Wonderful place to get away from it all. Stunning views, totally peaceful, surrounded by nature (the local donkeys are amazing!), and just picture perfect. The lodge itself is full of "character"! Could definitely do with some TLC, but nothing that spoiled the holiday. MASSIVE shoutout to Judy, the property manager, who put up with a billion texts from us concerning lightbulbs, etc, not working, and who answered all the time with humour and happiness.
The ONLY downside (which they know about) was the check in. Awful, and I"m sure they're working on it. But we got an email the day we were driving up telling us to go to their office to check in. (Was left standing outside in the snow for about 15 minutes) then really unhelpful person who refused to check us in - genuinely bad start to the vacation. But again, props to Judy for taking over when she found out and saving the day. All in all, would DEFINITELY recommend for a bunch of families wanting to get away from it.
And check directions before you go - we turned up during a snowstorm in the dark, and we were convinced GPS had taken us the wrong way - offroading though what we thought were frozen lakes! Sighed a MASSIVE relief when we turned up.
Now to book up our return visit!