Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, May 8, 1994 TAG: 9405190003
SECTION: DISCOVER/NRV PAGE: DISCOVER/NRV 18 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ROBERT FREIS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
We'll give it a shot, Sheila. At least we can let you know the places fellow NRV residents go when they're in the mood for love.
By far, readers who responded to our survey list Mountain Lake as the area's favorite romantic getaway.
No wonder. The resort and hotel, high atop Salt Pond Mountain in Giles County, hosts as many as 150 weddings annually.
Mountain Lake has been known to have three or four wedding ceremonies on the same summer Saturday.
That could be because of the resort's horse-drawn carriage, or because of Mountain Lake's boat house, prominently depicted in the romantic movie "Dirty Dancing."
Peterson may want to avoid the Radford reader who recommended the parking lot behind the Radford Square Plaza shopping center at Fairlawn as the NRV's most romantic getaway.
But she may want to converse with Nicholas, resident cherub at The Oaks in Christiansburg. The century-old, Victorian bed and breakfast also was listed as a readers' romantic favorite.
Nicholas watches over The Oaks' jacuzzi suite. Folks there say if you rub Nicholas' belly, your wish will come true.
It's probably a good thing Nicholas can't talk, said Margaret Ray, owner of The Oaks. "I wouldn't want to know what Nicholas knows."
Another reader, Katherine Pohlig of Draper, nominated the Comfort Inn at Dublin - where they have six jacuzzi suites - as the valley's most romantic spot.
Kevin Meadows, the Comfort Inn's assistant manager, said all six are full every weekend, occupied by couples celebrating marriage, anniversaries, babysitters - or whatever.
Several other readers favor their own homes as the valley's most romantic spots.
"The price is right," said David Simpkins of Radford. "When the kids are gone, " said Martha Ann Stallings of Blacksburg.
However, the NRV's most romantic getaway is "hard to find at my age," said John Moody of Blacksburg.
by CNB