Weekapaug Inn, Westerly

It shuts down right after dinner so if going to bed or having to be QUIET at 9 pm suits your family go for it. It is BYOB and they recommend putting your stash in the bar area open cubbies. Someone "shared" most of our gin in one night. The entertainment listed in the brochure, trunk shows, speakers etc. did not quite pan out. We did have a good storyteller for 30 minutes one night and a cellist for about the same 30 another night out of 7 days. The food is sometimes good and sometimes tasted like the cook was experimenting on us. Who puts a clove sauce on beef or rosemary on chocolate cream pie? The lunch buffet was not for kids,food way to overdressed. There is a waterslide and an icecream shop within biking distance but the shops/things for our kids to bike to, that we were told about, was 10 miles in to Westerly down a 5-6 lane busy roadway. Because we had already been on vacation for a week prior to our arrival we had dirty laundry. The desk staff said if we turned our laundry to them in by 10am it would be picked up by the laundry service, cleaned and back the next day by 10am. It came back 3 days later after my asking about it a LOT. We did not use the service again as we did not want to go home without clothing. We ended up sitting in the laundry mat in town. Another joy on vacation. They did have some rowboats, kayaks and canoes you could share with everyone else and the rocky beach was close. No airconditioning is ok but beg, schmoze or payoff a staff person to get a box fan out of another room to put in the window, otherwise there is no way to get cool air in the room if there is no breeze. Our room had other kinds of fans and we had to beg to get the box fans when someone moved out across the hall. We were assigned a table in the dining room the first night. I asked the staff if we could be moved to a table by the windows with a breeze when someone left and was told that the good tables near windows were saved for the important people who came there for years not us. I don't see how they will get new people to come back for years. We were only staying there for 7 nights, spending 6K that week. They eventually moved us to a spot near a window in the back. The children's camp was supposed to be for up to 10 years old. After watching kids come and go for days with the camp groud that looked my 11 year old daughters age, we asked if she could do the camp. We asked in the mid afternoon one day and were told by the staff that they did not know. The camp person would not be in until 10am the following day for a camp that is only 10:30 til 1:30pm. The catch is that a box lunch has to be ordered for your kid by 9am or they don't get lunch. Apparently there is no set policy and no one else can make a decision and the camp person cannot be phoned. We waited until 9:30am when low and behold a staff person finally said she could do it and ordered a box lunch. We of course could not make plans as we were held in limbo by the staff. One comical thing that occurs there all day long is the chair straightening on the porch. There are chairs on the porch all in a line, abutting one another. To sit down you have to either go all the way to the end of the line and step over people or pull on out of the line and sit down. There was a staff person who came by and put them immediately back into place every few minutes as if they should not be moved.He never said a word or gesture to indicate anything it was just the urgency of his putting them back that said it all. You can get an internet connection if you sit very close to the front desk but not on the porch, in your room or in any of the nice living areas with comfortable seating. That signal was not for the customers... If you want to go to bed a 9pm and be quiet this place is a tomb after that...it does not work for teenagers.