Summary: For Pagosa Springs, this is one of the better places to stay - and the bakery and Allen House are excellent! However, the grocery store in downtown Pagosa Springs has just been closed and you will need to stock up in Alamosa on your way here (from the east) or drive west through Pagosa Springs a few miles up the road to City Market. The level of housecleaning expected and required of guests exceeds that provided by the owner. You may have better luck with another of her cabins. All in all, it appears something has changed at the property over the last year. For those who also travel extensively through the US and world, you might choose another town to visit for a mountain getaway. For example, we found a two-bedroom, two-bath, loft accommodation amidst trees right on a river w/o road noise or barking dogs, next to a national forest, a few miles away from excellent dining, with standard-rise stairs to the loft, friendly and out-going service, with twice the square footage of the Hummingbird cabin, during the same off-season, same # of nights, for almost $300 less. Pros: Well-built cabins, not rinky-dink cabins; furniture is a mix of high-quality (and grandma's attic); upstairs loft is very bright and roomy; ceiling fans keep the flow of air nice and breezy since there are only two windows above main-floor-level; fireplace worked well and cleaning tools were at hand;...Summary: For Pagosa Springs, this is one of the better places to stay - and the bakery and Allen House are excellent! However, the grocery store in downtown Pagosa Springs has just been closed and you will need to stock up in Alamosa on your way here (from the east) or drive west through Pagosa Springs a few miles up the road to City Market. The level of housecleaning expected and required of guests exceeds that provided by the owner. You may have better luck with another of her cabins. All in all, it appears something has changed at the property over the last year. For those who also travel extensively through the US and world, you might choose another town to visit for a mountain getaway. For example, we found a two-bedroom, two-bath, loft accommodation amidst trees right on a river w/o road noise or barking dogs, next to a national forest, a few miles away from excellent dining, with standard-rise stairs to the loft, friendly and out-going service, with twice the square footage of the Hummingbird cabin, during the same off-season, same # of nights, for almost $300 less.

Pros: Well-built cabins, not rinky-dink cabins; furniture is a mix of high-quality (and grandma's attic); upstairs loft is very bright and roomy; ceiling fans keep the flow of air nice and breezy since there are only two windows above main-floor-level; fireplace worked well and cleaning tools were at hand; Eagle's Nest looked like a larger, quieter location than Hummingbird; deer walk through the property; old-look stove was kinda cool; switchplates were all scroll-saw custom-made hummingbirds; hummingbird-themed photos, stichery, and metal scuplture; interior wood walls are light-colored; was away from sulpher-smell of the springs; loveseat was a nice soft leather; gazebo was large and in a pretty setting next to the horses; naturalized wildflowers throughout the property; many stars on a clear night; deck was nice and roomy (deck furniture only accommodates two people); wood window blinds for privacy.

Cons: can hear road noise from 84 24/7; access to grill and picnic table is steep; second access to porch has no steps and is a couple feet off the ground; stairs to bedroom in loft are narrow and steep with low handrailing (rent Comardo House if you have arthritis, vertigo, knee injuries, et al); thick layer of dust on lampshades, sculptures and decorations including heart-shaped ristra over downstairs bedroom bed; jacuzzi too small for two average-height, average-weight people to sit in without knees up against their chests or hanging feet on opposite sides outside the tub; hot water only filled tub halfway before running out; downstairs bedroom small and tight; downstairs rooms in general small and tight; "free night" is based on regular season rates, not off-season September rates - therefore, for a stay of 4 Sept nights, you pay the regular season rate for all nights with one regular season rate night free, rather than pay off-season Sept night rates - as a result, you don't get a free Sept-rate night free - if you total it up for the nights at both regular season and Sept season rates, what you're really getting is $20 off in total if you stay during Sept; parking for the cabin is on the side of the property's gravel road alongside the cabin; other cabins' guests drive by your cabin with easy view into your large dining/living window only ~ 15 feet away; adjoining property neighbor's dog barked through the night; must load own firewood, though there IS firewood at the base of the gravel road it is steep and not easy unless one has a truck or doesn't mind putting stacks of firewood in one's car; must not only put dishes in dishwasher, but must get up early enough to eat breakfast, wash the dishes, dry the dishes, run the dishwasher AND put all the dishes away - and clean the fireplace and empty the ashes and take those ashes down to the overflowing ash bin at the head of the property - all before 10 am check-out time; service is friendly but not offered - if one has questions or needs something, one must ask for anything, including more than two rolls of toilet paper or three coffee filters for a week's stay. No welcome note or even just a hello note even for a honeymoon; must bring own blow-dryer/hair-dryer and shampoo, though there are two small soaps; owner handed us a 2008 dining guide which led us on a wild goose chase to restaurants that no longer exist; lamp in loft was broken; some lightbulbs were burnt out (we just replaced them ourselves); no footstools at loveseat or padded rockers to rest tired feet and legs; only one (low-light) reading lamp in the living room; coffee maker was not fully operational - the pause and serve feature did not work; gazebo lights were not operational; welcome book for our cabin was titled and written for the Eagle's Nest cabin; if you have Verizon, there is no signal - and though there is a phone in the cabin, it is only for local calls without an option to call long-distance (as in anywhere other than Pagosa Springs) and pay for the call yourself; earlier check-out time and later check-in time than most properties (and we stay in 1-2 dozen/year all over the world; there was no staff available on check-out day at 10 am - both we and another cabin's couple had to leave our keys outside the office door (no key box) after knocking for over 15 minutes and getting no answer when we phoned the office.More