It is not a very big hotel, but it is a nice location right off of 95 near the lake. Â The bar has a good scenic view of the lake and the bar area is rather spacious. Â It is a good time when they have live music. Â They don't serve food, but the bartenders work their tails off to keep the booze flowing and the good times rollin'.
Review Source:The rooms were fine, if a little funky smelling. Mine was stuffy and musty smelling. The room that my traveling companions were staying in smelled like chemicals, and their floor was stained with bleach.
The entire staff was standoffish and dismissive. We stood at the counter for almost fifteen minutes, waiting to check out. Finally someone appeared from the back! This woman then proceeded to ignore our entire party to answer the phones. She did not acknowledge our party at all. Not even to say that she'd be with us in just a moment. When she finally got to us, she merely said, "I'm not even supposed to be out here." No apology for ignoring us. Then the teenage girl who evidently was supposed to be at the counter appeared and checked us out without making eye contact or saying anything.
I would not stay here again, given the choice.
I come here most Wednesday nights after doing the weekly 5K around the lake with the Mystic Runners. Yeah, the interior decor makes the place look like it's right out of the 1980s and no, it doesn't have a dozen 72 inch screens showing the latest ball game or other sporting event. But the Lord Wakefield is a hotel bar and a local bar - not a nightclub like one finds in NYC or Boston. Beers are cheap, there is a dance floor and on Wednesday nights they do karaoke. The patrons are friendly, the staff is always prompt, there's always plenty of parking...and the lake is a great place around which to run or walk before downing a couple. Proves that a place doesn't need to be slick to be friendly and welcoming.
Review Source:Good Lord, you need a facelift...
This was, from the looks of it, a fine place on a lake once upon a time. Â The website photos just don't quite match the actual appearance...
I needed a place to crash and Orbitz tossed this place out there for me and I jumped on the cheaper rate. Â I should have realized that the one place that was like $35 cheaper than the others should have been a warning but nevertheless, I justified it as a place on a lake that probably did not do much business in the winter...
It was ok overall- but the place is very dated. Â It could use a real nice sprucing up and maybe taking out the locals from the attached bar area could help- but then again with all the video games in there and not much else to do in this area I can see the attraction...
The rooms were ok- served the purpose of getting you a bed and there is free wireless - which was a bonus. Â The bathrooms were tidy if dated.
The free continental breakfast was kind of a joke- mini muffins and some eggos that could be tossed into a toaster... at least the coffee was good.
The desk people were fine - for instance when the empty room next to mine had an alarm clock going at 2am, they came right up and killed it for me so I could get to sleep...
Parking is plentiful but the place is located behind an office park or apartment complex of some sort and looks exactly like the rest of the buildings - so it can be easy to pass in the dark...
This place should be condemned.
I know this place, for the most part, has had a decent reputation, but what positive I had heard about this place was from people who haven't been here in at least a decade. So, of course, since management and staff fluctuate like the weather at places like this, both good and bad reviews were not entirely relevant.
I went here on Mother's Day for their brunch with a good chunk of my family, mom, grandmother etc. A nice party of 14. We had made a reservation, but that we learned, did not make a difference. We thought maybe they had got a lot of walk-ins that were not expected, but a reservation should in fact mean you have a space reserved for you and those people who did not make one may have to be turned away. But that didn't even seem to be the issue. When we were finally seated I noticed there were at least a half dozen large tables ready to be sat.
We didn't make a big deal about it, we just wanted to go up and get our food, which is where things REALLY took a turn for the negative. First of all, we saw the brunch menu beforehand and not everything that was listed was there. I was ready for some eggs benedict and there were nada.
Let me walk you through. First stop, soaking wet plates, some still with food residue on them. One you dig out something that looks clean you move on to what they called "fluffy eggs" which instead were an attempt at scrambed eggs so watery it could have been egg drop soup. Vending machine quality mini muffins. Bacon -- not in strips, but a whole tray filled with crumbled bacon like you'd see on a salad in a few inches of pure grease. Next, burned homefires, hard to chew. Sausages with apples that you think are potatos... at least I THINK they were apples. Quiche - the only tasty item as it was probably bought already made and heated. Thank god. Stuffed shells - I didn't try but was told not to. Dry looking pok. Some sort of steak tip (on the menu it said prime rib but this looked like a plain old tip). Chicken caccitore, again I didn't have but was told how gross it was. Some type of casserole that again looked like a soup. I'm not even sure what was in it. Then there was some type of seafood au gratin which looked untouched. I imagine after peopel got an eyefull of what came before it they were wise not to try it. I didn't try it either, it looked toxic. Then they had a waffle station which would have been a great fallback of it weren't so filthy around the area. You were to use little cups to pour the batter in the waffle maker but there was no trash to throw the cup away after so there was just batter and cups all over the place. Also, people forgot to use the cooking spray so the area around the machine was like a waffle graveyard for the discarded mistakes.
On the walk back to my table I noticed a kids buffet wwhich was chicken fingers and french fries. I had a chicken finger and other than being a little dry was one of the few edible ietms.
When I got back to my table I noticed there was something floating around in my coffee (mind you, the saucer was already covered in crumbs before we even brought food to the table). It looked like a fly but I didn't stare to long to confirm. I was already disgusted enough. When I told the waitress she didn't seem surprised.
There also was a dessert table, but for that you still had to wait in the line where the dishes for the regular food were. Most of the desserts looked fine. Again, pre-bought items you can't mess up. The one thing of note was the chocolate fountain which lost all it's appeal to me when I saw an old man eating right over it. He was skewring strawberries with toothpicks and dipping them in, but he was REALLY trying to get in there and it was pouring all over his hand and then back on into the chocolate reservoir. Then he'd lean over over and it right over the fountain and put his discarded bits on the table next to it where it seemed other people had been doing the same.
Also it was a strange set up. The whole flow of it was NOT organized and halfway through our "meal" the fire alarm went off and we were all asked to stay put and not leave. I think they knew people wouldn't come back if they had a means of escaping.
We weren't the only miserable people there. The entire place was united by one-liners about the terrible quality. I heard one woman say it was the first mother's day that she hadn't worked in about 14 years and yet somehow it was also the worst.
I honestly could go on for another 10 paragraphs with reasons why this place is disgusting but I'm sick to my stomach just conjuring up images frmo yesterday. I mean, maybe this place is fine for drinks at night. It does have that sketchy bar feel (since that's what it is) but please, for the sake of your health and well-being, don't touch the food... or the plates.
Oh, and all this fun was $25/person plus they add the gratuity in after. We could have had a better meal at McD's. Seriously.
Half the fun of day trips is the unplanned stuff that happens. We planned to do some eating, people watching, antiquing, and more eating. After a day at Newburyport, we did just that and now wanted to grab a few beers to decompress.
Stumbled on this place that had buckets of beer for $10; 6 bottles of your preferred brew. Pretty good deal. It's a casual, blue-collar crowd. The kind of unpretentious place to chill, talk, and drink lots and lots of beer. That's if you leave by 8:30 PM, which is when karaoke starts.
Actually, the karaoke was surprisingly fun even though it's not my thing. My crazy friends sang a few songs, which was good for a few laughs. And the host walked around to say hello and made sure we're having a good time. All in all, it was a nice way to end a fun-filled day and a nice way to cap off the weekend.
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