Franconia Inn

Rooms: 5 Service: 5 Location: 5 Hotel highlights: Luxury, Great view, Romantic, Quiet, Great value

Beware! The entrance and lounge are welcoming and characterful if not a little quirky. Sitting on the sofa in front of the gas log fire was very relaxing. However, the bedrooms are truly awful and in desperate need of refurbishment. Probably not updated for 40 years, the bathrooms are basic and very dated, the bedrooms have exposed pipework, rusty old radiators are overpainted with galvanised paint to disguise their condition and air conditioning is by old, poorly fitting 'window rattlers ' (not technically air conditioners at all! . Such a shame as could be so much better with some investment.

Charming hotel, great location and great service. The mattress was fairly old and sagging and limited space for putting our things was the only elements holding back a 5 star review Rooms: 4 Service: 5 Location: 5

I 've waited since July 2023 to write a review of our experience at the Franconia Inn hoping to having a different perspective from a distance. The Franconia Inn is one of those places that you drive by for years until one day you say, I 've got to try this place out. It looks so special! Well, perhaps the ownership transition impacted the magic. The room we booked online was not at all as the pictured room we are aware that looks can be deceiving . The room was clearly outdated, however we were ready to give grace to new owners in the midst of transition until getting into bed at night. Thankfully, an understanding and kindhearted clerk was at the front desk and saved us from a long drive back home about 4 hours at 9pm because we could not have slept in that room. She found us another room for the duration of the stay. Terrific! This desk clerk is indeed an angel! The next day, a different clerk insisted that our concern was not what we suspected this felt like the definition of gaslighting! Like we made up the situation. This did not feel good. Again we made the best of the situation. Went about the rest of our time there. Not sure if the owners were notified of this incident, however; in our hearts thinking an owner could have simply said, we heard you felt your room was unsatisfactory, so sorry this happened would have been such a simple act of kindness and made a huge impression. So now it 's been several months, it is good to read such stellar reviews of the Inn. We wish the new ownership godspeed.

I love everything about the franconia inn! I am here several times when I visited the opposite and had consistently great experiences in the inn.