Vermont's Wilburton Inn in Manchester Offers Harvest Value Rates to Dec. 23

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. October 14, 2008

MANCHESTER, VT, November 4, 2005. As autumn leaves fall, so do lodging rates at the Wilburton Inn in Manchester, Vt., that welcomes guests for upcoming Harvest Value and Holiday Season weekends.

From now to Nov. 22 Harvest Value rates inclusive of accommodation, daily breakfast, afternoon tea and a coupon discount book for local shopping are from $125 to $195 nightly, a 50 percent reduction over high season rates. This program resumes Nov. 26 to Dec. 23.

Thanksgiving weekend rates are from $150 to $240 Nov. 23-26 with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast from 3-7 p.m. at $45 for adults, $25 for children and $7 for tots. (If guests select a third Thanksgiving weekend night they pay only $125, $150 for a fireplace room.) The Wilburton Inn is a member of Historic Inns of Manchester that will present two activity-packed Open House Tour Weekends as a prelude to the holidays. The dates are Dec 2-4 and 9-11. Tickets for the wine tasting hors d 'oeuvre Friday party at Hildene are $15 and the open house tours are $12.50.

The Inn can arrange for, among others, yoga and kick boxing classes, massage, a personal training session and personal beauty treatments. The Wilburton Inn is a 39-room, gabled, turn-of-century (20th) country estate with wrap-around terraces offering an elevated, hard-to-beat perspective of the magnificence of southern Vermont.

Full country breakfasts are served in a former billiard room with a view and afternoon refreshments in a lodge-like grand room with blazing fire.

The 20-acre estate that commands the best views in the region was at one time the largest private estate in Manchester. On premise are the mansion, five villas, tennis courts, a swimming pool, sculpture gardens and, in season, vibrant flower beds. Golfing and skiing are minutes from the estate, as is this southern Vermont town's famous shopping area.

The resident owner-hosts are Georgette and Albert Levis. They say of themselves:

"Anyone who buys a country inn has to be a little nutty, so it made sense when Dr. Albert Levis, a European psychiatrist, and Georgette Levis, the inspiration for the Tony-Award winning role of "Gorgeous" in her sister Wendy Wasserstein's play, The Sister's Rosensweig, bought the Wilburton Inn in Manchester, Vermont in 1987. "

Come up to Vermont and meet the whole Levis Family. Daughter Melissa, who wrote an Off Broadway musical called "The Joys of Sex," will sing songs about her father's theories; Oliver (son) and Bonnie (Oliver's wife) who have opened a nearby holistic retreat called Teleion Holon and whose resident guests are two Jersey calves (for organic cheese making in the spring) and 35 chicks for organic eggs (also in the spring); Max Levis (a junior at Columbia) who may be your waiter; Albert who leads tours of his sculpture garden and Georgette who is ...Gorgeous.