Brendan P.
Yelp
I like the Montauk Beach House.
I like the location, daytime landscaping, music (maybe they could mix up the genres a little bit more) and the room.
The bed in the room was nice and had never been slept on before. I like the shower and the soaps. Speaking of showers, they had four between the two pools and oh yeah the pools were nice too. I used the drawer in the room as my room safe,... it had a skeleton key. There's no free coffee in the rooms but you can buy really good coffee in the hotel lobby, but it's expensive.
I met the owners, they were pretty nice, they were cool and nonplussed. So we liked it enough to make another another reservation, while we were still at the hotel. So we get online and there's a hickup with the Internet booking reservation, so I think, we're right here at the hotel, let's go to the front desk. They ended up having a little bit of a hard time and came to the conclusion well sorry, somebody must've booked the room. I was a little insistent that no, it was a glitch in their system and that they should honor our requests until they find out who this mysterious other person was that booked the room. What ended up happening was, we did book the room, it was our reservation, not someone else's. It was awkward how they handled it, I think they could've been more gracious to a repeat customer that's right there in their face instead of some mysterious person that's not there.
They have nice LCD TVs, but they were not set up to utilize the HD cable box, I programmed the tv. I also figured out how to turn off the blue light on the air conditioner that was bothering my girlfriend because it was so bright.
They could use a shade to black out the room more at night on the window that was facing north/west.
In the end what matters most maybe is that I'm really torn, I like really nice accommodations, but I also like low-key, no-frills, inexpensive hotel rooms and the old Montauk that is probably gone forever. The real beauty in Montauk can be found surfing out at Ditch Plains when the Up Islanders (cityfolk), bring their aloha spirit to the year-round locals.