The front desk staff are very nice, That being said, I am really convinced all the "great" reviews were written by them or friends/family. At first glance, it looks like the charming brick building is the motel. I should have investigated further. The rooms are actually in the motel strip that surrounds the parking lot. The description claimed they had one queen room available with a patio. Yeah. Right. The price on TripAdvisor said $144 for tonight. The actual cost was $247 for the night, which supposedly was a discount because of rainy weather. That should have been the red flag I needed, but because we had decided at the last minute to stay the night in Godrich, and supposedly they only had one room left, we went ahead and booked it. Big mistake! It truly is a "motel". The brick house I'm assuming is where the couple lives who are at the front desk. I am also assuming that they wrote all the positive reviews! The first room they put us in had a towel in the bathroom that obviously had been used by someone who had extremely dirty hands! I took the towel back into the office and they gave us a different room. Again, very nice people, but that's where it ends. I had started to check out the Bedford hotel in downtown Goderich, but the first review I saw said, "it's okay". I'm thinking that review was written by the people at the motel as well. We paid for our room at the motel, but once we visited the Bedford Hotel, we ended up staying here, so we paid a lot more money for one night, (simply because we had already paid for the motel room first - the Bedford was actually considerably cheaper and better!), but it was so worth it for the difference! The Bedford hotel is an old hotel, but the rooms are spacious and clean, and it has an Irish pub attached to the hotel. Please save your money and do not stay at the Maple Leaf Motel. read more