Inn at the Gorge

Inn at the Gorge is the right base of operations for anything you might be up to in Hood River. An easy hour from Portland, you are in the sweet spot for exploring water falls, wine tasting, checking out the local shops and restaurants or all of the above. Fresh coffee and crepes or omelettes each morning and you are fueled for the day. Owner Michael and night manager Brandon and the other staff are more than accommodating, you feel like you are staying with old friends, not another corporate generic hotel. In fact they hosted a thanksgiving weekend party with live music, flowing wine and a good time chatting with the other guests. We had the most relaxing weekend ever and will definitely be back when we need to retreat. People and dog friendly.

I saw the web site for the Inn an thought it would be a good place to take my wife for her birthday. It looked charming and upscale from the street, we loved the idea of a hot tub after a long November hike in the gorge and a gourmet breakfast as shown in the pictures. What we got was quite different. When we arrived at 4:00 there was no one there to let us in or greet us. There was no kombucha, cookies, pastries, or anything in the lobby. We found our room, the Rose room. The bed was nice, but everything else was crowded and shabby at best, with power strips on the floor, a space heater for heat, old carpet, and an old sofa. The bathroom was so cramped that you have to swivel sideways to sit on the toilet. Never the less, we thought we would make the most of things. We changed into our swim suits and made our way to the hot tub shown in the lovely web site pictures. When we got there, the water was cold and there was no power to the tub. Standing out in the cold, we tried for several minutes to get it going when eventually someone came out from the house and told us it doesn't work. At least a sign would have been nice. The gourmet breakfast described in detail and pictured on the website also did not materialize. We got coffee out of an air pot, not espresso like in the pictures. We were given a single, very dry crepe, which sat all alone on the plate. No eggs, no pastries, no fruit, no berries, no juice, no butter, no syrup, nothing else. Again, nothing even close to the web site. I could go on about the poor, worn condition of the building, but I will close with a warning - the second floor has no fire escape. You can do much better in Hood River - I am sorry to say.....

Overall I think Inn at the Gorge is a lovely spot. We arrived and we’re able to enter with the code provided, unfortunately the door code to our room wasn’t working though. We called the phone number provided and could hear the phone ringing, but no one answered. We also sent a text (as instructed to do) but no one responded. We went out to dinner and by the time we returned, we still hadn’t heard from anyone. We ended up just exploring around the inn and found an employee in the basement area and asked him to help. It seemed as though he didn’t regularly work there, but was able to get us into our room. We added on the breakfast as suggested by other reviews, unfortunately the food wasn’t anything spectacular. We had an omelet with toast both mornings, but it was nothing like some of the breakfasts in the photos. It was nice to get served in the communal area, but I wasn’t overly impressed. There was fresh coffee brewed, but half of the mugs looked like they still had coffee on the rim and hadn’t been cleaned properly. I was a little disappointed in our time there.

Breakfast good. Staff very good.

Bathroom down the hall. The place needs maintenance. Location outside of town - a mile walk.

Beautiful inn, a bit confusing without anyone there to greet us but the instructions worked well. Breakfast in my opinion is simply over thought simply offer scrambled eggs home fries and toast, a bagel with cream cheese this seems to be the same issue at most inns we have stayed at, when our breakfast was served they forgot to give us utensils to eat with oops. We definitely would stay here again as it really is a great small business!!

We checked in late, but instructions how to get to our room were clear and sent to us without asking. The house has a lot of character (in a positive way) and the breakfast was amazing. Staff was very nice and helpful.

Breakfast was really good.

The 'Gorge' room is simply unfit for purpose. *It is sold as having a private bathroom.. IT DOES NOT. It has a bathroom for exclusive use but it's not attached and across the very public breakfast room! To sell that as.having a private bathroom is questionable *the room is a converted front room and unsuitable as a guest bedroom. It is at the front of the building separated from the street and the porch by thin, single glass windows that don't block any noise. In my case in the evening I was kept awake by guests talking (not even that loudly) on the porch and at 7 am awoken by loud roadworks. *the roadworks.. while not something you can influence, it surely must have been announced to the neighbourhood beforehand. Yet you chose not to inform guests to allow them to make another decision for their stay. I was looking forward to a comfortable B&B stay but was sadly disappointed. The remaining points are solely for the good breakfast.