Rock Creek Resort, Red Lodge

I was staying at the resort due to a business conference. I could not get cell service at all. The Wi-Fi was supposed to be available everywhere, but worked very poorly in my room in the Grizzly Building so I could not check email. I had to walk to the main building at night to get an iron and ironing board because those items are not available in the rooms and no room service. Then I found out that they didn't have a single, full-size ironing board anywhere at the resort and had to iron my clothes on a tiny, dilapitated mini-ironing board, which is an inconvenience and an irritation. Since business meetings are held at the resort, they can certainly afford one real ironing board to make life easier for women business travelers. The room was OK, nothing special. The building was very quiet, which was lovely, but it may be noisier during the summer. (Mid-October seems to be a peaceful time at the resort.) The setting is lovely. The meeting rooms are quite nice. I have a final complaint about the "exercise room." It is an open alcove in the same area as the heated pool. I would like to have exercised after my tedious 8-hour drive to Red Lodge, but the temperature in the exercise area was probably 85 degrees and very humid due to the excessively heated pool (though the pool area was nice and large and would have been great if I liked to swim). If you want a vacation get-away, I think it's probably a good choice, but for business, it was not ideal.

We very recently stayed at Rock Creek Resort (late July 2006) and had a terrible experience. The "deluxe suite" we had reserved was less than "deluxe" --- our beds were Murphy beds that folded down from the wall with extremely uncomfortable mattresses. The advertised "heated" pool was freezing cold and the hot tub was broken. The advertised "catch & release" pond had only a few dead fish floating on top and a fountain in the middle of it. Worst of all was the staff. When I checked in, they had to finish a personal conversation before waiting on me and acted as though I had inconvenienced them. When I walked into the restaurant in the morning (the door to the restaurant was open), the restaurant manager physically pushed me out of the door and said that the restaurant was not open and she couldn't have anyone in there distracting them from getting the restaurant ready. When I checked out, the person working the front desk simply barked out how much I owed and asked if I wanted to keep the charge on my credit card - she never bothered to say "thank you." All in all, a very regrettable stay. Don't waste your money on this place - there are plenty of other nice hotels and resorts in the area.

A very wonderful place to stay and not leave. There a lots of things to do and enjoy, but if you want to run back and forth to town, it is a little inconvenient. My wife and I have stayed several times for weekend getaways and always enjoyed it.