Inn At Ship Bay - EASTSOUND

Rooms: 5 Service: 5 Location: 5 Hotel highlights: Great view, Quiet

Food took a while to come out, but was amazing!! Did not expect to get such great quality. Highlyyy recommended.

Lovely, quaint little Inn. Stayed here for two nights. Requested and early check in, and were texted around 12:30 pm to let us know our room was ready. When we arrived we were greeted by Annie, who was so sweet and kind. She showed us to our room, as well as the menu for the evening and gave us all the ins and out of the property. The room was quaint, with just about everything you'd need. The view was 10 out of 10. We stayed upstairs in a room that came with a mini fridge (stocked with a few items) , fireplace, king bed, balcony and TV. Each day we went to the check in and filled out ice bucket so we could make cocktails or have fresh ice in our water. The Inn itself was very quiet. The ground were beautiful and well cared for. We thoroughly enjoyed taking our wine down to sit on the ground overlooking the water. Check out was also super simple. We found our stay here to be absolutely perfect. If we were to change anything, perhaps maybe some slight larger bath towels and a microwave in the room. But even without those things, we would definitely here again.

The only time they said they could take us was 8 PM on a Thursday night in late June. We got there at 7 PM and the place was 3/4 empty. They told us we could not sit outside on the patio at an empty table or at any of the 12+ empty tables. They also told us they could not seat us earlier than 8pm because they did not have enough staff. The hostess and a waitress told us to try to get a seat at the bar. When a couple got up, we went to the bar but just then, the incredibly rude hostess told us that somehow those two seats were magically saved for people on a nonexistent waiting list. was she lying before or lying now? By that point, we were done. We walked out, and enjoyed a wonderful barbecue meal instead. The attitude and incompetence and bitchiness of this place and it 's employees was simply not worth our time or money.

The Inn is an exceptional place to stay on Orcas Island. Our room was homey and had everything we needed including the daily refresh of the amenities we wanted. We stayed for 7 days and when we were not hiking or eating we relaxed in the back yard overlooking the bay. Bald eagles, cormorants, Canadian geese and turkey buzzards are all around. The grounds around the rooms and restaurant are like English gardens. There are large vegetable and fruit gardens that the on-site restaurant chefs utilize for their amazing dinners. The room price was VERY reasonable. The service is tops it off. This is THE place to stay when visiting Orcas island. We will be back next year!!