weekends, year round. Reserve at least two weeks in advance.
- There are no phones in the rooms and most cell phones don't work here either.
- You're welcome to enjoy the semi-private hot tubs au naturel, but this is not a clothing optional resort.
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