My Sorority Sisters and I had a nice overnight stay at Residence Inn Franklin Berry Farms!! Every…read morestaff member we encountered was kind, friendly, and helpful! Every aspect of the property from parking areas, lobby, various restrooms, breakfast and bar areas, coffee area, our room, the elevators, etc., were beyond clean!!!
Berry Farms looks familiar since we have similar mixed-use communities in Madison County. AL. From the Berry Farms website: "Berry Farms is a mixed-use master planned community where work, shopping, and leisure blends seamlessly with front porch living on pedestrian-friendly streets. Located on 600 acres in the heart of Williamson County, Berry Farms is centered around connecting people to work, shopping, restaurants and meaningful open space." And, that's what this area does.
Back to Residence Inn. Parking was plentiful, on both side entrances to the lobby. There were no bellhops when we checked in on Sunday afternoon. They have ample smallish carts to schelp your stuff inside (think the smaller Publix shopping carts). I think parking was complimentary; however, please check the website to be sure.
Our 3rd floor room was super quiet! As others noted, there is a complete kitchen, including dishwashing machine, microwave, etc., and minimal coffee mugs, utensils, cookware, etc. The rooms are stocked with liquid dishwashing soap, dishwashing machine pods, paper towels, kitchen towels, wall mounted bath wash, shampoo, and conditioner and sample sized personal items like face wipes.
They have an on site full bar and restaurant complete with room service that is completely unavailable on Sundays. When we checked out Monday, I did not see a soul in the on site bar, and never tried to engage the on site restaurant.
Monday morning, the complimentary breakfast was sad, in my opinion. I hoped to get some scrambled eggs, bacon, grits and good coffee. Their coffee is inferior, both in rooms in these odd non-Keurig coffee makers that are designed for a certain sized coffee mug they do provide, and at the communal breakfast coffee station. I'm glad I didn't really need to be a high performing person that day, due to the lack of delicious coffee! They offered bananas, sliced fruit, muffins, one or so chorizo burritos and I think, a waffle/pancake machine. Meat options (bacon, sausage, etc.) were almost nonexistent. We checked around 0800 and maybe they did offer meat options/scrambled eggs earlier and ran out?
Their "pantry" (my words not theirs) section by the receptionist counter was well stocked with frozen meals, beers, canned wines, beverages and sundries. This was a happy thing for us because this part of Franklin rolls up their sidewalks on Sunday nights. When we returned from the nearby First Bank Amphitheater around 10:00 PM on Sunday night, the nearby Publix had closed, no restaurants appeared opened and we settled on a few canned wines ($10.00 each) to share before going to bed.
Thanks Residence Inn for your extremely clean facilities, your friendly service, and this location being very convenient to I-65!
