The Pinehurst Inn is down a very windy road, heck half the fun is getting there. Once we arrived, we realized that the photos on the website did not give the complete story. On the website, you get the feeling that the inn sits back from the main road. In fact, it sits on a gravel parking lot on the main road.
Once we entered the front room we were greeted with an old musty odor, and nothing else. There was not front desk, no one to greet us and no directions noted. We found our way into the dining room and introduced ourselves as guests to one of the hostesses. She went into another room and came back to show us to our room. She did not introduce herself, tell us about the area nor suggest that we might want to have dinner there. It was weird.
We booked the largest room in the house as it was our anniversary. The lay out of the room was thoughtful. There was a large claw foot tub in the bathroom and a canopy bed in the bedroom. Unfortunately, during our one night stay, we found five spiders in our room, including one on the bed.
Although we were told that we would have a view of the creek, the creek was dry. Of course that was out of their control. However, the weeds and grass were too high to even see the creek. We though that we would try out the back porch, but found that it was full of boxes and discarded children's toys. The best thing about the back porch was the friendly kitty that greeted us. We then went on to the upstairs sun porch, nothing bad nor remarkable here.
The best thing about the inn was the breakfast. fresh pastries, orange juice and fruit hit the spot.
We really wanted to like this place, but it just was not for us. In the room was a journal that previous guest had written nice things about the inn. However, when we tried to think of something to say, we could not think of a thing to say.
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18 August 2006
I am sorry that we weren't able to make your stay a pleasant one, since it is our goal.
However, I have a few points that I would like to clarify:
1. Spiders: the Inn was built in 1920 and is situated in the country. Unfortunately small uninvited creatures find their way through the cracks and in to the rooms during summertime. This is something we cannot prevent.
Desk: Our Inn is small, we have only five rooms, and therefore cannot afford to have one person sitting by the desk exclusively to greet our room guests. We have also a full service restaurant, which means that if you check in after five, we will be working in the restaurant. The front door has a bell, which notifies at that someone has stepped into the lobby. We try to always answer every call as promptly as possible, but sometimes we need to help another customer first before we can come and assist you. I was most likely the one who greeted you, and I did not know that you expected me to present myself, since most people do not expect it. When a person makes a reservation, we always ask if he/she would like to make a dinner reservation as well. If you have not made a dinner reservation before your arrival, we assume that you are not interested of having dinner with us, which is sometimes the case. We do not want to appear as pressuring you to have dinner with us and therefore have adopted the policy. Our restaurant is a popular one and therefore we cannot always accept more reservations, especially on Fri-Sat nights.
Back porch: this area is not for guest use. It is used by the kitchen. The front part of the porch has several chairs, and tables for our guests, the screened part of the porch is also for our guests. We have a swing next to the path leading to the creek, and more chairs by the creek. We have also 23 achers of land for our guests to enjoy.
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