George Inlet Lodge

We came here for lunch after our UTV adventure that was booked through Celebrity Cruises (the excursion included the UTV tour and lunch). After our UTV tour, the group was picked up in a boat that gave us a brief tour of the area around us and we were able to stop a few times to see some bald eagles and the guide even pointed out some eagles' nests high up in the trees facing the shore. Upon arrival, lunch was set up in a large room including the beer flight ready to sip. Lunch included a roll, crab and corn chowder with half a crab as the main entree and cheesecake for dessert. The food was delicious and they offer seconds if people are still hunger after. There's also a cute little souvenir shop on the property that has some local root beer and cream sodas. The flight up the stairs to the shuttle area is a good workout after the big lunch.

The Positives: the view is pretty and the crab and cheesecake were good. The Not Great: The stench of the restaurant hits you hard when walking in. It smelled rancid of decaying crab meat and cleaning fluid in a lackluster attempt to cover it. Unfortunately, that is the first impression, so somewhat difficult to rev up an appetite with that smell surrounding you and settling into your clothes and hair. The salad that starts the meal is also incredibly lackluster and I wonder if it would have been better without it. The staff were less than friendly and they were constantly hurrying us along and taking plates while we were still mid-bite which should not be the experience. It's also really far out from the ship so took most of our time. I would do more in town instead and skip this.

Hostess was friendly and helpful The salad and dressing was refreshing Wheat Thins was wheat thins Main Event: The Dungeness crab The meat was sweet/awesome the dipping butter went well with the crab meat eat fast the butter hardened while on ending of the 2nd round of crab They brought out more melted butter for the 3rd round Next came dessert: Creme cheesecake with blueberry topping yum I ordered a soda pop with my meal too The food was great but my company was better. Thank you!

We went to George inlet lodge as part of a cruise excursion, about a 20 minute drive from Newtown in Ketchikan. We started with a 1-1.5 hr boar tour saw eagles and seals than the guide pulled a crab pot with some dungenous crabs. He allowed everyone to hold the crab and one person got to pull up the pot. The guide was super informative and we learned a lot about the area. Afterwards we came back to the lodge and sat down for a crab feast. To start we were offered 1 alcoholic beverage or a soda drink. They were not skimpy by any means in an 1 hour period we ate 4-5 crabs each. Afterwards we were served a blueberry cheesecake. Definitely would recommend for a nice 3.5 hour excursion.

GOOD: the quality and taste of the crab and cheesecake (thus 2 stars) BAD: The 2 female staffs hosting our (8am-9am) lunch tour today (July 26, 2024) from Norwegian Bliss kept on rushing us. It really takes out the mood from savoring and enjoying your meal. They kept telling us that they need to clean our table and that the bus will leave us (yet all the other tables have not even been cleaned yet and the toilet is filled up with lines). Even if we leave our table, everyone on the bus is still lining up at the toilet and they still do not need to clean up our table because there are tons of other tables to clean. In the end we left our plates unfinished, in a bad mood and killed the remaining time (that they kept on saying is up) waiting at the toilet and for the bus. There was about 20 mins of wasted time that we could have used in finishing up the crabs left on our plate. I hope the management and the 2 staffs reads this: RUSHING THE MEAL KILLS THE MOOD AND TAKES OUT THE JOY OF SAVORING THE TASTE.