Our Stay At the "Bates" Hotel
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 12/21/05
Don't be deceived by the gorgeous location of this establishment. This was the worst "mini-vacation" that we ever had. The place is beautiful with lovely views of the water. But that is it.
If you value your privacy, do not go here. As we found out, this is not a place for a romantic retreat. In fact, if you want to speak above a whisper, this is not the place for you. There is a myriad list of "rules" that are left on your bed. You cannot eat in your room. You may drink but carefully. You cannot lay on top of the bed coverings. The list goes on and on. We should have been alerted then and hightailed it out of there. Every little noise is heard by the staff, and we were awoken by loud talking in the kitchen early in the morning. We had the television on and were speaking in a conversational tone and received a call from one of the staff "to please keep it down as we were bothering the only other guests in the place". Turns out these people were in another wing of the house altogether, and it wasn't them who complained. The place was empty other than this other couple. We were made to feel so uncomfortable that we left the next morning. We did make our feelings known but instead of being accommodated, we were "yelled" out of the place. Never again.