Stayed 2/16-19/24. Number of things were just odd. From the decor to how it was ‘renovated’.
1. Did not like the location of the CHINOISERIE room: Front left, where everyone enters the inn and walks right past your room. The room is right off the front porch and the outside seating area so you can clearly hear people talking outside, 2-3 feet from your bed, through single pane windows. Additionally, the room windows have shear see-through curtains (under drapes) that must be closed if you want privacy or you can see in the room, especially at night!!! Second issue is the drapes naturally have gapes so we had to move chairs and use pillows to keep the curtain gapes closed.
2. This was super odd: our breakfast was brought to us the PRIOR afternoon for the next morning. DON’T waste your $9/pp/day for breakfast: store bought or box made(?) muffin, Yoplait yogurt, juice and sorry looking fruit. You get your own Keurig coffee yourself in the main area. Super underwhelming!
3. The electric fire place advertised was (no kidding) a light bulb behind a plastic cutout colored flame template. VERY misleading on their part.
4. Safety issue: the wood bedroom floor is TWO INCHES lower than the tile floor in the bathroom. THIS IS A TOE BREAKER or fall if you miss it. We ended up rolling up a towel and putting it on the floor to cover the threshold. This is a safety issue (from other reviews) that they are already aware of.
Hot water is scalding hot, less than a 1 second burn time that made me yell out in the shower.
We were irked that they charged for parking in an ample lot they own; just another way to ‘gig’ you.
Over all it was generally clean. The decor is older and mismatched, neither really antique or period pieces. Kinda like your great grams house back in the day.
Other than at our arrival and the afternoon breakfast delivery. We saw no staff ever during our three days there and we were in and out during the day.
We did like the close proximity to the river walk. PLEASE NOTE: the first 10 mins of this walk does not have businesses so it’s kinda eerie coming back at night with no one else around.
We thought the bed was comfortable.
Would we return or recommend it? NO. Even with the above mentioned, we enjoyed our time in SA very much.
