This elegant, brick, Georgian-style inn on the Phillips Exeter Academy campus has been the choice of visiting parents since it opened in the 1930s. Rooms have a clubby feel, with striped wallpaper, classic furnishings, pillow-top beds topped with luxe linens, and flat-screen TVs. A lounge and restaurant serves three meals a day.
Located at the edge of the Exeter Academy campus and within easy walking distance of downtown, the big Inn of Exeter has the dark, dusky feel of a proper British drinking club. It's all dark wood and maroon carpets, with oil paintings, statuary in the alcoves, and a basket of apples on the front desk. The inn, which caters in large part to parents and staff associated with the academy, was...