Over priced room and town. Great local cafe.
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 10/2/07
The rate list posted on the door of our room (required by law) gave Walker River Lodges rates for 1999-2000. I think that must have been the last time the place was actually cared for. We paid $117.00 per night and the room was gross. The shower curtain was frayed and hung in strings at the bottom. There were plastic, faded, and broken flowers in a dime store vase on the dirty table. An oversized stuffed chair dominated one corner; we covered it with beach towels before we would touch it because it was filthy.
The first morning we woke there, we went to the office for coffee (we had seen a pot in the lobby when we checked in) but the office was closed and it was after 8am.
We made a homemade "Do not disturb" sign as there was not one in our room, we did not want or require room service, and we went to town to purchase a few things at a market. There were two markets in Bridgeport and we walked out of both empty handed as they were so awfully over priced. You expect to pay more in that area, but the prices they were trying to get were criminal. $14.00 for a case of drinking water, $6.00 for a pack of cheap paper plates!
We had a great time at Mono Lake and the surrounding areas, but all we got in Bridgeport was an unraveling bedspread, a terribly uncomfortable bed, all of the window coverings were off the curtain rings, no cell phone service, no wireless access online, no local information was provided, and the final touch was the housekeeping staff singing loudly in Spanish, laughing raucously, and yelling across the parking lot every morning around 7:30am.
We will not return to Walker River Lodge or Bridgeport.
However, there was one bright spot in Bridgeport. Directly across the street from our motel we discovered the “Hays Street Café”, GREAT FOOD, GREAT SERVICE AND GOOD PEOPLE. If you are ever passing through Bridgeport, do check out the Hays Street Café!