FROM BOSTON - Drive Time 1½ hours

>Take I-93 South to Route 24 South. Follow Route 24 to its end where Route 114 begins

>Follow Route 114 into Middletown. After passing Home Depot and Staples on your right, there will be a stop light. Take a left at the light, following the route 214 sign (there will be a store called Modern Furniture Galleries on your left)

>Follow Route 214 for approximately 10 minutes down to the beach area. Cross the beach on the causeway and enter into Newport

>As you begin going up the hill, you will see a small hotel called The Chanler on your left. Take a left turn immediately after the hotel onto Cliff Avenue. Go two blocks down to Seaview Avenue

> The Cliffside Inn is on the left side on the corner of Cliff and Seaview. Parking lot on Seaview in front of the main house

FROM PROVIDENCE OR TF GREEN AIRPORT

>Follow I-95 South to Exit 9 for Route 4 (left hand exit)

>Route 4 will turn into Route 1 South

>Take the exit for the Newport Bridge. Go over the Jamestown Bridge and then the Newport toll Bridge

>Take a right at bottom of off-ramp

>At the second traffic light turn right where road forks. America's Cup Avenue begins there. America's Cup will turn left by the harbor/wharf area and turn into Memorial Boulevard at a traffic light

>Follow Memorial uphill 8/10 mile to Cliff Avenue, which is last street before the beach

>Take a right on Cliff Avenue, go down two blocks Seaview Avenue

>Total drive time 30 minutes from Providence or TF Green Airport