Dreamcatcher Tipi Hotel — Hotel in Big Sky

We booked this stay through our travel agent and it was the last weekend of the season it was open. The location is perfect! It is less than 20 mins from the north entrance to Yellowstone and only 5 mins from the Yellowstone hot springs! The tipis were reasonably spaced from each other so although you could hear people talking at night outside their tipis, it wasn’t unreasonable or inhibit sleep at all.

The tipis are HUGE. Ours fit a king bed, two tall electric fans, two electric heaters, a big chair plus two twin beds comfortably! We loved having the heaters because it got really cold at night so glad for those. We are unsure how well the two talk fans would work to cool the space when it’s hot outside but they looked like heavy duty fans! We love the s’mores , communal campfire and two adult beverages nightly! It was a good way to meet people and talk about sights to see!

Each tipi also has its own Adirondack chairs and mini propane fire pit too so you can enjoy your own time as well. Each night when I got up to use restroom in middle of the night, I’d choose to sit outside the tipi and turn on fire and admire the sounds of wildlife and the bright stars. It’s a great perk to have!! the restrooms were our only concern but we had tipi 14 which we think is closest to the restroom so that helped.

Each tipi has a mini LED lantern you could take to bathrooms. It was bathhouse with 6 rooms and every time I needed to go there was at least one open but I can see how it may get super busy during peak summer time. The owners stated they will be adding additional bathrooms for next year! The showers were rain showers and the floors were heated and the bathrooms were always stocked with hand towels and were pristine clean. I assume they clean them often although I only saw a cleaning person once so they must be stealthy. My reason for not giving 5 stars is because of the bathrooms. For the number of tipis, I def think they need more bathrooms but I still enjoyed my stay and never had any “emergency” situations.

Lastly, the breakfast. It was actually really good for a tipi resort. They had protein bars and nut/granola bars and Costco hard boiled egg packs as well as kodiak cakes, oatmeal bowls, cereal and cheese snacks! They also had coffee and tea/apple cider packs. It was perfect for what we needed before going into the park each day.

We would HIGHLY recommend staying here on your next visit out to Yellowstone! We loved it and our favorite part was the view of the stars each night. We...

We had a great time at Dreamcatcher Tipi hotel, the property is really nice and located conveniently to the north entrance of Yellowstone. This was a bucket list item for us and we are glad we got it checked off! It was a really great experience for us and our kids, 14 and 11, to disconnect a little from our devices and enjoy nature and go back to a time where we didn’t have as much stress and less modern conveniences. They use the word “Glamping” a lot to describe this place but this means different things to different people. How much you enjoy the hotel depends on your expectations going into it and your past experience with camping, I call out some of the major things I think you should know before going into it that isn’t obvious from the videos/pictures/info on their website. The property appears to be pretty isolated but in reality it’s right off the major highway, with houses and small inns surrounding it, that might be a pro or con for you. The tipis don’t make a perfect seal with the ground so expect that bugs, spiders, moths will get in from time to time. The room temperature will only be a few degrees different than the outside so keep that in mind. It does get a little annoying zipping the tipi up and down every time you leave but if you don’t you will get more bugs. There is no food allowed in the tipi at anytime and you can only eat in designated areas and all trash must go in the hotels trash when done. All food must stay in your car in the parking lot. There is no TV, AC, refrigerator, phone etc. you have a few outlets for plugging stuff in, a small heater and a fan. The beds, bedding, and pillows were hotel quality and nice. The bathrooms are clean and comfortable but expect there will be bugs in them at night, and usually you won’t have a problem getting a bathroom. There are about 7 bathrooms for about 14 tipis, you do not have a dedicated bathroom for your tipi, they are all shared. The nightly campfire is nice and a good way to socialize The tipis are only about 15-20ft apart so you will be able to hear others talking, coughing etc, the tipis don’t do much to dampen the sound. The hardest things for us to get used to was not having food in the tent and having to walk to the bathroom when you had to go in the middle of the night but you get used to it.

Overall a great experience, and I think if you have the right expectations going in you will have a great...

Over-sold! Website set our expectations to high. They used a marketing genius because nothing was a lie, but it was definitely over sold. All the pictures we saw were strategically taken so you can’t see the other buildings around it. We thought we would be more isolated and never dreamed we’d have to listen to highway noise all night. It’s quieter at my house. The way the info is presented on the bathrooms makes it sound like you will have a private bathroom for your stay, but it’s just 5 full bathrooms (and 1 w/o a shower) that you have to find one that’s unoccupied. They were very clean and well appointed, for camping, but you have to carry toiletries and towels back and forth from the tipi like you’re at a campground. Adding to that inconvenience is that it takes two hands to unzip the tipi flaps. (Suggestion- something you could step on with your foot while pulling the zipper up would make it so much easier) Our tipi was clean and the bed was great. The website says electric fireplaces...never saw that. We had two small space heaters but they worked fine. Never saw a safe anywhere either. Also the river is more than 100 yards and across the highway. Also, when it says fire pit at each tipi it really means propane fire bowl. Which for city dwellers may make no difference but for people who know what a fire pit is it makes a huge difference. Once we heard about the frequent burn bans it made sense but again, wording on the website could have made that expectation more accurate. We did have heavy wind two nights and the first night was fine but the second night it sounded like something was hitting the outside over and over very loudly and we didn’t sleep for several hours during the night. Someone did come and look at it when we asked them to but the wind stopped the next day so it wasn’t an issue again. The luggage carts are wonderful since everything is gravel. Overall, we enjoyed the novelty our stay but wouldn’t pay $350 a night to do it again. If you go into it with an expectation of luxury then you’ll most likely be disappointed, but if you think of it as convenient camping then you’ll be...