Guest User
March 30, 2024
B&B Wanna Be: The lovely structure holds surprises and disappointments. We called from the west side of Cincinnati saying we’d arrive in an hour 40 minutes, according to our map, and so we did, expecting the host to greet us. Nope. No one around. So we called and found he was elsewhere and would come right away, which took 5-10 minutes. We checked into our room, the Victorian room, which has some lovely elements but mostly is just someone had a delightful time painting geometrics from top to bottom. Rather fun, but “Victorian”? He showed us the dining area where we could eat breakfast in the morning, a continental breakfast. Huh? Isn’t the second “b” in B&B mean breakfast? I read on ******* and TripAdvisor “breakfast included.” He said breakfast would be served from 7-9 in the morning and he would be there throughout that time. Just come on down whenever. We walked to supper, and hour downtown, guaranteed that walking even in the dark is “perfectly safe.” We enjoyed our evening. Night noise: well, 4-6 huge metal plates for some construction on the road are stretched across the somewhat busy road and bus route just outside our windows, and so a deep clank-clank would resound for each vehicle passing over, the frequent buses giving a bonus clank, but at least they stop running from midnight until 5 to enable us 5 lovely hours of sleep on a super soft almost saggy mattress. We went down for breakfast at 7:30. No one around. We searched. No one. We called the guy, and he was surprised and was wondering why his motion alarm for the room was going off. He’d be there in 15 minutes, he said. Not acceptable, we replied, and returned to our room to finish packing and head out to continue our road trip. A few minutes later we were about to open the front door to head out when he called from the dining room and in a flurry offered us muffins, apples, and yogurt, while inviting us to sit down and enjoy. We took some of what he offered and hit the road. During our stay, whatever it was, he had higher priorities than his guests, by far. We’d get better service and an equivalent breakfast at a cheap motel along the road somewhere.