Avon Old Farms Hotel is a country hotel set at the base of the Avon Mountain in the historic, scenic Farmington River Valley. The hotel is surrounded by 20 acres of manicured grounds, brick walkways and colorful flowerbeds. Avon Old Farms Hotel, which began as a 24-room motel in 1955, has grown into a 160-room hotel with an atrium lobby and an outdoor pool. The hotel has standard and luxury rooms with high-speed Internet access, bottled water, fresh flowers, coffee makers, down comforters and featherbeds. Hotel-wide amenities include the outdoor pool with snack bar, sauna, fitness facility and complimentary parking. Avon Old Farms Hotel also provides the guest s choice of Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today or Hartford Courant newspapers and continental breakfast. The hotel, which is located in Avon, Conn., has an onsite restaurant, as well as meeting and banquet rooms.