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Greetings!
Happy Holidays to all of our friends! DoorCountyNavigator.com wishes you and yours all the best this Holiday Season, and a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Hard to believe it's December already! Winter in Door County is special, so be sure to plan a trip up here. If you have not seen Door County in winter, you are missing out on something very special. So come up!
We present here our last of 2012's monthly features for this year's Navigator News(tm):
1) What A Place! details a delightful inn or other special place that we think you will like with lots of details!
2) Something To Do! which will lead to to fun things to do in Door County!
3) Some Door County Happenings! Find out the latest and greatest on the Door County Peninsula!
- What makes DoorCountyNavigator.com different? Trusted Reviews, and videos! Our professionals have been there so you can find the best without having to search all over the internet. One place, one focus, one Door County. DoorCountynavigator.com is for you!
- "A Peek Inside the Door," our cable TV show in Chicago, continues in its 8th month now! If you live in Chicago proper and have Comcast or RCN, tune in to Channel 25 on Mondays at 3:30PM, Tuesday and Thursday nights at 7:30. Let us know what you think!
- We have added a User Articles section. You can get your Door County write-up published on our site! So look for "Your Stories of Door County" and submit a story! So write it up now and submit it - it's winter - what else do you have to do?! Haha!
- Door County Online Jigsaw Puzzles(tm) now available for your playing pleasure - all on our website! Play now! Wow! More new puzzles were recently added!
- Convenient videos and Visual Reviews(tm) dominate our site because they offer you the best information about Door County that there is - anywhere!
- Find Me A Room(tm) continues to be a huge hit - especially as we move into the big trip planning season fpr 2013 - let us know if you need help: Click the Find Me A Room(tm) button on any page! Also, register to use our Trip Planner etc. right now at DoorCountyNavigator.com- let us know what you think! Use the Trip Planner, Advanced Search and more! Register now!
- Always check our DC Marketplace tab for interesting postings by Door County businesses - especially check the Rooms Availalbe part for last minute rooms on busy weekends!
- The Super Giveaway is on! Runs November and December with 7 prizes to one winner! And there is a new Scavenger Hunt Game that you play to enter! Reaction has been extremely positive on the new game! Enter Now!
- "Social Media" is bigger than ever! You can now follow DoorCountyNavigator.com on Twitter! Yes! Look for DoorCountyInfo or click below and follow our Twitter posts. Follow us on Twitter!
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Please visit our Sponsors' websites! They make the Navigator News(tm) possible and our website possible too! And they are some of the best places to stay in D oor County - click on their banners and see what they have to offer - and tell them you like them supporting Navigator News(tm)! Here's is Egg Harbor Lodge to the right - a great place in Egg Harbor.
Thanks for your readership, and here we go . . . Winter starts this month - so make your plans now on DoorCountyNavigator.com using our Trip Planner (register to use)!
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What A Place!
Chanticleer Guest House!
By Donna Marie Pocius
Special to DoorCountyNavigator.com
Stay at the Chanticleer Guest House during the holidays, when this bed and breakfast (B&B) inn welcomes guests with festive d�cor including Christmas trees in all guest suites.
Chanticleer Guest House, 4072 Cherry Rd., Sturgeon Bay, is a one-of-a-kind B&B with accommodations housed inside a transformed 1915 barn and farmhouse. The inn sits on a 70-acre rural property dotted with orchards, gardens and a sheep farm.
The innkeepers began the time-consuming task of setting and decorating tall Christmas trees in the common areas as well as in each guest suite and cabin in November.
"We love the holiday season, and we deck out Chanticleer in full holiday d�cor," says Darrin Day, who is innkeeper at Chanticleer Guest House in partnership with Bryon Groeschl.
Chanticleer offers guest choice of accommodations: four suites in the barn, four in the farmhouse as well as four cabins. Each has a private bathroom.
After buying the property from the Murphy family in 1993, the Day and Groeschl renovated the barn in conjunction with a local builder. They maintained some original features including flooring on the second floor. And from one of the barn's upper-level suites, the Meadows Suite, guests can see the ceiling's original wood shake shingles. Some of the old wood beams throughout the barn are original, too.
Each room is decorated in a different way-comfortable and classy as opposed to fussy. Antiques are part of the decorating scheme. But they are not overdone. Breakfast, prepared by the innkeepers, is delivered to guests' rooms in baskets. And the innkeepers say they have good business relationships with restaurants in Door County and often contact them, on behalf of their guests, to make reservations or request that dinner be delivered.
Day and Groeschl celebrated 18 years as innkeepers in 2012. Day describes their philosophy as follows: "Treat everyone who walks through the door with respect. After 18 years, it has made being an innkeeper a fun career, and it also makes guests enjoy coming back," he says.
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Here's Something to Do!
Get in the Holiday Spirit during
these Holiday Events!
By Donna Marie Pocius
Special to DoorCountyNavigator.com
Door County is a great place to shop at holiday time. But that's not the only thing to do.
Take a break from browsing wonderful gifts made by artists and local families to explore a Christmas and holiday-inspired class, concert or event.
For example, the Inn at Cedar Crossing, Sturgeon Bay, is hosting a gingerbread house class from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 15 and 22 and a Christmas Tea on Dec. 16 and 23.
Also in Sturgeon Bay, Third Avenue Playhouse is staging "Santaland Diaries" at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on select Thursdays through Saturdays through Dec. 31.
In Fish Creek, "Once upon a Christmas" will offer Christmas tree lighting, caroling and a visit by Mrs. Claus at 6 p.m. Dec. 16 at the historic Noble House. People can follow a candlelight procession to Old Gibraltar Town Hall for a light supper.
Speaking of Old Gibraltar Town Hall, it will be the site for American Folklore Theatre holiday concerts running Dec. 28 to Dec. 31.
The Hagen family will perform at Third Avenue Playhouse Dec. 22.
Visit the host organizations' Web sites for details on times and fees. |
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By Donna Marie Pocius
Special to DoorCountyNavigator.com
Here are some recent Door County Happenings!
Boxwood Interiors Home Store is a new home interiors, accessories and rugs store now open at 234 N. Third Avenue in Sturgeon Bay.
Red Oak Winery, formerly located on Third Avenue in Sturgeon Bay, has moved to Hwy. 57, south of Sturgeon Bay at 3017 Enterprise Rd. As you drive down the highway, you can't miss seeing the winemaking equipment including large stainless steel tanks in the huge front windows.
Double Delites, Egg Harbor, announced its newest holiday treat is gourmet caramel corn in the flavors "Holly Pop" and "Cracked Pepper." Also, this shop (one of DoorCountyNavigator.com's favorites) is offering eggnog lattes, white chocolate peppermint frappe/lattes and more.
The Clearing Folk School, Ellison Bay, began registration for its winter program classes which run from Jan. 7 through March 1. |
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