If you’re planning a trip to Pennsylvania’s Amish country, consider spending the night at AmishView Inn & Suites on Old Philadelphia Pike in Bird-in-Hand. The hotel is fresh, clean, and modern with cheerful, helpful folks at the front desk. Adjacent to the hotel, you’ll find “The Amish Experience,” offering a cool F/X video providing real insight into Amish life, an on-site example of an Amish house with a room converted into a reproduction of an Amish schoolroom, and bus tours through the Amish countryside. Our tour guide for the house, who then joined us to narrate the bus tour, was amazing. Five stars. Our one disappointment was the restaurant that’s part of the compound, “Plain and Fancy.” The service was very disappointing, apparently because someone had failed to put together adequate staffing. But the manager pitched in and acted as our server — a welcome gesture. The food itself was only so-so. So you might consider another dining option, or you might give “Plain and Fancy” a go-round on the chance that our experience was a fluke. Photograph: Reproduction of an Amish schoolroom. "The Amish Experience." Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania.