Roscoe Retreat

Very spacious, clean, beautiful such a nice cabin to book your stay

We had are own breakfastfast items

The back outside deck handle is broken and is in need of repair

Seclusion and remoteness

Nothing

We stayed here back in May and enjoyed it. We weren’t trying to work on that trip, so the poor internet wasn’t an issue. Kitchen is well-stocked.

Like I said, we stayed here in May and when we came back in January, the door code was EXACTLY THE SAME. 8 months and they’ve never changed the door code. While we were walking the dogs, a man stopped us and mentioned he knew the code because they never change it. I went back and checked my old emails and sure enough, it was the same. The owners might trust the 50 other groups that stayed here, but I don’t. It was a huge security issue. The owner didn’t take it seriously but begrudgingly agreed to come up and change it the next day. I didn’t hear from him until around 4:15 that he’d stop by at 5:15, at which point I said we wouldn’t be home bc we had dinner reservations and the dogs wouldn’t handle him letting himself in well. He gave a thumbs up and I didn’t think there was an issue. Clearly lack of communication is an issue for him. Later, when I asked if there was any way I could boost the internet bc watching even a movie was not possible, he flipped out. Said I caused him to drive 4 hours, that I’m a complainer (?- the only prior text was asking about the door code), and I had to ask him to stop the conversation bc it wasn’t productive. The location is okay, but you have to drive 25 minutes to get to even a grocery store. The beds are very hard which is fine for some people but not for me. Definitely a tale of two vacations. I’ll stay elsewhere the next time I’m in the Catskills. I’ve never written a bad review about a property but the security issue was pretty egregious and the owner’s attitude was almost as bad.