Brackenridge House Bed & Breakfast Inn

While you are staying in this historic bed and breakfast, located on a peaceful tree lined residential street, you will have all the advantages of being near the RiverWalk, the trolley, the Alamo, the convention center, El Mercado and the Alamodome without the noise and congestion. Wonderful neighborhood restaurants offer delicious meals without the RiverWalk crowds.

You may want to sit on the inn's front veranda in a rocking chair or porch swing with a good book and watch the horse drawn trolley go by carrying tourists who wish they were staying the same place as you. Don't forget about the hot tub in the rear garden area during the winter months. It is the perfect place to soak your tired muscles and aching feet after a busy day sightseeing.

Bennie is a retired Air Force Colonel and Sue, his wife, left her job as a university administrator when they launched their second career as innkeepers. They are native Texans who chose to retire in San Antonio after living all over the United States and in Guam, the Philippines and Germany. Bennie and Sue were stationed in San Antonio in 1968 at Kelly AFB when the HemisFair brought new life to the RiverWalk. They watched the Palacio Del Rio being built, room by room and remember San Antonio when Loop 13 was the way to go around downtown and when Casa Rio was the only restaurant on the RiverWalk.

Bennie retired from the Air Force at Randolph AFB in 1991 and spent 4 years at Texas State University in San Marcos as commander of AFROTC before being stationed at Randolph. They are both well versed on places to go and things to do in San Antonio and the Hill Country.

As the first bed and breakfast in San Antonio’s historic King William district, the Brackenridge House Bed and Breakfast has been pampering its guests for 20 years. We have been lucky enough to have been doing the pampering for the last 12 years. Our goal is for you, our guests, to feel as if you are honored visitors in a favorite relative’s house.

I think that I shall never see
A house as lovely as this B&B.
With attention to details and elegant touches
The guest feels like a General, a duke or a duchess.
I slept on a mattress that was just divine
With a gorgeous quilt. I wish it were mine.
Awoke feeling good, well rested, and fresher.
Then had a shower with great water pressure.
Sweet soap, soft towels, all I could desire
Of the Brackenridge House, I will surely never tire.
Just when I thought it's too good to be true
Breakfast was served by Bennie and Sue.
I've never had a breakfast that had so much style.
This breakfast I'll remember for a long, long while.
Everything fresh - mmm - nothing but yummy.
If I ate this everyday, I'd have a big tummy.
The Brackenridge House is a sure trendsetter.
Every time I come the place looks even better.
I wonder how you do the magic you do.
Thank you, thank you, Bennie and Sue.

By: Suskia Preterious

1. It's in an historic district, which you probably don't live in or even want to live in because it's too much work keeping up an old house, but it's fun to visit.
2. You can walk or take the trolley to the Riverwalk. You don't have to take your car and pay for parking and remember where you parked your car when you get ready to go back to your hotel and you don't have to drive to your hotel when you've had too much to drink.
3. They have good beds and lots of antiques. You're going to feel right at home.
4. They have a hot tub, which feels great after a long day on the Riverwalk or Fiesta Texas or any of the other great things to do in San Antonio.
5. Great ratings from Historic Accommodations of Texas, AAA and Mobil.
6. Breakfast is a real banquet. You can pig out on breakfast and skip lunch or have a late lunch and skip dinner. You get to meet the other guests at breakfast too.
7. All the rooms have in-room private baths, coffee makers, cable TV, mini-refrigerators, telephones and there are robes in the rooms.
8. There's lots of other stuff close by.
9. Bennie and Sue are real native Texans. They can remember when I-35 between San Antonio and Dallas was a two lane highway. They live in the place and do most of the work.
10. It's cheaper than all those big hotels on the Riverwalk and you don't have to pay for parking.

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