Magic Birch Lodge

Location, quiet, cleanliness

No grab bars in the shower, very squeaky door hinges, poor information about arrival: house sign bent and obscured, no indication of which unit, inaccurate parking information.

The accommodations were nice, the beds were comfy although the pillows were a bit lumpy and the memory foam mattress topper had a hard time letting go of past memories if you catch my drift. The TV was big, with streaming services and good internet. This is a basement apartment with what I assume is another accommodation in the main part of the house, though it was empty when we were here, so it was very quiet. The house is surrounded by woods, and sparsely populated dirt roads, nice to watch the sun rise through the trees which were in the middle of changing their colors when we stayed. This would be a perfect place for a family because it had board games, Foosball, and a mini pool table. The bathroom, shower, and kitchen were adequate.

I had to count them because there was so many, but this host sent me a total of 18 e-mails, 6 messages on booking.com, and 8 text messages from 3 different phone numbers. Why so annoying? This should be streamlined to one message after booking, and perhaps one more message the day of check-in with the door code, the rest were completely unnecessary including a plea for me to download their own app, exhausting. I felt the cleanliness was not really that great, acceptable, but with crumbs all over the carpet and a broken closet door in the bathroom. This is a basement apartment, it includes a kitchen, but has no ventilation, so when cooking we needed to open the door and windows despite it being quite cold outdoors just to ventilate to the point that the fire alarm would turn off, and if you leave the door open for longer than a minute or so another alarm comes on demanding you to close the door, so the place seems a bit confused on what it wants. Another complaint is there was no way to clean the dishes besides using a very small noisy dishwasher which needs to be run early in the evening if you don't want it to disturb your sleep. Why not provide some dish soap and a sponge so dishes could be washed by hand if preferred? The exterior of the house is looking pretty unkempt and in need of some maintenance and upkeep. None of these things were so terrible that I would recommend you look elsewhere if the rest of the listing looks appealing to you though.

Excellent and well appointed 2 bedroom apartment close to skiing. Great kitchen well stocked with every utensil you'd need, comfortable beds and living room with fast streaming TV and even a mini fossball table. Highly recommend!

4 wheel drive highly recommended in the winter to access property.

The property is good size/layout for a small family of 4. It is compact and apartment style. It is clean and living room is comfortable and fun for the kids.

The kitchen is too thinly stocked. As communicated with the management company, several essentials are either missing or far from sufficient (for a 6 day stay like ours). When asked about coffee after checking in (I could only find tea bags), the response I got is “We don't provide coffee.”. For a $350+ per night stay, I find this unacceptable.