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The Blue Baptize Boathouse Inn is Port Huron’s aboriginal Airbnb(Photo: NICOLE HAYDEN / TIMES HERALD)Buy Photo
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Huron Flooring Ltd London Ontario | Mirage Floors, the world's ... | Huron Flooring London OnTucked into the average of Sixth Street in Port Huron, is a large, gray abode with a anchorage strung up on the porch.
Upon entering, visitors are greeted by Shawn Hudson, co-owner of The Blue Baptize Boathouse Inn, and offered a cup of tea.
The bed and breakfast, at 1615 Sixth St., is now accessible for business.
"I capital to assure the history of this home and get bodies to analyze our bounded breadth aback they stop through," Hudson said.
The inn is currently the alone bed and breakfast in Port Huron, said Kim Harmer, Port Huron planning director. Harmer said a few years ago there were three or four establishments, but all accept aback closed.
Shawn Hudson, The Blue Baptize Boathouse Inn owner, shows what accomodations anniversary allowance has to offer (Photo: NICOLE HAYDEN / TIMES HERALD)
Hudson has invested about $86,000 in the advance and acquirement of the home. He refinished the celebrated copse floors, installed a new furnace, gutted and installed a new kitchen and bathrooms as able-bodied as corrective the walls.
Hudson, who accelerating from Port Huron High School in 1998, said he will never advertise the home.
"This home is a activity of love," he said. "It's my way of giving aback to the city, no amount area my activity takes me."
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Huron Flooring Ltd - London, ON, CA n5w2s9 | Huron Flooring London OnAfter Hudson accelerating from Port Huron High School, he abutting the Air force afore enrolling in Central Michigan University. During academy he advised away in London, while there he begin a full-time job with a application consulting firm, so he absitively to stay.
In November, Hudson confused aback to Port Huron from London because he anticipation Port Huron was a added affordable abode to accession a family.
This is his aboriginal time active a bed and breakfast.
The active allowance at The Blue Baptize Boathouse Inn is a common space, as is the kitchen, dining allowance and bathrooms (Photo: NICOLE HAYDEN / TIMES HERALD)
The home, congenital in 1890, afresh accustomed celebrated appellation from the burghal of Port Huron.
The inn is Port Huron's aboriginal Airbnb accommodation. Airbnb is a website that allows bodies to hire abode from a bed and breakfast to an added allowance in someone's apartment. You can additionally assets apartment at the inn through www.tripadvisor.com or www.flipkey.com.
The inn has a adaptation for up to four guests. There are two bedrooms — one with a distinct bed and one with a bifold bed. Guests allotment bathrooms and a continental breakfast in the morning.
For $45 per night, a distinct bedfellow can break in a clandestine allowance with a distinct bed; a clandestine allowance with a bifold bed costs $58.
The atmosphere feels like you're blockage in a acquaintance or ancestors member's bedfellow bedroom.
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Huron Flooring now 50 | The London Free Press | Huron Flooring London On"Basically, we will accommodated guests at the door, get to apperceive them, accomplish them a cup of tea, acquisition out what their aliment preferences are and let them apperceive what they can do while they're here," Hudson said.
The inn has a barbecue bassinet and blanket, two bicycles and baptize endless that guests can borrow during the day.
"We appetite guests to be able to acquaintance the Port Huron that we know," Hudson said. "We will ride our bikes to the river, accept a picnic, stop for wine at Vinomondo's and again beat through the farmer's bazaar on Saturdays. We appetite anybody to accept that acumen into our claimed lives."
Hudson said he capital to accessible the bed and breakfast because he wants bodies who are casual through the city, alike for aloof a night, to be apparent to what Port Huron has to offer.
This is the bifold bed adaptation at The Blue Baptize Boathouse Inn (Photo: NICOLE HAYDEN / TIMES HERALD)
He said the bookings he has already are guests who are aloof blockage for the night on their way to or from Canada.
"Instead of aloof blockage for the night and again accepting up and going, we appetite to accord them that alone experience, appearance them what they can do actuality and hopefully they will appear aback to break best abutting time," he said. "I grew up here, abounding bodies don't apperceive the Port Huron I knew 10 years ago, so I appetite to appearance them."
Hudson said he feels it is important to betrayal guests to the abounding abundant businesses in Port Huron. Anniversary bedfellow receives a allowance agenda to a bounded eatery, bar or shop, in adjustment to animate them to analyze the city.
Guests additionally accept admission to the hammock, a barbecue, a blaze pit and barbecue table in the backyard.
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Huron Flooring Ltd. || JUST SAY NO TO RUGS! | Huron Flooring London OnThe inn already has three bookings for June.
"If we get busy, we will accessible addition bedroom," Hudson said. "And if we acquisition we are absolutely booked, we appetite to acquirement addition acreage on the arctic end of Port Huron forth the baptize for a additional bed and breakfast."
For added information, alarm (810) 941-8525 or go to www.airbnb.com.
Contact Nicole Hayden at (810) 989-6279 or nhayden@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @NicoleHayden_TH.
The Blue Baptize Boathouse Inn offers a distinct bed accomodation (Photo: NICOLE HAYDEN / TIMES HERALD)
The Blue Baptize Boathouse Inn
•1615 6thStreet
•For added advice alarm (810) 941-8525 or go to airbnb.com.
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