The cottage is very roomy, very clean and very quiet. Marshal and Stacy are super nice and accommodating. Ya have to add their phone service code to your phone to get cell phone service. It is a 20 - 30 minute drive to most restaurants, museums, shopping, etc., but we didn't mind. There's a floating restaurant on the lake a stones throw away, that opens mid-May, which also has a floating motel (pretty cool but mayflies everywhere). Topeka is not a place for kids unless they like nature: hiking, biking, fishing and boating (no amusement parks). We (husband 62, wife 57) are hiking and biking trail nuts and there was no shortage of those! Right down the street are some really good trails at Perry Lake and at Perry State Park further down the road, Clinton Lake State Park has really nice trails and Parkville Nature Sanctuary, etc. Deer and turkeys were everywhere; some were up and close. We hiked and biked so much in the first 3 days that our legs, ankles and feet were screaming at us; nothing one day of taking it easy didn't cure and then were back on the trails the last 2 days of our vacation. We never vacation in the same place more than once because there is too much to see and explore in our blessed country, praise God. But we really enjoyed our vacation at the Rock Creek Loft House and highly recommend it to all the nature nuts out there.