Our daughter went to Middlebury College. Middlebury is a beautiful, small Vermont village but the amount of accommodations are limited. The first time I made reservations to drop her off for college Freshman Year, I found what I felt was the last room in town at Inn on the Green. That ended up being a lucky find. It is a beautiful Inn in the middle of town. It is walking distance to the shops and restaurants. The owner told me that her advice for college parents was, every time a parent visits their child during their four years at Middlebury College, stay at the same hotel to build a relationship so that when your child graduates, you have some ‘priority’ with the hotel for rooms. I told her ‘put us on the waitlist’ for graduation in four years. That was the best advice ever! We did stay there several visits a year for four years. The October Parents Weekend is in the middle of fall foliage season changing so a lot of competition for rooms with ‘leaf peepers’. I booked all our reservations a year in advance. The main house of the Inn is old and beautiful. All the rooms are different and well appointed with antiques and carpets. Each evening you hang a menu on your door of what you want for breakfast and the next morning it is delivered to your room. There is always coffee and cookies available. There is no evening service of bar or dinner, but one is within walking distance of many other opportunities. There is a second building that has four rooms in it. I have stayed in that building also. The rooms are just as quaint even though they are newer. This last year we stayed there, the ownership changed. But our last visit for our daughter’s graduation reflected that the warm hospitality has not changed. The new owners have partnered with some local vendors to have the option of amenities that were not there before. The Inn on the Green will make your Middlebury visit a very special one.