Proud to be the first EVER bed and breakfast guest at this wonderful spot. Lodging was great…read morebreakfast wonderful, staff delightful and scenery divine. I will be back.

I recently had my wedding at the Gilchrist Club and was highly unsatisfied with the services that…read morewere provided to me. I would NOT recommend this venue to anyone planning a wedding! I thought at first that their prices were very expensive, but after talking this over with a coordinator she explained to me that although it seems expensive up front, the Gilchrist Club would in fact not nickel and dime me throughout the rest of the wedding process. This coordinator then left halfway through my wedding planning experience. Her leaving should have been a warning sign to me. After she left, it seemed that every few weeks something new would come up or be tacked onto my bill, which was incredibly expensive to begin with! I was told over and over how the chef was amazing and her food was incredible. My menu was very simple (we wanted more "fun foods" such as chicken fingers, fries, mac and cheese, and pizza). I was charged $62 a person to eat. I was shocked by this at first, but figured it would be the best food I had ever had. We were never given an opportunity to try these foods or the cake that was made for us prior to the wedding. I was served frozen chicken fingers, the mac and cheese was dry and cold, the pizza was as hard as a rock (I had 1 bite), and I took one fry from a guest which happened to taste good; however, it was not at all worth what I was charged. I was horribly disappointed with this. My box of food that I was eating from was thrown away (which contained an engraved fork that I had purchased - I didn't realize this until after the wedding when asking for the fork). I was under the impression I would be given a to-go plate at the end of the reception; however, this plate was never given to us. I had about 5 bites of food, and my groom did not eat at all. I also asked for a vegan plate for one wedding guest- we had talked about maybe a pasta dish with veggies, something of that sort. This was completely forgotten about and our vegan guest was served a thrown together salad after waiting 45 minutes for her food- $62 for a salad with no protein?!?! That is absolutely absurd. My cake was not anything like I had spoken to the chef about, I told her I wanted a naked cake that was a light cake, vanilla flavored with white frosting and blackberry preserves on it. I was given a dense, almost cheesecake like cake, with a thick cream cheese frosting. Not anything that my husband nor I would eat. I won't go into detail about the groom's cake, but that was another disaster in itself. These cakes we couldn't really enjoy cost us $671... Again no tasting was provided. At one point an 18% gratuity was charged on the FACILITY RENTAL fee, which was added to our bill later (not originally on our contract). When asked about this we were told this was required. My husband spoke with the manager and the manager said they would return half of this fee if things went well after the wedding. On top of that, there was a 22% gratuity on all food items, due before the wedding (This I understand. I was a server for 8 years -the food gratuity was about $2,200). Guests were required to buy their own drink tickets if they wanted to drink alcohol ($5/each) this included the drink, tax and a tip. When I was leaving the night of the wedding, I saw that the staff had a tip jar sitting out for guests to put cash in next to the drink ticket station... At this point I was infuriated because in my eyes the staff was "double dipping." That seemed pretty petty after the large amount of money we had already spent in gratuities. After the wedding, I wrote their general manager, Bob Edwards, asking for the refunded gratuity and explained the above issues, as well as other issues that arose during the wedding like being spoken down to by staff (including Bob himself). In my email to him, I mentioned I wanted to clear up these issues above before posting any reviews. I suppose this did not matter to him. I was told I would not be getting the refunded gratuity, and after another email of mine explaining that there was no just cause for him to keep this, he told me that he did not see the point in us bickering back and forth. EVENTUALLY, 2 months later after fighting tooth and nail and almost filing a small claims court case, I received a check for the gratuity and missing fork. I'm writing this to give them credit for that- and honestly only that. Yes, their facility is beautiful; however, it is definitely not worth the money and headaches we endured. This facility puts on a facade that they are well trained at putting on weddings- after having mine there I can say the exact opposite. Honestly look elsewhere- please take my warning and learn from my mistakes.