Santa's Cottages — Hotel in Santa Claus

Absolutely loved this place. Boyfriend & I are Christmas fanatics - we keep our Christmas decorations up all year if that gives you an idea...

POSITIVES: This place had so many amazing features - The cottages were VERY reasonably priced. You are able to get bundles of wood to have a fire, and each cottage gets its own fire pit. They have a laundromat. In your cottage, it is gorgeous - Christmas Cabin like feel through and through. They give you fish food to feed the fish in the lake... loved that as part of my routine in the mornings. LOTS. OF. SPACE. Huge deck, lots of areas to sleep, sit, move around in. Nicely sized bathroom, bed, kitchen space. THEY THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING!! 😊 They have a knife set, coffee maker, full sink, breakfast bar with stools, miscellaneous kitchen utensils, FULL SIZED fridge and freezer, a STOVE TOP with 2 burners, a grill outside.. dish soap and NEW wrapped sponge every time. Towels on towels (even kitchen rags/towels), a candle, a packet with ALL the nearby Christmas attractions (food, fun, shopping etc). A binder for any questions you may have, and so on. 8.Water pressure was AMAZING in the shower and sinks. Location - you are close to all the attractions they list which makes traveling very convenient. Lots of storage space for luggage, cabinets for food brought, etc. You get your own parking slab, which was a huge plus for us! No walking, right next to the sidewalk leading to our front door.

NEGATIVES: The shower had no shelves to put toiletries on (if you bring your own things) - they do have a shampoo and body wash dispenser in there, but I don't usually like using hotel style products, but my boyfriend was fine with it. Spiders and spider webs everywhere - I understand the cabin lifestyle, but clearing out webs and spiders would just help make the place feel a bit more comfortable. Thankfully, I had my boyfriend kill all of them and wipe the...

This place is very nice. I have issue’s sleeping away from my own home and was in shock i actually got some sleep here. Beds are very comfy. Cottage was extremely clean. Even the outside patio and driveway was spotless. I would say only negatives are wifi is sometimes spotty and cell service is not good at all. I couldn’t make any phone calls within the cottage area at all. They all dropped. Had to drive out to the main road in order to make a call, which wouldn’t be ideal if an emergency arose. Also you pretty much cannot sleep in because the shades they use on the windows let in a lot of light. They are nice looking, but doesn’t help if you’ve had a long night and want to sleep in past 6am. Staff is friendly and helpful. Office has all you need to fish in the lake, poles all ready to go, worms. Nice that they give you one free bucket of food to feed the fish. If you wish to order food and cannot make phone calls like I couldn’t, there is a website dasher that is food delivery and you can place an order online. Currently there are only 2 restaurants on there that deliver here though. Pool and small splash area were nice. Small arcade too with maybe 6 games or so. Cash only in the arcade but there is a change machine. Two playground areas right by each other. They have a mini zipline thing for ages maybe 6-11. If you have a kiddo like me who really wants to try ropes courses but is still a tad scared, this is perfect practice! They sell holiday world tickets for a little less than you can get them on the HW website itself. For those that complained about the fly infestation, they are everywhere in this town… it’s not a problem at just the cottages. We were bothered by them everywhere we went, even holiday world. Town probably needs to invest overall in spraying. Overall i’d say this is the best lodging i’ve ever stayed in while on a vacation. You won’t...

I expected more for the price. These adorable cottages are not kept clean at all. When we first arrived no one was there to greet us (4:30pm) but they did have a map to show us the grounds. Not many cabins were being used at the time so it was very quiet. From the outside they seem clean with nice ponds and fountains. However after entering the 1 bedroom “mistletoe “ we found left behind underwear , bug remains, several spiders(even in the microwave), dust and webs in every corner, blood on the quilt (we paid for the linen package-so even more money) ,and stained pillow cases. My toddles socks were dirty from the floors. The coffee pot had mold which I've never seen before and it was gross. The management did respond to our request to get a replacement one quickly but it should have been checked beforehand. It clearly was sitting there dirty for a long time. What a disgusting experience for $250 a night. The playground wasn’t clean -leaves and branches everywhere and had several defects(broken basketball rim-unusable for little kids, pulled up grips on steps and the tether ball flat ) the sand pit was just a mess. And the grass needed to be mowed badly. The ponds as I said were very nice and my son caught his first fish that was the only positive of our stay at the lakeside cottages. It’s sad because it was our first visit to Santa clause and the town was great and holiday world was so very nice but we will not return to...