PRICE:
Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Pilot Bill Floyd built this place right next to his floatplane slip (he flies a C-180) and filled it with fascinating aviation stuff: photographs, propellers, and even rows of seats from a Russian airliner. The guestbook is an aircraft log book. On the comfortable balconies that look over the lake, headphones are available to listen to radio traffic between the tower and the aircraft that you can see taxiing on the lake in front of you. Floyd invested in commercial-quality construction and the rooms have the feel of a solid, upscale hotel room, not a family B&B; they are decorated in cool, muted shades with Berber carpet and light flooding in through big windows. The bathrooms have large shower stalls. Beds can be configured as two twins or as one king. Two front rooms have their own balconies and cost $20 more; the two back rooms have access to a shared balcony and are smaller. All four rooms are up a flight of stairs.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Alaska 2008, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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