Bluffton is a nice community with some nice stores, a couple nice restaurants, a nice hospital, a few nice businesses, a very nice state park, and one or two nice cultural events each year. It's nothing to get excited about...but it's nice.

The Holiday Inn Express fits right in with the niceness. Easy to find and conveniently located on the north edge of town on S.R. 1, it is clean, quiet, decently furnished and...well...nice. The free Continential breakfast is nice too, but it was the free wireless internet connection is the rooms that really got me excited. A small frig and microwave was a nice touch. There's even a very small but quite nice indoor swimming pool too, but we never saw anyone using it during our stay.

One extra nice fearture -- if you are traveling with a bunch or plan to stay awhile, they have a two-bedroom family suite with a living room. We didn't see it, but a family who had stayed the room told us it was very comfortable.

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