The experience was fantastic! All phases of the event…read morecould not have better! Thanks to the whole team!

We had a wonderful 60th wedding anniversary event and stay at Kilbuck Creek! We highly recommend…read more The staff was easy to work with and kind. The house and event hall were perfect. What a beautiful setting!

Had a great weekend with friends. It was the perfect setting for a winter weekend away. The lodge…read morewas ideal with lots of space as well as cozy gathering rooms for hanging out. Keith and Lisa were fantastic hosts. Easy drive from the burbs. The warm country setting was the right break from the winter grind. I would absolutly recommend for a gathering of friends or a wedding in any season. We roamed the property and were impressed by all the venue options that they had to offer.

Unexpected beautiful setting near Dixon, Illinois. Five star lodge in terms of comfort, amenities…read more Lodge was transported from out West and it is incredible to think that happened. Owners/workers were incredibly accommodating, seeing to every need in a timely manner. Was amazing setting for our granddaughter's wedding. I kept thinking this place is designed to build relationships, experiences and memories, maybe perfect for a corporate retreat!

I've been here a couple times for events! It's such a beautiful place! The Barn is perfect for any…read moreevent! Summer concerts outside are so much fun! I love it here!

This venue is amazing! Beautiful, tucked away with the lake, and perfect for a wedding ceremony…read moreand reception. My neice's wedding was absolutely stunning! She and my new nephew's wedding photos show the absolute beauty of the scenery outside and the venue. Mgmt is great to work with, as it has that personal ownership that truly cares, not a corporate feel at all. Check out the photos and know you have found your perfect venue! Thank you, Bear!

Updating my review since our last stay years ago. My inlaws (from Ohio) came to visit us for an…read moreextended stay and instead of staying at our house, they rented a townhome on Lincoln Avenue in the Village. They enjoyed their stay! It was so nice for them to have their own place to go to at night. A king sized bed definitely beats staying in one of our kid's bedrooms! They ate most meals with us, but they also had the option of using the fully equipped kitchen to make a few meals on their own. The owners (Ted and Jane) were very attentive. I know they liked being able to walk to the Canteen and the new Starbucks in town! It was such a nice alternative to having them stay in our home. I have a feeling they will be doing it again!!

My husband and I moved to the Chicago area right before our daughter was born and had to scramble…read moreto find a place to stay before we closed on our house. This means that we brought our several day old baby home to a Barrington Corporate Townhome. . . and could not have had a better experience! Jane's daughter was super responsive and handy when we had minor issues with an appliance, and Jane and her husband were invariably a pleasure to do business with. The unit was fully equipped with everything from kitchenware to a million towels of all sizes, and it was an easy walk to downtown Barrington/the train station.

Lincoln way inn is the Best bed and breakfast in Illinois! There I said it lol!…read moreLisa and her team are awesome! I truly cannot find the right words to explain how we felt during and after our visit. The hubski and I are bed and breakfast lovers, so about 3 years ago we started looking for a bed and breakfast in Illinois to visit. We found Lincoln soon after we started our search and was impressed with their commitment to the environment and local producers. The rooms looked so dreamy and we also saw that we could have the experience of being beekeepers! I was too excited. We booked our 2 night stay for our anniversary. When we got there, we were warmly greeted by Lisa and her team and they checked us in took us on a little tour of the property and then up to our room (we stayed in the carriage house). We parked our car in the heated garage below the carriage house (each room has a spot in the garage). The carriage house was amazing! A huge balcony, full kitchen, 1 full bath, 1 half bath, a full living room and a king bedroom. It was perfect. Our first night in, we made pan seared salmon in the kitchen and the next morning, Lisa came over with a 3 course breakfast! All local products and tasted sooooooo great! That day we went to the farm which had an apple orchard, chickens that provided our eggs for breakfast and we took a ride in the truck around the farm to see the wild flowers and the bees. We suited up and became beekeepers which was so much fun and after we enjoyed a really good lunch prepared for us and pour our own bottle of honey! This is one experience I will never forget We drove to Dixon that night to have dinner at an Italian restaurant and drove back to settle in and enjoy a nice quiet evening. They leave out cookies in the main building so we ran over and took a few and some milk to enjoy while watching tv. The next morning breakfast was equally amazing and we were so sad that we had to leave but we will be back for sure and hopefully try a room in the main house and going for a hike along the trail super close to the inn. Thanks Lisa and team for an amazing and memorable stay! Tse and Steve

Great place to get away for a couple days. We have stayed here twice and absolutely love it! The…read morerooms are beautiful and well decorated. The breakfast is amazing as well! You will not be disappointed.

Beautiful and peaceful retreat. The cabin we rented was dog friendly ($25 additional fee per dog),…read morewhich is perfect because the point of our getaway was to spend time with our corgi and to take her hiking. Check-in was at 4. It was self check-in and super easy. The cabin was clean, and everything was in order. The office was closed by the time we got unloaded so we didn't go. It is open for guests to borrow movies or puzzles or purchase firewood. We met one of the owners the following day. Very friendly and lovely lady! I forgot my hair dryer and she lent me one. There were trees surrounding the cabin area, a swing on the front porch, a grill and picnic table in the backyard, and there is a 2-person jetted tub along with a shower stall inside. It had such a comfortable feel to it. Full kitchen and a table for 4, a small TV and a blu-ray player, and a comfortable full sized bed. The couch was a futon, so if you need another bed, it's ready to go! There was enough space to set up our large crate for our dog. We stayed at the Zonta cabin. Overall, I had such an enjoyable time. Nothing beats waking up early in the morning to some fresh, cool air, the trees swaying gently and a nice stroll with the doggo away from traffic and car horns honking and people hurrying to get to places. I got a lot of peaceful reading time done, about 4 hours' worth of hiking in 2 days, and worked on some puzzles we borrowed from the office. I absolutely recommend this cabin resort for a relaxing getaway!

My friend and I spent two nights recently in one of the smaller cabins, looking for a peaceful,…read morecountry-oriented break from the big city. I'm very happy to report that Kishauwau's cabin fit the bill nicely. Kishauwau is what I've been describing as a cabin development. There are about 15-16 cabins in an area that backs up to the Vermillion River. In fact, the ravines behind some of the cabins are very steep. Anyone with small children will have to keep a close eye on the kids every minute they're out back. The scenery is spectacular, but oh boy, you don't want anyone sliding down that ravine. Our cabin had all the basics we needed -- a double bed, a fold-out futon couch, a big bathtub with a separate shower, and a kitchen stocked with plates, silverware, pots and pans, dishwashing liquid, and more. Every cabin has a outdoor fire ring, a grill, a porch swing, chairs, and a picnic table. The larger cabins had several chairs and tables. We had a TV with a DVD player -- you can borrow DVDs from the plentiful supply in the office building. NO INTERNET! If you can't live without access to instragram, you will be out of luck. So, be sure to plan ahead for ways to entertain yourself. I should also mention that the cabin was spotlessly clean when we arrived. The grounds are neat and well-maintained. The office has simple supplies for sale such as toothpaste, shampoo, etc., along with some snacks and drinks. There is also a small gift shop. I've already recommended Kishauwau to two friends here in Chicago. I'm very happy to recommend it to you, too.

If you never visit Heritage Harbor you will never experience the beauty, the peace and serenity…read morealong with the fun all in one place just an hour from the suburbs!! The Cottages and Houses are right on the river just a stones throw away!

Did the home tour thing, listened to the sales staff spiel...Homes prices and taxes are outrageous!…read moreHome quality is mediocre at best. It's the Illinois river people! This isn't prime real estate.

Camp Wandawega is a flawlessly re-created 1950′s summer camp. At $250 a night (plus a $60 airbnb…read moreservice fee), you can step back in time. Located in Elkhorn, WI about 90 minutes from where I currently live, on the way there, I drove by the place I used to camp as a kid and by towns I have met my parents in to go antiquing. Where many of the sites on the way were well-known to me, pulling into the camp site was familiar because it was like driving to the set of Moonrise Kingdom. Really, it was like plopping into any Wes Anderson movie. I could very clearly imagine children with their names emblazoned on sleeping bags and wooden tennis rackets being used as swords by campers. When I first arrived, I was early (although the reservation said there was a flexible check-in time). The cleaning lady was arriving in two hours, so I read outside for a while of (what would be) my cabin. The breeze was nice and my book was distracting, but then I started paying attention to a couple who were dipping their feet into the lake at the end of the dock while eating oranges AND drinking orange juice (?!?). That is commitment to Vitamin C, if I ever saw one. Once I moved past my internal giggle at the scurvy-free couple, I glanced at my phone and saw that time had slowed to a crawl. How can a morning at home go so fast and an hour at camp go so slowly? It is like that scene in The Jerk where he says the first day seemed like a week. Camp Wandawega is quite quiet, except for the crazy chipmunks. Sometimes, you can hear the muted, but distinctive click of the flagpole outside. Often, I caught myself looking to see if the crinkle of leaves or branch breaking was a person, but it was almost always a chipmunk (or, not to be out done, squirrels). If the chipmunks weren't there or if flags didn't move, I would have thought I was frozen by some witch's autumn spell. Overall, it seemed like it shouldn't all be there- the details. It felt like it all should have been swept away in a flood or be permanently planted in someone's dream, not surviving as well-preserved as it all is. There is no internet that I could connect to. I didn't need air conditioning or heat, but they are a window cooling unit and a floor heater respectively; nothing major to protect you from the elements. You are here to be (at least, a little) outside. There is a rope swing and open-air showers. There are old bikes and bird houses. The traditional camp colors of burnt red, forest green, and stark white are everywhere. Uneven stairs and rocky hills force your attention even while you walk casually around. The camp was at one point a brothel. Well, it was a speak easy, a distribution center for organized crime, a brothel, a lake resort and a church camp before the current owners bought it and renovated it to its current state. While at Camp Wandawega, what I felt was a constant pang of that very specific camp feeling. The anxiety before arriving your first time. The waiting of ONE MORE YEAR before your next camp experience always seeming like forever. The addiction in the autonomy and the freedom of no parents or siblings. You just being who you are. Someone good at archery. Someone who loves sitting on a dock. Someone who swings in a hammock. Someone who naps. Someone who hikes. While there, I got invited to a fire on the beach by one couple. At another point, a couple taking engagement photos came by to use the canoes. Untroubled people came and went. Some times a fish would come up to ripple the water in their hunger. The lily pads provided a little buffer from the reflection of the sun. There was the constant smell of a fire burning somewhere. What I recommend doing while at Camp Wandawega: -Eat PB&J. You can go into town for food, but why bother? -Sneak iced coffee or coffee grounds and a French press into the communal kitchen. -You don't really have to sneak, but sneaking around seems very camp-y. -Take a nap. Or several. -Read the books at the end of the bed (A Very Modest Cottage and Found, Free & Flea) by Tereasa Surratt. They will provide more information on the renovation of the property and the care of one of the cottages specifically. -Go on a walk around the whole site. You will find tipis (or teepees) and other fun finds. Just bring your hiking boots. -Canoe. (Language side note: canoe is a noun and a verb. English is so quirky.) -Sit with the liquor of your choice by a fire or just sit by the lake for a while. -Go on a bike ride. -Take pictures. You can't really take a bad one. During my time here, the bees were about. Flies and ants, too. Twice, a spider dropped down (seemingly from the sky) onto the book I was reading. Also, I am 99.9% sure there was a raccoon outside of my cabin door one night. Camp Wandawega is a natural and authentic place which makes it an ultimate place to reflect and assess. Yes, you have to constantly check your wine for bugs, but that is part of the magic of being fully present, isn't it?

AMAZING. This is an awesome place with rich history dating back nearly 100 years ago. The tree…read morehouse is soooo cool, there are many options as far as areas you can stay in. Teepees, old Army tents, the old "dormitories," and small cabins. We were here for a wedding over the weekend (which is rare from what I hear), and the place was recently renovated (in the last 5-7 years or so). This is a very rustic place with a historical feel. In the 1920's during the prohibition years, it was a speakeasy (my favorite part of their history), but there is much more. To learn more about the history check out, www.wandawega.com. This place is also a very well kept secret. I grew up less than 10 miles away from Wandawega, but had only heard of the lake not the "Camp" or "Resort." This place is meticulously decorated, clean, historical, rustic and all-around awesome.

We recently brought friends from the Northwoods for a tour of the Chain O' Lakes, and found the…read moreCottages on the Petite Lake to be very relaxing and enjoyable. Our host David, went the extra mile to make sure we had wood for fires, a floating cooler and a clean, working pontoon rental! We can't wait to do it again next year!

Five stars for the Rustic Hilltop Cabin!…read more Petite Lake Resort is our family's go-to annual vacation spot, and our recent stay at the Rustic Hilltop Cabin was amazing. The cabin itself is rustic, beautifully kept, and completely adorable. We had all of our kids together under one roof--flying our daughter in from California to join the fun--and spent the week boating, BBQuing, and enjoying the campfire. The property owner, Amanda, is truly wonderful. She is so accommodating and always goes out of her way to make our stays flawless. We love this place and highly recommend it!

We rented a 3 bedroom town home for a family wedding . 2 of the 3.5 bathrooms did not work. I was…read moreasked to repair the Toliets myself and we had family obligations w the wedding . I felt it was so odd that I was even asked. when I said I could not they had a maintenance person come out the following day so we were without for the night and next am. We were offered the unit next door but it smelled so bad, was not clean nor was it updated at all. Upon our arrival there was also a huge stain on the carpet outside the lower level bathroom and a fan was on the carpet to dry it . We should have been notified of this situation. It was unacceptable that if the toliet overflowed that it was not professional cleaned prior to our arrival . When I brought this to the manger on duty's attention they did not even know about it. We were offered the unit next door but it smelled so bad, was not clean nor was it updated at all so we passed. We did not have time to move due to the wedding obligations or I would have ! To make matters worse the next morning I saw what looked very much like a cock roach and was horrified. Mid day the second day they sent an exterminator that claimed it was not a cock roach but I beg to differ. We never used this bathroom nor the bedroom downstairs after the first night. No one reached out to us again apologizing or offering any type of discount for all the inconveniences . I would never recommend this unit or working with Keefe real estate .

From the owner: Keefe Vacation Rentals is a full service vacation rental management company that professionally…read moremarkets and manages single family homes and condos to vacationers in Walworth County and beyond. Keefe Vacation Rentals provides a comprehensive list of services to owners from pricing and marketing a property to handling all reservations, cleaning, and guest needs. For guests, our team of Vacation Specialists serve as your local experts. We will assist you in choosing the right property for your needs, offer recommendations for local amenities, and provide support during your stay so you enjoy a seamless experience and the best of our communities.