Coffee is out
6:30 AM
Kept with meraki, by two people who are here every day
Meraki is a Greek word for doing something with soul, creativity and love, so that a piece of you ends up in the work.
The name
What does meraki mean?
It is the word for the care you can taste in a meal or see in a room. We took it as a rule for the house.
Each of the five rooms is furnished around one craft, made by hand in Texas: a loom, a kiln, a press, a bindery, a darkroom. Breakfast is cooked to order and eaten on the gallery. The floors are the heart pine the house was built with.
It also means that a person answers the phone, and that the person knows the rooms.
The people
Who keeps the inn?
Celeste Arceneaux
Innkeeper and owner
Celeste bought the house in 2014 and spent two years bringing it back. She answers the phone, and she will know which room you would like.
Isadora Fontenot
Breakfast cook
Isadora bakes before sunrise and cooks to order from 8 to 9:30. The fig preserves are hers.
Fictional people, written for this demo.
Your details
How do we handle your details?
An inn hears a lot about its guests. Here is what we ask for and what we do with it.
The form asks for five things
Your arrival day, the number of nights, a room, your name and your email. Nothing else.
Cards are taken by phone
You read the number to Celeste and she keys it into the card terminal. It is never written down, emailed or sent through this website.
We never ask for a gift card, a wire or a payment app
If a message asks you to pay for a room that way, it is not from us. Call the inn.
The chat is an AI, and it says so
It answers from these pages and can fill in your dates and room on the request form. It never asks for a name, an email or a card.
You can ask what we hold
Call and we will tell you what is in your booking record. The privacy page has the rest.
The inn, answered
Who owns The Meraki Inn?
Celeste Arceneaux, who is also the innkeeper. She and Isadora Fontenot are fictional people, written for this demo.
How do you pronounce meraki?
meh RAH kee, with the weight on the middle.
How do I pay for my room?
By card, over the phone, once we have confirmed your dates. We never take a card number through the website, the chat or by email.
Is the chat a person?
No. Ask the inn is an AI assistant. It answers from the pages of this website and can fill in the date request form for you. On this demo, nothing it fills in is sent anywhere.
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Your dates
Ask for your dates
Pick an arrival day, the number of nights and a room. The innkeeper replies the same day.
Rates are samples for this demo and are before tax. See rates and policies.