Laurium Manor Inn — Hotel in Calumet Township

On our recent trip to the UP we stayed two nights at The Laurium Manor. It was once a spectacular home and is worth seeing. ||We have stayed at many B & B’s throughout the US and Canada over the last 20+ years. We stayed in one on our way to the UP, checked out of Laurium Manor, and are in another one for two days. We prefer them over hotels when they are available. ||We have to mention some things that we felt did not conform to the upper echelon pricing for this property. Upper echelon because while it isn’t the most expensive place we have stayed, it is likely in the upper 20%. ||We were disappointed in the bed we had. It was excessively firm. Extremely firm. There is no way to guarantee beds that are ideal for every customer. Too many variables. But what should exist is something in the middle range, not that firm. I found it distracting throughout each night. My wife perhaps a little less aggravated, said she was sore the second morning. ||The trend to employ comforters as both decor and then solo as warm bedding is not ideal, in our opinion. The likely frequency for cleaning and changeover seems to leave us questioning the overall cleanliness. There is no way the king comforter is laundered as frequently as sheets, and with nothing but a single sheet as a barrier, we don’t care for that. ||Yes there was a blanket folded in the closet and we could have re-made the bed ourselves, but if the comforter raises questions for us, why does a blanket in a closet pass that same test? Hotels using comforter type bedding have enveloped the comforter in clean sheets. Obviously the large, bulbous, decorative, comforter would not lend itself to that approach. That for us then becomes decorative, not bedding, when it is to be shared by guests. ||The bath was in poor condition. On a scale of 1-10, a 2. Large runs of sealant where grout would normally be found. Some sealant smeared around shower fixtures. Enough mold or mildew on grout and crack repairs that it was disgusting. Not spots or inches of stark black on white. Feet in length. We have not seen a bath this out-of-sort in the last several years. ||One of our measures of higher standard B&B’s is their attention to the breakfast. Presenting the same sausage and breakfast sweet cake two days in a row, implies that even the first morning’s breakfast included some leftovers from the prior day. ||We consume leftovers at home recognizing the economics. We don’t eat them in restaurants and they seem not a legitimate shortcut in a B&B. Would you care for juice? It’s in the refrigerator over there. Water is in that dispenser. Feel free to toast yourself an English muffin. The egg cooker as a novelty seemed appreciated by one guest. But we are not going to cook our own egg. Self service juice in tiny preportioned containers belong in a school cafeteria. ||Leftovers are avoided or minimized by prepared portioned breakfasts - this level of self service and these breakfast items when a B&B is $500 for two nights, it seems a $5 breakfast is out of line. My wife remarked it was like staying at a low level...

I have never been treated so poorly by a business! My husband and I were supposed to stay in the Calumet Suite the night of our wedding. The suite was purchased for us as a gift from all of the bridesmaids in our wedding. The Manor was notified that we were going to be a late check-in.. When we finally arrived, we called the number on the door. The man who answered was blunt, rude, and kept asking "what do you want?" My husband explained multiple times that we were the bride & groom ready to check in to our suite. With a sigh of irritation, the man said he "supposed he could come let us in". By then, my husband was irritated because of how rudely we were being treated (and we were standing on the porch of the manor in the freezing rain) and said if it was such a problem, we will go elsewhere. The man on the phone then hung up on us!!! We were never let into the Manor and never got to stay in our suite that was purchased for us as a gift. When I called the next day to get my bridesmaids a refund, the woman on the phone literally yelled at me continuously. Apparently our room key was in the Manor's mailbox the entire time - yet we were never notified of this beforehand? The woman then claimed that the person who booked the room was supposed to tell us that our key was in the mailbox, but my bridesmaid who purchased the room was never told this information. The woman then went on to say it's not her job to make sure that people communicate? The moral of this giant story: do NOT bring your business to the Laurium Manor unless you want to be treated with absolute disrespect! My bridesmaids lost a good chunk of money to this business and will never see a refund or any...

The village of Laurium is pretty run down with many buildings in rough shape. If you're looking for shopping or night life you will need to get in your car and drive, there is not much within walking distance.||Positive notes: The bed was really comfortable. The woman making breakfast in the morning was super friendly, energetic and seemed very hospitable in stark contrast to the other employee we interacted with during our stay.||Negatives: Water damaged ceiling. Wallpaper peeling at upper corner of room above A/C unit with black mold behind. The A/C unit in the window sounded like it had a plastic bag stuck inside of it making a bunch of noise. The female front desk attendant wasn't very nice, approachable, or helpful. She truly seemed like she didn't want to be there and had no interest in making our stay at the Laurium anything special. Definitely didn't feel welcome. Our refrigerator in our room failed sometime during day two of our stay, so when we returned that evening the contents of our refrigerator were warm. When I informed the front desk worker, she didn't offer to help in any way whatsoever. ||Side note: When we arrived to our room both my wife and I had a very uneasy feeling, and afterwards we discovered where that may have originated. While it wasn't mentioned by any staff or in any literature ahead of time, I feel it's important to know there was a double murder/suicide here at the end of it's run as a funeral home decades prior. (Unknown to us until...