Stanford House

Just wow! We came to check out the hiking and get away and couldn’t have picked a better place to stay. Their grab and go breakfast had Keurig a coffee maker and enough food to get me through to lunch. The rooms were clean, super comfortable bed and pillows, air conditioning and so quiet. We were able to hike Equinox, visit Abraham Lincoln’s son’s summer home and gardens in full bloom, and have 2 gourmet meals a few minutes away from where we were sleeping. A bonus was their fire pit when we got back after dinner. Happy to meet our hosts. I’ll be back.

Just because you want to go see the fall colors in Vermont is no reason for inns and hotels to charge people half a month’s mortgage or rent payment just to sleep in a comfortable bed for one night. This is what many places in Vermont do. Stanford Motel was NOT one of those other places, so this is what attracted me in the first place. This may yet change after they are finished with all their renovations. But for the moment, they are charging reasonable prices and not the $300+ per night price tag that even a “moderately” priced hotel, such as Hampton Inn or Holiday Inn Express, are charging during the month of October in the state of Vermont. This all being said, I didn’t find the Stanford Motel to be a “comfortable” place to sleep. The mattresses were comfortable enough for sleeping, but not equipped to handle “marital relations” with their split king beds (actually two twins slammed together). But the motel comes up short on room temperature controls and noise. Our room was HOT. We were in room #6, which is located right over the boiler. The thermostat on the wall meant nothing. I had to sleep with the windows open all night long and this allowed to conversations of noisy neighbors to come into our room or cigarette smoke from people smoking outside of our window. The comforters on our beds were also unhelpful. They use those stupid duvets that many chain hotels have resorted to using. I am not a fan since they trap your body heat AND your partner’s body heat underneath and don’t allow the body to cool down. So I had to go out to my car and bring in one of my thinner blankets from home. Noise: BRING EAR PLUGS in case you are in one or the first floor units. The people in the room above us either were trying to get “their steps in” or had horses with them all night long. There was constant “clomp, clomp, clomp” overhead as we were trying to relax and sleep. I was happy with their renovations, except for the floor coverings. They really need, at the very least, a couple of throw rugs. I don’t like walking on hard floors in my bare feet. But they do have fridge and microwaves in the rooms, and this is a plus.