I don't recommend this establishment.
The resident owners of this timeless home have a penchant for 70s classic rock music, also timeless. We'd hear it emanating from the kitchen adjoining the dining room during meal times. Unfortunately, from our guest room situated one floor above the owner's private rooms, we also heard the bass of guitar music rising up through the floor as we tried to watch football, or go to sleep at night. It was impossible to ignore it. Yet, this is a bed and breakfast. Who does that? We endured until almost 11 PM on the first night, then called the owners from our cell phone, politely inquiring about the inconvenient noise. We were given apologies and the music stopped soon after. However, the second night, it was the same, perhaps a little quieter, but we heard the sound of bass guitar and its vibrations coming up through our floor again. Who does that, again? As the music was at a slightly lower volume and stopped around 10:30 PM we decided to let it go. However, on the third night, when it happened again and was louder, one of us went downstairs to ask, in person, about the noise. One of the owners, who was found in the office area, pretended the music didn't exist. She insisted there was nothing going on in their private room below ours. She even suggested the music might be coming from another guest who occupied the room on the floor directly above ours. Then just as we were reminding her the noise had been going on for three days, the occupant of the room above ours, having overhead the conversation, chimed in and exclaimed he had only just checked in that morning, so it could not have been him for three days, and besides, he said, he wasn't playing music. Instantly the female owner said she'd check her apartment again. Again, shortly afterward, the sounds stopped. We highly suspect it was her husband. We saw him below our window, coming and going from their room below to their outside garden, each time, the music starting and stopping with his entering or exiting their room below.
Aside from that, this inn has a lovely view of Lake Tripp. It also has street noise from the nearby highway that takes away from the view. The floors are all polished wood and dangerously slippery in socks. Neighboring guests are clearly audible coming and going, as are the squeaky bangy guest room doors. The shower in our room had a broken shower head that was awkwardly attached to the ceiling of the cramped plastic stall enclosed with an 80s brass trimmed door. The dingy bathroom towels have seen better days.
Our bed was hard enough to produce significant morning aches and pains. The flat feather pillows needed propping up with the decorative throw pillows. Not comfortable at all.
The food was fairly good, but another mixed bag. The French toast and the pancakes we had on separate mornings were delicious. The breakfast buffet table offered fresh fruit and annoyingly small mini-muffins. No yogurt. A basket was left out 24/7 with several individual slices of bread lined up wrapped in plastic wrap, as well as halved bagels similarly wrapped in plastic wrap. It looked sad and meager with a jar of peanut butter looming nearby. Leftover walnut bread from the morning's breakfast and leftover mini-muffins were given the same treatment with saran wrap at the breakfast buffet table.
The best part of our stay was paddling a canoe on the lake. We also snapped several photos on the picturesque grounds. We took day trips to a hiking trail, an animal sanctuary, and a few local eateries.
Memories of our three-night Labor Day Weekend visit will be a mixed bag, however. We were offended that the owners of a bed and breakfast had so little regard for guests as to treat them like unwanted relatives. We live in a very decent Boston apartment, occasionally suffering the noisy neighbor. That's to be expected. But, when paying $300 per night for a stay at a bed and breakfast, one would hardly expect to be vexed by the noisy music of the actual owners of the establishment. And their denials and lies? That's just weird. I've stayed at several B&Bs. This is the only one, so far, that I would not recommend. read more