This New England Victorian-era island is just a 13-mile, one-hour ferry ride off the Rhode Island-Connecticut coast. Enjoy lighthouses and Victorian architecture, boutique-type shopping, great seafood and gourmet cuisine. Resort amenities include full kitchens in every unit, outdoor barbecues, indoor pool (March to November), outdoor tennis courts, pool table, DirectTV, complimentary WIFI, and movie library with more than 500 titles. A car is recommended (need a ferry reservation for car), but is not necessary as taxis are plentiful and inexpensive. Or walk the 15 minutes from the ferry to the resort at the quiet end of Connecticut Avenue. Offseason "On the Block" is particularly lovely...with the July and August crowds gone you can enjoy the island's beauty from September to June. Neptune House is a small resort, known in the timeshare industry as a 'boutique' resort, having just 23 vacation condos. They are all different; as the Victorian building beautiful in its architecture is a Queen Anne style (very popular BI Mansard roof). Originally built in the 1870's it was a Victorian era private mansion that became a vacation ownership timeshare resort in the mid 1980's. Victorian buildings are asymmetrical in nature hence each vacation condo unit having a different layout. Block Island is laid back so the accommodations 'on island' are also easy going and 'unfussy'. And you'll find no chain hotels like Marriott or Holiday Inn, no chain restaurants like Applebee's or McDonalds, no chain stores like Home Depot or CVS. No traffic lights. But that is why people like the few places on earth that are still like Block Island - nature's paradise with just a bit more than the bare necessities - for a trip to Block Island is not meant to be spent in your unit but outdoors walking, hiking, bike riding, horseback riding, kayaking, fishing, boating, bird watching, wildflower and insect/animal viewing (some of which exist no other place on earth than here); Seeing the 365 f-r-e-s-h water ponds (this far out into the Atlantic Ocean), the 2 boat harbors, and observing how life is on an island 13 miles out to sea serviced daily by ferry with its residents somewhat insulated (and shielded) from life 'In America' as they like to call it. If you want golf courses and shopping malls, then you won't like a visit to Block Island. If you want fresh (and I mean FRESH) lobster you can meet the lobstermen at 4-5pm when they pull into the harbor and buy right from them. October/November timeframe has the seals sunbasking on the rocks - having migrated here from Canada for BIs 'warm' water! And in April you can see the thousands (yes thousands) of daffodils and narcissis in bloom under the pine trees in 'the Maze' overlooking the Bluffs. 2 Lighthouses, each very different - and one was moved just a few years ago several hundred feet from the edge of the cliffs just before it was to fall into the sea due to erosion. If you want to hear 'quiet', the wind, marvel at the beauty of Mother Nature and refresh and rejuvenate yourself in this so busy-noisy-chaotic world they you must come to this 'last remaining piece of paradise.' For those that have been captivated by BI's magic they are hooked and come back every year, year after year. 'Come for a Week, Stay for a Lifetime' ... and the rejuvenation and sense of peace you didn't think you had anymore will return....
-Review courtesy of joanne regnault
(stayed during May, 2007) |
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