Okay honest review from someone who travels the world and is in hotels 20/30 days a month. Took a vacation during Sept. Was so excited to come here for my one year wedding anniversary. I'm a mountain girl myself so I figured this place would feel like home. So from start to finish of our stay... Mon-Sat
As we drove up the mountain dirt road it was well compacted and super easy drive, very beautiful scenery. The check in was as you expected, check in at 4pm we arrived at 5pm which was a mistake because they start dinner at 5 so they were kind of busy. Which again no problem we were still just super excited after our 12 hour drive to get here. Lady was super nice, checked us all in and showed us our room. Cool, we had a cute king room decorated in horse decor with a cute fireplace. No ac but you do have a fan for your window and an gas fireplace for warmth. Again no problem because high was 78 degrees and low was 40. Went downstairs for dinner and im going to be 100% honest... I had the pork sandwich and my husband had a burger, he could only eat half of it because it was dry and no seasoning... just a slab of hamburger meat, it was not cheap which okay thats fine as long as its good right. Wrong, the pork sandwich was dry, like super dry and no flavor besides the mountain of BBQ sauce I drowned it in. Beers were super cheap but I don't drink but that was cool for my husband. But yeah the food left such a bad taste that we didn't eat there throughout the rest of our stay. We just made the 50min drive to Montrose or 50min drive to Gunnison for dinner. Now that we've made it through dinner, bedtime. For being out in the middle of nowhere you had cars and rzr driving up and down the road pretty often throughout the night. But like I said I'm in hotels a ton so I'm use to the noise. Let's talk about fun activities, so the lodge sells half day and full day rzr deals anywhere from $250-$450 full day is 6 hours half day is 3 hours. We brought our truck so we just went off-roading in that. If you go right outside of the lodge you can easily do a pretty cool scenic loop and end up in Gunnison. and that took us on a 8 hour off road loop. We spent a couple days going fishing which was fun. Again bring lots of water because of elevation but being from the mountains already we knew that info. Again the towns are about an hour drive and they do have more attractions. Now let's talk about the room, so we were there 5 days and they have a cute system that you place this sign on your door handle if you need towels or if you need trash taken out.... now I've been in hotels that have hundreds of rooms and housekeeping will go through everyday and replace towels, take out trash, restock your coffee, vacuum and make the bed. This place has what 13 rooms? I truly belive this place has to rethink their housekeeping situation BIG TIME. The lady was super sweet but you'd think housekeeping would do the entire room at least once during a week long stay. Its not like I could ask for towels and trash taken out at the same time because the sign gives one or the other which was irritating. If you replace towels and see that the trash can is full you'd think oh yeah I should change.... its just pure laziness. again there's people who do hundreds of rooms... 13 should be a piece of cake.... Also side note, so they replace breakfast food in your fridge everyday, milk, yogurt, cereal and bagel. Well our first morning there... we went to grab the milk and it was open and had a good 3/4 gone I asked my husband if he had open it and he said no so we went downstairs and asked the lady if we could get a new one she apologized and said if the lids on we don't check if its been used.... uhhhh what.... so someone else's milk that they drank from was still in our fridge... yuck.. so now let's talk about the TV, when you've gone out playing all day, you've come back had food and showered now you want to relax and lay down and watch tv... wrong lol if you know Spanish its perfect! 80% of channels were in Spanish and lots of the English channels were not paid for. We couldn't even get the football game in our room my husband had to go downstairs in the lobby and watch. So most nights we just played cards or went to sleep early. Soooo all in all no this is not a 5 star hotel not even really a 4 star. Which is why this review is 3, its an honest review from a week there. The price was nice because I get discounts through my job, the staff is friendly but not thorough, and honestly bring your own groceries for food. I just believe for a remote location you shouldn't have the need to drive an hour into town. Its a hotel that we would have love to just wake up eat a good breakfast go adventure the dirt roads and fish and then come back for a good dinner. Kind of defeats the point of a remote area if you have to drive into town, especially since the draw to this place is being out in the middle of nowhere. I'd recommend this place for maybe two nights. read more