smoky mountain dreams

Great cabin with a beautiful view of the mountains

The cabin gave a homie environment feel, the view is incredible and breathtaking, everything that’s on the description was true. Gatlingburg downtown is literally 5 min. away Pigeon Forge is 10-15 min. away. It’s also very close to Anakeesta and Ripley’s aquarium, the Smoky Mountain National Park entrance it literally 7 min away from the cabin.

The cabin was very nice. Once we learned that the toilets required holding the handle down to adequately flush there was no problem with the plumbing. The WiFi did not work with the password we were given so called the office and was told to reboot the router which we did and still didn’t work. Called them back the next day and they sent a tech immediately and the problem was solved...very quick response. Now, the major problem was finding the cabin! GPS couldn’t find it; OnStar couldn’t find it. We finally called the office and it took a couple of call transfers and maybe half dozen different individuals to get us to it...in all over an hour driving back and forth on the top of the mountain to finally find it. Big problem was there were two different house numbers on the property and the one we were given was the less visible. The view from the deck on this property is spectacular; we didn’t use the hot tub as were too busy doing other things. The directions to this cabin need to be improved drastically. Even the computer tech who came said he couldn’t find it the first time he had a service call there. Even after being there, GPS could not correctly find it on return trips to “home”. It kept referring to the street the driveway entered onto as Crites Road...perhaps that would be the better address to use. But, after a very stressful start to our stay the time there was very pleasant. Cabin was as pictured on the web.

The property is really nice. Be prepared for the drive UP the mountain. I reached out to the management 3 days ago to let them know about a bad water leak in the bathroom. We came home to my hair dryer and straightener in a PUDDLE of what. Luckily my straightener still works, but it got the dryer. Didn’t expect that. They never got back to us. The dish washer also leaks. The beds are really uncomfortable, and the couch bed doesn’t lay flat. My 2 girls slept on it and I came to their heads behind under the back of the couch, cause it slopes down and they had slid down under the couch. The hot tub is pretty small. It’s not a full size hot tub. The resort pool is ok. The decorative cement or whatever it is around the pool is breaking off and the whole sidewalk around the pool needs to be pressure washed. The pool isn’t kept up very well. A lot of ants/bugs, leaves and stuff in there. Needed to be cleaned. In addition, there’s a carpet covered “bench” downstairs that’s FILTHY. I sat on it with WHITE shorts on and had to change. It was pretty gross. I’d honestly remove that carpet and recover it or maybe do something other than carpet? That’s kinda odd anyways. Overall, we had a pretty good stay... really disappointed that nobody ever got back to me about the leaking roof. Thank goodness it wasn’t something more serious... wouldn’t stay here again just because of the lack of care from management on the problem with the bathroom. Also, there was a cup thrown in the yard upon arrival beside the driveway. Kinda shocked that housekeeping never saw that. We threw it away for them. Also, if elderly or SMALL children are coming with, this is not a good option. The stairs and very narrow and dangerous for elderly/small children.

The cabin was nice but there were a few things that didn’t work. The hot tub wouldn’t get hot at first, one of the toilets ran all night, the dryer didn’t really even dry your clothes, one of the shower doors would get jammed.

The view is beautiful and the cabon is clean. Downfall is it really needs an update