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We rented a champagne tower suite for our honeymoo...

We rented a champagne tower suite for our honeymoon, and stayed two days. The room was dated, but in a kitschy-charming way, and it was definitely clean. Everyone was friendly and couples of all types were welcome, which was a selling point.

The resort grounds are beautiful (heavily wooded and with a beautiful stream) and had we not stayed in March and for such a short time, we would have definitely taken more advantage of the amenities, like mini golf.

The downside was the food. It was adequate, at best, and bland at worst. I had a muffin for breakfast that I would consider good, but everything else was a let down. The best tasting meal we had was a lunch of burgers from the cafe/nightclub, delivered to our room and so not included in the room cost, and though they tasted good, it did give us both pretty intense stomach aches for a couple of hours. Also all the rooms are separated from the dining/nightclub facility, which we didn't realize. We had packed mostly lounge clothes planning to stay in our room and order in, and then were woefully unprepared for having to walk (or drive) to breakfast and dinner. I'm sure that the wait staff thought we only owned one pair of jeans and one sweater each, having seen us in only those things during our meals. Even though the dining was casual, it didn't feel appropriate to wear sweats to dinner.

This isn't necessarily a reason not to stay, but it was jarring: one night, it rained very, very hard, and the way that the room was built and arranged, it sounded like a train was coming through the room. It woke both of us up, and it was frightening; it sounded how people describe the sound of an incoming tornado. We didn't fall back asleep until the rain storm was over.

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