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Mountain Thyme B&B: Green and guilt-free relaxation, Part 2

See yesterday’s post for all the lazy details on relaxing at Arkansas’s Mountain Thyme B&B.

Mountain Thyme Bed & Breakfast Inn
Address: 10860 Scenic Byway 7 N, Jessieville, AR 71949
Phone: 501-984-5428 or 1-800-820-5424
E-mail: inn@MountainThyme.com

Every room comes with a private bathroom (with handmade soap – choose your favorite scent) and high-quality bedding. A two-course breakfast is included, along with beverages throughout the day and an afternoon snack spread in the guest pantry.

Donna’s Room, MiMi’s Room, Hattie’s Room, Nancy’s Room: All include a queen bed. Nancy’s Room is wheelchair accessible and also has a twin bed (extra charge for use, extra charge for extra guest). Donna’s Room includes French-door entry from the porch. Mimi’s Room has a fireplace. All are $125 for two.

Splurge Option: Check out Mountain Thyme’s other room options, some with whirlpool tubs or fireplaces, $165 - $225.

Rhonda and Mike Hicks, Mountain Thyme’s innkeepers, say there’s still time to take them up on their Superbowl Weekend Special: three nights for the price of two this weekend, February 1-2, 2008. Sunday afternoon pre-game feast (burger, beans, and potato salad) included. If you can’t make it out that soon, put in a Mountain Thyme favorite, Enchanted April, or spin some Diana Krall.   Breathe. Then book.

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Mountain Thyme B&B: Green and guilt-free relaxation, Part 1

You know that feeling. When it all gets too loud, too much, too fast. When you’re wound tight and would give anything to breathe for a few minutes. Preferably in the fresh air. Mountain Thyme Bed & Breakfast Inn promises a still space to sit and fill your lungs. The rambling Arkansas farmhouse is hidden by nine treed acres near the Ouachita National Forest and only 18 miles north of Hot Springs National Park. A favorite of B&B connoisseurs, Mountain Thyme has eight rooms and a whole lot of peace.

Rhonda and Mike Hicks, Mountain Thyme’s innkeepers, have been perfecting the art of relaxation at the B&B since 1998 and made it official by joining the Professional Porch Sitters Union (Local 213) this past September. That’s where you’ll most likely find them, rocking and bird-watching, but they say guests should definitely not miss the hammock, too. Rhonda and Mike will gladly point you toward more expected Arkansas activities – a walk on the ground’s trails, Hot Springs sightseeing, or a picnic lunch at Lake Ouachita (prepared and packed for you for $20) – but, really. Why go, go, go when you could sit, sit, sit? And breathe? The Hicks will be glad to enable
your lazy side, with in-room snack and dinner trays ($15-$30), in-room massages ($70/hour), and a big film library (free!).

Rhonda and Mike have a less laid-back attitude when it comes to making their B&B earth-friendly. They are proud that they have never used pesticides on Mountain Thyme’s grounds. Instead, they grow their herbs onsite without chemicals and buy as much organic produce, coffee and tea as possible. They compost and recycle, of course, and work hard to conserve water and electricity. The Green Hotels Association member B&B is currently in the process of changing their hundreds of light bulbs over to fluorescents.

So deep breaths. And come back tomorrow for rates, room information, and movie and music suggestions from Rhonda and Mike.

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