| Comforts |
Our beds | Breakfast
| Spa Tubs | The
Beach | Arts & Craft Décor
| Wine Shop | Wine
Tasting
Balconies and Decks
| Stoves | Flat
Screen TVs | Pool & Spa
| In room stuff |
| Our beds |
| If all goes well during your travels you’ll spend more
time sleeping in your bed than any thing else. We have been
told by our guests that our beds are the most comfortable motel
beds they have ever slept in. The story line is like Goldilocks
and the Three Bears. We start with an upper end firm mattress
and box springs, the papa bear’s bed. Experience has shown
me that “pillow top mattresses” can loose their
support and get mushy pretty quickly, the momma bear’s
bed. What we have done is add a 2.5 inch memory foam pad to
make the beds just about perfect, the baby bear’s bed
that goldilocks falls asleep in. We then make the beds up with
Ivory 250 thread count cotton satin striped sheets. If you like
the standard motel comforters with their cleanliness issues
you’ll have to try the other motels in town. We triple
sheet our downlight comforters so that our guests never have
to worry about mingling with the last guest’s DNA. The
beds are then dressed with more pillows than you’ll find
anywhere except a linen convention. We add some decorative pillows
and a 100% cotton throw designed by none other than Frank Lloyd
Wright himself. The bottom line is that the beds in our ocean
view rooms will probably give you the best night’s sleep
you’ve ever had in quite a while. |
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| Breakfast |
| We have all the carbohydrates normally associated with continental
breakfast, couple kinds of bread, sweet rolls, English muffins
and an assortment of bagels. For those that like hearty food
(me and my son) we have buttermilk biscuits and country sausage
gravy. Guest will find a couple of Belgian waffle makers so
that they can cook their waffles just they way they like it
with choice of boysenberry or maple syrup. Yes you’ll
also have a choice of a sweet cereal, an unsweetened cereal
and an assortment of instant oatmeal. We have juices and milks
and the best coffee Boyd’s offers. For those that need
a little protein in the morning they will find hard boiled eggs.
During the off season we have canned apple sauce, peaches and
Dole’s Tropical Fruit Salad (my mother in laws recommendation).
During the summer and fall we add at least one fresh fruit choice,
yogurt and granola (stuff my wife likes). I bring in those huge
Costco muffins so those of us that want high quality carbs have
something to get us going with our coffee. This summer I am
working on scrambled eggs. I am sure I have forgotten something
but the bottom line is no we do not offer continental breakfast,
at the Inn of the Beachcomber we serve the best complementary
breakfast you’ll find any where. For those going up the
Rogue on the jet boats we have lots of stuff that you can grab
and eat latter. As a side note, I took the former owners quarters
and turned it into our commercial kitchen and breakfast room
so you’ll have way more room to enjoy your morning than
any of the other places in town. |
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| Spa Tubs |
| I stayed at the Beachcomber on vacation the year before we
bought the place. When I looked out of the window at the ocean
I new the property needed balconies as the first order of business.
To make the balconies on the upper floor comfortable the parking
lot level rooms ended up with basically 14’ by 9’
balconies. I took one look at the large space and thought Spa
Tubs. We have six rooms with jetted Spa Tubs on the private
balconies. It’s just way too special to sit in your tub
at night and watch the waves break in the moonlight while you
relax in the comforts of the warm water. I think the spa tubs
are best in the winter when it’s quiet at the Beachcomber
and the crab boats are pulling their crab post at night. The
boats with their lights are quite a sight up and down the coast.
You won’t find anything like this so you gotta try it
once, twice or maybe more if you live close. Yes we have had
locals take advantage of our spa tubs. |
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| The Beach |
| It’s amazing to see how many people come up from our
path to the beach and head to the other motels. What that tells
me is our level meandering path to the beach is the way to go.
As you head down the path look closely you’ll see driftwood
from the fifties and sixties in the dune grass. Just a note,
the beach changes through out the seasons and that makes it
interesting. During the winter storms driftwood is deposited
up and down the beach and lots of the beautiful shore rocks
are abundant. If you see someone carting off a fairly ambitious
load that could be my wife or mother-in-law. Look hard enough
and you can even find agates. I’ve been told people have
found glass floats and other treasures churned up by Neptune
and the winter storms. A neighbor of ours fishes for perch on
our beach. I’m not going to spend much more time on this
subject other than to say The Inn of the Beachcomber is all
about the beach. You can walk about two miles north to the mouth
of the Rogue. If you climb up the jetty rocks you can see how
the beach is rebuilding inside the harbor and walk almost to
the other side. Yearly the Army Corps of Engineering dredges
the harbor but nature seems to have the upper hand on man in
this case. |
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| Arts & Craft Décor |
| We have spent a lot of time trying to present to our guest
comfortable rooms that reflect the design influences of the
Arts & Crafts Movement. From the artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe
hung from the Greene & Greene inspired picture rail to the
craftsman style furniture we have tried to recreate the feel
of a 1920’s bungalow in our rooms. We hope our rooms are
comfortable enough to invite our visitors to stay a while and
reconnect with nature. A fairly lengthy explanation of what
inspired our décor you can click on About our Rooms. |
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| Wine Shop |
| Before I bought the Inn of the Beachcomber I was in the process
of opening a wine shop in Redmond, Oregon. Being fairly new
to the wine world my concept was to offer a large selection
of wines that had been rated by the wine press. I developed
an arbitrary price to rating scale and went about accumulating
inventory for the shop. The result is almost all the wine had
been rated by the critics and are priced fairly. We have a great
selection of Oregon Pinot Noirs and reds from Washington State
as well as a good number of French and Spanish wines. For those
that like the bolder fruit forward new world wines we have a
good selection of Australian wines. My plan is to accumulate
special wines each year and lay them down so guest can enjoy
a great bottle of wine at the Beachcomber. All my wines are
out of distribution and we are probably the only place where
you can find them. |
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| Wine Tasting |
| We are almost finished with the first phase of our lobby remodel
and expect to get our wine selection displayed. I think we have
over 300 cases. Once we get that done we plan to have wine tasting
in the evenings during the summer and fall. |
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| Balconies and Decks |
| The year before we bought the Inn of the Beachcomber we stayed
here on vacation. The Beachcomber had no balconies and we hated
it. We call the lower area the Bungalow area because the nine
rooms are in single story building with a low pitched gable
roof (almost the technical definition of a bungalow). In the
bungalow area we built the decks low to the ground and added
steps so guest can walk directly from their deck to the beach
which is about 100 yards or more. We added balconies off the
main building. The upper balconies are good size, 6 feet by
14 feet. The parking lot level balconies are over sized at 8.5
feet by 14 feet. The balconies and decks have privacy walls
and Adirondack chairs to enjoy the view of the ocean. |
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| Stoves |
| When we took out the old windows and added the oversized sliding
glass doors the old heat pumps were removed. To provide heat
we added the quaintest propane stoves we could find. The flickering
flame provides a romantic setting for a relaxing getaway and
the thermostats on the wall control the heat so you can have
a cozy nights sleep without burning up. |
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| Flat Screen TVs |
| At some point High Definition will get to Gold Beach. When
that happens we’re ready with our 32” flat screen
HD Ready TVs. Until then our flat screens will be a great way
for guest to experience LCD TV’s. We are looking into
DirecTV and Dish Network for this summer. Our family has TIVO’s
and would love to add them to the rooms. |
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| Pool & Spa |
| Our indoor pool and spa are open year around and offer a great
way to relax year around. Pool hours are 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM.
We try to keep the pool temperature at 80 degrees and the spa
at 104. |
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| In room stuff |
| We have in room coffee, mini refrigerators, and hair dryers
in all guest rooms. If you need a micro wave we can bring one
to your room. Plans are to add microwaves to all the rooms this
summer. We have Irons and ironing boards at the front desk in
case you need to get those wrinkles out after traveling. |
