| There's an understated restaurant and a casual pub. Parking is complimentary. Other amenities include an indoor pool, a hot tub and a gym, as well as 6 meeting rooms. Room service is available. Upgraded rooms add microwaves, minifridges, and sitting areas with pull out sofas. Check in time: 3:00 PMCheck out time: 12:00 PM. The low key rooms offer free Wi Fi and cable TV. Set on the University of Connecticut campus, this unpretentious hotel is an 8 minute walk from basketball games at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion and 11 minutes' walk from the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.
Lyme Art Association (9 min.)
Art art exhibition and art museum
Saybrook Point (7 min.)
Lighthouse and marina Harveys Beach (4 min.)
This strip of beach for swimming features changing rooms showers & parking for a fee. Gillette Castle State Park (27 min.)
This stone mansion with unique decor & a medieval-style facade belonged to actor William Gillette. Chatfield Hollow State Park (17 min.)
Natural area with pine woods streams caves & rocky ledges offering hiking swimming & fishing. Meigs Point Nature Center (17 min)
Long-running family-friendly environmental learning center at Hammonasset Beach State Park. Hammonasset Beach State Park (15 min.)
Popular destination features a 2-mile-long beach with a boardwalk boat launch & 550 campsites. Stewart B. Mckinney National Wildlife Refuge (8 min.)
This 70-mile coastal preserve includes salt marshes & islands protecting endangered birds & plants. Kontokosta Winery (1 hr 52)
Winery chardonnay wine vineyard and wine tasting Lynde Point Light (13 min.)
Lighthouse Connecticut River Museum (14 min.)
Art & artifacts relating to the areas shipbuilding history (from 1733) plus model ships. Essex Steam Train U0026 Riverboat (14 min.) | 
