Winthrop is such a beatiful area, and this place with quaint natural wood log-style rooms has potential to be charming in it's environment. The problem with it though is that he's being presented like a motel with ammenities when the lack of quality of the ammenities calls out "old summer cabins" - which these are not supposed to be.
First off, digital TV;s are less than $200 in the big city now, so why advertise you have cable TV and then put a guest into a room with an hand-crank rotary tV tuner from the 1970's and no cable box. The best you can do is turn the knob to dial in channels 2-13. We went to the office to ask if there was a way to get the dozens of other channels and they acted like they didn't know we couldn't get all the channels and nobody else ever had a problem with it. Then it turns out they offer wireless internet, but said you have to go down to their "Saloon" building to pick it up. Not too handy for our teenagers who aren't old enough to go into a saloon anyway, but then it looked like they closed that building down early so having failed to get enough signal in the room we gave up. The restaurant had been closed for some unspecified reason which wasn't a big problem. A new pizza place opened right next door a week before which had SPECTACULAR gourmet pizza, and the young owner was REALLY friendly and helpful. Their New York quality menu was totally unexpected for the area. . The swimming pool was nice and warm when I dipped my foot in, but after diving in we all immediately noticed the water smelled and felt like the old back-yard above ground pools you had as a kid... which didn't have filters or chlorination... after about a week. There wasn't even a noticable trace smell of chlorine so we all felt dirty after we got in. The room was spacious and quaint inside. Not dirty, not spotless, just cabin-like. Furnishings were older, but I don't have any complaints other than it was a bit pricy for something with a 1970's TV and no internet. We had a little dog, so there weren't a lot of options in town. Gratefully they do take dogs. We had a kitchen too but didn't need or use it. It's a beautiful area, and not a bad place. Maybe the price tag and the fact that we didn't stay in one of the cabins caused me to expect something a step above an old-fashioned cabin.
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