How Are You Different Then A Hotel?

Someone called the inn this afternoon and asked us a very valid but interesting question:

How are you different then a hotel?

I told her a few things:

• I have compared the feeling of staying here to feeling like you are staying at your favorite aunt's vacation house in Maine. It's a nice place, but very cozy and personal at the same time.
• We serve breakfast, and not just a continental kind!
• We have tea and freshly baked cookies (or scones or cheesecakes or brioches...) every afternoon.
• There is a lot of interaction between guests and between staff and guests.
• We are on a private road and a few miles from town so it's very quiet.
• We have a private beach, and a sauna/steam room... a couple added bonuses that no one expects but can certainly be appreciated.
• We have well maintained common areas where you actually want to hang out (not like the lobby of a hotel).

It was hard to put a price on what I was telling her, then I saw this:

BedandBreakfast.com has analyzed the value of bed and breakfasts verus hotels and found that when considering a complimentary home cooked breakfast, parking, internet, afternoon refreshments, etc. what a bed and breakfast includes in a guest's stay would cost an additional $150 at a hotel.

That is certainly a higher figure than I was expecting!

For those of you who know the Inn At Bay Ledge, or maybe have just stayed in your share of hotels and bed and breakfasts/inns, how are they different? What value would you put on an inn's 'extras'?