Basin Harbor Club

Find your quintissential American, summer-camp, teenage-forbidden-love, help falls for the rich-girl movie (insert name here), take it and put it on the lake in VT and you have the Basin Harbor Club.  It's a step into a different world where rich folk fly the family up from New York for a month in a cabin on the lake.  Complete with golf, croquet, tennis and tuxedo-ed wait staff from Eastern Europe serving you in the well-appointed main dining room.  Men aged 12 and over are "strongly recommended" to wear jackets during dinner in the dining room in the summer.

There is an Adirondack chair every six feet, you can barely walk around the grounds without tripping over one.

The wife and I had a great time getting away for a night, and the location is really nice.  Sunset to the west over the lake is worth sitting through (with a drink in your hand).  

If you can get a good room-meal deal it's a better value.  The food was good but two of our three meals were buffet-style which leaves you feeling like you over-paid for what is basically a fancy buffet.  

Also, if you can rent them, the cabins (particularly the ones perched over the lake) seem to be the way to go.  The rooms in the main lodge were tasteful and nice but rather small.  To be expected at a place with pictures of the 1928 Fourth of July gathering hung in the lobby.

Beautiful location, needs help in the finer points of a resort

Basin Harbor has a wonderful location and a unique, camp-like feel resort. It offers typical activities -- tennis, golf, sailing, paddle boating, swimming, bicycling. However, for the price, it doesn't have the extra attentiveness or concern for guest happiness that a place like this should. First off, no lifeguard?!?!? No main maitre de at the dinner and instead, the entire dining staff is managed by a group of East Europeans who have just landed in this country. One gets the feeing that the owners are cutting corners of expenses at every turn. Upon our departure, we had to spend 15 minutes contesting the bill as we had been charged for things we didn't do. I understand getting wrong expenses, but should it really take 15 minutes to figure out?

3 stars only because of the gorgeous view.

The staff was extremely polite.

Rooms? Not a fan at ALL. It legit felt like a trailer park.

I tried to go out at night at it honestly felt like a creepy ass ghost-town. I also had to WHISPER at like 11 pm on the streets because my voice would echo too loud and it scared me.

If you do go, ask the lady at the front desk for "things to do"...she'll hand you a 2 page printout and act is she gave you the winning lotto #'s. One of the things one that printout was...do laundry (should give you an idea of what's up.....yaaaaaaaawn).

I did learn from a local that naked bicycyling is allowed which gave me that ever so warm and cozy feeling...you know, like when you fall in love.