Hilton Head Travel Feature -
the Main Street Inn

By Shane Sharp,
Contributing Writer

HILTON HEAD, S.c. -- Pull the trigger now - on securing your accommodations in Hilton Head for resort golf and the MCI Classic for next year that is. The island's busiest week of the year leaves every hotel, motel and bed and breakfast booked from Georgetown to Savannah.

Bedding down at the Motel Six with a pack of buddies is great if you are in Hilton Head with the sole purpose of catching thirty-six holes, a beer and a bed. But if you want to step it up a notch and throw down a few bones for first class accommodations that should lead to as many romantic interludes as pars, try Hilton Head's Main Street Inn.

This $6.1 million, 34-room European style hotel is nothing if not luxurious. The lobby is set amidst expensive furniture and China, and a breezeway takes to behind the Inn to what has to be one of the most stunning gardens in the state, much less Hilton Head.

"We want to appeal to the seasoned traveler and create the experience of a European vacation with panache and service here on Hilton Head Island," Main Street Inn General Manager Stuart Macperhson told the Island Packet upon the Inn's opening back in 1996.

If you are in town for the MCI Classic, the Inn makes for a cozy hideaway from all the action at Harbour Town, as it is located just far enough away to be a reprieve, but close enough to the action to be convenient.

Main Street Inn Highlights

A historic library on the first floor
A baby grand piano and a Louis XIV fireplace mantel
A tea room with heart pine floors that looks out to the arbors in the garden
Bathrooms feature marble floors, robes, and small balconies that open to the front of the Inn. Complementary European Breakfast Short walk across the street to shops, the Main Street Pub, and the Harris Teeter grocery

Main Street Inn Information

(800) 471-3001 P.O. Box 23886 Hilton Head, SC 29925 www.mainstreetinn.com

TravelGolf.com Editor Shane Sharp will be reporting travel related information daily from Hilton Head and the MCI Classic.