Welaka Lodge & Resort — Hotel in Welaka

My brother and his family usually come up here and stay at Welaka Lodge Resort once a year to visit us. ( I live here in Welaka) Usually, they have a great time and no issues. This time it was my youngest sons birthday and my brother and his family paid for 2 cabins (one for me and my 2 boys and one for him, his wife and there 10 year old daughter). I arrived there first with my 2 boys and i brought a friend of my oldest. The lady stated the cabins were only rented for 3 adults and 2 children. I told her I wouldn't have the friend stay the night, he lives a mile down the road by the water. The whole time we saw them drive by our cabin during our stay to check to see if they could catch us lying about the amount of people staying and they would watch my kids while they were swimming to catch them doing something. The morning we were leaving my husband flew back home from Philly and he swung by around 9:30 am to say hi and goodbye to my brother and his family. My brother had him ride with him to get the boat loaded and the owner called my brother and asked how many people were staying there. Are you kidding me? When I met the owner on Friday I told her we live 2 miles down the road, my son's friend lives a mile down the road. No one would be staying the night but who was suppose to. Long story , but very shocked how we were treated a s though we were trying to get one on them! This place is not family friendly and we will NEVER tell any of our friends or family members to go there again. This is sad because I always felt this was the best campground around our area till...

My husband & I have been coming to Welaka Lodge for 7 years. We always enjoyed the old Florida atmosphere and the cozy cabins. I’m very sad to say that this time (Nov 17, 2023) was VERY different.

We were greeted by roaches in the kitchen & bathroom. The toilet was loose on the floor due to rusted bolts (they did come out and fix this) the shower head leaked, the hot water constantly ran out, the finial on the railing at the front porch was not secure making an extreme safety issue, the ice maker didn’t work, we couldn’t get the stove to work and when we called and left a message at the office, no one ever returned our call... turns out the front burner wasn’t working.

The floors were so filthy that the bottoms of our feet were black. I literally took pictures and showed them to the lady in the office and I heard every excuse in the book.

What happened to this place? It’s gone downhill with the new management. They advertise the boat bar and yet when we went there, the girls behind the bar never even acknowledged us, we left and took our business to Shrimps R Us... and shared our experience with several other people there.

Sadly, we won’t be returning. We didn’t plan for and spend our hard earned money to go and live in filth.

Happy to be back home in...

We have been going here for about ten years for a week in late January just to get out of the cold in Virginia. It has always been very clean and quiet, no matter which cabin we stay in for the week. They are always very good about letting us keep our bass boats trailered and close by our cottage. Most evenings are very quiet and enjoyable. The same was for this years trip. We did see changes and things happening that I don't know are for the good. We noticed two nights of our stay this year that it was loud outside passed 11 pm and close to midnight with people talking loudly, lights from golf carts running by the cabin while we were trying to sleep. It was the two nights that people were around the bar at the river. We have never experienced this during any of our prior stays. We hope the changes that we are seeing are not that of partying and loud music all hours of the night. We go down to enjoy quiet nights and beautiful days on the river. We are planning 10 day next year and we hope the changes we saw this year is different. We love this little community and all...