COVID-19 Travel Update | Greyfield Inn

March 24, 2023 COVID-19, Helpful Information, Uncategorized

To Our Guests,

We are pleased to welcome you for your upcoming stay at Greyfield. Even in these unprecedented times, it is our continued mission to provide a unique experience grounded in nature, island explorations, and delicious food and drink.

In order to safely do so and still provide you with an exceptional stay, we have enacted added measures and adjustments to our guest services and already stringent protocols to ensure the continued health of our guests and staff. This “new normal” will require some necessary modifications to our past procedures, but it does not mean our commitment to hospitality will waver in the slightest.

FERRY TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION

  • Boat times are as follows. For arriving guests, available departure times from our Fernandina Beach dock are 9:30 AM and 12:15 PM. For departing guests, available departure times from our dock at Greyfield are 8:00 AM and 10:45 AM. Travel times via the Lucy R. Ferguson is 45 minutes, each way.

ARRIVAL

  • Upon arrival to Cumberland Island, staff will be on hand to greet you and to provide you with an informational welcome tour.
  • Please be aware that check-in times may vary to ensure that each room is properly and thoroughly cleaned and sanitized per CDC guidelines. Check-in time to your guest room is after 1:30 PM. Your patience and understanding are very much appreciated.
  • Be assured that each room is thoroughly cleaned and sanitized prior to check in. All cleaners, sanitizers, disinfectants, and procedures have been thoroughly vetted and cross checked by referring to the CDC and EPA standards.

DURING YOUR STAY

ROOM SERVICES

  • Some room services and daily housekeeping of guest rooms may be limited or omitted during your stay for the health of both guests and staff.
  • Room service for meals will not be available.
  • For those guests who prefer no housekeeping services, please let us know if you require more towels during your stay. If you intend to re-use your linens, please leave them hanging.
  • Greyfield Inn provides L’Occitane toiletries in each guest room for use and enjoyment during your stay.

COMMON AREAS

  • All public restrooms will be thoroughly sanitized on a regular, frequent schedule.

FOOD & BEVERAGE

  • As you may be aware, communal aspects such as meals, cocktail and hors d’oeuvre hours, and naturalist outings are an important part of the Greyfield experience.
  • Our typical “continental breakfast” (toast, bagels, jams, housemade granola, yogurt) along with coffee & tea will be available in the Porch Dining Room daily, beginning at 7:30 AM.
  • The back “communal” kitchen located on the first floor is open to our guests! Here you will be able to access lemonade, iced teas, water, your daily picnic lunches, and pantry snacks.
  • We are thrilled to announce the return of our traditional “communal” Greyfield dining service. As offered in the past, private tables will continue to be available. Either during the reservation process or upon your arrival to Greyfield, you’ll have an opportunity to advise us of your seating preference. Limited outdoor seating is available, weather permitting.
  • Hors d’oeuvres will be served in the living room each evening during cocktail hour, between 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM.
  • Dinners are three fixed courses, save for dietary restrictions and allergies. Printed menus will be made available for dinner.
  • As a Greyfield tradition, jackets are required for men during dinner service; with comparable attire for ladies. But during this time, we are relaxing our dress code so that jackets are recommended but not required.

NATURALIST OUTINGS

  • Our naturalists are hard at work providing opportunities for guests to visit different areas of the island.
  • At 4:00 PM every day, the Naturalists will have a sign-up sheet in the living room for available outings on the following day. Please see any staff member for additional information about the outings, or for assistance in signing up for them. Naturalists reserve the right to offer tours to guests with earlier departure dates, thus making it more likely that all guests have an opportunity to explore.

DEPARTURE

  • Departure boat times are 8:00 AM and 10:45 AM.
  • Your folio (final receipt showing amount due and itemized purchases) will be emailed to you the morning of your departure. Please ensure that we have a credit card on file for remaining balances and incidentals.

We’d like to acknowledge to those who are familiar with Greyfield and to those who have yet to experience the magic of this island: our commitment to providing each of you with a unique experience remains, as ever, unwavering. We are bolstered by each and every team member’s decision to stay with us during these uncertain times. We feel that this combination of studied plans, reflection, staff cohesion, and preparation will provide all of our guests with a different and unique, but truly Greyfield experience.

We so look forward to welcoming you soon.

Sincerely,

Mary & Mitty Ferguson

Greyfield Inn Owners and Managing Partners 

A Note from the Greyfield Inn Kitchen

October 23, 2020 Dining, Helpful Information

To Our Guests & Friends,

Over the past decade, it has been our true pleasure to work with Chefs Whitney Otawka and Ben Wheatley — and not only to work alongside them, but to embrace them as part of our Greyfield family.

We’ve seen Whitney and Ben dedicate themselves to the Greyfield culinary program, enriching the experience for each and every guest who has dined at our table and for those of us who have been fortunate enough to enjoy their creations each day.


It is with our most sincere well wishes, and deep gratitude, that we say farewell to Whitney and Ben as they set out on their next adventures.

Introducing Greyfield Inn’s New Executive Chef Jada Veljkov

As we begin a new culinary chapter at Greyfield, we are so pleased to welcome Jada Veljkov as our new Executive Chef.  Jada joins us from Athens, GA where she most recently served as the head chef of Hugh Acheson’s prestigious Five & Ten. Jada brings a minimalistic approach to the table – showcasing fresh vegetables from the Greyfield Garden while allowing sustainable and thoughtfully procured meats, seafoods, spices, and aromatics to complement the seasonal flavors, keeping her dishes rooted in a Southern style. We are thrilled to have Jada leading the Greyfield culinary program and wish her a warm welcome to Greyfield.

On behalf of,
Mary & Mitty Ferguson,
Owners and Managing Partners, and Team Greyfield

Follow along on Instagram for personal updates from Jada, Whitney, and Ben at @0jada0, @whitneyotawka, and @blwheatley87.

 

Greyfield Inn Ferry

September 12, 2022 Helpful Information

Driving Directions to The Greyfield Inn Ferry

From the North:

Take Interstate 95 to Highway A1A (Exit 373). Turn left at the light at the end of the ramp. Then follow A1A East for 14.8 miles to Centre Street. Turn left onto Centre Street and go to the waterfront. Drop off your passenger and/or luggage to meet he Boat Captain at Dock A next to the “Lucy R. Ferguson” sign on the dock rail. Follow the directions on your parking pass to the parking area, then walk southwest across the train rail to the boat.

From the South:
Take Interstate 95 to Highway A1A (Exit 373). Turn right at the end of the ramp. Then follow A1A east for 14.8 miles to Centre Street. Turn left onto Centre Street and go to the waterfront. Drop off your passenger and/or luggage to meet he Boat Captain at Dock A next to the “Lucy R. Ferguson” sign on the dock rail. Follow the directions on your parking pass to the parking area, then walk southwest across the train rail to the boat.

Google Map to Dock 

ferry map

Shuttle Service from The Jacksonville Airport

Greyfield Inn Ferry Schedule
Fernandina Beach / Amelia Island, Florida Embarkment

Fernandina Beach Departures:
9:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m.

Cumberland Island Departures:
8:00 a.m., 10:45 a.m.

Please be at the dock  15 minutes ahead of your departure time.