Two sisters with no hospitality experience bought a century-old inn. Heres how it worked out | [Video]

(CNN) — An idyllic turn-of-the-20th-century inn. A Canadian town neighboring Niagara Falls. Two sisters who took a spontaneous chance on a dream.

If you’re thinking this sounds like the premise of a Hallmark movie or an early 2000s TV show, you’d be on the right track — in fact, sisters-turned-innkeepers Kristen and Kathryn Groom get that comparison a lot.

The most frequent reference point? “Gilmore Girls,” the Amy Sherman Palladino-created television show that was a hit 25 years ago and remains a pop culture stalwart. In the show, main character Lorelei Gilmore runs an inn with her best friend, chef Sookie St. James, in a picturesque New England town.

“We both watched the show, loved the show, but I wouldn’t say it was our main inspiration for doing this,” younger sister Kathryn Groom tells CNN Travel.“But as we were sharing online, all of our videos started to get comments comparing us to Lorelai …