In Rehoboth Beach, Peck Pleasanton’s place is an anomaly, an inn with an adult air where you can imagine mature couples playing canasta on the porch until late and periodically ambling over to the wet bar to freshen their gin and tonics. The big, foursquare Victorian with its widow’s walk was built right on the boardwalk but was moved to its present location, just one block from the ocean, following the Great Storm of 1918. It is one of Rehoboth’s most coveted properties.
There are 10 double rooms in the house plus a downstairs kitchen-apartment and a studio. The guest rooms are furnished withwell-wornitems that maybe old but are probably not antiques. All have private baths. A carriage house out back that sleeps four is rented by the week. Peck himselfis a no-nonsense, slow-talk-ing man who looks and acts as ifhe’s seen it all. (Ask him to show you his collection of old photographs of Rehoboth.) He doesn’t provide breakfast for his guests, although numerous restaurants and cafés are within easy walking distance.
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