My wife and I first came here back in May, we had originally planned on staying at Jekyll Island but we found it a little boring after our first night, so we decided to explore St. Simon's instead. We got on the island and went to Frosty's (across the street from this place) and while we were there my wife spotted this inn and fell in love. So we canceled our room at the Jekyll hotel and booked a room here for 3 nights. We loved the rooms. We stayed in room 112 "The Betsy" which has a balcony facing Mallery St., which is really cool.
The rooms are set up old-style Key West, very nicely appointed, and extremely clean. All rooms are spacious and just give you a feeling of really being immersed in the whole St. Simon's experience. Free cable and wifi, free coffee early til late, continental breakfast (during Covid it's been brown bag but still adequate).
The location is excellent, within a few minutes walk of the village and pier, right in the middle of great shopping and restaurants. You really don't need to leave the area and can walk just about anywhere you need to go. There are many restaurants, shops, a liquor store less than 30 seconds walk away, bars, pubs, parks. Just a really fabulous location.
The staff and management are excellent, everyone here is very accommodating. There is a small pub off the lobby which is quaint and has a full bar and a great bartender named RB who is a favorite among guests and even locals frequent the pub. Everyone on the island knows this inn and pub and everyone speaks highly of both.
The rates are very good for the location and access to so many local attractions.
The pool is in shade most of the daytime and feels really good on a hot island day.
We have now stayed in 2 different rooms and loved them both. The only issue we have is none of the rooms have a fridge or microwave. That's sometimes inconvenient especially when you have drinks you want to keep cold or have leftovers.
The other issue we had was our bicycles were stolen off the inn property, from behind the lobby main building, and out of site of the road. They did have a camera and we filed a police report and the police came by and did a report, and hopefully will find the thieves. So that was a real bummer and let the air out of our sails. Bikes were locked up so I suppose when we buy new bikes we will either lock them in our room, or maybe just rent bikes next time. Unfortunate as we'd rather bring our own bikes and not have to spend money on rentals everyday, so that was about a $350 loss. (Update to this bike theft, they did offer to rent us bikes for our stay, and have communicated with the police, neighbors and other locals to try to find our bikes, which we really appreciate. My bike was one I bought on the navy base in Key West so it really hurt to lose that bike, though!)
So even though our bikes were stolen and there is no room fridge, the staff and grounds and location and amenities really make it a great experience, so I'm going to give them 5 stars. Not really blaming the inn for the bike theft but maybe in the future they can make different accommodations for guests with bikes, which they said they would.
We will definitely return hopefully many times and highly recommend to all.
Oh and as an aside, while the inn is kid friendly its mostly a mature older clientele. read more