"The directions to Woodlands Inn & Resort near Charleston are so meticulous and yet so oddly circuitous that they read more like a treasure map."

"When you reserve one of the inn's 19 rooms, the staff will fire off a set of driving directions that take you along the picturesque Main Street of downtown Summerville, and then up a boulevard fronted by white-columned homes. The Woodlands sign will appear by the side of the street on a manicured postage stamp of lawn. Turn left, and left again up the driveway — a long, winding, gravel affair. Small stones crunch beneath your tires as you wend between tall trees. When the neoclassical 1906 mansion finally appears — sitting high on a vast, open lawn — your heart leaps."

JOHN KESSLER, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution