Edward K.
Yelp
Wouldn't stay here again. Everything was complicated and a headache. And for the price, it just wasn't worth it.
We had been meaning to stay here and check out this venue for the past few years, being locals from Hood River. We always perfer the off-season to avoid the throngs of tourists and overpriced room charges. Today was my wife and I's 3rd wedding anniversary and with a 2 1/2 month old baby girl in tow, we decided to finally make it happen and venture out of the house for the first real time since the birth of our daughter.
When we arrived we observed a very large group of people sitting in the grass at the front of the grounds. We quickly learned with great joy that we we would be lodging with a huge group of hippies who were staying at the "resort" for a wellness seminar thing. Basically it was a group of Californians with too much time and money on the hands sitting around talking about breathing, blood flow, and yoga poses. My kinda people!
With all the excitement surrounding us, we didn't SEE much of these outdoor elitists at the restaurant where we had dinner or in the morning when we tried to have a leisurely wake-up. We mostly just HEARD them...at 10:00pm, 1:30am, and 4:30am, through the ceiling and walls. As for the 4:30am wake up, they of course had to awake and make it up to Cloud Cap for their sunrise meditation session or whatever.
With the all-night commotion, on what we had hoped would be a mid-week, off season, quiet reprieve, we were desperate to sleep in! And we did! After the yogis left at 5:00am and since our room was basically a wooden cave, we slept until 9:00. But with a baby we have to do everything in shifts - eat, drink coffee, shower, get dressed, and pack one at a time. With 2 hours to go, we thought we would call the front desk and ask to check out at noon. Susan at the front desk basically gave us a "Hell No!". Despite the place being devoid of anyone around and a near empty parking lot we were told an emphatic no! They didn't have time for that. So, we hurried, rushed, scarfed our food, and slurpped our coffee, returned the keys, and got out of this hell hole right at 11:00. As we were leaving, the one and only house keeper, looking warn out and sluggish, was slowy cleaning a cabin two buildings away. There was no one tending to any room on our hallway or even in our main building. Whoo! Good thing we got out of there when we did!
On the plus side, the food we had at dinner wasn't bad. The buns were a little over cooked and dry, however, and the "Happy Hour" was very limited and the cocktails I ordered were not happy hour priced and were the size of shooters.
At $197 for one mid-week night, I felt like the value was more like $90-110. Cooper Spur, again, I won't be back.