Westport Lakeside Motel — Hotel in Town of Westport

I visited the Westport Lakeside Motel several weekends from May through early June last year, as my husband was on the road for work and was staying at this motel along with several of his coworkers. They had several problems along the way and in retrospect my husband and his coworkers all should have moved to a different hotel/motel sooner but hindsight is 20-20. I hate leaving bad reviews but when I just saw some memories from last year on FB I was reminded I never reviewed this motel to pose a warning to other travelers.||||First I will start with the good: Beautifully situated motel. Rooms are clean. It is quiet. ||The owners are outwardly nice people- very gracious and friendly when I first met them. I am sure if I were staying with them for just a BRIEF time I wouldn't have had a problem. ||||The liveable/okay but not so great: It is really hot in the summer. No AC. It cools down at night but you have to put your fan in the window and sacrifice some privacy to do so. The windows are cross ventilated but the fan needs to be situated in them to be effective. No wireless- which I normally don't complain about but there is MINIMAL cell phone service so you are a wee bit disconnected. TVs are tiny. Very hard to watch from bed. ||||The nitty-gritty/not okay (in list format to make this easier): ||||1.) We stayed in three different rooms (remember I was up there several weekends). Two of those rooms the shower drains did not drain. They would almost overflow and you'd have to stop the shower and let it drain down before continuing.||||2. There were another group of workers staying at the motel one weekend. They were a little drunk but seemingly harmless.(mind you, it was just my husband, myself, and two of his coworkers staying here aside from them) Sometime late, while in bed watching a movie off our laptop, my husband and I could hear someone peering into our window, laughing, and then jumping down. The next day while sitting beside the lake, the owner (I forget her name now- maybe Jane?) walked over to us and asked in a mildly accusing manner if we knew where all the lawn chairs from outside the big room on the end had gone. We didn't know but speculated that perhaps the group of guys who had been staying there took off with them. Later, when the events of the evening before dawned on me again, I took a glance behind the motel to find chairs stacked outside other motel bedroom windows. Someone had indeed been peering into rooms the night before. I drove over to the hotel (where you check in and where the owners are located) and spoke with the male owner to inform him we found their chairs and to report a peeping tom. He couldn't have been bothered with it. He legitimately just said "well my wife's asleep. I don't want to bother her" and that was all. I left. Big strike one. A privacy invasion like that feels really unsettling. We were careful to completely barricade the windows the rest of our stays.||||3. My husband and his coworker (who would room together during the week) came back to their room after a 14 hour workday to find a note on their door stating "As discussed, you will need to vacate this room from Friday to Sunday as it has been previously booked." This was NOT discussed. Why would two men, working 14 hour days want to move into a place, (long term-over a month) prepay for it and then have to move out of for a weekend. Why would they prepay for a weekend they wouldn't be staying there?They called the owners and made it clear it was not discussed. My husband and his coworker told them they would be moving out permanently, and immediately started looking for other accommodations closer to Ticonderoga where they were working. The next day they returned to their room to find a new note from the owners stating that they "juggled things around" and wouldn't need to move out. The motel was usually pretty empty (aside from Memorial Day weekend where they tried to kick them out) so I suspect they didn't want to pass up on the money they were making from the boys staying there. I also suspect they tried to kick the boys out for that weekend so they could jack the prices on the room and rent them to boaters. The boys ended up staying because accommodations in the area were hard to come by( big mill shut down with lots of workers in town) and they brushed the encounter off as a fluke.||||4. I stopped by the hotel to book a room for following weekend at one point. I did so with the female owner. I booked the same room as that current weekend because it had a king bed. The next weekend I arrived and they did not have my reservation and someone was already in that room. I booked this IN PERSON. I was not thrilled but let it go.||||5. The last straw: After prepaying for another couple of weeks, my husband and his coworker came back to ANOTHER note stating "as discussed" (which it wasn't) they would need to vacate the property for the weekend because it was previously booked. These guys were working long days. They had time to eat, sleep, and shower and that was it. (Which is why i traveled EVERY weekend from Mass to NY with food and my husband's laundry). After 14 hours working they were angry that this happened again to them again.||||So hindsight is 20-20. The guys should have moved out the first sign of trouble. Unfortunately due to how inundated the hotel/motel demand was, it was tricky.||||I will say, if you need to stay just a brief time, go for it. It is a clean, pretty little motel. The lake is BEAUTIFUL.||||If you need the rooms for anything longer, for any reason, go elsewhere.||||I would have rated this motel higher for it's cleanliness and view but the experience we had was just...

My son and I travel to Westport, NY each summer and have stayed here quite a few times. As a motel, the rooms are small and your on your own food wise but each room has a nice size mini fridge, coffee maker, microwave, and small TV all for under a hundred bucks.||GREAT FOR THE KIDS. Right on the lake they have nice grounds and offer up all the toys, badminton rackets, fishing poles, etc., to borrow no charge.||They are also conveniently located two blocks from town next to the Westport public Boat Launch site.||They have a lovely patio with a BBQ and picnic tables for guest use. ||Only drawback is that there is no A/C which is only a daytime issue during for a couple of summer months of the year as area cools nicely overnight for sleeping with rare exception.||Westport is cell service deprived but motel has free Wi-Fi service so be sure to use an app that allows you to call and text via wi-fi.||The owners are the friendliest folks you can deal with and in my experience, go...

Where to begin? The hotel is very clean and comfortable; the setting beautiful - right on the Lake. But it was Jane, the owner, who with her husband Jim took remarkable care of my husband and me.||||We'd just had a car accident, which totaled our car, and were brought to the motel by the State Trooper - the closest place around. Jane helped us get settled in our room, and for the next 24 hours it was as if we were under the wing of an angel. She gave us everything we needed - including use of her phone since our service didn't cover the area.||||After a surprisingly good night's rest Jane helped coordinate a car rental AND drove us an hour to the closest place to rent a car - [no taxi service in the area]. It was as if she was helping her sister, or good friend - which I now consider her to be. It's not possible to fully express our gratitude||or give our experience at the Lake Side Motel enough stars! Thank you...