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Oh where to begin? We reserved two rooms for two nights. We saw four altogether however, since we were moved downstairs because the upstairs was very hot. ||The whole place is decrepit. The grounds are mostly neglected, the paint is peeling, the wallpaper in two of the rooms we saw was peeling, the screens don't fit too well so bugs get in. My five year old was psyched to chase the beetles, moths and grasshoppers down the hallways. Every door in the place squeaks horribly. A little WD 40 would solve that problem but no one seems to have cared about this place in decades. The decor is ugly, which is really not a big deal in an old Inn but it's not "New England quaint charm" ugly, it's just " whatever we could grab at a yard sale ugly", combined with dirty pink carpets and swooped textured ceiling paint. ||There is no AC, which is to be expected, but what is not to be expected is the James Bond era ceiling mounted electric box-type fans that roar like a freight train even on the low setting. The rooms and the halls are filthy. It smells so stale in both the halls and rooms that the staff had put plug in air fresheners every 6 feet down the hall. The ancient carpets probably haven't ever been steam cleaned, the curtains puff dust, the bedspreads smell like sweat and the water pipes near the ceiling are a nice home to webs and bug carcasses. ||||One reviewer mentioned that they couldn't understand why someone would complain about the decor since it was an old house and why would we want it to be like a Holiday Inn? But the part with the guest rooms is a modern addition. The old ship chandlers house is off limits to the guests. ( At least it was when we were there). It, no doubt, is lovely. I was not sure if the lobby and screened in porch were part of the old house, but it was cluttered and uninviting too except for the great breeze coming through the porch. That was somewhat offset by the constant roar of traffic going by on RT 129. ||||The rooms are large, which is nice. But two of the four bathrooms we saw were so tiny I literally had trouble turning around in them. The shower wasn't big enough to shut the door and still have room to put your arms up to wash your hair. The other two bathrooms were a good size.||The breakfast was ok; it held us over until we could have a decent meal at lunchtime.||The Innkeeper was nice and accommodating, lending us shampoo b/c there is none in the rooms, giving us ice for our cooler and letting me put leftover dinner in her fridge. She was also very nice to my son and I hear that several Inns in the area don't allow children, so at least he was welcome. I liked that it had no TV or phone. The wireless was sporadic but this isn't a business travel destination so it doesn't matter.||This place is two steps above a hostel; it's really a motor lodge that serves muffins in the morning. They promote the fact that it is a historic site, but the old house has nothing to do with the Inn, in the sense that guests don't stay in that part and most of the place is a rambling modern addition. Mercifully it was almost empty when we stayed there b/c sound travels through the thin walls and down the hall.||||From the half dismantled pay phone outside our door, to the peeling wallpaper, to the smell of a room that hasn't been more than desultorily cleaned in probably decades, to the miniature outdated bathroom, to the fan that sounds like it will eat you alive while you sleep, this hotel was not worth the $115/night price tag. $75 would be more appropriate. ||||We spoke to a businessperson in the area who told us the Inn is only kept as a tax write off and that no one really cares about it anymore. That much is very obvious, which is too bad because it had wonderful potential. I amused myself ( in the absence of TV or a radio) by imagining how great I could make this place with a bit of capital investment!
