B&Bs Offer A Safe And Hauntingly Good Time
With Family Halloween Packages

For those who seek safe neighborhoods and family-friendly Halloween events, these BedandBreakfast.com packages offer treats with no tricks. With Halloween falling on a Friday, this is the year to select a getaway package from these BedandBreakfast.com members. Unless otherwise specified, all rates are per room, double occupancy, exclusive of tax and gratuity.

Blue Max Inn, Chesapeake City, MD: Spend October 24-26 and enjoy hayrides and the annual Ghost Walk. Your tour guides are professional actors, and the stage includes several local homes, the Blue Max Inn, and a pirate ship in the nearby basin. Children over ten are welcome to join in on the fun. This two-night package includes breakfast each morning, afternoon tea and snacks, plus tickets to the ghost walk, and costs $315-500. Info: 877-725-8362, www.bluemaxinn.com

Addison Choate Inn, Rockport, MA: Salem, Massachusetts is the home of the famous witch trials and the site of one of the biggest Halloween celebrations around. Stay two nights on Halloween weekend (October 31 - November 2) and get free round trip train tickets to Salem for their famous "Haunted Happenings." Rates for this two-night package start at $120, and include two nights lodging, breakfast each morning and round trip train tickets. Family Carriage House apartments are $175 per night through October. Info: 800-245-7543, www.addisonchoateinn.com

Laughing Buddha Beach House, Pismo Beach, CA: This is the place to bring kids for safe trick or treating with well-lit flat side streets complete with ocean views. Children come from far and wide to trick or treat in the village of Shell Beach. The Halloween special includes the entire house to yourself, a bottle of wine, and breakfast vouchers to the Steaming Bean for $175 per night midweek and $200 weekends. Info: 805-295-9889, www.laughingbuddhahouse.com

The Cedars Bed and Breakfast, Calico Rock, AR: Calico Rock rocks on Halloween. The Cedars B&B Halloween Special includes one nights accommodation at the inn or in one of the log cabins, breakfast and free spook house tickets for children under twelve, and costs $74-125 through November 1, 2003. Info: 800-233-2777, www.thecedarsbnb.com

Oak Park Inn & Historic Hopkins House, Whitehall, WI: Families will enjoy spending October 24-25 with pirates, ghosts, and goblins in an inn decorated for Halloween. The festivities include a pumpkin walk, a "scary" storyteller, plenty of Halloween treats, and a bone-chilling haunted forest. Walk the plank with the pirate and enjoy old fashion Halloween carnival games, and the straw bale maze. Each guest room has a scarecrow basket of caramel apples and hot apple cider. The package includes all this plus one night's lodging for an affordable $56 - $66 per room. Children under eighteen stay free when staying in their parents' room. Info: 877-479-7024, www.oakparkinn.com

The Arlington Inn, Arlington, VT: Enjoy a frightfully good time with this Halloween Package, offered to families with children of all ages. You'll be treated to a two-night stay, a four-course candlelight dinner for two, country breakfast each day, Vermont pumpkins to take home after your stay, and a gift bag of pumpkin spice coffee. Friday evening enjoy the Pumpkins on Parade displayed along one of Vermont's oldest cemeteries across from the Inn. Rates for the Oct. 31 - November 1 package are $395-$540, including tax. Children under 14 staying in a room with their parents stay free. Info: 800-443-9442, www.arlingtoninn.com

John Denham House Bed and Breakfast, Monticello, FL: John Denham House Bed and Breakfast, Monticello, FL: Built in 1818, this B&B is the perfect place to share ghost stories. Stay two nights and you'll enjoy a full breakfast each morning, pumpkin carving, and a bag of Halloween treats, for the weekend $200, October 31 - November 1, 2003. Info: 850-997-4568, www.johndenhamhouse.com

Natchez Guest House Historic Inn, Natchez, MS: Bring the family October 24 - 27, 2003 and enjoy the many Halloween activities held in Natchez. Listen to ghost stories around the campfire or visit the cemetery and hear the tales of local citizens long since passed. Enjoy the Music at the Mounds concert and the Great Pumpkin Festival, or come October 31st and take the kids trick-or-treating in the area and join in on the annual Halloween Howl costume contest and family fun. Room rates range from $80 for two, to $200 for a family of four including breakfast in the Garden Court Bistro. Info: 866-442-8848,www.natchezguesthouse.com

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