First I wanted to talk about the positives!
1. BEAUTIFUL view! You are the very top house on the drive and the views are amazing!
2. The house has great lightning throughout
3. Upstairs king bed is very comfortable
4. TV setup is great- TV in all the rooms.
5. Grill works great & kitchen is beautiful. I loved all the stonework in the cabin.
6. Bathrooms are nice & furniture is comfortable!
7. The tall ceilings with exposed beams are beautiful! It is also open-concept so the view from the upstairs bed out is breath-taking.
8. The porches are great! - again, that view!!
9. It was very clean- they left the lights on and tv’s on so it was nice arriving to a lit cabin. The TV’s being on was a little weird. Overall, a striking sight pulling up the mountain!
Negatives-
1. Drive up- it is the last house on the drive! Very very steep- 4 wheel drive is recommended! We definitely wouldn’t have made it if it snowed with our small car.
2. Hot tub is dated and needed to be cleaned.
3. The main negative occurred at night. My husband and I heard scratching and squeaking starting when we went to bed (around midnight) all three of the nights we stayed. Our last evening my husband was awake at 3 am and saw a hand-sized, grey rodent a foot from the upstairs bed. We both saw a grey, hand-sized rodent in the kitchen the next morning before we left.
We have notified the housekeeper and the host when we left and they sent up pest control so hopefully the problem will be dealt with. However, the pest control said it was chipmunks (who are active during the day) which leads me to believe that their pest control person wasn’t very good! The owner said there hasn’t been any other complaints and that they have been consistently booked so maybe the rodents were just there during our visit.
Overall, if you don’t mind a few visitors in the night and want an amazing view, this is the place! We however, do not enjoy visitors so were stressed for much of our visit. The host did respond quickly so hopefully they board up the three holes we identified and solve the problem. It was an interesting experience to say the least.