Not for me, one of the most uncomfortable 24 hours... We arrived at Vineyards Bed and Breakfast around 2:30pm on Sunday afternoon. It was a lovely property. Before our arrival we had made arrangements with Tambrala and Bruce to get a ride for a charge to Jerome. We learned that the nice van was broken and that we would be getting into their old mini van for this trip. OK, no big deal, yet is very dirty, one seat belt did not work, AC was not amazing, but hey we can go with the flow. Once we made it to Jerome, Tambrala says I will meet you girls here at 5pm. OK, off we go. Keep in mind we are on a girl weekend to celebrate our friends 40th birthday. We had lunch, shopped and went to a few tasting rooms. We where about 20 minutes late for our pick up, and you could tell Tambrala was not happy with us, yet as the owner she did not have the contact info of the girl that booked the trip to call us. Keep in mind we are on vacation and we paid her $150 for the car ride. It was about 20 miles from B+B. Once we got back to B+B, we where able to settle into our rooms, one group in the main house, with older newlyweds across the hall ( which was not told to us during our booking at the B+B), and the other girls in the tree house off the pool. We start to move all of our things, Tambrala and Bruce do not offer any help, Yet Bruce was very quick to remind us do not leave the doors open as the A/C is running. We where less then 1 step away with suitcases, tons of bags in our arms and lots of stuff. Yet, we still just keep smiling and trying to enjoying our "adventure" as I was calling it. Now its time to get ready for dinner. I went to my room, its over 80* and I notice the A/C thermostat in hallway and I lower the AC. There was a key to do this, but it was in the box. I accidentally left the key on my dresser when we left for dinner and as we are almost finishing up at dinner, the girl in our group who made the reservation received a text that was at least 10 lines long, scolding us about the AC, telling us that going into the kitchen was not allow, ( I never once went near the kitchen) and so on. So now it's getting very uncomfortable. We get back to the house and Tambrala is sitting in the living room waiting for us, I quickly apologized for leaving the key in my room. At this point there is conflict with Tambrala. She was telling us making her wait earlier in the day was bad manners, taking the key for the AC would cause the AC to break if it ran too long. At this point, I was trying to be understanding but I am a paying customer, it is Arizona in June, and I felt like we where being scolded way to often for a vacation that was supposed to be fun and relaxing. And mostly I never thought running the AC was going to be an issue.
Moving forward to going to bed, the tree house was set and could not move AC past 80*, the poor girls roasted, sweated, said their bed sheet smelled like mildew and woke up very unhappy. We slept ok, in the main house, we had boxed fan in window, but I did not enjoy getting up mid night to cross the hall to go to the bathroom.
Monday AM: the tree house girls are super grumpy, tired they slept less then 3 hours, and ready to move to another hotel. We need to go to breakfast its at 9. Once again, in vacation mode we are running late. We go there 915, and yet again Tambrala and Bruce where not please, I did not know my parents where on the trip and I am 10? Needless to say, once breakfast was over, after a few random digs here and there Bruce ask us so tomorrow I like to serve everyone at one time. Should we push breakfast back? All of us girls came to breakfast at same time, I did not know I was on the newlyweds schedule. Now our 5 girls have turned into 7 and things are just not going well. We make the choice to call other hotels in the Sedona area and tell Tambrala and Bruce that we are leaving 1 1/2 days early. Tambrala started to cry and "wanted to make it right" yet when we tried to speak with her the night before it was going now where. We packed up our things and left for an environment that would allow us to run to AC, be a few minutes late, pick what we wanted to eat, and RELAX.
I would never stay here as I felt they want 100% control of you while you are their guest. Lastly and the most odd part was Tambrala and Bruce did not have a clue where we made new reservations, and we go to a tasting room up the road and all of sudden Tambrala walks in, kind of like she was following us? It was very creepy, and VERY uncomfortable. read more