Named for the youngest full brother of President George Washington, Charles Town, West Virginia is a small town on the eastern edge of the state built around the intersection of George and Washington Streets. The town attracts visitors who come for the Charles Town Races, which first opened in 1933 and now hosts a casino and hotel, or those visiting the nearby Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, which is seven miles northeast of town.
Located close to the Charles Town Races and the intersection of George and Washington streets, the Holiday Inn Express offers 145 rooms with free high-speed Internet access, breakfast buffet, daily newspaper delivered to the door and cable TV with HBO. Each brightly decorated room includes a work desk with lamp and desk-level plugs, a mini-refrigerator and a microwave. The Holiday Inn Express has a seasonal outdoor pool, a 24-hour business center with a computer and printer, and a fitness center with two treadmills, a stationery bike, a stair master and a TV. Reduced-rate tickets to the nearby Gold’s Gym are available at the front desk. Guests can access wireless Internet throughout the public areas of the hotel. No pets are allowed.
Holiday Inn Express Charles Town
681 Flowing Springs Rd.
Charles Town, WV 25438
304-725-1330
holidayinnexpress.com
Each of the 150 rooms at the Inn at Charles Town Races features complimentary high-speed Internet access, a 42-inch plasma HD cable TV, a comfortable sitting chair with an ottoman, a clock radio with MP3 plug-in, a work desk, safe and a hot breakfast buffet each morning served in the lobby. The Inn also offers 18 spacious suites with balconies overlooking the racetrack. The Inn’s rooms and suites have modern, light-colored wood furniture and headboards that complement the yellow and brown decorating scheme. The Inn provides a shuttle that runs to the racetrack and to the casino all day long. No pets are allowed.
The Inn at Charles Town Races
750 Hollywood Drive
Charles Town, WV 25414
800-795-7001
hollywoodcasinocharlestown.com/
Set on 18 acres with streams, gardens and wooded walks, the English Tudor-style Hillbrook Inn offers the kind of atmosphere that area chain hotels cannot match. Its eclectically decorated rooms include hardwood floors, clawfoot tubs, down comforters, individual decorating flourishes and free high-speed Internet access and cookies. The main house of the Hillbrook Inn hosts a suite and five rooms, three of which have private porches as well as either wood-burning or electric fireplaces. Connected to the main house by a stone path is the cottage building, which has four rooms named for the seasons and that have private porches and gas fireplaces. In the dining room with windows overlooking the grounds, candlelit dinner from Thursday through Sunday starts promptly at 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Pets are allowed in the cottage building and in two of the main-house rooms for a daily fee that includes doggy bags and food and water bowls.
Hillbrook Inn
4490 Summit Point Rd.
Charles Town, WV 25414
304-725-4223
hillbrookinn.com
