Advice please- Shipshewana area Lodging
02-19-2020, 01:03 PM
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Advice please- Shipshewana area Lodging
I'm looking for suggestions for overnight lodging in the Shipshewana area. I enjoy quaint, but am open to other types of lodging.
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02-19-2020, 03:13 PM
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There are 2 large hotels - the Blue Gate Inn and the Farmstead Inn. Very similar, homey not fancy, and near downtown. No restaurant at either one, but both do a breakfast buffet. There are a couple of other smaller motels as well, and I imagine there are "quaint" places but I have only stayed at the two mentioned.
02-19-2020, 07:14 PM
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My quilt group went by bus from Waterford, MI to Shipshewana and back to Waterford in one day. We left Waterford at 7 a.m. or 7:30 a.m. Stopped in McDonalds after a couple of hours for a bathroom break 'cus gals didn't want to use bathroom on bus. We had dinner at a town west of Shippy -- can't remember name & think it begins with letter M. If you want more details, PM me because I can't remember the details and need to look them up
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02-20-2020, 04:09 PM
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There are 2 large hotels - the Blue Gate Inn and the Farmstead Inn. Very similar, homey not fancy, and near downtown. No restaurant at either one, but both do a breakfast buffet. There are a couple of other smaller motels as well, and I imagine there are "quaint" places but I have only stayed at the two mentioned.
02-22-2020, 09:28 AM
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mjkgquilt, the town may have been Middlebury. I grew up in that area, my grandparents farm was about 6 miles north. In a town with under 800 population, all else very rural in each direction and for miles, accommodations are not all that easy to find. I know the motels get booked up in summer months. You might try Howe and Lagrange besides Middlebury and Bristol isn't too far. Goshen would be close to 20 miles. By now there might be a number of motels built by the Tollroad exits for Sturgis and White Pigeon, MI. I haven't been there in many years, but those towns are all still around.
02-23-2020, 02:10 AM
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mjkgquilt, the town may have been Middlebury. I grew up in that area, my grandparents farm was about 6 miles north. In a town with under 800 population, all else very rural in each direction and for miles, accommodations are not all that easy to find. I know the motels get booked up in summer months. You might try Howe and Lagrange besides Middlebury and Bristol isn't too far. Goshen would be close to 20 miles. By now there might be a number of motels built by the Tollroad exits for Sturgis and White Pigeon, MI. I haven't been there in many years, but those towns are all still around.
Thanks for the information. I'll check out the near-by towns.
02-23-2020, 05:14 AM
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TripAdvisor.com lists several hotels for the Shipshewana area. Their site shows hotel rates, photos, and the ratings of people who stayed there:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g...na-Hotels.html
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g...na-Hotels.html
