Kedron Valley Inn — Hotel in Woodstock

We visited the Kedron Valley Inn six years ago in October of 2017. We were greeted with a warm welcome. We had rooms in the main house and treated as family more than guests. The people were encouraging us to sit on the front porch and enjoy ourselves. Had coffee for us anytime we wanted it. |When we left we were given hugs and really felt like we were leaving a great place.||Jump to October 2023. New owners, new business model. The main house has no rooms for rent. The office was in a back room off the main seating area with a closed door. The whole place seemed very formal and not welcoming.||Simi helped us check in, so to speak, as we were just charged online when we booked and two weeks before we showed up. They sent an email with the keyless entry codes.||She was very nice and answered questions for us. She said if we needed anything at all, just to let them know. The problem was that nobody was around if we needed anything.||The rooms were nice, we had room #21 and #26. There was ample space for the most part. Only one little trash can in the bathroom. No coffee in the rooms. We were told we could get coffee in the mornings in the main |building. It was a Keurig and had two water bottles for filling. When I arrived at 7:30am the coffee maker needed water, but the water bottles were too big to be filled at the bathroom sink (only water supply). I used a coffee cup and filled that and then the bottle so others could have some if needed. The first two mornings there wasn't a trash can for the empty coffee cups. ||I had to ask for an extra bath towel and some cups for our room, the lady in the office was not happy about having to call housekeeping. We had the impression that they were happy to give us a place to stay as long as we didn't bother them. I won't go into detail about the dead flies I kept picking up off the floor or had in the windowsills.||Also, a concern was the glass shampoo and conditioner bottles. I was happy they had those amenities in our bathroom, but the glass bottles were a bit nerve wracking since I didn't want to drop them when wet. I had to take the pump out of the shampoo as it didn't work so I had to pick up the bottle when using.||The front porch has a few tables and chairs on one side but they were used for people eating or waiting to get into the Tavern. We did play cards there one night because we had nowhere else to play. However, we felt like we were in the way of all the people coming and going. The porch looks great but there are no chairs that say, sit down and have some fun.||We purposely spent 4 nights here because of our previous experience. We wish we would have spent more time at our two other Inn's and skipped this place. ||Very disappointing. Will not stay again. There are too many other places to stay that will be...

We stayed two nights in one of the family suites in January, 2022. The stay was disappointing. The room was freezing, we had a space heater for added warmth, but it did not do enough to combat a very cold night, and a very drafty room. We complained the next morning and they brought us another space heater which made a difference, though it was still not the temperature inside we would have liked. ||||Unfortunately, overnight the space heaters shorted out the electricity in one part of the room and so it was very cold again by morning. I did appreciate their responsiveness, but honestly, in Vermont, you've got to do something about the insulation to not leak that much cold air into the room. We were up their to ski so cold is part of the package...||||Second, and more disappointing because of the lack of response was the lack of hot water. We tried to shower our first night, and the water wouldn't get past tepid. We called them and told them about that too, and they did nothing. ||||Overall, our room was dated, and probably hadn't been touched in 20 years (certainly not weatherized). ||||They offer contactless check-in, but had not sent me an email by the time we arrived (and we arrived after check-in time had started). The code they gave me didn't work for the room, so I had to go back to get another one. Not a big deal, but taking all that together, it just felt like things weren't operating that well. Staff were all friendly about it, but it was reactive and band-aid responses, rather than proactive and addressing root-causes of issues.||||The restaurant on site makes great pizzas, and has a great beer list. I'd recommend staying somewhere else, and eating at...

I have stayed in MANY hotels in Vermont. As an avid snowboarder and terrible planner, I am normally left to book hotels a week or so out, which means my options are limited. This also means I have stayed in more "not so great" places than I'd like. Thank god I stumbled on the Kedron Valley Inn this past weekend, because it was possibly the nicest place I've stayed. We stayed in the back cabins, which were fantastic. Only thing that was an issue was no fridge (it was 1 degree outside so just leave it out there for a bit, it'll get cold) and the hot water runs out for long showers. Check in and out was very simple, in fact we got in a bit late so not having to do a formal check in was relieving. After arriving we tried to get some food from the Inn but they were just closing up (around 10pm), but they were nice enough to heat us up some delicious meatballs and bread (shoutout Joe). The Inn is equidistant from Okemo and Killington, about 30+ minutes, and a stones throw away from the historic town of Woodstock. All in all, if you're looking for a Vermont getaway or to ski either of those mountains and don't mind a bit of a drive, this place is perfect...