Additional Features Private butler service on each floor, silver toothbrush holder, CD players in the rooms, high-speed internet access, wireless access in the lobby, dual phone lines with speaker phone, voice mail, safe big enough to hold a laptop computer, no-fee bicycles to borrow, evening turndown service with fresh cotton towels, in-room refrigerator and pantry, 50-50 feather and goose down pillows, 100% Egyptian cotton 350-thread Frette sheets, shoe polish and pants press service, choice of morning newspapers (USA Today, Hilton Head Packet, New York Times, etc.), weight training and fitness center but off-site. No charge for local calls (50 cents a minute for long distance). Rates range from $145 to $210.

Located on a famous golf course and within walking distance of Hilton Head Island’s signature red and white lighthouse, the Inn at Harbour Town is often overshadowed by the activities and adventures found on the 5,000-acre Sea Pines Resort.

Small by the standards of most Hilton Head hotels located on golf courses, the 60-room boutique Inn exhibits a sophisticated touch of quiet elegance and European charm, earning it a Four Diamond rating from AAA.

Sea Pines, like many Hilton Head resorts, is reached through a gate manned 24/7 by security guards. Once on the sprawling resort visitors usually visit Harbour Town, a quaint little village on the harbour with restaurants, shops and a launching point for water-borne activities like deep sea fishing and water skiing.

Located on the Harbour Town Golf Links where the prestigious MCI-Classic The Heritage of Golf has been played since 1969, the inn is only a ten-minute walk from the town and two minutes from the golf course club house.

The inn rises three stories and is topped with stylishly-cut blue roofing and plentiful balconies. The front entrance borders several tennis courts and the rear faces the golf course’s ninth hole.

Guests at the Inn are automatically entitled to numerous Sea Pines benefits, such as food and beverage discounts, retail discounts, reduced golf fees, two hours of free court time at the Sea Pines Racquet Club, discounts on Eco-tours, numerous family activities, bicycle rentals and horseback riding. Access is free to the resort’s Harbour Town or Plantation Club swimming pools and The Sea Pines Fitness Center.

Entrance and Lobby
Guests drive up to a porte cochere with a modest cupola on top, amidst landscaping that includes palmetto and holly trees, juniper bushes and flowering plants. Valets wear earpiece radios that allow them to receive information about a guest passing through the entrance gate and thus greet guests by name.

Once inside through automatically sliding doors into the non-smoking lobby, the elevator is to the left, a desk with a Royal Stewart Tartan Plaid clad check-in clerk is to the right. Next to the desk, a glass-enclosed wallboard offers Sea Pine apparel for sale and a brass umbrella stand holds house umbrellas.

Straight ahead is a huge sitting room with stuffed leather and cloth chairs and couches in nearly a dozen separate seating areas, all of which overlook a portion of the golf course. Six pillars help divide the space.

The polished knotty wide-beam pine floors are topped with area rugs.

On the left is a small library with a television and fireplace.

Off to the right of this large lounge is the Tartan room, which offers a breakfast from 7-11 a.m. of omelettes, juices, cereals, breads, yogurt, fruit, muffins and cheese. In the evening it serves as bar with a player piano working from 3-11 p.m. (For those who want to order from a menu, the Harbour Town Grill is a mere three-minute walk outside to the building housing the pro shop. The Grill overlooks the practice range and the walls are hung with original paintings of famous golfers on the Harbour Town Course.)

Hallways
Cream-colored walls with wainscotting make up the hallways, lit by dome lights and cushioned with a red patterned wall-to-wall rug. Alcoves across from the elevator have stuffed chairs and a table with an old-style dial phone.

A cabinet with marble top serves as the place to get the Sunday paper and includes a book of local recommendations for dining. In the morning, it also holds coffee and hot water urns. Six brands of English tea (Taylor’s of Harrogate) are available.

Rooms
Entering a typical guest room at the Inn, guests pass through a small alcove with a wooden-framed mirror on the left above a table topped with a bowl of faux apples in a gold gilded wire basket.

On the right, double doors with opaque glass panes lead to a bathroom with cream-colored tile floor geometrically decorated with small black squares. The glass-enclosed shower is on the right, wallpaper is striped black and white and towel racks are sparkling chrome.

A marble sink with silver faucets sits beneath a large, built-in wall mirror surrounded by painted white wood. The silver theme dominates with silver soap dish, cotton jar top, wastebasket and tooth brush holder. A silver tray holds Gilchrist & Soames shampoo and conditioner bottles, shower gel, body wash and mouthwash. The bathtub is on the left. A Tartan ribbon surrounds the toilet paper.

Once past the room’s alcove, double white louvered doors on the left conceal a closet with an extra pillow, cotton bathrobes, an iron and ironing board.

Opposite the closet is a chest of drawers with a silver water bucket on top, plus a leather-bound in-room dining menu and wine list for breakfast and dinner.

Another menu details service in the Tartan Room, just off the Inn’s lobby, for Continental Breakfast served from 7-11 a.m. Extra wine glasses sit atop the drawers and there is also a built-in small refrigerator. Next to the chest is a clothes rack with a shoe shine cloth, shoe horn and polish applicator.

Armoire
The armoire consists of four clothes’ drawers and a 25-inch television set with 100 channels. Above is a circular mirror. A DVD player is available upon request for no extra charge.

Between custom-made double queen beds (there are 31 rooms with custom-made king beds; 29 with queen beds) with cathedral style headboards and a feather comforter, is a 3-drawer chest topped with a two-line phone, Sony Dream Machine, a combo CD/clock/radio and a copy of TV Guide. All beds were custom made for the inn and 10 rooms have connecting doors.

Rolled up pillows are hypo-allergenic and spare foam pillows are kept in the closet with the iron, ironing board and bathrobe.

A comfortable stuffed chair and hassock and desk complete the furniture. The desk lamp models itself after the famous Harbour Town lighthouse. Oil paintings hang on the walls; the night light is adjustable.

There is also an Internet hook-up to AOL, Mindspring and Juno. Two wooden chairs can be used at the desk; one with arms with a Tartan design, one without arms. Another two-line phone sits on the desk.

Inside the top drawer of the desk one finds a Sea Pines apparel and gift catalogue, sewing kit, real estate catalogue, a bound copy of available guest services with a pen, stationary and card. (Guest services include voice mail and USA

Today or the (Hilton) Island Packet delivered daily to the room on weekdays).

Sunday papers are on the table near the elevator where coffee is available every morning from 5:30 a.m.to 10:30 a.m. Local calls are free, long distance 50 cents a minute.

Each room has a balcony equipped with wicker chairs and a table. Most overlook the golf course; some the tennis courts.

Sports
There are three golf courses - Harbour Town Golf Links, the number one rated course in South Carolina and home to the MCI Heritage Classic - Sea Marsh and Ocean.

The golf courses are dotted with manicured greens and rolling fairways, some holes are located next to white-sand ocean beaches.

The Tennis facility, with 23 courts, was ranked “Top 50 Greatest U.S. Tennis Resorts”, #2 Resort, #2 Best Tennis Programs for 2000 & 2002 by Tennis Magazine. Guests receive two free hours of play a day; more costs $18 an hour.

Forest Preserve
The 605-acre Forest Preserve contains a wildflower meadow, the island’s largest lake and bird rookery, and an archaeologically significant Indian Shell Ring. Guests can walk, bike or take guided tours, including one designed to view swimming or sleeping alligators known as the Alligator Adventure that has a high degree of sight-seeing success.

There are also boat tours, a loggerhead turtle walk, beach discovery tour and evening beach walk.

The Sea Pine Museum and Equestrian Center are also on the preserve, along with 15 miles of trails. The 5,000 acre resort contains shady avenues of live moss hanging from oak trees lining sun-dappled streets.

Walking around the resort, you may see alligators sunning themselves, white egrets poised to strike a hapless fish, anhinga diving for fish that have eluded the egrets or at dusk, deer darting across fairways before ducking into the woods.

Dining
The Lakehouse Restaurant and Pub overlooks lagoons and fairways; the quaint Harbour Town Bakery and Cafe is located in the former lighthouse keeper’s cottage; the Beach Club and Surfside Grill is next to the ocean with outside tables; the Harbour Town Grill is a three-minute walk from the Inn and located in the resort’s Conference Center, along with the Golf Pro shop.

Of all the eating places on the resort, only the Marina and Harbour Town Yacht Club are not owned by Sea Pines.
Fitness Room

A converted guest room, the fitness room contains fresh towels, a water cooler, four aerobic machines, a situp bench, a weight machine, some free weights

Special Amenities
Private butler service on each floor, silver toothbrush holder, CD players in the rooms, high-speed internet access, wireless access in the lobby, dual phone lines with speaker phone, voice mail, safe big enough to hold a laptop computer, no-fee bicycles to borrow, evening turndown service with fresh cotton towels, in-room refrigerator and pantry, 50-50 feather and goose down pillows, 100% Egyptian cotton 350-thread Frette sheets, shoe polish and pants press service, choice of morning newspapers (USA Today, Hilton Head Packet, New York Times, etc.), weight training and fitness center but off-site. No charge for local calls (50 cents a minute for long distance). Rates range from $145 to $210.

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