Beavers Bend Adventures

We stayed at Time Well Spent. It was disgusting. Floors had hair and lint balls all over. Hair in the bathtub. Inside of toilet bowls not cleaned. Hair and mascara stains on sheets and looked like they may not have even been changed from the last guests. Hair on extra pillowcases in closet. Not enough sheets to make pull out beds. Everything was dusty. We cleaned counters in kitchen when we arrived and you can tell they don’t clean under any of the knick knacks on the counter. It’s a shame because this could be a great cabin if it were clean. What a waste of money. Definitely would not rent through this company again.

First of all, the Finches Nest cabin is beautiful. The cabin is conveniently located to town. However several things in the cabin didn’t work and we had a disturbing incident. The owner of the cabin showed up on Saturday morning at 10:15. We were at the cabin for a women’s retreat and several women were still in pajamas or in bed. When the owner knocked we answered the door and he just came in uninvited and said some men were coming to fix the pool table. On a Saturday? While guests are in the cabin? This couldn’t be done while the cabin was unoccupied? For something non-​critical like a pool table? Also they had my phone number and could have called to see if it would be ok but they didn’t. I called the the booking agency to complain that we felt this was very inappropriate and we were uncomfortable with strange men coming in. They said the owner had dementia and wanders around. I don’t think this is the case. I believe he deliberately shows up to check things out. The booking agency did call the pool table guys to tell them to leave immediately. We read the guest book and there was entry after entry about the owner showing up. We paid a lot of money to rent this cabin and feel we should have been respected with privacy. We will not stay here again or rent from this booking agency.

We rented the Stargazer cabin through Beavers Bend Adventures and it was a horrible experience! I am hoping the owners of this cabin will read this to find out what is going on with their property and how it is being represented, as I am sure our review in the guestbook will be ripped out. There were many other places in the book with ripped out pages. The cabin is beautiful from the outside and the setting is gorgeous. However, inside, the front half bath by the entrance is having a drainage/​sewage issue. We had to use a plunger on it most of the time to get it to flush and the smell coming from the venting in there is aweful. The fireplace had not been cleaned out from the last renters and we had to get the mountain of ash out before we could start a fire. The firewood was being kept outside about 40 feet from the cabin and was wet. We had problems keeping a fire all 4 days of our stay (and it was 22 degrees at night). The cabin is advertised as sleeping 10 people and we had 7. There are 3 rooms with king sized beds and 2 pull out sofas. The pull out sofas were unusable and we called Gina, the property manager right away. The sofa downstairs had toys, old pieces of candy, and dead bugs once we opened it up. There was no mattress, only the dirty spring casing. There were no bed linens, pillows, or blankets in any closet or any cabinet (at least none that we had access to). One of the upstairs rooms had a broken wing backed chair with 3 good legs, a missing smoke detector with wires hanging from the hole, and perfume doused pillows and bedding. The Nintendo Wii as advertised, was useless as the remotes were missing so the games our kids brought stayed in their cases. The 36″ flatscreen (advertised as oversized) TV in the living room is very high up on the wall and has no free standing or surround sound speakers so even with the volume up all the way was hard to hear and be able to watch a movie. We did not have any cell service, no phone service from the house phone, and no internet almost the whole time we were there. The kitchen (advertised as well stocked) had nothing but an open peanut butter jar, open bags of flour and sugar, 1 small skillet, a few pots, and miscellaneous, disorganized utensils. We had to go buy salt and most other condiments as well as bags, paper towels, etc. When we called Gina, the property manager, and gave her our concerns, she became very aggressive, condescending, and rude. She came over with the cleaning supervisor and inspected all of the issues we presented. Her solution was to go buy 2 memory foam pads (1 ½″) for the pull out sofas, and 2 new pillows for the perfume doused room, as well as 2 new skillets. She said that renters take things or destroy them and that a lot of the pots and pans had been used outside on the grill during a power outage and had to be thrown away. The problem as I see it, is that the owners of the cabin probably have no idea how it is really being managed. When things are taken or destroyed, they are not being charged to the renter and then replaced. And this is giving your renters a very bad impression because it is not presented as advertised. The property management blamed you for the size of the TV, the way that you installed your internet connection inside of the locked closet, and your lack of decorating your cabin. Also, the hot tub is advertised as being on the back deck. It is actually on the ground level BELOW the home and accessible down steep stairs from the deck at living room level. We were not able to use due to this since there were no robes or blankets in this cabin (other than the quilts on the 3 beds) we did not want to risk coming up from below in the cold without anything to wrap around us. There were no spa or beach towels either. This cabin could be great with some things fixed, some things improved on, and with a kick in the butt to the property managment and cleaning crew. The price point $ 300-​$ 400 a night for this cabin is ludicrous!

This place is absolutely amazing! We stayed at the stargazer and had the best experience possible. The cabins come fully stocked with anything and everything you need. They will even stock the fridge with your choice of groceries before you arrive. Its beautiful and comfortable and the price is well worth every penny. We are planning on going back as soon as we can.