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How many of you are feeling over worked? Why not mix business with pleasure? No need to work in the hot, sticky city when you can work from our new meeting room! Everyone will want to attend an off-site in the Hamptons!  Our new meeting room is the perfect place for small business groups. Need a space for workshop? How many of you have business clients out here for the summer? This is such a relaxed atmosphere to have a your next meeting and close the deal!  So many possibilities for our new room.

Wake up in luxury feeling refreshed and ready to work. Before the meetings start enjoy our scrumptious breakfast each morning then take care of business in our beautiful new meeting room. The meeting room is complimentary to guests who stay with us.  We are happy to have lunch or dinners available too, either at the inn or at one of our local eateries.  Enjoy a break sitting by our beautiful new pool and of course, cookies are alway included…. Just so it’s not all work and no play we can coordinate a visit to a near by vineyard for a wine tasting, a massage, a fitness class, or a walk thru one of our local art museums.

Why not mix business with pleasure? Have you ever heard of “Bleisure?”  You couldn’t ask for a better place for Bleisure than the Hamptons.  Add a few days for leisure after the meetings are over for the perfect ending to a work week. We’ll even add a special discount for Bleisure guests. Work never seemed so stress free.

We hope you will think of us for you next off-site meeting. Give us a call to book your off site meeting. Make sure to plan well in advance.

October is the perfect time to discover how beautiful fall is in the Hamptons. Most people think of the Hamptons only as a summer destination. Fall is actually quite a spectacular time of the year here. The harvest season is the perfect time to visit the vineyards, orchards, and pumpkin patches as the vines and foliage turn into the autumnal hues. Guests resist going to pick apples and getting lost in the corn mazes. When they return to the inn they are full of laughs and giggles along with apples and cider. They can’t believe how much fun they just had. Sometimes you just have to let it all go and be a kid again!

There are four orchards/pumpkin patches within two miles of our inn. Each offer a completely different experience so you can pick which you want to try or try them all!

1. Hank’s Pumpkintown – the closest and walkable, just across the street has apple picking, one of the largest pumpkin patches, and a corn maze. (this farm attracts a lot families with small children)
2. Seven Ponds Orchards – located about one mile from the has a little bit of everything and less crowded.
3. Milk Pail U Pick – my personal favorite, this is the largest orchard that grows over 23 types of apples some are unnamed an just numbered. Milk Pail works with Cornell University in growing new varieties of apples. This farm is 11th & 12th generation carrying on the family farming tradition for over 350 years! I always suggest just going for a visit, it’s worth the trip! The apples are so delicious and with so many choices probably won’t be able to pick a favorite.
4. Fairview Farm- this year Fairview has created a very special maze celebrating Marjorie R Ludlow’s 100th birthday and their farmhouse which was moved to it’s present location 100 years ago. You won’t want to leave without a visit to the farm stand to pick up a fresh baked pie!

Besides all the orchards, farms, and vineyards we can’t forget the beaches. If you prefer serenity, then a beach walk will be perfect for you. Getting back in touch with nature and enjoy the beautiful beaches of the Hamptons in the fall are just what the doctor ordered. 

Breakfast Food

When we decided to throw in the towel with our careers in the garment business and pursue becoming innkeepers, my first reaction was “I better learn to cook breakfast!” I am really not a breakfast person, and that hasn’t changed much. I have always loved cooking and baking, but breakfast was never part of my focus.

Thankfully, I always read lots of cooking magazines, and then there was the Food Network — blogs were just getting popular back in 2010.

Now, after owning two inns, our first was in Maine and now we have White Fences Water Mill here in the Hamptons, I would have to say my go-to all-time guest favorite is the “cheesy egg open-face breakfast sandwich.”

It’s very simple to make and everyone loves it: Whole grain toast, a little smear of mayo, bacon, a slice of tomato (it’s great now that local tomatoes are in season), cheese. All goes into the oven until the cheese is melted and then I add a fried egg on top!

Local Beach Spots

Come for the beach, stay for the bed & breakfast! My favorite beach tip for my guests: Go to Flying Point Beach, which is less than two miles from White Fences Water Mill (it’s walkable)! Flying Point beach is special because it’s never too crowded. Although Cooper’s Beach is more well known, Flying Point is just as nice. At White Fences Water Mill, we have parking passes, beach chairs, umbrellas, and beach towels for our guests to ensure your getaway by the beach is a seamless one!

Come see what we’ve done to the inn.  Updated rooms and amenities await you at our Water Mill, NY B&B.