I stayed at the Carriage House Inn recently while visiting my daughter to help paint her house. This B & B is just lovely, the grounds are beautiful and my God, the breakfasts are divine. An absolutely fabulous place to unwind and regroup. Will recommend to all my friends.

On a very rare occasion in life you travel to an unknown place and find yourself right at home. The Carriage House Inn is a retreat in the middle of a busy city. The inn keeper, Tressie, is a combination of cook, server, travel guide, historian, and an understanding ear topped off with southern hospitality.

My husband and I have been fortunate enough to stay at the inn on two occasions. Our first stay was for a week during May of 2007. Our second stay was for a week during December of 2007. Our second trip was every bit as wonderful as our first. We quickly felt as if we had never left.

We have stayed in both the Cottage Suites. They are great for a long stay. In addition to the wonderful truffles to greet guests, the suites offer space to make yourself at home. The kitchen areas provide an opportunity to eat in if you are not up to adventuring out to all of the fabulous restuarants Tressie recommends. The regular sized fridges offer plenty of space for leftovers too.

The koi pond, gazebo, flower beds, and lawns provide a nice place to relax with a book or talk with a friend. The only bugs I found were butterflies and dragonflies.

The Carriage House was only our second time to stay at a bed and breakfast. On our first night, we quickly understood the advantages and benefits of a b&b. I frequently travel for work and have stayed at upscale hotels including the Hyatt on Town Lake in Austin. The free parking and wireless internet with a great signal even outside the rooms can save a traveler $30 to $50 dollars per night. I can't even put a price on the savings of the provided breakfast cooked with love and care. My husband is lactose intolerant, and Tressie happily made adjustments to his breakfast for him.

As an educator, I have found that orchards are filled with many varieties of apples. All apples serve a purpose and add to the variety of life. However, as hard as one tries to find the good in all apples, inevitably a rotten apple will make its way into the bushel basket. While this apple should be removed from the basket to keep from spoiling the other apples, it still makes wonderful compost. The Carriage House Inn and Tressie are both definately keepers.

Please enjoy the photos and feel free to contanct me about my experience at the inn.

The only thing sweeter than finding a spectacular bed and breakfast with fabulous food, very personalized service, and charming spic 'n span accomodations, is to have a return stay at the same wonderful place.

We just completed our second stay of 5 days, and are so impressed (again) that we have planned a family reunion in Austin, with all our loved ones housed at 1110 Carriage House Inn.

So many things to recommend this B + B--there are the comfortable, well-stocked suites, many with private entrances. We enjoyed the beautiful grounds, including a sunny deck, shaded porch, and twinkle light-festooned gazebo. Gotta mention the waterfall and koi pond, and the soft chorus of crickets and frogs at twilight . AND THE FOOD--gourmet breakfasts, freshly prepared each day from scratch, using the highest quality ingredients. Tressie, the innkeeper, aims to please, and it shows--the menu often reflects the special requests of guests. We enjoyed homemade turkey sausage, warm cinnamon biscuits, hand-made tortillas with fresh house salsa, and blue corn waffles with fresh strawberries and cream, but you will still be surprised, because the menu is different every day, for weeks on end. We were greeted with homemade truffles on our arrival, enjoyed fresh peach tea during our stay, and Tressie welcomed our daughter, who lives in Austin, to join us for breakfast at the inn.

Very convenient, too, for folks with business at UT or state government. The inn is in the heart of Austin, on a shady, residential street.

Bravo, Tressie and your staff! We'll be back soon.

The Curl Family

First, I need to inform you that I most certainly got bed bugs from staying here. As soon as I arrived back home, i opened up my luggage and there were skins and dead bugs inside -- in clothes that i had not touched during my visit there. I was nervous, but I didnt know what to think.

Three weeks later, I am still covered in horrendous bites all over my body. My dermatologist just told me that they are in fact bed bugs and they started the last day of my secondto last day of my three-day stay at the inn. I assumed at the time they were mosquito bites, since they look the same.

Now I will have to spend an exorbidant amount of money to fumagate my apartment and buy a new mattress. Besides that, a little bit about my stay: the place is truly lovely. But you must be willing to talk to the innkeeper as much as she wishes. She will not allow you private time to yourself or your vacation--mate. I found when we tried to give her the impression we'd like some privacy, that she got insulted and upset.

The last day, she barely wanted to make us breakfast. As we sat eating on the front porch in front of the breakfast room, she threw down the blinds in the most rude manner. We were very disappointed.

And now with the bed bugs, I have to caution anyone looking to stay here. Sorry. I know all the other reviews are so different.