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Bed and breakfasts offer many of the same amenities as hotels – beds and bathroom facilities – and an Internet search yields a number of well-received establishments in the Harbour City. Marilyn and Glenn McKnight own and operate MGM Seashore Bed and Breakfast on Fillinger Crescent, offering 20 selections on a menu that changes all the time. Marilyn said she offers homemade breads, muesli cereal, as well as granola, yogurt and juices. Glenn makes coffee, including cappuccino, lattes and espresso. “If we have something like local berries and waffles, whip cream ... with a coulis sauce, then we’ll have something savoury, like a seafood omelette, vegetable omelette,” said Marilyn. “We’re experimenting with gluten-free waffles now ... Marilyn bakes eggs and ham, so they’re like a muffin, with cheese and things on it, eggs and spinach,” said Glenn. Ingvar Vikan and wife Ania Janaszak own and operate
The Pine and Picket Bed and Breakfast on Drake Street, close to Departure Bay ferry terminal, and seeing as Ania is a trained chef, breakfasts are more than continental. “Ania does eggs Benedict. It’s one of her most favourite dishes ... she does it the real way – the boiling water, the bit of vinegar and in goes the egg – none of this fancy little cup thing that makes it easy,” said Ingvar. On top their breakfast menus, MGM and Pine and Picket both rely on scenery as a selling point. MGM has scenic view of the ocean, including in its honeymoon suite room, and guests can head down to the beach. Pine and Picket has scenic gardens in its backyard and a view of Newcastle Island and the waterfront. Both bed and breakfast establishments try to point guests in the direction of local sites and businesses. “We try to help people as much as we can, so they have a good experience,” Glenn and Marilyn McKnight, owners and operators of MGM Seashore said Ingvar. Bed and Breakfast, peruse a guestbook.
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