We booked this home for a family snowmobile trip, upon arriving the driveway was blocked off with a sign that directs you to a service entrance down the road. While this may have been fine for an SUV this wasn’t a very good option for a full-sized truck pulling a 4-place snowmobile trailer. The lane was very narrow, not well plowed with low hanging trees, we managed to get through but damaged our trailer. Once we made it to the house, we had to figure out how to turn around, this was not an easy task. My husband and I did manage to unload the sleds and unhook the trailer and manually turn it around.
Entry into the house was a breeze with the key pad and code, the house was clean and ready for renters. We looked for towels, there were none to be found, I checked HomeAway and it states, “linens provided” and the bathroom photos show towels on the racks, counters …in all my rentals this has always included towels. I called the property manager and asked about the towels as well as the driveway. I was told that the home only includes kitchen towels and we needed to provide our own bath towels. They offered to come out the next day and bring a couple of towels, remove the garbage from the previous renter, and plow the drive-way and try to open the closed main driveway. They showed up the following day to open the main drive, widen the driveway for additional vehicles and to help with maneuvering of trailers, sleds; this was very much appreciated. I did ask the property manager about the Wi-Fi as I was not able to find a network and she said it must not have Wi-Fi, she did offer to come back after her meeting and bring a hot spot since the HomeAway listing said the home was equipped with Wi-Fi. She never returned and I didn’t hear back from her. You get little to no cell phone reception at this home, we had phones for both AT & T & Verizon. They have a home phone which was helpful when we lost power and had to report the outage.
The furnishings are very old and outdated, bed frames only with old mattresses, linens and were quite uncomfortable. We did also have a problem with mice in the kitchen so plan to keep all food in storage containers as they were very active.
As I mentioned before, this is a very beautiful and well-built home, we loved the gorgeous lake views from the massive windows, the gas fireplace, heated floors in both bathrooms, a well-stocked kitchen, and having a washer & dryer. It is a very cozy space for watching the snow fall.