Except that it has a wonderfully hospitable owner, Mrs Lucey, and a great range of gourmet breakfasts, from porridge with Baileys to fry-ups with Clonakilty white pudding.
For dessert, get a classic anise-laced biscochito cookie (35 cents, if the hospitable owner Pratt Morales didn't hand you one as you walked in) and a double-shot espresso milkshake ($6.05).
The stories thickened, tangling the old Oxfordshire manor house and its hospitable owners within a web of scandal and mockery.
The genius of Inntravel is that it has nurtured village hotels with hospitable owners, each linked by a day's walking.
Stefano and Assunta Mattioli, the hospitable owners, have done a beautiful job of creating a relaxed, comfortable B&B where guests are welcomed as friends.
Although the rooms are on the small side, this is more than made up for by the beautiful garden, huge and delicious breakfasts, free bikes and fantastically hospitable owners and staff.
But never mind the bling, this is South West Tourism's B&B of the Year (for 2011); hospitable owners Adam and Grant run the place like clockwork; and the rooms – though generally on the cosy side – are wall to wall luxury (pocket-sprung king-beds, snazzy bathrooms, digital radios, robes, sweets and handmade chocolates).
A shisha café where we relaxed after a day of air strikes and tank fire in Aleppo – with its ever-hospitable young owner, Mohammed, who would laughingly talk about opening up branches in London – was closed down.
Not that it could be, given its owners' hospitable bent.
Tucked away on an obscure downtown street, the place is dominated by an enormous jukebox and the hospitable presence of the owner: a stout man who welcomes one and all like family.
The shirts are cut narrow, but, according to the hospitable, fashion-savvy Moroccan owner, Mehdi Kabbaj (whose day job is selling insurance), "they won't make the guy look like he's on 'Jersey Shore.' " He went on, "Of course, men have an odd notion of how clothes should fit.
