Skye Lodge

Unlike the motel we stayed in for two days prior to this, I can’t give this hotel a lower rating. It has been allowed to become extremely run down and seems to be managed by an ambivalent manager. Everything could use some work in this motel. The worst part was that there was literally no heat in the room when we arrived, and it was freezing outside. We did have control of the heat ourselves and turned the heat on high and left to go to a restaurant. However, when we came back three hours later the room was barely warmer. We slept wrapped up in clothing and by morning, the room was slightly acceptable. I had a feeling I was going to run into this kind of thing when I called to book a reservation and spoke with the owner/manager. I had already checked trivago and knew they were offering the room for $75 for a double room (two double beds). Sometimes if you speak to the owner they can give you a better deal, for instance, if you are a senior, or have CAA, or an institutional affiliation. However, when I spoke with this man, he said the best he could do was $79 for a single room and $89 for the double I was looking at. I told him I found the double listed for $75 on trivago. He said lots of people claim they find lower prices but that isn’t true. I told him I wasn’t going to pay more than what I could book it for online. I probably should have walked away at this point, but out of spite, I booked it online anyhow and got the double room for $75. When I arrived and showed him my receipt, he very reluctantly gave me the room. The sign of things to come.
7 years ago (02-04-2018)

The website stated there was a restaurant, however the resturant had been closed for years. The internet was absolutely terrible. Beds were hard and uncomfortable. Basic cable.
7 years ago (23-03-2018)

The owner was nice and friendly and provided a room for me very late at night, the room heavily smelt like cigarettes and i couldnt get the hot water to work in the morning. Due for upgrades in its rooms
7 years ago (12-01-2018)

I cannot believe that the state this hotel is in, and that it is still allowed to be open. I am a veteran of the hotel and hospitality industry, and was appalled by the state of the room we walked into. We booked this hotel last minute, and got into the room minutes later at around midnight. We were exhausted and we're looking for an economical option as we were leaving early the next day. We got into the room, and I could tell it was a old, but had it been clean and kept, I would not have cared. It was a place we were going to sleep within and leave; I did not need any luxuries. We were exhausted and wanted a bed. There were so many issues I'm frankly not sure where to start. We stayed in the room long enough to realize we would have been cleaner, and more comfortable just sleeping in my car and peeing on the side of the road! So about 5-minutes. The washroom was disgusting and dirty, the shower curtain was rotting and full of mold. It was stained by the mold, and obviously they could not afford a new dollar store shower curtain. The linens in the bathroom looked like they were put in the same washer as championship mud wrestlers uniforms, post-game day. And not only that, but the quality of the linens were that of a lesser caliber dollar store. The electrical plugs were absolutely illegal in the amount of things that were plugged into them. The place is an electrical fire just waiting to happen! The walls had stains and webs throughout. The floors were so disgusting and stained I would not have stepped on them in sock feet let alone bare feet. All of this I was going to live with… But then I went to the bed, and that was the last straw. Yes the coverlet on the bed dated back to the ancient 80s, but that is OK, again as long as everything would have been clean, I could see past it. It was just one night. We pulled down the coverlet to reveal cheap sheets, and sheets that were too small for the double size mattress they were on. Further there was no fitted sheet on the bed (which is common, however usually the mattress covering sheet is large enough that it fits to tuck in on all sides) so upon sitting on the bed, the sheet on top of the mattress immediately came off and revealed the mattress underneath. So basically, any little twist or turn on that bed that night would have resulted in my skin (or face) surely being sarcastically burned off by the repulsive, old, hard as a rock mattress underneath. At that point, I was so angered, that without even speaking to my boyfriend, I had to leave the room, go to the front desk, and ask the lady for a refund and inform her that we were leaving. I realized and shared with her that I know this is not her fault, but that I would absolutely not sleep in such a disgusting, dirty, decrepit, sad excuse for a hospitality establishment. Not even knowing what I was doing, by the time I got out of the lobby, my boyfriend had already put our bags in the car. He was on his last straw as well. He would not stay there another minute either. I will figure out how to post pictures of just some of the things I witnessed, so that you know what you were getting before you book this room. Unless hotels are fully booked in this area, and about an hour or so outside surrounding this area, and unless you come prepared fully stocked with Lysol wipes, and hazmat uniforms, I would never go near this hotel again. It is really too bad because the view out the back of the hotel is surely one of the most incredible hotel views in Nova Scotia. But instead of fixing up the property and revelling in this amazing land they have, they have let it go beyond downhill. I am sickened by the five-minute experience I had within it. I wish I had the money to invest in buying and beautifying this property. Hopefully some day someone will. That view is worth it. To the hotelier of this property; your customers deserve better than this. Take a $10 price increase per night, and give them a clean property they may want to come back to. Your investment will pay off with good reviews that will spark higher occupancy.
8 years ago (25-09-2017)

Freezing cold on arrival and took forever to heat up. Drains all plugged Bed mattress must be 20 years old
7 years ago (19-02-2018)