Alex Dauenhauer

Review of McMenamins Edgefield

Sooo...I just got back from a 6 month trip around ...

Sooo...I just got back from a 6 month trip around the world including 3 months in Southeast Asia, and this was the worst hotel experience I had in that span of time. We stayed in room 315, Bastian Meyer. The room we rented was $90 a night. Let me describe what you get for that money. You will have the privilege of parking half a mile away from the entrance in a giant field of mud. You will also have the luxury of being able to clearly make out every single word the person in the room next to you is saying, due to the 200 year old paper thin walls. For your comfort, the mattress will be as old and misshapen as the building, your pillow will be little more than an old sack of cotton balls smashed together, and these rest conveniently on a bed with wheels as the feet so that it can easily roll around your room when you are not expecting it to. There is no bathroom in your room so you will be able to enjoy walking down multiple hallways in the middle of the night, over floorboards so creaky that you are concerned you might fall through them, in order to get to the nearest communal bathroom. And remember that you will also be able to hear very clearly every time anyone else does the same thing, because the walls are 200 years old and paper thin. There will be a Mason jar sitting on the desk with two pint glasses. When you fill this at the bar with beer, and then take it to the soaking pool, you will then be spoken to as if you were a small child and told that you are not allowed to drink it, that obviously it is for "to go" only and that you must purchase other drinks. Oh also there is free coffee in the lobby. Honestly, I love the McMenamin's restaurants, but save yourself some money and do not stay the night here.