way too crowded!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 11/1/06
My husband and I went to starved rock for our 12th anniversary. We expected peace and quiet, and beautiful surroundings. What we expected and what we received were two very different things! We stayed in an east wing room with a bay window. The bay window had 3 different windows and all but the center one the seals had leaked and were permanently foggy, you could not see anything out of them. There was a carving right outside the window, so people were constantly walking right up to our window to take pictures or look at the carving. The bathroom did not have an exhaust fan or a window that opened, and was so small that everytime I sat down on the toilet, I about cracked my head on the sink (I'm not kidding). The room smelled musty and upon further investigation, I found mold, and plenty of it on the ceiling in the corner. We also found out that people in the room next to us having normal conversations could be overheard by us with no problem. Whenever we left our room, the lodge was so packed that the traffic in the hallways was always at a standstill, you could not get anywhere. Maybe if you are coming from Chicago you are used to this many people, but I expected a lot more privacy and peace and quiet. Would I go there again? NO!