Inn at the Gorge

Nothing.

We were called on Monday before our reservation informing us that the Inn at the Gorge could not honor our reservation. They were bankrupt & closed. Have to file through credit card to get our money back.

Nothing. It was closed without notice even though I had reservation.

I didn’t like that they were closed without notifying me. I was in town for work and was left with no place to stay.

Stay away! On April 30 we found the building abandoned. I'm out $700. These people belong in jail.

This place took my reservation and money but is no longer a working inn. Showed up this past Friday night after driving all day with my mother for a girls weekend to find a house in complete disarray and no way to enter. Looking through the windows we saw a kitchen with all its cabinet an opened and drawers pulled out. The room we had booked had a bed that wasn’t made and bathroom with toilet paper rolled all over it (as seen through looking through windows). Overgrowth on the lawn, debris everywhere on the porch, mail piled up. Tried calling the number provided in the text messages and emails I was still being sent only to find a full voice mail box. When I try to email, the email bounced back to me saying the domain doesn’t exist. I am now working with my credit card company to get my money back. And thank goodness the Hampton Inn had vacancies and were able to accommodate us for the weekend.

I haven’t actually stayed at the Inn at the Gorge. I’ve been trying to cancel a reservation I made with them in February for this coming summer and they have had ZERO response. I’ve left messages by email, text and phone. Their phone mailbox is full now, btw. I’m leaving a review because others should know how difficult this has been - beware! I paid the full price for the rooms already, and now I’m trying to figure out what steps are next. Ugh!

Inn carries a sense of calm. Ultimate relaxation for weary travellers.

No bathroom ensuite.

I put alot of planning into my 2 weeks along the Oregon Coast. Being well rested and getting an early start to my day were priorities. Putting us out day before learning there is no breakfast was disappointing. I booked based on the b& b idea. The room was not comfortable, no seating except a bench that was placed under tv..not facing tv. I was looking forward to the bed and breakfast feel.. this failed in all levels. I was never greeted upon arival or anytime since I arrived. I tried co tacti g owner night i arrived and next morning..no response.. There are beatiful places to stay in Hood River..look for them!

Where to begin? We paid $350 per night for three nights for a very shabby experience. As we left, we made acquaintance with another couple who related an equally bad experience, maybe made worse by them spotting mice in their room. For reference, we had the Terrace Room, a room at the back of the house that looked like a porch that had been converted into a room. GOOD It is a lovely, large historic house in a nice neighborhood location. Our room was clean. There is ample parking on the property. The bed was large and very good. NOT GOOD No one to greet us – all “self check-in.” The place is apparently run remotely and we were on our own for three days. We did find some sort of maintenance person named Michael who helped us get into our room when we first got there because the keypad lock was mightily confusing and the remote innkeeper had given us the wrong combination. When we finally got in the room, we learned from a printed piece of paper left under the TV remote that there would be no breakfast served even though we paid for it. We ate downtown at Betty’s Place (a very good, 50-year old breakfast restaurant) but a simple adult breakfast cost us $36. We lodged a complaint and our remote innkeeper (never knew its/their name) reimbursed us $25 per day. The room is at the back of the house and opens up onto the garden which is not private. For privacy, the room essentially has no windows, and what windows it has have floor to ceiling dark curtains which even cover the entrance door (you have to pull the heavy curtains aside to get out the door – never seen anything like this before). When closed up for privacy, the room has something of a cave-like feel to it. Very oddly, there was no handle, latch or lock on the bathroom door – an 100-year old farmhouse door with its hardware removed. It would not close all the way. There was no hand soap in the room. We asked for some and received a couple of tiny bars. Its coffee maker was the old style, difficult to use and was set up to brew a whole pot of coffee, not individual cups. Using the shower handle was a bizarre experience. It had no rhyme or reason and twisting it around to find a good temperature was a fickle game of chance that took a couple of minutes of fiddling with it. The realm of comfort – not too hot or too cold – was about 1/8 of an inch difference on the handle to find “just right.” We would describe the décor of this room in this lovely, historic house as having all sorts of styles from colonial revival to Moderne to farmhouse to neo-industrial, all lacking any sense of warmth or charm. As to furnishings, it was also an eclectic mix of styles and vintages with a definite sense of “yard sale” about it. There was really no place to put our luggage so it ended up on the floor. Someone had adjusted the little refrigerator to max cold and a glass of water froze solid in it overnight. Don’t know what standard practice is these days, but there was no turndown service like we would hope for in a room costing us $350 night. We were definitely on our own. There was no bedside lamp on one side of the bed, so it was either dark or it was necessary to leave the lights on in the entire room to read by. There were few electric plugs and the ones available were not always in handy locations. We did not use the advertised hot tub, but it had a ragged, worn paper sign on it that it was undergoing cleaning and maintenance. It was covered in dead leaves and looks like it had not been touched in months. The landscaping is becoming threadbare with several dead shrubs and little sign of careful maintenance. In sum, it appears that the business may be the just the embers of an old-time classy bed and breakfast that has hit the skids and is run remotely by an investor (or other distant entity). From our point of view, it was nothing at all like the experience depicted on their alluring website, and is such a shoddy experience that it kind of spoiled our opinion of Hood River. On this Tripadvisor site, you will note many negative comments about the Inn at the Gorge from other folks who stayed there, especially within the past couple of years. Based on our experience, believe them all.

They advertise as Hood River’s Number one bed and breakfast on another travel site. This is NOT a bed and breakfast. Currently, just a historic home with rooms for rent. Had a printout in our room after self check in, that due to staffing shortages, breakfast no longer included. You could pay for breakfast, but you had to let them know ahead of time. We got a very modest partial refund as we had booked what we thought was a bed & breakfast. In sum, we paid $300 for one night for a room with a very dated en-suite bathroom. No coffee in the dining room in the morning, no staff, nothing you’d expect for a bed & breakfast. DO NOT recommend