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Bridgewater Inn & Cottage
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Bridgewater Inn & Cottage |
Bridgewater Inn and Cottage is located in Rockingham County in the Shenandoah Valley. It is a bed and breakfast with Georgian architecture build between 1878 and 1885. It does not have rooms, but instead has two suites, the Inn Suite and the Cottage Suite. The two suites have cottage privacy, but bed and breakfast amenities. Bridgewater Inn and Cottage is committed to environmental excellence and works to minimize environmental impacts whenever possible.
Green Lodging Activities:
When visiting Bridgewater Inn & Cottage, you can expect the following practices:
- Provides optional linen service in rooms
- Offers recycling opportunities to guests
- Practices water & energy conservation
- Offers a green events/conference package
- Low flow toilets
- Preventative maintenance of drips and leaks
- Re-circulating or ozone laundry
- High efficiency HVAC using natural gas and individual thermostats
- Lighting sensors
- High efficiency compact fluorescent lighting
- EnergyStar computers, appliances, etc
- Insulation and storm windows
- Directional lighting outdoors
- Integrated pest management plan in place
- Capture and use of storm water for irrigation
- Minimization of impervious surfaces
- Lawn areas replaced with low maintenance beds
- Abundance of indoor plants
- Dispensers and bottles refilled
- Use of glasses, dishware, etc instead of disposables
- Paper, cardboard, can, bottle, newspaper recycling
- Effective food inventory management
- Energy efficient dryers
- Linen segregation for lightly soiled loads
- Purchase of recycled content paper
- Policies for 2-sided copying and printing
- Extensive use of electronic documents and records
- Purchase environmentally friendly cleaners in bulk dispensers
- Bicycles for guest use
- Fuel-efficient vehicles
- Eliminating use of aerosols
- Use of latex paints
- Reused building materials (vintage flooring, beams, stonework)
- Landscaping to attract birds
- Soaker hoses for efficient watering