Skamania Lodge

What a spectacular location and experience. The lodge is nicely appointed, family friendly, pet friendly and has so many things to do and experience including just relaxing and playing cards or games in the central room. The food at both restaurants were well above our expectations, so don't plan on every leaving unless its to enjoy the fun things to do around the Columbia River Gorge area (hiking, boating, fishing, sight seeing).

The lodge is very busy and noisy over the holidays. We have enjoyed our says more at other times of the year. The breakfast Buffet is to be avoided. But the lodge is a nice place to go and relax most of the year.

We travel here annually for several days with our young children. They love the pool and the comfort of the hotel. It's not fancy, but the staff is always great, the rooms are clean, and there is something laid back and comfortable about the whole space. Our kids feel safe enough to explore the hotel and public spaces together. It's only an hour and half from our home in Oregon, but we really feel like we're on a vacation.

My husband and I came to your NYE party, stayed 2 nights and had dinner reservations. While the lodge is gorgeous, as well as a beautifully decorated NYE party, your costs for the dinner, drinks, resort fees in Winter, and parking, is outrageous. Our dinners were lunch sized portions. The butternut squash puree was a swipe of squash and the roasted potatoes were tiny and few. The dirty martini added $5 for the olive juice. My dinner was less than warm. For $70 per dinner, that is unacceptable. Resort fees should be less in the winter as you would not use a hot tub nor sit around a fire pit. $16 per day for parking. That is outrageous. We have spent 3 NYE’s with you and this will be the last. You are gouging your guests and we aren’t going to accept that.

Nice, but a bit overpriced for the experience. We came because this location was recommended by my sister. The Christmas atmosphere inside was pretty beautiful but the Christmas light walk outside was a little lack luster. The service was overall pretty good. The issues we had were that our room seemed a little small and not great seating for the two of us to enjoy time together in our room. I found the previous guests clothes in the drawer of our nightstand and our room making me question how thoroughly our room was cleaned. Our room seemed exceptionally noisy with a lot of banging from people stomping or jumping in the room above us, noise from water pipes and the train outside - not great if you are wanting to get some sleep.