The Olde Mill Inn of Clarkston — Hotel in Waterford Township

15 gorgeous rooms all with lake access. This is an amazing, clean, friendly place with that amazing up north cabin feeling and smell. You truly forget you're still in clarkston.

Paddle boats and access to the lake, which is not recommended for swimming, however there are tons of fish; you can see from the balcony off the larger rooms [you still get access to the balcony, paddle boats, ect even in the smaller rooms], great for fishing and they have an old school candy machine filled with FISH FOOD!! you can literally feed the little pig like fish.

Their rooms are extensively cleaned and contain the cutest little touches. Some have little kitchenette areas as well. All the rooms are smoke-free, however they supply a little chair and ashtray outside every room, which is a nice thought by the owner and staff. The owner actually invests a lot [of money] into making sure his 'Home away from Home', for everyone is as clean and hygienic as possible. He hires a team who work with TRAINED BED BUG SNIFFING DOGS!!! Every few weeks they come in and confirm the continuation of bed bug free rooms, every single time. [I'm saying 100% of the time the dogs come and sniff, they find absolutely nothing.] That is amazing and you gotta give props and a shout out to the amazing housekeeping team, the managers and owners for doing everything they can to do keep you and your family safe and protected from terrible things, that other 'inns' around the area do not do. Every month they also do a preventative spray for any type of insect

The owner just so happens to be a former Professional Baseball Player, I won't ruin the surprise of whom it could be, inside their welcome booklet is a whole page dedicated to who he is, what school he went to and drafted out of, his first team and a few other nifty details about who he is as a person and what he stands for.

After meeting him once, I can tell you he is a 'giant', compassionate, caring, down to earth, wholesome, funny man who loves what he does and is pretty great...

I have stayed at this hotel a couple of times and wanted to reserve a room for some family coming into town because I have had decent experiences staying here and they were booked so for 3 days I have been calling and asking about cancelations...and finally the 3rd day there was a cancelation (1 day before my guests arrive) and I'm ready to make the reservation so I told the man that I'd be in Friday to pay if our guests were running late & I'm told no check ins after 10pm and that he'd hold the room for 1 hour while I call my guests to see if they'd be there by 10pm because they won't allow me to come in & pay & pick a key up for anyone (said they'd had problems with that in the past) well you know it's11:30 am & my guests both have day jobs so they can't just answer their phones for unnecessary calls... If I'm reserving a room with my card then I'm also the one technically responsible for the room and my guests so rather than continue to waste my time I called a hotel in Auburn Hills & got a my guests a room. Very frustrated at the moment, I've tried for 3 days to get a room. I don't think that's a very reasonable policy but they are free not to take my money if they so choose... It would have been nice to know this policy before hand so that I didn't waste my time for 3 days waiting to see if they have any cancelations. This is a decent hotel, don't get me wrong but this whole ordeal was a total waste of my time and I won't be staying or referring anyone...

I made a reservation weeks in advanced to stay this hotel. When looking online for a hotel I was drawn to the old mill inn due to the lovely pictures of lake views and advertising having coffee in the morning on a deck over looking the water. The rooms looked lovely.

However, I feel it was false advertising. When we showed up, it was NOTHING like the photos. There was no lake view. The room was cramped and had an awful smell. The man checking us in wasn’t friendly in the least, and honestly made us feel unwelcome. We were honestly so disgusted with the experience that we left 5 mins after checking in. I contacted the hotel in regard to my experience, and they told me they couldn’t do anything about it. It does feel a little like robbery due to the terrible experience, and the fact I was charged $106 for a 5 min experience. They put the blame on me for not contacting them the day of. They could clearly see the key was dropped into the return box within mins of checking in. We didn’t contact them that day due to being in a hurry to find a new hotel before our concert started. We just got engaged, trying to make sure we had an enjoyable evening was the priority in that moment. On top of the fact that we felt unwelcome. It felt as though a lesbian couple shouldn’t be staying there and instead of apologizing and owning up to the website’s deception, they put the blame on the customer. I would not recommend this...