Oyster Bay — Restaurant in Deadwood

First off the remodel looks very nice, but it’s sad to see a Deadwood staple turned into your basic boring sports bar with an excessive amount of TVs. We went with a group of 7 and service was beyond poor. Our server did not know what beers they had other than Coors Light and Blue Moon. When I asked about the pizza sizes she vaguely says “it’s like a tombstone pizza”. We had a friend join later and she was completely ignored and had to go to the bar to get service. At one point the Blue Moon tap was gone and my friend asked what other beers they had and our server said “not a lot”. After we ate our mediocre pizza and pretty good wings, our group wanted to split checks,. Our server looked at us and said “I’ll just bring you a check” and then walked directly outside to smoke(this was in front of the building and we were at the window so we know where she went). We were one of two tables in the place, so it’s not like she was super busy, but apparently her smoke break was more important than taking care of her customers. Here’s the real kicker, my friend paid for the bill on his card, they rest of us gave him cash to cover and his bank account says they charged him almost double what our bill was. The remodel is nice, but I personally like the old dive better. The service was less than desirable and none of us will...

OK, so this place has super potential. After taking the not-so-ghost tour and talking to the staff, I get why this hotel is not being remodeled. It would be insanely expensive! However, over half the building(s) is not being used except for the so called ghost tour (unless you wanna argue that seeing dust in your flash are orbs. Dear God, don't get me started on that idiocracy), and the part that is being used is in desperate need of remodeling. It is a beautiful old building with great history. It's too bad more care and creativity isn't being put into the place.

As for the ghost tour, it's something to do for a couple hours for $20. If nothing else, it provides a nice little history of the bulidings and town, which I did enjoy. As for the ghost sighting part of the tour, I can freak myself out super easy in the dark, my imagination getting the best of me, but all that happened on this tour was that I experienced a bad headache and allergies due to the high amount of dust, and annoyance of others who believed the dust (it's an old delapitated building!) were orbs, and the cigar smoke from the smoking lounge downstairs was ghosts, and itchy feet were spirits trying to...

Sun., Apr. 27th. Came to Deadwood to celebrate our birthdays (3 birthdays within a week) and went to the Fairmont for one of the "nightly ghost tours" and we wanted to pay early and take the tour at the time it was advertised. The bartender told us not to pay early and come back at 730 because she wasn't sure if there would be a tour or not. We left and wandered around til around 7pm. We came back and decided to get something to eat. The food was good. The service from the bartender started to get kinda sucky. She started taking longer and longer to check on us, and my husband kept trying to get her attention to ask her about the ghost tour. Every time he raised his hand to get her attention, she saw him and turned around and walked the other way. We were after we came back that there WOULD be a tour, then after an hour of waiting, we were told that there would NOT be a tour. That would have been nice to know when we first got there instead of wasting our time. NOT impressed. The bartender needs to learn customer service. Also, the Fairmont needs to honor their advertisements. "nightly ghost tours"? More like "ghost tours whenever we...