I have been to a lot of B&B's in my time and i'm a big fan of them and the hospitality they bring. This one has me perplexed. When we arrived there was nobody there, no owners around, just a note on the door stating that if you have a reservation find your room on your own. Look, if it were a hotel I wouldn't care, but this is someones house so it's a tad uncomfortable for me to walk into to a house with nobody around and start looking around for a room. When we get in the room it's sweltering, no way I could sleep with it that warm. So I turn on the fan and open the window to try to cool it down a bit. I turn on the TV, no go, it doesn't work. The advertisement says cable, but it's not, it's an antenna, and apparently it doesn't work. So an hour later I go back out to the car to get my suitcase and walking towards me is Bonnie, the owner. The first thing she said to me was don't open the window, the AC is on (but apparently not in my room). I tell her about the TV to which she replies "Well maybe i'll see about it later." Later never happens by the way. The only other thing she said to me was to show her my ID later. I came down multiple times but did not see her or anyone else anywhere. Until that is, when kids screaming and running through the house perked my interest, especially after one of the kids barged into our room. Silly me for forgetting to lock the door. It was like a freight train all the way up until about 10:30. I got a chuckle out of the list of things left on the desk telling us what we cannot do in the bed and breakfast. I never saw Bonnie after the initial greeting we had in the driveway. I didn't know what was going on or what time breakfast was. I have never felt so uncomfortable in a bed and breakfast in the good 25 years I have been going to various ones. Not only was the room hot and sticky, and the TV didn't work so we were left to watch movies on our iPad, but the host was very standoffish, and did not make you feel welcome at all. She did nothing to resolve the 2 complaints I had regarding temperature and no TV, and it almost felt as if I was being scolded when told not to open the windows. I began looking for other hotels or B&B's in the area that we could go to but because it was Memorial Day weekend everything was sold out and we were staying for 2 nights, Saturday and Sunday night. I did however find an available hotel room for Sunday night and booked it. We would have to unfortunately suffer for one night. We were so uncomfortable that we got out early to go and get breakfast in a restaurant because not only did we not know what time breakfast was being served, we didn't want to be uncomfortable eating as well. Once we got back from breakfast we quickly packed our things. I went downstairs to find Bonnie to let her know and to check out, but once again, nowhere to be found. All I could do was leave a note with an explanation and my phone number. I couldn't even talk to anyone to request we be reimbursed for the Sunday night we wouldn't be staying. Suffice to say, I did not receive a phone call and i'm sure I will not be receiving a refund for one unused night. This could be a very nice B&B, but there's definitely work to be done.
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