Life House, Nantucket

Life House is effectively a boarding house, without sufficient public space to even qualify as a B&B. There is clearly a range of room sizes, but caveat emptor given the risk of getting one of the teeny ones not even able to accommodate a desk. Finally, there is, IMHO, an egregious inclusion/exploitation of the “resort fee” concept. Hotel charges $30/day for that line, which would appear to provide access to…nothing? Let’s be clear…it has no onsite recreational amenities. It does have bicycles, though, for exclusive use of its guests! One problem…guests pay $35/bicycle per day for their use. It remains a complete head scratcher for me how it can justify that.

While this property was clean, and the area convenient, there were many downfalls. As it was originally a house, these rooms are quite small and there are accessibility issues. As well, it is quite noisy with some of the rooms having bathrooms outside their rooms and people going back and forth. Our air conditioning did not work properly the whole trip, and no one was successful at fixing it. The staff, while pleasant, must have been new, and knew relatively nothing about the area. If you are looking for more of a hotel experience, this is not your accommodation. I would not stay here again.

Great staff..clean

Very welcoming!

The service

We greatly enjoyed having a complimentary glass of wine in the living room. We met and thoroughly enjoyed conversing with other guests. The staff was exceptionally pleasant and could not be more helpful. I would have preferred not to be on the 3rd floor but that was probably my error in making my reservation.

Beautifully presented and comfortable.

staff very good, but busy and not always easy to access if you had a query

Overall decent stay at the Life House Nantucket. We were placed in a room on the main floor near the entrance which was especially noisy and were woken up every day by other guests (especially someone's screaming baby). The interior design was cool and the bed was comfy but the noise and lack of on-site complimentary bikes (they're $35/day each) means I will likely not be coming back.

We really enjoyed our stay at Life House! The room was clean and well decorated and the bed and pillows were so comfortable! The staff was always helpful and super friendly. Chris helped us with recommendations and checked in with us often to make sure we had what we needed. The breakfast is also delicious! A great place to stay in Nantucket!