This is a warning to all considering staying at this Estate. The place is very cute when you arrive you are not prepared for how your say will actually be. When my husband and I arrived with another couple we walked around and looked at all of the beautiful doors and cute buildings then noticed that most of the rooms were being used as storage and quickly realized that we were pretty isolated way out there. The door to our room was a beautiful antique-like wooden door but there were large gaping holes in and around it so bugs came in and AC went out. It was a team effort to close the door since it was very heavy and had a strange nail, chain, master lock system that literally took 5 minutes to get right every time. The drive at night back to the estate is dark and terrifying since it is like a 65mph 2 lane road in a area known for drinking wine. The first night we came back to the room we noticed that it was very hot, maybe because the AC intake is directly above the vent so as soon as it kicked on it would turn off thinking the room was cold but really it was swelteringly hot in the late May Texas heat. Â I felt bugs on me all night. In the morning when I went to shower there was a guest in there with me, a Beatle bug. We went to breakfast and the chef came to our table and said "Today I am going to try something new and cook eggs to order. What kind of eggs would you like?" We did not want to make it to difficult on him so the entire table ordered over medium eggs. He left, and returned to the table 3 minutes later and said it wasn't going to work so everyone is getting scrambled eggs. My friends and I wanted to hang out in the pool but the hot tub heater was broken. Ridiculous. Went I stay at a Bed & Breakfast I think there should be 2 things. 1) a bug free bed and 2) breakfast.
Review Source:this place is horrible. the whole place feels deserted and that's because it is. our room was so dark that i literally could not see the corners of it. absolutely awful to come in from a beautiful day and walk into what felt like a dungeon. if you are going to be in the middle of nowhere, you need to have amenities, pool, spa, etc. i hope they paid whoever did their website a million dollars because it completely misrepresents what is there.
Review Source:I completely agree with the reviews this place has received - photos from the site are nothing like what you get when you arrive: it's a dark, slightly dirty, not-quite-right place. Â But we loved it, and may be coming back for at least one night one our next trips to Fredericksburg. Â Trois Estate is about .5 miles from Enchanted Rock, which in and of itself is a HUGE plus. Â They do charge you for the full stay about 30 days before you arrive... Â We came in from Dallas, and called to let the staff know we'd be in around 7pm - Kayla told us that wouldn't be a problem, even though the office closed at 6. Â Apparently she didn't relay that message to any one else, because Elvis (the chef) didn't even know another guest was coming in, and had to hurry to help us find our key and room because he was in the middle of cooking a meal for guests in the restaurant. Â We booked the Vaquero Villa - which desperately needs new bedding and bath towels; the inner layer of the comforter is wadded up within itself (hard to describe, but super annoying to experience). Â The shower floods, unless you point the shower head into the mid-wall of the corner - especially dangerous since the plugs are located at floor level... and they're LIVE. Â We spent most of our time outside of our room - which I recommend. Â The rooftop of the restaurant/rooms is decorated with mosaic tiles, and has a great view of the hills and Enchanted Rock. Â Very romantic up there. Â Tour the complex, and you'll find a "chapel" connected to the underground pool or "grotto". Â The water was much too cold for us to take a swim, but it was tempting to jump in. Â The Trois Estate needs a guiding hand to bring it from rustic and weird (though still slightly charming) up to the level of comfort that its nightly price tag suggests it should have. Â We did stay for dinner one of our nights, and while it was yummy (3-course meal, consisting of a small salad, chorizo soup, and scallop with angel hair pasta) it was also a bit overpriced for what we received. Â Rebecca, Jay, Elvis and Kim are so very nice - they did make us feel comfortable, and gave us a bit of insight into how this place came to be. So, we'll be back - for one night of our future stays - but we won't book the Vaquero.
Review Source:Not at all what we expected when we booked our trip online. The pictures on the website are much nicer than the place actually is. We encountered many dead bugs, corners that were teeming with cobwebs and spiderwebs, a moldy shower curtain and an overall appearance of disrepair. With a little bit of work, I think the place could have been much nicer and it would have been much easier to justify the $250 a night. The onsite restaurant is exceptional. The only downfall being the only dinner option is a 5 course, $55 dollar dinner. The Estate is pretty far from Fredericksburg, on a winding two-lane road. So make sure you take that into account if you are making any nightlife plans.
Review Source:Located across the street from Enchanted Rock the location couldn't be better. The staff is excellent and the breakfast is good if you don't mind eating the same thing everyday...
What it is, is a missed opportunity for greatness. Don't be deceived by the pictures on the Internet it photographs way way better than it is in person. It is more like a Hollywood set. For the prices here one would expect alot more attention to detail and to be treated like a guest and not a visitor. The on demand water heater took an entire day to figure out how to coax it to turn on for the shower. The antique doors looked great but being in prime tarantula, scorpion, and rattlesnake territory they made me wonder who would come a calling.
It would of been nice to have a decent view of the rock and a comfortable chair to watch the sunset or weather patterns change around it.
I'm not saying don't stay here, there are some special and unique things here...it's just that for the price you'd expect high on the charts of "quite right" .
On the "not quite right" scale, this place fell off the charts.
It is so quirky, it almost passes for cute. Â Our room had no windows, the doors can be locked from the inside or outside (someone can lock you in and set your room on fire) and the grotto was the weirdest thing EVER!
The grotto entrance is through the chapel, that's right, the chapel! Â Then you have to climb over a skinny rock path with limited lighting to get to the shallow entrance end of the pool. Â From there you lift your legs over a 2 foot wall to enter the pool (I mean fall in the pool) and the heater was out so the pool water temp was on the cooler side. Â There are no lights at the deep end of the pool so you are afraid to go there, and the lights around the pool are rusted out and dripping condensation so you are constantly thinking you will be electrocuted to death at any minute.
In our room, the electrical outlets were near the floor and the shower flooded the bathroom with two inches of water every time, so again you are worried about being electrocuted.
But hey, it is close to Enchanted Rock (for great hiking) but you have to pay for parking so you are best walking from the estate AND it is close to Fredericksburg  (for great partying) so that earns an extra star.
This is an eclectic getaway that is a definite must-see. Â So close to Enchanted Rock (and my favorite, Turkey Rock) that you have scenic vistas from several places on the estate property.
The owners, Rebecca and Charles Trois, continue to build a rustic village setting that is very unique to anything we've visited in our global travels. Â From the 5,000 sq ft museum, the each one of a kind unique suites, the underground grotto swimming "spa", and then the gourmet restaurant, this is a place to experience!
The overall service and accommodations are a bit "rough around the edges" though everyone on the entire staff that we met, including the Trois family, made us feel welcomed and appreciated. Â
Special thanks to Rebecca for making our Monday evening meal so special!
We pulled up to this place and no one welcomed us. We had booked a room for around $300 a night for a getaway that we had planned. Â We literally walked around for 45 minutes before anyone asked us if they could help us or if we had checked in. Â We finally got to our room and it was just ok, but for $300 a night, I am expecting A LOT more than just ok. Â They only cool thing about this place is that it is right down the road from Enchanted Rock. Â That is the ONLY cool thing.
We ate dinner at the restaurant that night, it was OK. But once again, for the price that you are paying for this badboy, you expect at least good for the eats.
It is a very strange place, but one of the attractions is the grotto. Â It is actually quite beautiful but it was broken and cold as hell when we were there. Go figure.
What happened that morning at 6AM has been the subject of many many funny laughs with multiple groups of friends even now, a year or two later. Â
We woke to 2 people next door going at it----I mean GOING at it. Â And, hey, it was vacation and they have every right to go at it all night long if they desire. Â But what was unfortunate for us (I don't think that they really cared at that point) was that the walls were paper thin and we could hear EVERYTHING that was going on. Â "It's big ain't it" is not my favorite thing to hear that early in the morning (or ever for that matter.) Â After hearing them go at it for, o, about 3 hours, we decided to get up. We walked into the breakfast room, and the couple that was already in there immediantly said "Just so you know, that wasn't us." The walls were so thin that everyone at the Trios Estate had heard what we heard. Â Haha, we said the same, and directly cancelled our next night and came home.
If less than one star was an option, that would be my rating for the Trios Estate!
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