Ashland Springs Hotel
212 E. Main St., downtown, 888-795-4545, 541-488-1700. Continental breakfast. Adjacent Waterstone Spa. Restaurant. Free parking.
Both charming and conveniently located, the landmark Ashland Springs Hotel built in 1925 offers large, quiet rooms and an outdoor swimming pool. Rooms are poshly appointed, with high beds. A sort of Audubon theme runs throughout the hotel, including a fascinating display of Victorian stuffed birds and an extensive seashell collection displayed in the old-fashioned two-story lobby. The lobby has several seating areas and large windows looking out to the street; a continental breakfast is served on the mezzanine level that wraps around the perimeter, allowing diners a view below.
Larks
restaurant operates off the lobby. Its cuisine is a celebration of Oregon’s farms, orchards, and vineyards, as well as of its artisan cheese makers and chocolatiers. Dinner includes items such as a classic Caesar salad as well as well as more fussy delights such as a "Maple Balsamic-glazed Double-cut White Marble Farms Pork Chop With Apple Compote & Rosemary Roasted Sweet Potatoes.” Lunch is a relative bargain, and the menu then includes a hamburger and a classic Reuben sandwich.
L-D daily, Sat-SunBr; $$$.
L-D daily, Sat-SunBr; $$$.
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You might want to let your readers know that this hotel was purchased and renovated with STOLEN MONEY! Reed Slatkin, the convicted Scientology minister, operated one of the largest Ponzi Schemes in US history and was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for numerous SEC violations. One of his pet projects was with current Ashland Springs owners Douglass And Becky Neuman, who met Slatkin while purchasing "enlightenment" in the Church Of Scientology. Recently the Neumans have sued Ashland for two million dollars when their hotel wasn't allowed to double in size due to our town's "big-box ordnance". They are currently listed by the Church of Scientology as sponsors of the Church's "Operation Planetary Calm", Scientology's self-proclaimed "war" against the mental health sciences and its practitioners. They currently sell "The Way To Happiness" booklet, Scientology's attempt to establish a secular front group in Ashland.
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