George Washington Inn

We stayed at the next door B&B, but came for a late evening visit to the garden/​farm. The store was closed, but we still got a chance to walk through the lavender fields and take a peek into the shop. Pretty, well maintained garden, with a superb view out to the water. Our host at the B&B told us peak season was typically in mid July during the lavender festival, but since it had been so hot and dry, it was a good time to visit this year (early July).

Wow! What an incredible inn! My wife and I had planned on staying for one night on our honeymoon. We checked in, toured the room and the grounds, and immediately extended our stay for a second night. The rooms are incredibly comfortable, tasteful, and well-​appointed, and each room has a king bed and giant soaker tub. The rooms all have a view of the lavender fields and mountains on one side and the pacific ocean (straits of Juan De Fuca) on the other. The atmosphere is incredibly peaceful, beautiful, and romantic! We watched the sunset over the water from the backyard, and watched the tide roll out while eating delectable breakfasts on the rear veranda. I appreciated that they reserved the grounds for the guests to ensure our privacy and ability to relax in peace. My wife and I have both travelled extensively, and this might be the nicest place we have ever stayed.

This is advertised as a Lavender attraction and gift shop from the highway… what a joke. I’m sure if we were allowed anywhere near the B&B I would be giving this a different rating, but when we asked to see more of the grounds we were treated so rudely.
There are about 10 lavender plants, so if you want to see lavender DO NOT bother.
We then thought, at least there is a decent sized gift shop. NO. It is one small room, I have no clue what they are doing with the rest of that space. The items were chintzy and looked like they belong in my great aunt Ida’s parlor room.
The icing on the cake was the rude staff (see earlier comment). When we asked to see more of the grounds she reacted as if we asked her to dance naked under a cherry tree during a full moon. DO NOT put up signs like you are a tourist attraction if you are going to treat tourist like lepers.
If you are looking for something special, check out Jardin Du Soleil. We stumbled on it and it was exactly what we were hoping for. Actual lavender fields, great souvenirs with friendly welcoming staff.

I very much enjoyed my long weekend at the George Washington Inn. While expensive, it is in my opinion well worth it. I was weary at first to try a bed and breakfast fearing a lack of privacy, but my gf persuaded me. This was quite the opposite case however as our room had its own private entrance separate from the main lobby. Breakfast is held on a communal porch overlooking the water but there are several tables and you do not have to sit with the other guests (another thing I was not looking forward to). Dan and Janet are very friendly but will mostly leave you alone to relax. They also made several awesome breakfasts and accommodated our vegetarian diet. Overall I think we both left happy and impressed with our weekend stay.

Pros:
–The room with decorative fireplace, tv, great closet and bureau, extra pillows and blankets, bathrobes and slippers.
–Breakfast: Best food I’ve had. Served at 8:30 AM.
–Fee Wifi
–The lavender fields
–The lavender store by the parking lot
–Friendly and helpful inn keepers
–Pricey but well worth it
Con:
— The bathroom trash had been picked up, but the shower, toilet and sink were not cleaned during our 2-​night stay.

It is a pricey place to stay during the peak season, but Dan and Janet have really created something special. A beautiful inn fashioned after George Washington’s Mt. Vernon. The have thought of everything in making it comfortable for guests and a very special place to stay. The rooms have everything possible personal touch, everything you could want, and they put out coffee and fresh baked cookies put out a computer to use if you need it. We were there during the lavender festival so the farm was filled with purple rows of lavender and a lot of wildflowers and poppies. Breakfast was very good. I had wondered reading some reviews of other inns in the area, if Dan and Janet were going to be uptight, nose in the air type of people. They were very welcoming, friendly, and gracious. My only disappointment, which is not their doing at all, is that in the ariel views and on a map, it looked like they were on the water and you could walk right down to the water or through trails nearby. They are on a cliff, so you can only walk in the back to a fence and look down on the water and there is a home on one side of them and another B & B on the other side of them, so there aren’t trails or beach access within walking distance. But you can drive to the dungenous spit wildlife preserve for wonderful trails and beach combing.

Highly recommended! I love the view of Canada

I don’t want to give this five stars because then the next time I try to get a room, it will all be booked up.
Don’t worry it’s not really Mt. Vernon, they have all the modern conveniences.
This house is amazing. The location even more impressive. Look out the front door, you see the Olympics, out the back door Canada (over the water).
The breakfast in the morning was amazing. It is held in the back portico that runs the length of the house. The only variation from Mt. Vernon, it is enclosed. They do seat you with other guests but this is to be expected. Most B&B’s put you all at one table. Breakfast was served at 8:30 very nicely presented, warm and comfortable and was so large I didn’t eat lunch.
It may look in the middle of nowhere (which is great for me on vacation) but we made the ferry for Victoria in under 15 minutes.

Every year or so my wife drags me to a B&B that she has spent a huge amount of time researching. After all these years of sometimes wonderful and sometimes painful and everything in between this one makes it to the very top of the list of best of best.
There are only four suites in the whole place and they have everything luxurious one can dream of. The view from the back is the Strait that looks across to Victoria, BC and is incredible in itself and the view from the front the Olympic Mountains.
The entire back of the place is one very long room that serves as the breakfast room, if you are like me, I am around people nonstop and the last thing in the world I want is some chatty stranger yacking it up when all I want is to get away from it all… all this space… YES!
In fact the place was so wonderful my wife said she wished we would have spent all our time sitting in a lounge looking out over the water and reading and forgot about driving the 900 miles around the Olympic Peninsula.
To sum it up the last time I felt this way about a place was the Ritz but then You have to put up with all the help saying your name about a million times…