Columbus Day weekend is a busy time for New England. Yesterday, we filled our two remaining rooms pretty early in the day with referrals from one of hotels in the city and directed callers to other inns in the Valley that were still showing availability. Pretty soon, we were getting calls from people at the city hotels saying, "We know you are full, but we heard you know of someone who has a room?"
When Michael checked in the foreign couple who had taken our last room, he recommended they go ahead and make reservations for wherever they wanted to stay tonight, as places were filling up fast. They looked dubious. After all, hadn't they found a room with us?
This morning, in the middle of an insanely busy breakfast, the man told me, "Yes, we'd like to stay another night." I told him I was sorry but we were all full. He looked confused, so I added (in case my wording was hard for him to understand) that we had no more rooms. He said, "But the man yesterday told me you had a room for tonight."
Well, yes. Yesterday afternoon at 3:00 we still had one room left for Saturday night. Oddly enough, we filled it later yesterday afternoon.
Here is some unsolicited traveling advice if you want to go leaf-peeping in New England: On the weekend, most inns have two-night minimum stays. And they fill up early. Honest. It is possible for there to be no rooms left.
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