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| Submission date: 2006-08-29 - Date of Stay: August 2006 |
| Submitted by: hary - From: United States |
| Type of Traveller: Family Traveller - Age Group: 31 - 40 |
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| terrible |
| Good News: Not too far from lake george village, about 15 minutes drive. The owners are very nice people, but they are clearly overwhelmed by the needs of this place. The foreign women working there were very nice and helpful.
Bad News: A tent in the forest would be comparable, if not more comfortable. The rooms are 20+ years old, with horrible broken furniture. Very musty and moldy smells, Windows are from daniel boone era and do not close very well, and no locks! Doors are the same, in fact, when I forgot my key in the car, a gentle push is all it took. Bathroom is horrible. Everything drips. Barely enough hot water for a 2 minute shower (if you are courageous enough to remove your clothes). 2 - 40watt bulbs in the room, I couldn't even read in the dim light. The carpeting is grungy and filthy. Towels were not changed, and nor were the sheets for the whole week we were there! Just ask them, they were comfortable saying the "manor" if eco-friendly. The floor of our cabin(?) was spongy and I was wondering if I would fall through and sleep with the critters below. Field mice are common there. If you are uncomfortable with nature, pick another place, there are bugs galore here, and they are in the rooms in abundance due to the gaps in the doors and windows. My wife hated it, and slept with clothes on head to toe. No alarm clock, no iron, no cups, no refrigerator (you have to pay for bags of ice), no amenities at all, except for some sorry towels and a tiny bar of soap. Yeah, they serve Starbucks, but you have to trek to the office and pay $1 a cup.
The grounds are not maintained, tall trees provide lots of shade and nothing really grows. Be careful walking around in the dark, you'll trip over roots and rocks.
Biggest disappointment was their lake access. You have to be very careful to walk down a treacherous trail of broken 50 year old steps to get to their "beach". Beach is 5 boat piers and a portion of sand no more then 6 feet wide between the last two! From there you can swim out about 15 feet. The only people in the "beach" were a few little kids all week. The website and phone calls were very deceptive. If it is lake you want, BWM is not the place. I do not think there was even a room from which you could see the lake, the place is so overgrown with trees and shrubs. We didn't bother to walk to the indoor pool, so I can't say anything about the color of the water.
Food: The food was okay, but not worth it and very few selections on the meal plan. If you have to stay here, save your money, do not get the meal plan and instead eat in the village or bolton landing.
Overall: The place is in need of a lot of repair. However, it was full, despite the warnings, and the owners do not feel the need to spend money fixing it up.
In all fairness, almost all the hotels in Lake george overuse the term "rustic" to hide their faults and any on the lake are pricey. They are mostly dumps. However, I would never stay at BWM again. You really have to be a "nature" person to tolerate it. You have been warned. |
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