A Craft House is in Merchants Square and next to the Williamsburg Inn.

Room service is available from the Williamsburg Inn, and breakfast for two at Shields Tavern is included in the price.

The Williamsburg Inn, the most luxurious of the foundation's lodging choices, is partly closed for renovations; reservations should be made well in advance.

Q: Actually, did you stay at the Williamsburg Inn, not in Richmond?

The restoration of Colonial Williamsburg and the Williamsburg Inn surrounded the facility with a thriving tourist trade.

Williamsburg Inn, $325, (757) 253-2277.

The most famous of the lodgings is the 99-room Williamsburg Inn, the gracious Southern hotel with sweeping views across a spectacular golf course and two pools.

Rooms in the Market Square Tavern and other outbuildings of the Williamsburg Inn are about $180.

The Williamsburg Inn serves a sumptuous Sunday brunch for about $25 a person.

In seeking lodgings on her own, she began with the top-rated Williamsburg Inn.