My husband and I recently stayed at the Dinsmore and had a fantastic experience! The location is walking distance to many great restaurants and shopping. The owners are so helpful, they helped us make reservations at a phenomenal restaurant, Zocalo. We highly recommend it. Everything about our stay was great, especially breakfast - it was a treat! Crepes with blackberries one morning and the next morning was a delicious quiche.

The Dinsmore House needs a renovation! The "Dinsmore Room"'s bathroom is really outdated and showering was less than pleasant. Bathroom's ceiling paint is peeling and entire Inn doesn't have central A/C, only window units. We would have preferred to stay in the Library Room which, although smaller, looked in better shape than the Dinsmore Room and bathroom was more updated.

On positive note, the host was really nice and breakfast seating area was charming.

We stayed here for four days over Memorial Day Weekend in the Monroe and Virginia Rooms.

Both rooms were very well furnished with lovely beds and excellent bathrooms. Breakfast each day was very tasty and all the staff were very pleasant.

Access to the Marriott for both parking and use of the swimming pool is very welcome as is a DVD player in each room and a library of DVD's at reception.

The B&B is located right by the "Corner" at UVA and as such there are
bars, restaurants and some small grocery shops nearby. The tram to the Downtown Mall stops about 50 yards away and runs often.

All in all we were very impressed during our stay and would willingly
recommend the B&B to other travellers.

We expected a lot of the Dinsmore Inn after reading all the other reviews... and we weren't disappointed. It is a charming inn, right on main street in Charlotsville. Although it has obviously been updated to meet the expectations of any modern traveler, it still retains much of its colonial charm. We were very pleased that our hosts were more than willing to accomodate a third person in our room. They were more than willing to help us find a place to eat. The room itself was very quaint and more than adequate for our needs. We were in the Veranda room. The breakfast was very good: an egg quiche with blueberry muffins. Wireless internet was also available. We wish that we had time to stay there more than one night! The one and only complaint would be that because it is a college town, there were cars with loud music going by all night. But I don't suppose that could be avoided unless you went more to the outskirts of town. Overall, we were very pleased with our stay here and would love to come back.