The hotel grounds was impressive and exciting from the moment I pulled onto the red-cobble-stone driveway. It felt like a mini resort with lots of grass surrounding the area. The whole town is a flat and quiet place right next to the bay. It is walking distance from all the local stores.

Checking in was no hassle, and they send a porter to help you carry your luggage to your room. I stayed in the Studio Room, but was a but disappointed by the size compared to the website photo. Darn camera tricks!

Everything looked clean and neat though. The bathroom with it's clawed tub was great. The TV actually comes out from the treasure cabinet! Unfortunately the backyard porch is not private, though some rooms are. It's a trade-off between having the water view or having privacy.

The majority of the guests are well over 40-50, I must have been the only one in my 20's.

We stayed two nights in a master suite with water view although some rooms have more of a water view than the one we had and unless you need the living room and an extra large bathroom the master suite may not be necessary. Food was excellent at dinner both in the pub and in the main restaurant; desserts were also excellent -- we tried every one of them. Property is very well maintained and pretty to view with lovely landscaping and gardens. The setting is peaceful and a perfect place for couples to relax without their children although I saw families with little ones. The spa on the property is decent with good treatments at reasonable value. St Michaels is good for a few hours of walking around but not much else. The hotel offers a boat with captain to tour the bay and the sunset cruise was a great activity at a fair price. Our main beefs are: 1. Breakfast menu was plain vanilla items presented very plainly -- aside from the excellent pastry basket, pretty blah considering the level of hotel and price we are talking about. For $15 you expect a piece of fruit or some kind of garnish on the plate with your omelet. 2. Average guest drives at least 3-4 hours to get there; on arrival they don't give you anything to eat or drink and I could really have used something having driven 5 hours. A fruit bowl did arrive in my room an hour later and maybe that was what I supposed to get on arrival. At night, they put two fairly average cookies in your room wrapped in saran-wrap instead of doing something interesting plus it was the same type cookies both nights. Again, little touches like these could make the place exceptional but they don't go that extra mile to make that impression which is surprising since Orient Express has very few properties in the USA and tries to present itself as something exceptional. While in town we came across the Old Brick Inn which had a fantastic looking innovative breakfast menu and a plate of fresh gourmet brownies and cookies around for people to munch on all day long. It just doesn't take that much extra expense for a top notch hotel to make its guests feel truly welcome, especially if they are paying that premium price, and I don't understand why it seems these days that the more you pay the less hospitality you get. I wouldn't stay here more than 2 nights and think that it would be best to visit this place during spring or fall but not summer or winter when you have either lots of mosquitoes and heat or frigid weather and don't want to be outside walking or enjoying the setting.

We had a nice enough stay (celebrating a special occasion), but as my husband put it, "It's one of the nicest places we have stayed that I would never return to." It is a lovely property, no doubt about it, but it was not worth the money we spent.

Also (and this is what really bothers me), we did not get the type of room we reserved. We had booked a "State" room (one step up from the less expensive "Signature" rooms). Upon arrival we were shown to a small room on an upper floor. Never having been guests there before we weren't really sure what to expect, but the room didn't match their description of a "State" room. We questioned it immediately, but we were assured that we were given the type of accommodation we had requested. We didn't press the issue, but when I got to thinking about it several weeks later, I went back to their website and I saw that the room they have pictured as a "Signature" room is the very room we stayed in. It would have been one thing if they had admitted the room change and adjusted the price accordingly, but that was not the case. I feel like our patronage was not important to them, perhaps because we were not repeat guests (we certainly won't be now!). Everything else was fine, but the room switch left a sour taste in my mouth. We will find other accommodations the next time we visit St. Michaels.

I recently returned from my third trip to the Inn at Perry Cabin and each time the property is even better than the previous stay.
This trip I stayed in a Suite overlooking the water. It was a really comfortable and well appointed room. The bathroom was a VERY large marble bathroom with a separate shower and tub, two sinks and a great closet. Housekeeping did a great job each day, my room was very clean.
The property has a great spa, pool and workout room. I didn't have time for a spa treatment this visit, but I did walk through on the way to the gym and everything looked really pretty. I wish I could have stayed longer to enjoy a treatment.
I ate at Sherwood's Landing for lunch and dinner. The crabcakes at lunch were excellent and I enjoyed my dinner so much, I asked the chef to give me the recipe for the lamb shank. Thanks for sharing your secret recipe Chef! I also had some appetizers one night at the Pub and even the appetizers were fantastic. Do yourself a favor and have a crab spring roll while you are at the pub; they are incredible!
St. Michaels is a great little town to explore and I can't think of a better place to stay than the Inn at Perry Cabin. I can't wait to go back.