"Business Traveler"

Sanctuary for Business Travelers
"There seems to be an unwritten rule that business travelers do not stay in Bed & Breakfasts or Country Inns." If your business takes you on the road regularly to the areas around Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, Beech Mountain, Sugar Mountain, Linville, Boone, and The Blue Ridge Parkway, in the Western North Carolina High Country, The Mast Farm Inn hopes to make it worth your while and consideration to stay with us by offering you the following package when you are traveling alone on business. As business people ourselves who have spent innumerable days and nights doing what you are doing, we feel we owe it to our colleagues to make it different. The human and financial advantages-benefits of staying at an Inn versus basking in one more hotel-motel's neon glow will be evident below, the evening at check-in, and in the morning at check-out. Primarily you will feel like a refreshed human being rather than like a towel which spent the night tossing in the dryer. Fresh towels are nice and we have plenty ourselves, fresh human beings are nicer.

There is a logic for staying at a hotel, but there is an equally compelling logic to stay in a more homelike environment. We believe if you give it some thought by reading what is below, you may well agree.

If we think about all that we could imagine that some of the primary reasons business travelers do not consider B&Bs and Small Family Run Inns are that:

a) B&Bs tend to be out of the way and sometimes hard to find. Many times they are in residential areas. We are very easy to find and pretty much centrally located to the areas of Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, Beech Mountain, Sugar Mountain, Linville, Boone, and The Blue Ridge Parkway, in the Western North Carolina High Country. Our Inn is a few minutes off Highway 105, is a well known landmark, we light up the barn at night, and with GPS a no-brainer. Rather, think of us as a home away from home. We are pretty sure your home is not a few hundred yards from a highway exit, or in the middle of a downtown area. When we say we are ready, willing and able to be your home away from home, it is not advertising slogan, but a promise made by real people to real people.

b) Business travelers need to get in and out, sleep and be gone, they arrive late at night, leave early, and are not interested in socializing. At the Mast Farm Inn you do not even need to check in. We can leave you the key, and the cottage unlocked. One of the big pluses of village living is that we trust you. The package below provides you your time and space, but if you do want some company, you will find it a few yards away. You will also find our restaurant or Aunt Josie's open till 10 onsite in case you would like to eat, have a beer or glass of wine. You won't find quantity, but you will find quality because our lodging and dinner guests are real people like you and truthfully we have yet to meet a boring guest.

c) B&Bs are more expensive than the chains because breakfast is included in the price. It is true that breakfast is included, and we oursleves have paid, when all is said and signed, upwards of 30-50 dollars per person for a hot breakfast in many places we have stayed. It hurts but we were hungry. Effectively a full hot gourmet breakfast served at a table, with all food, beverages, and service included, costs us a pretty penny to serve. In fact breakfast at the Mast Farm Inn probably costs us slightly north of $35 per person. At least that is what accounting tells us. In B&Bs breakfast costs are usually calculated for two per room and the price of the room reflects that custom. The package we propose below takes into consideration that you are traveling alone and eliminates that added cost. The good news is that you will in fact get a serious breakfast the likes of which you probably only get on your birthday because at The Mast Farm Inn breakfast is a celebration of the country morning. We also offer the special rate below because it makes more efficient use of our facilities since weekday occupancy is lower than weekends. As a business person you know all about the realities of supply and demand.

d) B&Bs do not offer the business tools required such as high-speed internet, phone, fax, and photocopying machines. We have wireless high-speed internet but let's be blunt. Sometimes you may need to rest. In case you absolutely have to and it cannot wait, as business people we obviously have all those business tools ourselves, they are just not in the living room, and we are quite willing to help you get done what needs to be done. When you feel the serenity around you on arrival, you may just decide that your own rest is equally valuable to everyone.

Package Pricing Includes

Cost
The Main Event - FREE
Historic Lodging & Gourmet Breakfast - $ 160.00

Value
The Main Event - Private Hot Tub, Private Terrace, Fireplace, Reserved Parking 5 Yards from your Door, Peace & Quiet, Pine Forest, Deer, A Home-Made Good Night's Sleep
Historic Lodging & Gourmet Breakfast - Normal Cost $325.00 - $450.00 - Single occupancy, single night lodging on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, at Maple Spring Cottage, Gazebo Cottage, Raspberry Hill Cabin, where you drive up to your own front door, and sleep in your own cottage/cabin 10 yards from Broadstone Road, nestled in a peaceful 5 acre pine forest. If you want, you slip into the huge private outdoor hot tub. The next morning you wave to the deer from your private deck-terrace; mornings the pine forest, currently your habitat, is also the habitat of non-plastic-non-robotic wild deer. Yes, deer like God made them. You get a Mast Farm Inn home-made healthy breakfast you will not soon forget, in an authentic farm house dining room which usually seats no more than 10 guests at a time, as you gather your thoughts and prepare for the day ahead. Here is our promise to you. When reserving, at check-in, overnight, at breakfast, and at check-out, you will fell like a person rather than a credit card number.


Total Value - $320.00 - $450.00
Total Cost - $160.00
Total Savings - $160.00 - $290.00

Take advantage of this "Business Traveler Experience, in Historic Valle Crucis, North Carolina, at The Mast Farm Inn" available anytime from now to April 30th, 2006, excluding Holidays.
In order to do so reservations need to be received by our front desk no later than 24 hours prior to check-in.
To reserve now: Call: 828-963-5857, or Call Toll Free: 1-888-963-5857, or E-Mail stay@mastfarminn.com

If you are a business traveler, try it once. You will feel the advantages and benefits, and in all likelihood you will achieve better results that day. That is the bottom line, not what is spent, but what is invested and the return on investment. Invest in yourself, you are the most important business tool you have. If you boss objects, tell her or him we have an even more enticing yearly corporate membership rate, that will probably eliminate all possible objections. Give it a try and you will probably never go back to business as usual.


The Mast Farm Inn
Bed and Breakfast - Country Inn - Restaurant
in Historic Valle Crucis, North Carolina,
near Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, Beech Mountain, Sugar Mountain,
Linville, Boone, Grandfather Mountain, and The Blue Ridge Parkway,
in the Western North Carolina High Country.

Mailing Address
The Mast Farm Inn
P.O. Box 704
Valle Crucis, North Carolina 28691

Physical Address
The Mast Farm Inn
2543 Broadstone Road
Banner Elk, North Carolina 28604

Call: 828-963-5857
Call Toll Free: 1-888-963-5857
Fax: 828-963-6404
E-Mail: stay@mastfarminn.com
View Internet Site: www.mastfarminn.com

Package Pricing Exclusions
While our front desk concierge service can make reservations and arrangements for you, package pricing excludes: lunch, tickets to venues, events or other charges related to offsite events not specified as included in the package price above. Are also excluded in package price: all taxes, gratuities, food & beverages not specified as included in package above.