“The Complete Guide to Bed & Breakfasts” ($16.95, Lanier Publishing) is for you, lover of the muffin top, the ceramic rooster, the lace doily, the high tea, the chipper morning greeting. You know who you are, you B&B seekers. And so does Pamela Lanier, who has scoured the globe to list more than 4,500 worthy inns, guesthouses and true bed-and-breakfasts (where breakfast is indeed included) around the world. The fat guide is impressively stuffed with information but still user-friendly, with each lodging getting a brief but helpful synopsis of its charms, rates, number of rooms and abbreviations for repeat items such as whether the place allows children, pets or smoking and whether it is handicapped-accessible. Websites, contact info and owners’ names also are included, and a few places are illustrated with very nice pen-and-ink drawings. At the back of the book is a form to vote for the world’s best B&B, which in the next edition will get front-page billing, as did the 2008 winner, the Devonfield Country Inn B&B in Lee, Mass.
Kyle Wagner
