2. Gargantuan rooms, as large or larger than most contemporary hotel suites, well appointed furnishings, some with antique lamps and furniture of antebellum genre, a daily assortment of delicious, freshly baked cookies and hot cider, manned (and womaned) by a phalanx of well trained hotel professionals, the Hermitage's craftsmanship and bygone-era-style will never be replicated.