The Swift House Inn in Middlebury is about as nice a Vermont bed and breakfast you could luck into on short notice (I got the last room a week in advance).
Sometimes we watch a movie together, we'll have a nice dinner, and then we go to bed kind of early because we've got to be in bed in time for Santa to get there.
If I'm on leave and it's blowing a gale I can look out at the sea and think thank goodness I'm going to be in bed tonight but when it's nice weather I can look forward to going out and doing my next ship.