GINGERBREAD MANSION, Ferndale
Property overview
Rooms and Suites
The Gingerbread Mansion offers suites with private bathrooms, enclosed showers, and claw foot tubs. The Empire Suite features Corinthian columns, a marble glass shower with double heads and multiple jets, two fireplaces, a claw foot tub, and a California king-sized bed. The Fountain Suite includes a king size wood and gold bed with a hand-carved Italian canopy, a fireplace, a sitting area, two claw foot tubs, and an enclosed shower. The Rose Suite features a carved wood four-post king size bed, a fireplace, a flat screen TV, free Wi-Fi, a claw foot bathtub, and a raindrop shower. The Veneto Suite has a king-sized bed and a claw foot bathtub. The Strawberry Hill Room includes a log-burning fireplace, a queen-sized bed, and a step-in raindrop shower overlooking the English garden. Zipphora offers a queen-sized bed, a flat screen TV, and a stall shower. The Garden Room has a corner fireplace, a queen-sized bed, a flat screen TV, a claw foot tub, a raindrop shower, and a private patio overlooking the English garden. The Gingerbread Room, a wheelchair-accessible suite on the ground floor, has a queen-sized bed, an antique writing desk, and a private balcony. The Hideaway Room has two queen size beds, a private deck, and an ornate fireplace. All rooms include high-speed internet access, satellite TV, hair dryers, and embroidered bath robes and towels.
Dining and Drinks
The Gingerbread Mansion offers a hot breakfast made from scratch daily from 8am to 10am. Afternoon tea, wine, and appetizers are available. Guests can enjoy sweet or savory delicacies in the English garden surrounding the mansion. Coffee and tea service is available at 7:15am in the library. The hotel also offers picnic baskets with sandwiches, seasonal fruit, and water bottles for an additional charge. Guests can enjoy complimentary high tea and wine served daily from 4-6pm. Buttermilk waffles, savory sausage quiche, and stuffed French toast are some of the gourmet breakfast dishes offered daily.
Leisure and Activities
The hotel provides access to an English garden. Guests can lounge by the fireplace or soak in a claw foot bathtub. Lost Coast Adventure Tours offers hiking, biking, canoeing, camping, ropes course adventure, horseback riding, surfing, and diving. Camp Weott Guide Services offers a narrated, 2-hour boat tour of the Eel River Estuary. Guests can explore Humboldt Redwoods State Park, the King Range National Conservation Area, and Humboldt Bay Wildlife Refuge. The Humboldt County Fair and Horse Race takes place every August. The hotel is near Firemen's Park, which offers parking for RVs, picnic areas, a playground, a ball field, a basketball court, bocce courts, and barbecue pits.
Location and Transportation
Gingerbread Mansion is in Ferndale, 60 km from Arcata-Eureka. It is the northern gateway to the King Range National Conservation Area, known as the Lost Coast. The hotel is near the historic Main Street District, art galleries, antique shops, and boutiques. The hotel is 5 miles from Centerville Beach. Ferndale is near the Avenue of the Giants and the Redwood National Park.
Services Available
The hotel offers turn-down service with handmade chocolates upon request. A front desk hotel safe is available. The hotel offers wedding ceremonies and receptions in the English Garden or parlors. Elopement Planning assistance and Day-of-Event Coordination are available. It also offers to assist with catering needs. Complimentary high-speed internet access is available. If guests arrive before 3:00 pm, the hotel will store their luggage.
Choose your preferred room
Calendar of room availability and rates
Facilities
General
- No smoking on site
- Free Wi-Fi in public areas
- Parking
- Concierge desk
- No pets allowed
- Rooms/ Facilities for disabled
- Wheelchair access
- Luggage storage
Services
- Room service
- Housekeeping
- Welcome drink
Dining
- Bar/ Lounge area
- Picnic area/ Tables
- Special diet menus
Business
- Business centre
- Fax/Photocopying
Children
- Board games
Spa & Leisure
- Garden area
- Massage
Room features
- Heating
- Sitting area
- Patio
- Terrace
- Garden furniture
Bathroom
- Free toiletries
Media
- Flat-screen TV
Room decor
- Carpeted floor