Old Wheeler Hotel — Hotel in Wheeler

I was treated with amazing inhospitality and rudeness during my one unfortunate night here. At 9:30pm I rang the owner lady to ask if I might possibly change rooms. My neighbors happened to be ill - nobody's fault - but through very thin walls, I was still jolted by every cough even with earplugs.

Well, I've never seen somebody act so put out in my life. When the lady showed up she stormed around, threw her arms in the air, did nothing to hide her supreme annoyance. She did show me another room, making very clear how much more it cost per night. Already wanting to melt into the floor, I declined. When she then decided to offer it to me at no extra charge, I felt so unwelcome that I couldn't possibly embrace any "favors" from this woman. It would have been much kinder of her to just calmly tell me "no" when I called. Instead I was treated to this spectacularly unprofessional display.

The hotel is beautiful, with some warm and welcoming spaces, and my bedroom and bathroom were cozy and gorgeous. If I'd had a better time of it, I might not have been as unimpressed by the light pouring into my room all night from the pretty stained-glass window over the door. I still would have been as unimpressed by breakfast - mass-produced individually packaged bagels, instant oatmeal, cheap granola bars, boiled eggs. Not necessarily a great choice for a romantic weekend either, with those thin walls. Won't...

Our stay was good. There's no 'walk to the beach' opportunity. There's a beautiful park just across the street that abuts the Nehalem River. We saw a heron, a seal pup and, I swear to god, a very large fin cruising by ... I won't be swimming there. Place to get coffee and food on the street. I guess I was a little miffed that there was no breakfast, because of "covid". i like breakfast and thought that was part of what we were paying for. The room itself was beautiful; great view of the river. Nice to wake up and look out that window. The room itself sometimes had an odor; like there might be a small leak in an outflow pipe in the walls, or something. We smelled it a couple of times; noticeable when windows closed and entering the room after several hours. We checked in with Addy. She was very nice. We liked that she was cautious about mask wearing and who was staying in the hotel. The price we paid was a good value, IMO. This hotel 'flies under the radar', not listed on popular travel sites. For a weekend stay it was last minute available and priced well under comparable hotels (Mo 6 on the weekend is just about the same price. yuck) We would ...

I had a wild experience here with my partner at the time, and ended up leaving at 3am that same day. The service was great and the host was a medium himself I found out later after the haunting. The gentleman spirit who use to have the room we stayed in did not like us very much and showed us through multiple examples that we were not welcomed. I called the host and told him something happened that could not be explained and we had to leave immediately, he told us we were not the only ones who left that evening as another couple saw a face in the mirror of their bathroom and ran out screaming. Mind you, i did not know this hotel was haunted before my partner reserved it and neither did my partner. As soon as we both walked in, we felt the presence of many spirits as it use to be a clinic and has been remodeled into a hotel. This review can easily turn into a bigger novel on our experience but wanted to express that it is a cute place with a Victorian feel, the host understood our situation and wanted to make sure we were ok before heading out on the road to drive home scared like 'we just saw a ghost'....