PLEASE do not ruin your vacation by staying here
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 1/18/05
I guess I should have known when we arrived and saw the owners' two porsches parked oh so tactfully out front. What we got was a horribly decorated bright pink "victorian" home for 129 dollars (supposedly a deal), cluttered, and decorated with ugly faux antique tchotkes. I'm from small-town Ohio. I know this stuff. My house is similar, but bigger, more well kept, better adorned, more majestic, and my parents bought it for 20K. Yet here I am paying an excessive amount for a small, ugly version of my room. The guest book at the "Rose House" (hot pink) was empty. Here's why:
No service unless you are the customer paying the most (I never saw the owner except when she was negotiating deals with the richer clientele, ie other family.)
Very horrible taste (Christmas is over by January 15th).
No perqs. Nothing. Even off-season.
No personal contact.
The "fireplace" works on, not wood, but toxic acetylene gel cannisters. How romantic (cough)!
The house is run down and in a regular hilljack neighborhood (remember, I know this stuff, I'm from Ohio.)
Ok, people. Why pay this obscene price for a subpar experience. If you pay for a B&B go some place with competition, Old Town Winchester or Lexington. Anywhere but here. The Shenandoah's are close wherever you are. I just don't get it. Maybe this profligate spending is a product of the east coast cost-of-living style or the fact that people in DC are transients with no taste who will pay anything for everything. Give me a break! We got nothing. And lady, if you read this, take down the XMAS theme and don't park your Porsche SUV and Boxster in front of your Inn. It stands out in what is essentially a blue collar mountain town.