We're rating the hotel, not the restaurant, as we didn't get a chance to eat there. On paper/web,…read morethis looks like it should be a wonderful place, a boutique gem. Unfortunately, that's not reality, as we learned during our recent stay.
We have no complaints about the staff, who were pleasant (but we didn't interact with them that much, to tell the truth). Let's get to the rooms. We arrived at this hotel after a full day of biking along the river. No air conditioning and the rooms were hot. Being from a cool climate, this was unpleasant, but that might not be a big deal for others and they don't claim to have A/C, so that's not a major minus. Let's get to the bad and the ugly.
We had two very small rooms: one warm and one hot. The warm room had windows that were either nailed or painted shut. This is a good metaphor for the overall condition of the hotel. It's a once-elegant place that has fallen into disrepair and now is well on its way to decrepitude. It looks like they had done some bathroom remodeling recently and, while reasonably attractive, the fixtures aren't very functional.
And now the ugly. The hotter room's window opened, and clearly previous occupants had done so. As a result, the room was infested with insects. Hundreds of gnats crawled and hopped around on the ceiling; their dying bodies falling on the beds (and presumably the floors) like a spotty, black snowfall. My daughters were freaked out about this. I swapped with one and the other sleep with a sheet over her head. This is emblematic of the poor state of cleanliness in this hotel (among such things as lipstick marks on the glasses in the bathrooms and old blankets encrusted with dried leaves). Clearly, the staff doesn't pay much attention to the state of daily care of the rooms. This seems consistent with the overall level of maintenance for the rooms' contents.
To sum up, this may have once been a wonderful hotel but it now has more of the ambience of a cheap motel, at least as far as the rooms are concerned.
