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Listen, once you start charging a resort fee, you’d better be a full fledged resort. This is not. Yes, it has a small pool and (?) inflatable cold plunge pools, lol. That doesn’t make it a resort. It’s a golf club that wants to offset its fees with revenue from tourists. Add that to the nonstop smoking in other rooms (think Vegas without the fun), the surprise fire alarm at 11 pm and the 4:30 am wake up courtesy the guys in the room next door SCREAMING at each other and I’d call this anything but a relaxing resort like experience.

I booked this hotel exclusively because I was getting married at the nearby Brazilian Room - it was a great location for getting ready and the property was recommended for portraits ahead of the wedding. I booked a Queen Junior Suite for getting ready+ photography and wedding night. When the hotel wrote asking if I had any requests, I did ask if I could be placed in a room where windows wouldnt be obstructed during the hours I would be getting ready (in case of construction, maintenence, etc) I checked in and was placed in a King Junior Suite. Small upgrade - yay! Property was beautiful but I was slightly annoyed that all my vendors had to pay for a full day of parking as well as me considering how much the room cost. Even so, suite was really nice with amazing lighting. As Im getting ready for bed, the ceiling starts to leak and its a significant amount of water. They responded quickly and ultimately advise I will need to switch rooms. No problem- its a historic building. Things happen. It was really the next sequence of events that lead to the lower review. It is already after 11pm and I am moved into a Bayview King room which is a standard room size. I call the front desk back, explaining I booked a Junior suite as we needed the size and the night manager attempts to convince me its an upgrade. I eventually ended up in a dated Junior suite with 2 full beds which is where we spent our wedding night. I didnt end up settled until 1am. On checkout they removed $100

Great new, a bit of a small place for the weekend. New amenities, new room, must be a newly constructed little hotel. Small walkable space in room but cozy. A bit hard to contact staff because frontdesk is outsourced, someone from afar handles your questions. We experienced latency issue. They also only accept check-ins around 3pm.

TINY room. No place for suitcases. No place for toiletries in bathroom. View was of peeling paint of building about 10 feet away. Pillows smelled bad. Mattress like a board.

The place looks unfinished and the room was damp.

I think there needs to be an additional coffee shop. There was a 15min wait just to order at the giftshop and a 30 min wait for the terrace. Coffee in the room in fine but when I'm at a resort in the am I want to walk the grounds and go out to get a specialty coffee. There was a really nice woman at the tea parlor area that made complementary coffee for us, which was very sweet and a testament to the staff leadership. Also there should be french fries at the Royce poll haha. Other than that, beautiful. The gardens are beautifully maintained by the hard working staff. Will stay again!