Off Ocean Highway (US 17) in North Carolina, this affordable, pet friendly hotel is located in the small town of Washington, and is suitable for both pleasure and business travellers (competitive corporate rates). On the waterfront, with its gift-shops and restaurants, is the worlds first Estuarium, an innovative environmental centre, where NCs vital estuary and coastal river system is demonstrated through aquariums, videos, artefacts and interactive displays. Visitors may wish to stroll in the downtown area, with its many antebellum buildings and historic sites. Goose Creek State Park is just a 20 minute drive (19 km) from the hotel, with varied wildlife and many outdoor recreational opportunities. The hotel offers wireless high-speed Internet, free coffee and pastries, guest-use fax machine and laundry facilities and cable television in all guest rooms.