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Hawksbill Retreat

4.4 (17 reviews)
Closed 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
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Sunrise from a cabin in September 21

We've been to Hawksbill three times with a fourth scheduled for early fall. We love the cabins and all the upgrades to both cabins and the property.

We loved drinking our coffee on the porch with this view

What an incredible property. We booked a quick trip away without kids and thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Hawksbill retreat. Our cabin was well appointed and clean. And the view of the mountains exceptional.

Bailey E.

We absolutely loved our stay in Cabin 8 for our honeymoon. It has the best view of all the cabins and was perfectly romantic for the two of us. Throughly enjoyed the private hottub, only wish we weren't so tired every night and would've enjoyed the fire pit. While it was pricey, it was very cozy and worth it for our honeymoon. We will def recommend to others and return. (Our friends have already booked for January after seeing our pictures!)

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It's the kind of place where you don't mind some nasty weather so you can hunker down in the comfort of the cabin.

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2.8(4 reviews)
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Pictures speak for themselves. No privacy at all as there's multiple cabins that surround this…read morecabin. Hot tub had a gross rust stain. Mold in coffee pot. Dog hair all over the cabin. Bathroom is on the main floor. Bed room is upstairs. Must use a spiral staircase to get up and down. Spider webs throughout the cabin. $5 a bag for trash unless you take it yourself. $10 a day wood charge. $300 deposit that's supposedly refundable. Over all we felt there was much privacy give there wasn't any curtains on any of the windows on the main floor. Super steep hill with hardly any lighting to get to your cabin after dark. Seeing how dirty things were really makes me wonder if the place had been properly cleaned before us getting there. We did reach out to management and their response was they would have sent someone out to "clean " all this up had they known sooner but they would go ahead and let the cleaning team know about these issues.... Also I'm not sure how this could be advertised for families but there is only one actual bed and it was a queen sized bed. I couldn't imagine a family staying here and being comfortable. We stayed in Eaglet Cabin.

We made the mistake of renting the Eaglet cabin with shenrent.com. I am heartbroken to say I would…read moregive zero stars if I could. What an absolute nightmare. I've stayed all over the country and throughout europe and I've never had hosts who cared so little about their guests. We were so looking forward to this trip! We paid a premium price of over $300 a night after it was all said and done, so we could have a private cabin with a private hot tub. It would've been a third of that with other hosts, but we paid more to have the hot tub. So imagine our distress when we arrived to our modest cabin to find a dirty, cold, hot tub. Wanting to stay positive, and not wanting to complain, we attempted to turn the temperature up. We couldn't seem to get it any warmer. So finally, I reached out to the host to suggest that perhaps the hot tub was broken. I asked nicely if they could come look at it. They refused to even come look at it and continued to imply that it's normal for a hot tub to be colder than human body temperature! My father installed and fixed hot tubs my whole life. I know when a hot tub is that dirty and that cold that there's something wrong with it. After far more arguing than could ever be considered professional on their part, they finally admitted that they had added cold water right before we were supposed to arrive. They did not bother to heat that water. They did not bother to clean the hot tub or replace all the water. They just filled it up a little with some cold water after the other guests left. First of all, eww, and second of all, how unfortunate. We paid extra for a hot tub and we couldn't use it for the first night of our stay. And it only got worse. We learned when we attempted to take a shower and brush our teeth that something funky was going on with their septic system. Anytime you turned on water in the cabin the smell of sulfur permeated the entire place. Enough to keep you sick to your stomach the entire weekend. When we laid down to go to bed, we looked up to see the ceiling, completely infested with stink bugs. They flew around us all night, landing on us, ensuring that we woke up regularly, jumping up and shaking bugs off of ourselves. We tried to convince ourselves that this is just what it's like to stay out in the wilderness, and to stay positive. We knew the hosts wouldn't bother to do anything about it after not caring that the hot tub wasn't working. So we managed to have a nice second day of our trip in spite of the bugs and the disgusting sulfur smell, and the lack of support from the hosts. but it was the third night and final night of our stay in which things became completely unacceptable. The power went out. The host did not call and worn us that the power was out. They waited until we had spent 30 minutes going around the house trying to figure out what was happening and finally messaged them. They said they were aware it was out and would let us know when it would come back on. No discussion about their apologies or a back up plan. We heard hours later that the power would be back on at nine. And heard shortly AFTER nine that no, in fact, the power would be off all night. These people that rent cabins for a living don't have back up generators? I'm sure they do for their house. I'm sure they were very comfortable. But as for their guests? nope. By that point, it was pitch black. We had been out during the day so our phones were nearly dead. We had no light source. And we couldn't get the heat source working. It took us hours of being freezing to finally get it to turn back on without being able to see. By that point, we were cold and frustrated. Stumbling around a cabin with a spiral staircase in the pitch black, with no entertainment, no light source, and no ability to see the bugs before they flew in our face. You can imagine how many injuries we got. My partner busted his knee on the furniture so bad just trying to get downstairs to use the bathroom that he may have to go see a doctor. We slept terribly, because without an alarm, we couldn't guarantee that we would be up on time to pack and take our own garbage to the dump. Since they charge a fee for every bag you leave behind and expect you to basically clean the place. We got very little sleep and finally the sun rose and we could get out of there. I nicely reached out to the host and explained what a rough night we had and how distressed we were that we weren't able to use any of the amenities we paid for for two out of three of the nights of our stay. I requested that they simply refund one night of our stay and we would be happy. They refused. They repeated that the power going out wasn't their problem, they aren't required to supply a back up generator or lanterns. They aren't required to ensure the hot tub is usable. They don't care that we're unhappy. So I have returned home more stressed than when I left. The stink bugs got into our luggage. Excuse me while I vomit. DONT STAY HERE

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