Chestnut Inn at Oquaga Lake

Beautiful, exceptional and highly recommend for a visit. Wonderful for families and excellent food and service by staff:

Love the view!!!

The lake setting

Loud air-conditioning and breakfast.

We have been coming to The Chestnut Inn for 29 years and are so happy that it is open again! We love the quiet setting of the beautiful lake and the great bands, too!! I wish that there were some more "simple" food options, rather than all the gourmet cuisine. We had people staying in the room above us and could hear them moving around a lot during the night, so they kept waking us up, and we had a loud sound machine. Maybe more floor padding instead of hardwood floors, would help to muffle the sound!! Thank you!!

Continental breakfast and coffee service were fine....restaurant was excellent

Can't think of anything that we didn't like...

Staff was impeccable, food was extraordinary with great presentation and taste. And you can’t beat viewing at a beautiful calm lake. Very quiet and very restful.

Bed to low on floor, could use somewhere to get snacks or drinks between breakfast and dinner. Need a better way for folks to get into the lake. My wife couldn’t go swimming, due to nothing but a tiny aluminum ladder.

Love the property and the rooms. Very comfortable and bathroom was great. Dinner menu was good and food was excellent.

Missed a cooked breakfast (not available) and could have done without the pot smoke in the stairwell from the night before.

Such a charming, old school hotel on the absolutely beautiful Oquaga Lake, the cleanest and clearest lake in NY State. It felt a bit like stepping back in time, into the hotel in Dirty Dancing, which is exactly what I’d hoped for. We even met some charming locals and had a singalong around the grand piano. Such a special night, place and people.

Quite noisy at night.

After some considerable difficulty in having the property honor our reservation, we arrived, got our room and enjoyed a well maintained facility, in a beautiful location, albeit with limited on-site activities, even though located directly on a large lake. On balance, very nice property if you need to be in that area; but not worth travelling there just for the stay.

It was both peaceful and quiet during the day but loud at 4 am. There needs to be a sign that says quiet hours from say 11-7 am. I hate to say anything negative because it is such a beautiful place and the stagf was wonderful but I want to be honest.