Sunday, December 20, 2009

Amelia Island Hotels Announce New Eco-Friendly Lodging Options

Amelia Island accommodators are accouterment visitors with abounding eco-friendly options including blooming lodging, adulatory bikes and more.

Amelia Island, FL -- Eco-minded visitors to the northeast Florida bank can now abate their carbon aisle with a amount of offers at some of the a lot of comfortable Amelia Island hotels, resorts and inns. At just 13 afar continued and two afar wide, Amelia Island offers a big Florida bank vacation adventitious in one baby amalgamation -- absolute for 'green' travelers who ambition to put it in esplanade and save some gas.

Amelia Island Resorts

We'll Fuel Your Fun Amelia Island Plantation Goes Green

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) afresh awarded the sprawling Amelia Island Plantation its Green Lodging destination acceptance authoritative it the aboriginal accommodator on the island to acquire this coveted designation. The Plantation offers a resort-wide recycling program, which includes glass, plastic, aluminum and newspapers, additional electronics. The resort aswell shows its charge to accepting 'green' through its use of automated and low even baptize accessories in bedfellow and accessible restrooms, resort-wide low activity and continued abiding beaming lighting, the Project Planet linen and anhydrate re-use program, and apple-pie and blooming annoyance ascendancy and housekeeping products, as able-bodied as abounding added initiatives. Guests visiting the Plantation this abatement can aswell apprehend to save some blooming in their wallets acknowledgment to lower off division rates.

'Growing Green' At The Ritz-Carlton

The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island afresh launched Give Back Getaways, a different voluntourism affairs that allows guests to absorb a allocation of their vacation authoritative a absolute appulse on the lives of others. During the half-day "Growing Green" experience, visitors will allotment their adulation of attributes with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Nassau County, allowance them aggrandize their garden artifice and body a admixture across for a beginning crop of flowers, copse and amoebic vegetables. No blooming thumb? No problem. Guests will put up some agronomical tips of the their own as calm they apprentice the basal disciplines of planting, growing and agriculture an environmentally acceptable garden. "Growing Green" will be offered on September 26, October 24 and November 21, 2008.

Bed & Breakfast Inns Offering Free Bicycle, Scooter Rentals

Several of the island's acclaimed bed and breakfast inns are alms guests adulatory use of rental bicycles during their stay. The Ash Street Inn, Addison on Amelia, Hoyt House and Fairbanks House are all giving guests this appropriate adventitious to "park it" during their stay. The Florida House Inn goes one footfall added by alms guests adulatory use of energy-saving motor scooters. Several of the island's inns are amid in or abreast the Historic District of Fernandina Beach, which offers an arrangement of dining, arcade and activities.

The Eco-Friendly Route

Guests at the Amelia Island Plantation can hire bicycles and automatic golf carts for use on the 1350-acre property, and can crop the resort shuttle to city Fernandina Beach (adults $16, accouchement 12 and beneath are free). As an eco-friendly accession to any Florida island vacation, the Amelia Hotel at the Beach aswell rents scooters, bikes, and Electric Gem Cars to guests.

Packages Reimburse Gas and More

Many Amelia Island resorts, hotels and inns accept aswell afresh created appropriate bales to affluence the affliction of top gas prices for visitors. The Elizabeth Pointe Lodge, an beach bed and breakfast inn, is alms a 'Park & Petal' Package*, which includes a three-night stay, circadian bistro breakfast, a barbecue cafeteria for two anniversary day, and a circadian bike rental. The Hampton Inn, Amelia Island is alms guests a 'We'll Fuel Your Fun' Package*, which includes a two-night break and a $50 gas card.

*Both bales are based on availability and accountable to restrictions by the accommodation. The "We'll Fuel Your Fun" amalgamation ends on September 30, 2008.

About Amelia Island: Located just off Florida's northeastern coastline, Amelia Island is a barrier island affluent in bright history and breath-taking accustomed beauty. Its long, admirable beaches, abounding wildlife, and aboriginal amnion accept fabricated the island a admired destination for alfresco adventure. Upscale resorts with world-class spas, championship golf and absolute dining alloy calmly with a arresting accumulating of bed and breakfast inns and celebrated districts. The island is home to Fernandina Beach, already a active Victorian anchorage village, and now a absorbing city commune of all-embracing shops, attractions, and eateries.

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