Diane and Shawn were great to work with. Worked with me to get set up where I thought was best…read more Very friendly and dependable. Thank you and will use for next party event!

Had the chance to be at an event w Funk Creations. DJ was fun and played great music!! Willing to…read moretake requests and kept everyone engaged. Can't wait to see them again!!!

Searching for a local florist with quality flowers for the "Love of my life" is serious business…read more Her smile as she receives a bouquet of roses is the greatest gift I can imagine and for her birthday yesterday, I think it's safe to say that Pioneer Floral delivered as best we both could hope for. The bouquet of two dozen lavender roses was simply beautiful and worthy of my amazing Queen. Thank you folks, from both of us! In her words, "I think we've found our new florist" It's so nice to know that in this lovely small rural community we can have a level of service from a family run business that really understands their customers and goes to the lengths they did to put that beautiful smile upon my Angel's face.

I found a lovely arrangement on the company's website and called them to place my order. They had 3…read moreselections "good" being what was shown in the photo, "better" being what was in the photo and then some and finally "best" which was supposed to be a lot more than the photo advertisement. Upon talking to them on the phone the initial sales girl stated she was new and had me talk to the "owner" who informed me if I wanted it to look like the photo online it would be double the "good" price. When I informed him that is not how it is advertised on his webpage he refused to match the price and told me to go to the other floral shop, so i happily took my business elsewhere. It is really too bad the new owner doesn't honor his own advertisements. I used to order all my arrangements and deliveries from them. Not anymore.

One of the most beautiful, special places in Wisconsin…read more Well kept property on Little Hills Lake is a wonderfull slice of Northwoods beauty. Multiple buildings date back to the 40s, while the main lodge was built in the late 90s which creates a mix of classic camp feel, with modern amenities. Staff is always helpful, and caring.

My husband and I were married at Camp Lakotah last month. We rented the camp for 4 days and nights…read more We are both wedding/event professionals and wanted an incredibly unique wedding venue. We were thrilled when we discovered Camp Lakotah, but wished we had been better prepared for the reality of hosting a wedding there- so I hope this review is helpful to others who have a similar vision. I'll start by sharing the positives: Camp Lakotah is gorgeous. It is on a huge piece of property, with massive pine trees, a pristine lake, beautifully-restored buildings, and an authentic 'campy' vibe. We were given a lot of freedom with what we wanted to do (bring in our own caterers, our own alcohol, cook a big group meal on the beach, play music late into the night). The breakfasts and lunches cooked by camp exceeded our expectations- they were great. Our guests had a blast, and will remember it forever. However, the camp director and owner, Sandy Bartel made me wish we had found a different space to host our celebration. After years of working in the wedding business, I have never encountered such an unreasonable, bitter service professional. I don't think she is evil-spirited as I know how much she loves her camp, the kids, and her dogs.... but somewhere along the way she began to absolutely hate other adults and her behavior continues to cast a shadow on our wedding. It's like she forgot about the $20,000 business transaction we had made, and kept treating us and our guests like we were in debt to her. It is clear that our wedding overwhelmed her. It was shortly after we agreed on our wedding dates with Sandy last Summer, that I realized I was going to have to rely completely on myself for all logistics regarding the camp. I tried to get ahold of her (phone, text, e-mail) for 3 months to get a contract to sign, and heard nothing back- and finally, after a desperate text telling her we were going to start looking at other venues, she responded "who is this?" Because we loved the venue so much, we decided to sign the contract and keep on planning and communication was slow, but acceptable during this time. We live 3.5 hours from camp, and visited 4 times before our wedding, each time we visited Sandy was actually great- warm, accommodating, focused. Our wedding began on a Wednesday and she agreed to let us come out on the Monday before the wedding to begin setting up camp. I wrote her an e-mail the week before the wedding outlying our plan for the following week. She called me on Sunday afternoon to tell me that we were absolutely not going to be able to set up until Wednesday, and acted as though she had never talked to us about the Monday arrival (we discussed it at least 3 times). We were in our U-haul, had 3 full days of work ahead of us, and were massively inconvenienced and stressed by having to do all of our set up on Wednesday morning before our first guests arrived at noon. The wedding week went on, folks were having a blast, the weather was perfect. The camp staff stayed out of our way (which they didn't need to), took care of garbage, set out water- it was nice. They were all quite sweet, however, many guests had very bad experiences with Sandy. A couple friends who used the camp kitchen to make cupcakes (which we paid Sandy $400 to let us do) were treated horribly by her, and my best friend was looking for her phone and was yelled at for investigating a ringing phone (Sandy's) that was sitting in a cart. That crossed a major line with me. On Sunday morning when we were packing up from the huge event we just threw, Sandy sent me an aggressive text that said they would be locking the gates and we would be forced to leave by 1:00. I dug around in my e-mail to prove that we had agreed on 4:00 as a load out time, and she never responded. But the staff was cold and rude and we tried to do everything as quickly as we could. After being rushed out, we ended up leaving a few items at camp and having to drive the 7 hours round trip to go grab them the following week. We arrived to an empty camp and the most valuable thing we left (a $1500 karaoke machine) was missing. We could not get ahold of Sandy (she had just turned her phone off when she realized I was trying to reach her). After weeks of trying to get in touch, we had to contact the County Police Department who was just finally able to seize the machine and now we get to make another trip to pick it up. Sandy Bartel was the first person to pop into my head each morning for the last month. She caused me so much anxiety that I still cannot think about our wedding week without my heart rate rising. This would have been a completely different experience had Sandy just charged us to account for the cost of a venue coordinator- someone who enjoys customer service- so we never had to interact with her (and visa versa). We are service people, with great friends, and are very easy to get along with. It should have gone down differently.

Funky old hotel with strange rooms. Showing it's age but this is a fine place to stay. Lakeside…read morelocation. Boat ramp on premises. Friendly beer bar.

The room was way way way older but I loved it make sure to pop on the bar for a nice beer and one…read moreof the best views ever

Another successful stay at the Mapes Hotel! I love staying here so much! The price is very…read morereasonable and right in the heart of downtown Ripon.

This is my favorite hotel ever! Checking in is a breeze. You just enter a code to open the lock box…read moreto get your keys. This is the largest hotel room ever, super clean, and decorated SO adorably. It has a full kitchen with the cutest tiny dishwasher! Everything was amazing, if only every hotel was this spacious, cute, and clean. I will stay here any time I visit the area.

McKayla made all our event dreams come true! Great service, would recommend to anyone!read more

I have supported this company for years in all my events and I am just realizing they are racist to…read morethe Hispanic community. They charge us the same as everyone else, however we get low quality products for events.

Peaceful and reasonable I have recommended this hotel to many ppl because It's relaxing and a good…read moreprice