Golf, the Hospitality House way.
Two nights, three rounds, breakfast daily — and a “spirited beverage” at Christopher’s on the house.
Williamsburg golf was a Hospitality House specialty. The hotel’s own pitch, circa 2000: a customised package with deluxe accommodation, full American breakfast daily, 18 holes with a cart each day and “a complimentary spirited beverage in Christopher’s Tavern” — taxes and gratuities included, groups of 2 to 100 welcome. The headline offer: 2 nights, 3 rounds, from $269 per person (double occupancy), booked toll-free at 877-TRIP-174.
The courses the concierge recommended
The hotel kept its own course list — every blurb below is theirs (2001):
- Golden Horseshoe Gold — Robert Trent Jones Sr. called the renovated course his “finest design”.
- Golden Horseshoe Green — Rees Jones, “carved from mature Virginia woodlands”.
- Ford’s Colony — 54 holes by Dan Maples through rolling terrain.
- Williamsburg National — a Nicklaus Design Associates course; Golf Digest: “well maintained… good shape, good design”.
- Stonehouse — “greens hanging from the cliffs”, by Larry and Danny Young.
- Royal New Kent — the Scottish-links one words fail, per the hotel.
- The Colonial — Lester George & Robert Wrenn, “without a home or condo in sight”.
- Kiskiack — John LaFoy, on a bluff “where the Kiskiack Indians once roamed”.
Most of these courses are still playable today — the list doubles as a period guide to Williamsburg golf that largely still works.
Package terms and prices as published on the hotel’s golf pages, 2000–2001 — a snapshot of what a Williamsburg golf trip cost at the turn of the millennium.