you pay for the antiques
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 07/03/07
Beautiful place if you like that futsy, crowded antique ambience and rabbits (the rabbit motif was everywhere). It is on the main road, though,so you hear traffic if your room is in the front..
HOWEVER, terrible service, paltry breakfast (come on, pastries in cellophane are not a breakfast, and they kept running out of things like coffee. NOTHING for someone who is on a low-carb diet.) Bad "know-nothing" attitude on the part of most of the staff (but for one), if you could even find staff, which you couldn't, most of the time. For having so many rooms, I was shocked that there wasn't staff at the main desk most of the time. We saw someone we surmised was one of the owners a couple of times, and he barely gave us a passing glance (and the glance was not at all friendly), so warm is not a word I would use for this place--at least if you aren't "known" there.
We were told we would share a bath with the elders we traveled with; they didn't tell us the bath was across the hall, and so narrow that our large aunt was very uncomfortable in it. No closets in our rooms, and a fan that was unplugged, not in the window, and the staff didn't know how to run (turned out it was thermostat-controlled, which we had to figure out after crawling under the bed to plug it in.) The bed was on the too-soft side, but this is, of course, individual preference.
They also indicated that only one room was on the 2nd floor, but all the rooms were on floor 2 (we were a party of 8 staying in four rooms.) This was a problem for said aunt, who has lung cancer and diabetes and had a very difficult time climbing the stairs, especially after the steep stairs from the parking lot to the front porch. They were also reluctant to help us out with refrigerating her diabetes medicine, so we would discourage anyone who has special needs from staying there.
The one room with a TV is musty smelling; seems like no one goes there much. There were pluses; we had sort of a lake view (blocked by porch roof and large telephone pole and wires), the front porch and plantings are lovely, and the robes they provided were soft and thick. Would never recommend or go there again; there are so many fish in that ocean!