Inn at the Gorge

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

Great communication and cute house. Pretty clean, but not perfect. It was more like a hostel than hotel. It was fine, but not overly impressive. I bit of a steep walk to downtown. Overall, it was fine.

Old and tired inn. Unkept with overflowing trash and equipment stored in a hallways. Breakfast was late. Advertising is very overstated. Pictures must be very old or doctored. When I wrote the innkeeper a personal note to express our dissatisfaction he just gave me excuses.

What a disappointment The place is run down Many things do not work Breakfest was horrible People left without it The poor young man who is running it seems over whelmed TV did not work Outside looks nice from afar Dirty. Old Looks and feels like a funeral home Dark tingy, plastic table cloths We should have been given our money back Do not trust the discription on line Stay somewhere else

Comfy room

Self check in unclear instructions. Staff did not greet us the next morning while we sat around wondering if we were getting breakfast.

We had some intrepidation about this stay given some negative reviews in recent months. Glad to say, the owner has clearly made an effort to address those issues. Headline news - the hot tub is clean and hot, and the breakfast is freshly cooked to order on the premises! The building and rooms could do with some maintenance - particularly the shower cubicle, in our room at least - but it didn't affect our stay significantly. Overall, a nice comfortable stay in a quiet back street. Minor gripes - we only had one hot tub towel (the stripey ones), the coffee machine wasn't particularly clean. Not enough to knock a star off.

We booked this Inn months ago as part of a larger trip so we didn't have the benefit of seeing reviews from April and May 2025. We thought it was a B&B with delicious breakfasts as other earlier reviews stated. Check in confirmation email stated "breakfast is served from 8 am to 10 am." Day of arrival we received our check in instructions with a note that "due to rising costs we have made the difficult decision of simplifying our breakfasts", we did not realize what that meant. In the morning we were told that the store-bought muffins in the dirty plastic container and the small apples were free, but if we had wanted a yogurt parfait we would have had to order in advance and pay extra. ?? ! Trash in the dining area was overflowing onto the floor. We didn't see any other snacks or drinks (bottled water) available. We opted to visit the town and have breakfast at a delicious restaurant. 3 stars because the bed was comfortable, room was clean, and the Inn is a lovely house in a nice neighborhood. Please don't advertise as bed and "breakfast", maybe make it clear up front (when free cancellation is still available) that it is really a room with complimentary pastries and coffee available.

The property was advertised as having a great, individually cooked breakfast. The day before we arrived we were told it wasn’t going to be that. At the inn there was a note saying the breakfast would be ‘House made pastries and yogurt’. In fact it was grocery store donuts and Danish’. I also called because there was a wildfire nearby, and they never returned my call. The porch was poorly maintain.

The place advertised marvelous hot breakfast. When we got there asked what time breakfast was served and was told ‘the owner discontinued it several months ago due to cost. All we have is a plate of cookies at 7:30, but there are breakfast places 2 mins away.’ I’m a runner and can tell you those places were 20 mins walk away down a steep hill and another 20 plus back, a 2 hour waste of our trip. Was also told they’d have coffee at 7:30. Went down and at 740 called only to find out ‘730 is when the coffee person walks in the door…not when the coffee was ready. Disgusted we got in the car and drove to a place in town. I told Michael this place is using false advertising. He was nice and gave me one of our 3 nights at half off. The thing is I’d rather have had the hot breakfast, as advertised.

Provide the breakfast as advertised …and the steep hill so far from the Main Street.