Great location, right across from a grocery store (milk for the coffee), a Five Guys and a fresh donut place (which made for a great breakfast!). It was raining, so we didn't walk to town, but that would have been easy, too. The coffee was exceptional, once we figured out how the grinder worked :) For the dog folks, the back yard is not fenced, so you can't just let the hounds out, but they wouldn't have gone out there in the rain on their own :). We have stayed in a few places in Asheville and this was the definitely the nicest place we have stayed, too bad we couldn't stay longer.