THE
NEPTUNE
HOUSE On beautiful BLOCK
ISLAND!
This New England
Victorian-era island is just a 13-mile, one-hour ferry ride off the Rhode
Island-Connecticut coast. Enjoy lighthouses and Victorian architecture,
boutique-type shopping, great seafood and gourmet cuisine, bicycling, hiking,
horseback riding, deep-sea fishing, sailing, and nature walks. Resort amenities
include full kitchens in every unit, outdoor barbecues, indoor pool (March to
November), outdoor tennis courts, pool table, DirectTV,
complimentary WIFI, and movie library with more than 500 titles. A car is
recommended (need a ferry reservation for car), but is not necessary as taxis
are plentiful and inexpensive. Or walk
the 15 minutes from the ferry to the resort at the quiet end of Connecticut Avenue. Offseason "On
the Block" is particularly lovely...with the June – September crowds gone
you can enjoy the island's beauty from October to May.
Neptune House is a small resort, known in the timeshare
industry as a 'boutique' resort, having just 23 vacation condos. They are all
different; as the Victorian building beautiful in its architecture is a Queen
Anne style (very popular BI Mansard roof). Originally built in the 1870's it
was a Victorian era private mansion that became a vacation ownership timeshare
resort in the mid 1980's. Victorian buildings are asymmetrical in nature hence
each vacation condo unit having a different layout. Block
Island is laid back so the accommodations 'on island' are also
easy going and 'unfussy'. And you'll find no chain hotels like Marriott or
Holiday Inn, no chain restaurants like Applebee's or McDonalds, no chain stores
like Home Depot or CVS. No traffic lights. But that is why people like the few
places on earth that are still like Block Island - nature's paradise with just
a bit more than the bare necessities - for a trip to Block Island is not meant
to be spent in your unit but outdoors walking, hiking, bike riding, kayaking,
fishing, boating, bird watching, wildflower and insect/animal viewing (some of
which exist no other place on earth than here);
Seeing the 365 f-r-e-s-h water ponds (this far out into the Atlantic
Ocean), the 2 boat harbors, and observing how life is on an island 13 miles out
to sea serviced daily by ferry with its residents somewhat insulated (and
shielded) from life 'In America' as they like to call it. If you want golf
courses and shopping malls, then you won't like a visit to Block
Island. If you want fresh (and I mean F-R-E-S-H) lobster you can meet the lobstermen at 4-5pm when they
pull into the harbor and buy right from them. October/November timeframe has
the seals sunbasking on the rocks - having migrated
here from Canada
for BIs 'warm' water! And in April you can see the
thousands (yes thousands) of daffodils and narcissis
in bloom under the pine trees in 'the Maze' overlooking the Bluffs. 2
Lighthouses, each very different - and one was moved just a few years ago
several hundred feet from the edge of the cliffs just before it was to fall
into the sea due to erosion. If you want to hear 'quiet', the wind, marvel at
the beauty of Mother Nature and refresh and rejuvenate yourself in this so
busy-noisy-chaotic world they you must come to this 'last remaining piece of
paradise.' For those that have been captivated by BI's
magic they are hooked, and come back every year, year after year.
“Come for
a Week &
Stay for a
Lifetime” .…
O-w-n a ‘Piece
of The Block’!