The Smallwander Club is off to a great start! More than one hundred new folks signed up for complimentary individual memberships last month. We also have more new participating business members, including PITTSBORO TOYS and THE URBAN SAMPLER, located in this month’s featured town, Pittsboro. PITTSBORO TOYS carries a truly unique array of locally-made, organic toys, and THE URBAN SAMPLER features home furnishings, accessories, and whimsical and stylish gifts of all kinds. And both businesses offer unconditional discounts of 15% to all Smallwander Club members. So join the Smallwander Club [here], enjoy a visit to the charming town of Pittsboro, and save some money on unique and elegant merchandise while you’re there!

The Smallwander Club is rapidly becoming the premier resource for travelers who wish to patronize locally-owned and operated businesses while visiting charming small towns. Our website makes it incredibly simple to locate these towns and search among those towns for amenities, attractions, and events in them. You can join the Club here, but even if you don’t elect to take advantage of the free membership, you can still use the website to plan your weekend and weeks-long getaways!

Smallwander.com proudly announces the official start of the Smallwander Club. We’ve launched this new venture in order to secure significant discounts for Club members at small-town, locally owned inns, hotels, and B & B’s; restaurants, cafes, and bistros; museums; theaters; small wineries; craft breweries; special events and historic sites; golf courses, and at many excellent retail sellers. [A requirement for business membership in the Club is that the business must be locally owned, located in a small town, and a non-chain, non-franchise establishment.]

Individual membership in the Smallwander Club is currently offered at no charge. Simply sign up here. Then use the Club website to search for a charming small town to visit, and for interesting things to do in that small town. Say you wanted to visit Edenton, North Carolina, a beautiful small town of 5,000 people located next to the bay of Albemarle Sound. The Club website lists the various amenities the town offers. In the Accommodations category, notice that the PACK HOUSE INN is a participating business member of the Smallwander Club [it's listed in red capital letters, and thus immediately identifiable as a Smallwander Club participating business]. Rates at the inn range from $99 to $129. If you hover your mouse over the PACK HOUSE INN’s listing, you’ll see the discount offered to Smallwander Club members pop up. In this instance, the discount offered is 15%, so as a Smallwander Club member, you’ll save between $15 and $20 each night you stay. [And please note that the PACK HOUSE INN is one of the top B & B's in North Carolina!]

The Smallwander Club has just getting started, and we don’t yet have many participating business members in the Club. This will change quickly. Our initial efforts have been focused in Hillsborough, North Carolina, which is where our headquarters [such as it is] is located. If you view the Hillsborough page, you’ll see many participating business members that offer a variety of amenities. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll feature many many more participating businesses in a wider range of small towns, and your Smallwander Club membership will be even more valuable to you.

So if you haven’t yet received your Smallwander Club individual membership in the mail, please go to the website and order your free card. Signup is fast and easy. Your membership will be good throughout the year. Please remember, it costs nothing, so even if you don’t use it at all, you’ve lost nothing. And we will be grateful to you for  being part of the growth of the Club!