Historic Anderson House B&B Inn, The, Wabasha

Old fashioned, unique, elegant, special!!! The best thing was the cats!!! Where can you go for a get-away and rent a cat, the best place, HERE!!! We've had 3 cats so far, we want to try the rest! a few hours drive for my son's happiness, priceless!

To all of you who wrote mean things about the Anderson House I have one thing to say. You just don't understand what real old fashion elegance is. From the mintue we walked in to the mintue we walked out, everything was wonderfull. I felt like a queen. Yes we did have to wait for our food. This isn't fast food. No there wasn't a phone in the room, there never was a phone in the room. We wanted a nice get away for our 35th wedding annivery that was close to home....AND we got it. Everything we wanted and more, I never thought even for one night I could live like this. Love it Love it, Love it.And the cat too.

My husband and I stayed at the Anderson House on our wedding night, and when we arrived back from our reception, we found a chilled bottle of champagne waiting for us! When we checked in, the service was better than anyone could have expected. Friendly, courteous, and helpful. At breakfast, the owners came to visit us personaly, and to congratulate us. Not to mention, the food was fabulous. We would highly recommend The Anderson House to anyone who is looking for a spectacular experience.

My sister and I planned a girls' weekend with my college-freshman niece and chose teh Anderson House based on hearing good things about the property and my sister's love of B&Bs. Do yourself a favor and avoid this property. We stayed in the Three Bears Room and one of the beds visibly sagged. My niece graciously offered to take it. This bed turned out to have two broken springs in the middle of the mattress. The following morning I lifted the bedding to see if they were visible, not believing housekeeping hadn't caught this, and sure enough, one of them was clearly visible -- almost in the center of the bright yellow urine stain on the mattress. When I reported this to the front desk the response I received was along the lines of "well that's very surprising, nobody else has ever said anything like that before", and rushed us to our breakfast table. We had been seated for quite some time before anyone asked if we wanted coffee. Tables that were seated after us were attended to before ours. My sister joked that we should have waited to complain about the bed until after breakfast, because the same staffer who'd scoffed my complaint literally circled around our table in the dining room refilling coffe cups, and ignored us. Incidentally, a diner at the next table returned a dish as there was something in the food - I don't know what it was, but when she was handing the plate to this same hotel staff member who'd dismissed my complaint, she said quite loudly "well I can't see what you're talking about." The diner calmly pointed out the offending item and the staffer took the plate away without further comment. When I was paying the remains on the breakfast bill (your "free" breakfast is actually a $7 voucher per person) I brought up the spring again, to the same staff member, and she said she was "checking in to it" and had gone ahead and given us a $10 discount on the room. At this point I realized that guest relations wasn't her strong suit, and left, even though a $10 discount for an unusable bed is not acceptable. (The front desk was closed by the time we'd returned from dinner and discovered this problem, we were unable to complain until the next morning, which we did promptly at 8:00am.) A terrible experience, don't stay here. They're clearly not interested in their guests, and your bed may or may not be usable, or sanitary, for that matter, depending on how you feel about sleeping on urine-stained mattresses. I realize this is a historic building and not a new property, but for $129 a night in a small town, I expect to be able to at least use the beds, and to be taken seriously by management.

We visited for dining only. The table we got was next to COLD open windows that I couldn't get to close. We recived our sodas in glasses filled with ice and no straws. We couldn't drink out of the glasses because the ice would slide onto our faces. The menu said there were low carb substitutions, but when I asked for one for my rice, I was offered a baked potato! When I asked for my chicken to be cooked in little to no oil, I was informed that it was not possible. My husband found a large BONE in his chicken noodle soup. My chicken dinner tasted horrible. The chicken was stringy and fatty and the marinade was bitter and old tasting, and all I had to cut it was a fork and a butter knife. My husbands half cold $20 gave him a stomach ache.

Right from the start they accomodated us. Let us park our motorcycles in the back of the hotel. Offered to keep the restraunt open late for us. They were very pleasant. The Breakfast buffet was awsome the best I ever had. Will Go Back!!!

Food was very tasty. Location was great. Management was terrible. I arrived excited for our stay and left feeling disgusted. Management really needs to reevaluate their business goals.

It was great. Happened to be there on a night that they had karaoke. It was like a party with friends. Breakfast was wonderful! Cozy, quaint, and can't wait to go back. Carla, Watertown, WI