Jim M.
Yelp
Linda and I headed to the island for a workshop last Saturday and decided to stay on here for a few days after the workshop...It's located a short walking distance from the heart of downtown, such as it is. So restaurants, grocery store, coffee shops, etc are all close by. Yet it's back off the road so you get no road noise from traffic.
The positives are the cleanliness of this place inside and out. The grounds are well kept. The rooms were spotless. It's a bit of a weird place in that the rooms are like little modular homes or tiny homes. I measured with my big feets..maybe 10-12 feet wide by 30 or so feet long. Ours was a very nice king bed on one side (which surprised me because given my weight and size, 6'3 and 245 pounds o'man..I'm usually disappointed with too soft beds in lodging) with it's own AC unit, a good albeit under equipped kitchen sharing the middle space with a bath/shower and toilet each in their own room with doors. Then a living space with couch, TV, gas fireplace, and another AC unit, then a smaller end space that had a little round table and art and shit. It probably serves as a second bedroom in other options. So all in all we thought the layout was neat and functional. Also the service level if you needed anything...towels, more coffee, etc. was really responsive.
What we liked less well were the following. That little living space with a very small table and two goofy chairs, board games, and art? We would have traded all of that for a cooktop and some pots and pans. If you, like us, enjoy making some of your own meals on vacation you're in trouble. You got a microwave so you can reheat but if you want to cook you have to take all your stuff over the the public house and cook over there. And while there are ample pots and pans over there, there's only a two burner hot plate to cook on. That's a pain in the ass...so we adapted..each morning we went and got the hotplate, pans, knives and brought it back to our room so we could make some breakfast, then cleaned and returned it to the public house. So a caution...if you're planning on having longer visits to Vashon and indeed like to cook a bit here and there, this might not be the place...but you will have art and boardgames in your room...oh..and the little round table is so small that when we both needed to get a little work done, only one computer would fit on the table at at time...the other had to work off the coffee table in the living room. And those goofy chairs...cute but not comfortable...enjoy enjoy playing Probe!