The Wayside Inn
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Two hundred years of history
await you at the Wayside Inn conveniently located in
historic Ellicott City, MD
The Wayside Inn is located within a short drive of either Baltimore or Washington, D.C., and is the perfect place for you to escape to the past. Guests of the Inn enjoy outstanding, home-away-from-home hospitality. Your comfortable night's sleep in one of our exquisite rooms is followed by a full, gourmet breakfast, created fresh that morning by the innkeepers David and Susan Balderson. David and Susan have lived in Ellicott City for over thirteen years. They are both professionals with stable careers and long-term ties to the community in which they live. David took classes in cooking at the Culinary Institutes of America and at Baltimore Culinary College. He has worked in kitchens at Marriott Corporate Dining facilities and various other facilities.
Spend the day exploring the area including... - Shopping in Historic Ellicott City
- Antiquing in Frederick
- Touring our nation's capital
- Meandering through Annapolis
- Cruising on the Chesapeake Bay
- Experiencing Baltimore's Inner Harbor
In the evening, treat yourself to a fabulous dinner at one of the area’s hundreds of restaurants. -
A romantic two-room suite with a queen-size bed which has a beautiful padded fabric headboard, antique painted chests, and cozy eyelid windows. The second room is a quaint sitting room, perfect for reading the morning paper over coffee or tea, doing a jigsaw puzzle, or just catching up with each other. Both rooms have been newly wallpapered. There is a private bath with an antique claw-foot bathtub (bubble bath included, of course!) to which we have added an antique brass shower. This is one of our most popular room especially for honeymooners!
Rate: $155 plus 5% Maryland sales tax
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An artistic rendering of Main Street, Ellicott City in the middle 1800s, highlights the soft décor of this room, which has a beautiful queen size sleigh bed. Lounge in the cozy settee while reading or watching a movie. This room has a wood-burning fireplace (fire log provided). The large private bathroom has a large Jacuzzi style tub for two plus a large glass enclosed shower with a seat and an overhead Rain Forest showerhead! There is also a large marble top vanity big enough for two to get ready for a night out at one of Ellicott City’s fine restaurants.
Rate: $185 plus 5% Maryland sales tax
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The Terrace Room is our newest, most intimate and private room. This ground level room, which is contained in a new addition attached to the original Inn, has its own private entrance from a private terrace. When the weather is nice, enjoy the terrace overlooking the gardens and pond, enjoy a glass of wine and an afternoon snack (provided by your innkeeper upon request) or just sit and enjoy a good book from our library. The room has a Queen sized bed with a Sealy Posturepedic mattress which faces a gas fireplace and a large Hi Def flat screen TV. The Inn has Verizon Fios Cable with over 300 Stations (many in Hi Def), including over 50 Movie stations and 100 Music channels. The ensuite Bathroom has a huge air jetted tub for two (one of the largest made), and a separate shower with an overhead rainforest shower head and three body jets.
The Terrace Room is perfect for Wedding Nights as well as for guests who may not want to walk up the flights of stairs to the rooms in the original Inn. It also has a private staircase leading up into our beautiful new, all season sun porch. All in all, we think this is destined to be one of the most popular rooms at the Wayside Inn.
Rate: $209 plus 5% Maryland sales tax
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A two-room suite filled with Federal Period antiques and reproductions. The queen-size pediment bed is beautifully fitted with down pillows and a warm, floral comforter. The second room is a charming sitting room with a large sofa for lounging during the day, which may be converted to an extra queen bed to turn this suite into a luxurious family suite. There is a private bath with a tub and shower.
Rate: $145 plus 5% Maryland sales tax. An additional $15 charge per person (above two guests) applies.
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This light and airy room has an antique queen size four poster rice bed that is so tall we provide a step to get up on it! This room offers a wood-burning fireplace (fire log provided). The new entertainment nook has an armoire which houses your TV/VCR with full cable (three channels of HBO!) The new private Bathroom has a large double Jacuzzi style tub, a separate shower with an overhead Rain Forest showerhead and a marble top vanity with a seating area for lady’s makeup preparations.
Rate: $185 plus 5% Maryland sales tax
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From the North (I-95):
Take 95 South to 100 West. At US 29, drive south one exit to Route 108 West.
Take your first right (Columbia Road). Drive 1.5 miles to 4344 Columbia Road. The Inn is on your left.From the North (I-695):
Take 695 South to I-70 West. Drive west two exits, to US 29 South.
Drive south four exits to Route 108 West. Take your first right (Columbia Road).
Drive 1.5 miles to 4344 Columbia Road. The Inn is on your left.From the South:
Take 95 North to 100 West. At US 29, drive south one exit to Route 108 West.
Take your first right (Columbia Road). Drive 1.5 miles to 4344 Columbia Road. The Inn is on your left.From the West:
Take I-70 East, to US 29 South. Drive south four exits to Route 108 West.
Take your first right (Columbia Road). Drive 1.5 miles to 4344 Columbia Road. The Inn is on your left. -
This all new suite is the height of luxury! The large bedroom has a four poster queen size bed flanked by windows decorated with fine silk draperies. Above the wood burning fireplace, a louvered cabinet may be opened to reveal a large plasma television to watch cable TV or one of our many movies we have at your disposal. Or relax in the large adjoining sitting room which has a full size sofa, chairs and lighting perfect for reading, playing games or a having an intimate conversation. Please feel free to borrow from our extensive selection of Classical CD’s to play on your Bose CD/Radio player. And surprise... the sitting room has a fireplace too! The suite has an ensuite, newly remodeled bathroom with a HUGE shower for two. This shower has an overhead Rain Forest showerhead, three adjustable body jets, and a seat. Pamper yourself in this beautiful suite for a night you will never forget! Rate: $195 plus 5% Maryland sales tax
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David and Susan Balderson have lived in Ellicott City for over thirteen years. Between them, David and Susan have four grown children developing their own careers. Their cat, Samantha, has brightened their lives for the past twelve years. After marrying in 1979, David and Susan relocated to San Diego for seven years. They both embarked upon new careers: Susan in accounting, and David in sales at McCormick & Company. In 1986, the innkeepers returned to Maryland via David’s transfer for McCormick. Susan graduated, cum laude, from Towson University. With her accounting bachelor’s of science degree, Susan immediately joined C.W. Amos & Company as a staff accountant in the entrepreneurial business division. She passed the CPA examination on the first sitting. Since leaving C.W. Amos & Company, she has specialized in bankruptcy accounting, most recently with the federal government.
Upon returning to Baltimore in 1986 until he resigned at the end of 1998, David worked strictly with entrepreneurial businesses acquired or developed by McCormick. In the process of developing his career, he moved from sales to marketing, with a concentration in new product development and new business management. David was the key player in taking the Supermarket Food Service project from inception to almost four million dollars in sales by 1997. He took classes in cooking at the Culinary Institutes of America and at Baltimore Culinary College. He has worked in kitchens at Marriott Corporate Dining facilities and at other facilities such as Georgetown University, Loyola College in Chicago, and the Philadelphia Main Post Office. He has been both a panelist and a featured speaker at conventions for the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and the American Meat Institute (AMI).