LODGING: Nice rooms in a variety of buildings wit...

LODGING: Nice rooms in a variety of buildings with comfortable bedding and adequate towel & robe thicknesses. Online reservation system shows pics and prices & bed sizes. There's also Women's & Men's hostel-type lodging (bunk-beds) for single travelers on a budget for almost $40 after taxes (at least as of September 2018). Only a few rooms offer their own toilet inside the room, otherwise expect communal bathroom areas, but no worries about cleanliness or a wait.

If you don't like hot weather and you love your air conditioning, then you do not want to stay in the hotel rooms during the summer heat, because they only offer you box fans and cold drinks to ward off the heat. However, many of the public areas (restaurants & theatre, for example) have air conditioning.

FOOD: 3-4 different restaurants on site. Black Rabbit restaurant for upscale dining & the attached Black Rabbit Bar for immediate seating without hostess needed and lighter menu (bring your WiFi enabled device!) And the Power Station pub for basic bar food (mostly salads, burgers, deep fried), which, incidentally, has a small low-cost movie theatre you can eat & drink in while you watch! There is also Lucky's pizza bar in basement of main lodge-house. I've never had it, but I hear it's good but a bit expensive.

If you lodge here, you have the option to get your breakfast order brought to your room (limited menu options, but at least each room has table & chairs and drink glasses, some have couches with coffee tables too if you're in a big enough room.) Though breakfast is less money and there are a lot more options for breakfast foods in the Black Rabbit restaurant in main lodge if you go there and sit down. I highly recommend the black rabbit restaurant if you like quality food and wines!1

If you like coffee, bring your Thermos!They roast their own coffee; it is wonderfully flavorful and is so low in acidity that I can drink it black, rather than dump creamer into the bottom 20% of the cup first. They sell it in their gift shop too if you want to take some home.

Locally grown and many onsite grown herbs, fruits and vegetables, in house cooked buns and breads at all restaurants on site.

ALCOHOL & ENTERTAINMENT: Several bars and places to drink on campus with varying hours and themes, including a couple tiny ones you can smoke cigars in (The red shed & their distillery). You'll find maps scattered throughout the lobbies to help find all the different nooks and crannies, bars, shops, distillery, banquet rooms.

There's a billiards room with 2 shuffle boards, and 2 or 3 regulation sized tables (plus maybe 1 snooker table?) With beads in a wire above to keep score, (like at the Olympic Club McMenamins location in Centralia Washington.)

Almost every time I come to the McMenamins Edgefield campus I find people that have come to stay there from all over the world and they sound like they really enjoy their stay and the experience.

There are also several free concerts on the lawn in summer, as well as concerts that are also sold out concerts with well-known musicians throughout the year here. There is a 3 par golf course that is quite challenging and fun. I think it is 18 holes.

So much more here that I'm sure I've not included, despite the extreme length of this review. (Like the winery with live music every week, the day spa & salon and the warm soaking pool!?) You just have to come and check it out!

If I could give it four and a half Stars I would but only because some of the rooms, drinks, activities, restaurant foods, and wine prices keep going up.