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Hot Springs This
good-looking complex of guest rooms, recreation facilities, a shop and a
restaurant resembles a small village and, indeed, is the biggest
enterprise in the dear little hamlet of Warm Springs (population, 250,
and every building redone in the last few years, according to innkeeper
Janice McWilliams). Former owners of a ski lodge in Vermont, the
McWilliams family took over this going concern in 1981 and have
continued to expand. Seventeen
guest accommodations are scattered in four 19th-century buildings around
an old gristmill that now houses a good restaurant (see Dining Spots).
Rooms vary widely in size and decor. Each has antique furnishings, TVs,
refrigerators, hair dryers and phones, and half have fireplaces. One is
called the Silo for obvious reasons, and the two-bedroom Tower Apartment
has a round living room and a fantastic tin chandelier. The Blacksmith
Shop containing the inn’s office has a Loft Room with kingsize bed and
deck and the Spring Suite with a living room, a jacuzzi tub and a
queensize bed in the bedroom, which opens to a private patio beside
babbling Warm Spring Run. We enjoyed the Board Room, cozy and dark in
barnwood with two double beds and a clawfoot tub. Others are partial to
the extravagant Singapore Room and its two-part bathroom, one part being
a tub in a niche behind a screen. A
country flavor prevails in the adjacent Miller’s House, which offers
two rooms and two suites. Four smaller rooms are across the street in
the Steel House, close to the pool, a small sauna and three tennis
courts. One hundred miles of walking and riding trails surround the
property. In
the morning, Mrs. McWilliams delivers a picnic basket to each room. It
contains juice, coffee and breads, plus the day’s Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
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