Those lucky enough to score a lake-facing room may find the hotel's greatest asset is its views over the waterfront and the Alps.
WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING The Mount Whittier Motel (1695 Route 16, 603-539-4951; www.mountwhittiermotel.biz), a short drive from the lake, offers rooms with Continental breakfast for $59 a night in the fall and winter and $79 in the spring and summer.
They're not called Premier Lake View Rooms for nothing.
All Premier Lake View Rooms open onto this gorgeous pool, which runs around two sides of the hotelanother reason to book them.
I alternately dragged, and was dragged, past penguins skating on lakes, and rooms of elves making toys.
Unlike most Finger Lakes tastings rooms, which have expansive, lakeside views, Hermann J Weimer conducts its tastings in a cathedral-like 90-year-old barn, amid the stainless steel tanks of the production facility.
But as I gutted the place I found 12-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, chestnut trim and views of the lake from every room.
$900,000 to $1.2 million Warwick $925,000 14 Warwick Lake Parkway, Orange Number of bedrooms: 5 Number of full bathrooms: 3 Number of half bathrooms: 0 Weeks on market: 24 weeks New wood colonial; lake access, family room, den, office, h/w floors, deck.
Like Rudolf Nureyev, Mr. Wheeldon has set "Swan Lake" inside a room, suggesting that the lakeside encounters of Odette, the swan queen, and Prince Siegfried, as protagonist, are projections of the hero's mind.
