Internet Contest Features Westminster’s Fieldstone Farm Inn Bed & Breakfast
Westminster, South Carolina – ‘Upcountry’ is the term South Carolinians apply to the scenic high terrain of the northwest corner of their state. One of the more attractive spots in the Upcountry is Fieldstone Farm Inn Bed & Breakfast, an elegant 1870 home set on 23 serene acres in the Blue Ridge foothills. Here, innkeepers Jack and Lynne Tressler welcome guests from around the nation and around the world – even guests traveling with horses.
Now, doesn’t that sound like an inviting spot for a bed and breakfast getaway? What if you could win two free nights at Fieldstone Farm Inn Bed & Breakfast? That’s the prize in the latest monthly contest at Bed & Breakfast Inns ONLINE (www.bbonline.com), which provides a home on the Internet for some 4,000 independently-owned small inns across the US, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. The entry period runs from July 1 through August 31, 2002.
As aspiring inn owners, the Tresslers had searched for the perfect property from Georgia to Maine, but Jack, recalling vacations at the cabins and lodges of the nearby lakes, was drawn to the Upcountry. After choosing Fieldstone Farm in April, 2001, the Tresslers spent nearly six months on renovations, finally opening in late September of last year. The business has grown steadily, thanks to the setting, the Tresslers’ skill as innkeepers, and the Internet. “Just this afternoon I spoke with someone in Switzerland,” reported Jack Tressler recently. “And not long ago we had a man from Wales who was being relocated by his employer. He brought his family for a few days to explore the area, and they all came back to stay with us for a month before moving into their house.”
Fishermen make up a sizeable proportion of the guests at Fieldstone; Upcountry lakes cover some 85,000 acres, according to Tressler, and Lake Kiowee is just minutes away. For more adventurous souls there’s whitewater rafting on the Chattoga River. Equestrians appreciate the comfortable guest rooms and sumptuous breakfasts – but perhaps not more than their horses enjoy the 8-stall stable and four fenced pastures.
Fieldstone Farm is only 9 miles from Clemson University, which means a steady stream of collegiate sports fans. “We’re booked for just about every Tigers football game,” says Tressler, “but we do have rooms available for the basketball and baseball fans.”
The Tresslers and Fieldstone Farm Inn also help to bring needed medical personnel to their area, by hosting participants in the Upcountry Area Health Education Center’s Community-Based Education program.
Now, back to that free stay: Contestants must answer four fill-in-the-blank questions about Fieldstone Farm Inn Bed & Breakfast, and three more about other areas of Bed & Breakfast Inns ONLINE. “The answers are easy to find,” says Randy Fought, founder and CEO of the company, “because we link directly to them from the contest page.” There’s also a guess-the-number tiebreaker question; the winning entry is the closest guess. Past tiebreakers have involved the number of prisms in a chandelier at a South Dakota inn, the yield of nuts from a Texas inn’s backyard pecan tree, and the goldfish population at a bed and breakfast in Illinois. The July tiebreaker concerns the original acreage of the Fieldstone Farm cotton plantation. The winner receives a gift certificate for two free nights at the Fieldstone Farm Inn Bed & Breakfast. Travel to the inn is the winner’s responsibility, but this doesn’t dampen enthusiasm – a few years ago, a contestant in Switzerland won a free stay at an Ocean City, New Jersey inn. Complete contest details are available online at www.bbonline.com/contest.
Bed & Breakfast Inns ONLINE has featured a free nights drawing every month for more than six years, gaining in popularity with each month’s featured inn. Contestants have until August 31 to enter online or by mail to win two free nights at the Fieldstone Farm Inn Bed & Breakfast, a prize valued at approximately $250.00. “Typically we receive a couple of thousand online and postal entries, and the featured inn’s web site gets thousands of extra visitors,” says BBOnline’s Fought, who adds that “people get very involved in the contest – although we ask them not to, sometimes they call or email the innkeeper for answers to the questions.”
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