Shoreway Acres Inn, Cape Cod

Oct 18, 2018

Nice hotel but needs an update

Manchester, United Kingdom

We stayed here for three nights as part of a Great Rail Journeys tour around New England in the Fall This hotel has a nice location, which if you use a short cut is just 200 yards from Falmouth Main Street, with its plentiful shops and restaurants. The buildings, laid out motel-style are colonial style with a mixture of old and new in a landscaped setting. One of the newer buildings has an indoor pool. If you want a quiet location, this is a good hotel. A good breakfast is included as part of the room rate. The staff, though not plentiful, are very welcoming. It has a pleasant non-corporate feel to it and it is clearly not part of a chain. However, the hotel is in need of a makeover. The decor could do with some attention and the shelves in our room fridge, a nice addition which we found useful, were beginning to show signs of rust meaning they had not been cleaned for some time. This part of New England tends to be a bit pricey for the average Brit, and as it’s the first hotel on this particular tour you need to remember about tax being added to the posted price in shops and restaurants, and of course your average 20% tip addition in the latter. Although they don’t produce them, the local maps in the hotel are not to scale and away from the Main Street the distances are elongated. What looked like a short walk down to the harbour was rather longer than that. There isn’t much to see in Falmouth itself apart from a small museum and a minor American stately home used as an art gallery. Using the hourly public bus, free for seniors on Wednesdays will get you to either Hyannis in 75 mins or Woods Hole in 18 mins. We did the latter and it was well worth it.

Oct 18, 2018

Quaint New England Hotel

Porthcawl, United Kingdom

We have recently returned from a 5 night stay at Shoreway Acres and really enjoyed our stay there It is ideally situated for Main Street where there are numerous restaurants and shops and is a short walk to the beach .We stayed in room 259 which was in the main building and had no complaints .Our room had everything we required and was comfortable and clean. Breakfast was really good with a good selection of hot and cold choices, All members of staff were polite and helpful .We used the indoor swimming pool which was warm and spotlessly clean and observed it was cleaned every day We had complementary WFI ,break fast and parking and thought it was a nice hotel and was good value for money.

Oct 17, 2018

Staff great; rooms need investment

UK

As other people are saying here, the rooms definitely need some investment. We had a skirting board detached from the wall just propped up in place and a honeycomb of loose wires to service lights and sockets - surely a huge fire hazard with the wooden content of the buildings. Again, very small curtains that didn't cover the ground floor windows. And probably worst of all, the door locks are the types that require you to push in the button on the inside before shutting them or they don't lock. There was no hotel guide or explanation of this.... and indeed one day we came back to find the staff had serviced the rooms but not followed the procedure and our room was unlocked to people just walking in off the street. What a shame because the staff were so pleasant and couldn't do enough to help. There was a reasonable warm breakfast provided for everyone, scrambled eggs plus other accompaniments. And there is a short cut to the main st out behind the indoor pool. So, nice location and staff, but unless they invest in smartening up their rooms, this will just feel like a cheap motel.

Oct 15, 2018

New England tour

Dated rooms which were not all that clean. Needs refurbishment. Very welcoming staff. Breakfast very good but no restaurant or bar available. This was not essential as there were plenty of restaurants nearby but we were unable to socialise within our tour group so a bar would have allowed this.

Oct 13, 2018

Scruffy outdated uncared for

wokingham uk

Travelled with Great Rail Journeys. This was one of three hotels we stayed in and we could not believe how poor it was. Staff were delightful, location was very good, nothing else to commend it. We stayed in room 225/226. It was damp, smelly, with mould in the bathroom. The furniture looked like it was from a poor quality second hand shop or out of a skip. The curtains didn’t fit the windows so the porch lights, left on all night, lit up the room. The main bedroom had a huge old fridge in it which of course had to be left switched or it kept cutting in all night. Toilet paper was the thinnest I have ever seen which matched the towels the bath version of which were also the smallest I have ever seen. Bathroom looked like it hadn’t been decorated for decades. Can’t imagine why Great Rail Journeys uses this place unless it is phenomenally cheap. I would never use them again or stay in this accommodation at any price.

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