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Standard bedrooms are generously sized, and the day bed enables them to easily sleep parents and a child
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Bedrooms have a day bed-cum-window seat for those who want to enjoy the landscape at their ease in warmth and comfort. Balconies are there for the warmer weather. A typical US generosity of scale is carried through into the bedrooms, which are spacious and have large bathrooms with large soaking tubs.
The standard rooms have the tub and wc. separated from the wash hand basin which sits inside an alcove to the bedroom. Bedrooms are quiet with little or no noise intrusion from elsewhere in the hotel, although at night voices carry a long way in the quiet of the wilderness location
There is a worktable-cum-dressing table, and comprehensive wifi internet throughout the hotel, but despite the amount of business use the hotel has for 'retreats' and conferences, it doesn't seem that the rooms are oriented as business rooms, being more family friendly. Chairs at the dresser are fixed and the dresser itself is on the small side for a worktable, especially as it contains the hotel directory of services, a basket of offerings from the minibar, the telephone etc..
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"typical US generosity of scale is carried through into the bedrooms"
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Bedheads are timber and all bedrooms have a similar traditional feel
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There is a well designed Spa, with its own changing and showering areas, separate and distinct from the gym. There is a quiet room that is just that, and the gym and swimming pool are adjacent so that the hotel can offer a full spa or wellness experience. Alas, this is not reinforced in other areas, and there is no healthy eating option on the menu, portions being so large one of the staff confessed that when they ate in the hotel they had one meal between three.
The spa is undersold, with its entrance tucked away behind an anonymous door, and the lack of integration with the rest of the operation undermines what could be a major revenue generator. Again comparison with the Spa at the Mohonk is instructive. The ability to capture the family audience, the young childless couples as well as the celebrity visitor, as the Mohonk has suceeded in doing, would bring additional sparkle to the whole hotel.
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The well designed spa is quite separate from the gym, with its own changing rooms, but is hidden away. The pool is a piece of banal design without any notable design values - functional, and not considered in relation to how it might complement the spa operation
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Alderbrook Resort and Spa
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