Mystic Howard Johnson Inn

253 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic, CT 06355
Nightly Rates: ( 73.61 - 84.28 )
3 Star

Property Description

Welcome to the Howard Johnson's Inn of Mystic, Connecticut. Howard Johnson Award recipient: Gold Medal Award for Quality Excellence and President's Award. Come feel at home in our 77 beautiful oversized rooms. Complete with Hairdryers, Coffeemakers, Irons and Ironing Boards, expanded Cable w/ HBO & WIFI Internet access. Indoor Heated Pool. Walking distance to the Mystic Aquarium and Mystic Seaport. Only minutes from Foxwoods Casino and Mohegan Sun Casino. HEATED POOL CLOSED FOR RENOVATION NOVEMBER 5TH THRU NOVEMBER 25TH, 2007

Amenities

· Casino
· Golf
· Room Service
· Shops/Commercial Services
· Adjoining Rooms
· Air Conditioned
· AM/FM Alarm Clock
· Bar/Lounge
· Breakfast
· Coffee Maker in Room
· Connecting Rooms
· Copy Service
· 24 Hour Front Desk
· Handicapped Rooms/Facilities
· Free Parking
· Hairdryers Available
· Ice Machine
· Iron
· Ironing Board
· Jacuzzi
· Modem in Room
· Microwave
· Microwave
· Modem Lines in Room
· Meeting/Banquet Facilities
· No Smoking Rooms/Facilities
· Free Newspaper
· Over Sized Rooms
· Pool
· Heated Pool
· Indoor Pool
· Bus Parking
· Parking
· Recreational Vehicle Parking
· Truck Parking
· Refrigerator
· Safe Deposit Box
· Safe
· Television with Cable
· TV Remote Control
· Vending Machines
· Wake-up Service
· Wheel Chair Access

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Miscellaneous Information

· American Dollars is the native currency.
· Check in time is 04:00 PM
· Check out time is 12:00 PM
· Time Zone is EST
· Opened in 1965
· Renovated in 2000
· 77 rooms.
· 0 suites.
· 2 floors.

Directions

Take Interstate 95 South to Exit 90. Take a left at exit ramp. The hotel is immediately on your right.

Take Interstate 95 North to Exit 90. Take a right at exit ramp. The hotel is immediately on your right.

T.F. Green International; Bradley International Airport; Groton Airport

Guarantee Policy

All reservations made via the Internet require a credit card to guarantee the reservation. Some reservations may require a credit card deposit.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellation penalties may apply if cancelled after the policy deadline. Please review the reservation details before confirming your reservation as policies vary.

Restaurant Information

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Recreation Information

Blessing of the Fleet The Festival of Lights Foxwoods Resort Casino Light Parade Lobsterfest Mashantucket Pequot Thames River Fireworks Mohegan Sun Casino Mystic Aquarium Mystic Outdoor Art Festival Mystic Seaport Schemitzun

Lobsterfest Mashantucket Pequot Thames River Fireworks Blessing of the Fleet Mystic Outdoor Art Festival Schemitzun Light Parade The Festival of Lights Mystic Aquarium Mystic Seaport Foxwoods Resort Casino Mohegan Sun Casino

Area Attractions

The Inn is near 86 exciting attractions including: Mystic Aquarium, Mystic Seaport, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Casinos, Essex Steam Train/Riverboat Ride, Discount Outlet Shopping, and Waterfront Dining and Entertainment.

Lobsterfest

Held each May at the Mystic Seaport, this old-fashioned lobster bake features music, demonstrations and activities. 1-888-9SEAPORT

Mashantucket Pequot Thames River Fireworks

Every July the Groton/New London area "explodes" with wonderful sights and sounds from three barges on the river.

Blessing of the Fleet

This late July/early August weekend event includes a Lobsterbake, Fisherman's mass on Sunday and a parade through Stonington Borough to the Front Street docks where the many ships are blessed.

Mystic Outdoor Art Festival

Voted by the American Bus Association as one of the country's top 100 annual events, the Mystic Outdoor Art Festival features over 300 talented artists. The event is held each August in Downtown Mystic. (860)572-5098

Schemitzun

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation presents the Feast of the Green Corn and Dance featuring Native American dancers, musicians, and crafters. Schmitzun is held every September in North Stonington. 1-800-200-2882

Lantern Light Tours

Just in time for the holidays, Mystic Seaport hosts the annual Lantern Light Tours in which visitors step back in time to horse-drawn carriages and dancing in the old tavern. Lead by an interpreter, the light tours are given only in the evenings. 1-888-9SEAPORT

Light Parade

Every December floats, marching bands and vehicles, all adorned with twinkling lights and holiday cheer, travel down Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Niantic. (860) 739-8913

Festival of Lights

Olde Mistik Village and the Mystic Aquarium come to life with more than 4,000 luminaria lining the walkways from dusk until 9:30 pm. The Festival of Lights also features roaming performers, caroling and tasty treats. (860) 536-4941

Mystic Aquarium

Explore the new Mystic Aquarium and discover the secrets of our ocean planet. New exhibits for 1999 include "Challenges of the Deep"; this interactive exhibit allows you to share the excitement of an oceanographic expedition hosted by Dr. Robert D. Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic. Visit the Alaskan Coast exhibit where magnificent beluga whales and spirited seals play in cascading waterfalls and caves. Walking distance from hotel. (860) 572-5955

Mystic Seaport

The Museum of America and the Sea, Mystic Seaport is America's largest and most distinguished maritime museum containing collections of ships, boats, buildings, crafts, trades, art artifacts, traditions, food, and music that brings the story of America and the sea to life. From the Seaport, take a Mystic River cruise on the last coal fired passenger steamer in operation in the United States on the Steamboat Sabino. Walking distance from hotel. 1-888-9SEAPORT

Foxwood's Resort Casino

Foxwood's Resort Casino is one of the country's largest casinos with 5,500 slots, hundreds of tables, dining, and entertainment for the whole family. 1-800-PLAY-BIG

Mohegan Sun Casino

Mohegan Sun is one of the newest casinos with 3,300 slots, 192 gaming tables, dining, and entertainment. It is uniquely designed to celebrate the history and culture of the Mohegan tribe. 1-888-226-7711

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Travel Information for Connecticut Hotel Guests

If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Connecticut attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Connecticut state park, this is where you will find it.

CONNECTICUT, one of the 13 original colonies, is a lace work of preserved Early American and Colonial structures and sites with a legacy of Victorian architecture, military firearms, Industrial Revolution manufacturing, literature and theater, and American Impressionist art. Today, world-class theater, music and art museums contribute to its well-stocked treasure-trove for seekers of cultural pursuits. Connecticut is also very much a place for family adventures, with easy access to attractions of great diversity such as beaches, historic carousels, old-fashioned fun parks, vintage train rides, farms and ranches for picking, petting and riding, museums and science centers, zoos and nature centers. Connecticut's small size, great diversity of terrain and wide open spaces make it ideal for outdoor enthusiasts. Almost every type of outdoor activity has its following here like cycling, hiking, kayaking and canoeing, river tubing, camping, downhill skiing and snowboarding, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling. saltwater and freshwater fishing, boating, and hot air ballooning.

The Discovery Museum at BRIDGEPORT is an interactive museum with a simulated trip to the moon; at Captain's Cove maritime and amusement center visitors can take a guided tour of the Nantucket, a floating lighthouse; the Barnum Museum pays homage to showman P.T. Barnum.

Nearby, at MILFORD, there is bird-watching in a variety of habitats at the Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center.

Some 16 towns make up the CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY region, among them East Haddam where visitors can tour the stone castle in Gillette Castle State Park or the Goodspeed Opera House where nationally acclaimed musicals are performed in a historic Victorian theater (15 of its shows have gone on to Broadway); at Chester, first settled in 1692, visitors can ride one of Connecticut's Historic River Ferries; at Essex the Connecticut River Museum spells out the history of the “No. 1 Small Town in the U.S.” and visitors can see the scenic river from the Essex Steam Train & Riverboat; other attractions include The Museum of Fife & Drum at Ivoryton showing America on parade; and the Fort Saybrook Monument Park at Old Saybrook where story-boards "walk" visitors through Old Saybrook’s history.

Visitors can find out why DANBURY was once called the "Hat Capital of the World" and other interesting exhibits relating to the Housatonic Valley at the Danbury Scott-Fanton Museum and Historical Society; the Military Museum of Southern New England includes the first tank made in the U.S.; the Danbury Railway Museum is housed in a restored train station; nearby the Brookfield Craft Center, housed in four colonial buildings near picturesque Candlewood Lake, is a showcase for contemporary art.

Jurassic-period dinosaur tracks (200-million years old) are housed under a geodesic dome at Rocky Hill in DINOSAUR STATE PARK.

Visitors can follow a trail through 15 historic places in FARMINGTON VALLEY, among them the Hill-Stead Museum Farmington, a Colonial Revival style house (1901) set on 150 acres.

At GUILFORD the Henry Whitfield State Museum is the oldest house in Connecticut and oldest stone house in New England (1639); the Guilford Handcraft Center is devoted to fine arts and handcrafts. Connecticut’s Old State House in its capital HARTFORD is the oldest statehouse in America, site of the country's first written constitution; other attractions include the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, the home of one of the country's most influential writers, the Mark Twain House where Twain wrote several of his books, the 1844 Wadsworth Atheneum with a collection of Hudson River School painting and African-American art, and the Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens, the first municipal rose garden in the country. I

In EAST HARTFORD the Vintage Radio & Communications Museum of CT tells the story of radio.

In WEST HARTFORD there are tours of Noah Webster House/Museum of West Hartford History, Webster's restored colonial birthplace which show how a typical family lived on the eve of the Revolution.

South of Hartford, three 18th-century houses of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum at WETHERSFIELD are furnished to provide a glimpse into a distinct period of American history; Wethersfield Museum contains permanent and changing exhibits.

LITCHFIELD HILLS is a region of rustic scenery, covered bridges, vintage clocks and Lake Compounce Theme Park in BRISTOL; also in Bristol is The American Clock & Watch Museum and the Carousel Museum of New England; the Gunn Historical Museum & Library is a 1781 house museum with changing exhibits & furnished rooms; other attractions are the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association Museum in KENT, the Gay-Hoyt House Museum, Sharon Historical Society, a 1775 Colonial house in SHARON, and in LAKEVILLE the Holley House Museum and Salisbury Cannon Museum.

MYSTIC Seaport is a maritime museum renowned for its tall ships in a re-created 19th-century New England whaling village; Mystic Aquarium has nearly 4,000 types of sea life, including whales and bottle-nosed dolphins.

Nearby, at GROTON, visitors can board the world's first nuclear-powered submarine at USS Nautilus & Submarine Force; The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center traces the history of the tribe from its beginnings 11,000 years ago, with a 350-year-old Pequot village and interactive exhibits.

The NEW CANAAN Historical Society shows off its wares in five vintage buildings which are are home to seven museums and a library; the New Canaan Nature Center has 40 acres of diverse habitats with walking trails.

The Peabody Museum of Natural History in NEW HAVEN showcases 9-million natural wonders; the legendary American theater Shubert Performing Arts Center has backstage tours and "graffiti walls" covered with autographs of the performers. Yale University is one of the world's great seats of teaching; the Campus includes the Yale Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art.

The Maritime Aquarium in NORWALK takes a look at the marine life of Long Island Sound, plus IMAX movies; Sheffield Island Lighthouse is a bird sanctuary accessed by ferry and with an 1868 lighthouse.

Native American artifacts are shown at the Museum of Natural History & Primitive Technology surrounded in SOMERS by nature trails. STAMFORD Museum & Nature Center includes a New England working farm, country store, woodland trails and picnic area; The United House Wrecking Co. is Connecticut's largest antique emporium.

The STORRS/MANSFIELD collection of over 2,000 puppets can be seen at Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry.

Visitors ride past rock outcroppings, rushing water, and historic structures on the “Naugy” at the Naugatuck Railroad Co/Railroad Museum of New England at THOMASTON.

Three centuries of Connecticut art and decorative arts are on show at Mattatuck Museum in WATERBURY, and at nearby Middlebury the Quassy Amusement Park is on the shores of Lake Quassapaug.

The New England Air Museum at WINDSOR LOCKS has more than 70 aircraft, from 1909 to modern jets.

Nearby at GRANBY the Salmon Brook Settlement is a 1790 Weed-Enders House with museum store, genealogy library, 1870 school, and a tobacco barn with general store.

At EAST GRANBY the Old New Gate Prison & Copper Mine, the colonial government's first prison, is filled with subterranean intrigue.

Mystic Howard Johnson Inn

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