CONTACT & ABOUT US

Woods Hole Inn
6 Luscombe Avenue
PO Box 4 (mailing address)
Woods Hole, MA 02543
508-495-0248
508-495-0048 fax

Sally, Woods Hole Innkeeper
I am from Duxbury and ran an inn in Plymouth for years. I have family living on Martha's Vineyard and I love golf, grandkids and life on the water. I look forward to showing you all that Cape Cod has to offer!

ECO-TOURISM

As an eco-inn, we have taken great pains to renovate and run the property with care towards mother earth. Here is a short list of our efforts and we appreciate guest participation and feedback on our goal to run a high-quality inn with as little impact as possible:

• - we use warm compact fluorescent lighting, cutting our electric use dramatically, and we seek to turn off lights and fans when rooms are empty
• - we recycle and compost, limiting our waste stream as much as possible
• - we use soaps handmade in Woods Hole by a local artisan
• - we use green cleaning products to clean the rooms
• - we use a water filter vacuum that creates no trash
• - we line dry our laundry when possible
• - we use energy efficient appliances
• - food in our restaurant is sourced locally whenever possible
• - we do not offer air conditioning, preferring to offer fans in the rooms for the handful of nights when the steady ocean breeze is not enough to keep cool

In renovating this 100+ year old property, we took great pains to reuse as much wood from the building as possible. For example, the cabinets in our restaurant are made from doors no longer in use in the inn. We used organic paints to complete the interior painting. Wood and building material we could not use was salvaged and recycled whenever possible. We improved the building’s heat efficiency with new thermal windows and insulation. We patched and repaired the building's outer layer of shingles rather than ripping it all off and starting again. We repaired floors, walls, improved electric and plumbing systems, upgraded the heating system without replacing it.

We appreciate any ideas or thoughts you might have about how we can do better. We are open to a dialogue with guests and others about living green.