Grey Squirrel Resort & Vacation Rental Homes

This is one those places that you see on «Hotel Impossible» the filth, the broken fixtures, nasty linens, etc… This used to be our go to place to stay ever since I was a little kid. I had fond memories of staying here and playing in their playground, or swimming in the pool. It has been years since we have stayed here. So for our annual family vacation we decided to rent one of the largest units that they have. The «Mink» which sleeps up to 14. When we arrived in Big Bear we drove around the grounds and noticed that the men were working on the unit, and actually replacing the sinks, and the unit was in shambles. We decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and come back at check in time and hope for the best. When we arrived back at 2pm, we walked in. The unit appeared clean and put together, which was a miracle considering the shape it was in 3 hours before. We unloaded all of our things, and designated rooms to everyone. As soon as we took a closer look at things we were blown away by how trashy and in my opinion unrentable this unit actually was.
The linens are nasty! completely dated and had stains all over them. The bathrooms had full size toiletries that are ½ used. The drawers in the kitchen were sticky, and so broken they would not even open. The website advertised 2 stoves, and 2 refrigerators. (Which was a huge plus for us because we had a lot of ppl. with us) there was none of that. The «2» refrigerators they did have, 1 was an apartment size, and the other was a small compact one, that you would see in a dorm room. Big enough for some soda. Keep in mind they told me this unit was totally remodeled. The carpet upstairs was bunching and starting to come up. There were no screens on one of the bedrooms upstairs, and with kids, this is NOT acceptable. The walls were dirty and had stains on them. Not to mention the whole smell of the place was gross. We made all our concerns known to the Manager, and she was very helpful. They even brought an extra refrigerator, and table. We truly appreciated they efforts. But after staying a few more hours, it was just to much. For the amount we were paying none of these things were acceptable. I’m not sure if this place was sold in the past few years, or changed ownership? but we will never be staying here again. All the rooms need a complete renovation, new linens, new beds, paint, and updated kitchens. We checked out about 5 hours after we got there, and ended up finding a house directly on the lake for slightly more than what we paid here. I appreciate that they refunded all of our money. Please think before renting a room here, it truly is not what it used to be.

This is our favorite place to stay while in Big Bear. We love the Mose cabin. Quiet, clean & dog friendly. The staff is always very friendly.

Great place employees so nice and helpful :)Great venue for weddings and group gatherings.

I like this place a lot — nice n cozy — has that cabin vibe — don’t use the fire wood outside of the door of your cabin though. It’s for decoration

This place was awesome, great staff quite, cozy just the perfect getaway definitely worth checking out while your in town

Our cabin was so cute! Very clean and quiet. We will certainly be back — very soon, I hope!

Check This Place Out Before You Check In!
I do NOT recommend this place to anyone.
First off the place is outdated and stinks. Has a damp mildew smell to it. The floorboards have water damage and pealing. They state that the «woodchuck» cabin houses or sleeps 8 comfortably. It doesn’t, it only fits 6. The heaters DONT work and IF they do they are far too hot which probably means the thermostat is busted. They didn’t have enough toilet paperwork for the «8» people that it’s suppose to house!
The place is a bates motel up in big bear. I wouldn’t even go there if Groupon offered me the place @ a 99% Discount! Or FREE!

My poor mother invested her hard darn money in this place only to be completely bamboozled. Believing we were staying in a cabin meant for 8 people we were shocked to only see 3 beds? Luckily one of our guests was comfortable sleeping on the couch but we found out that was only the beginning. The smell of mildew just enchanted the entire cabin. The upstairs had only one tiny lamp to light the entire upstairs. My poor brothers heater was busted in his room downstairs and with no surprise no extra blankets or linens of some sort. This place did not even supply enough toilet paper for the supposed «8» guests. We had to use paper towels that we had luckily bought. So on top of all these lovely qualities we had finished shopping at the village and when we returned to look through our bags which we had left on our kitchen table ANTS! All over! Plus the old cracky narrow stairs are NOT KID FRIENDLY!
Overall VERY disappointed in such false advertisement and poor service. For any future interests PLEASE check in person! And don’t always believe what you see online!

I gave this place two stars because the bathrooms were decent, the yard was great for my kids to play in the snow, and the cabin (I think the name was Lyche’s Rest) was spacious. However, it was extremely dirty and dingy. Toilet handle broke off after first use (although it was fixed the next day), carpet peeling up, an awful odor throughout, fireplace didn’t work, ill fitted window screens, inside of kitchen drawers were filthy, tattered bed covers, and furnished with the dustiest most ancient couch I’ve ever seen. This place reminded me of my husband’s grandparent’s house… after they both passed away, and it had been sitting there for about a month. Needless to say, I had to make a Kmart run to purchase bed sheets and fabreeze. Don’t think I’ll be returning for $ 1000+ a weekend. Wish it would have worked out.

Me and my friends rented a cabin for the second year in a row, and is awesome.
The cabin was spacious, clean and cozy.
Snow summit is 10 minutes away driving, i really think that is a great location

Honestly before you book this place make sure there are no dead rats in the sofas last year 2015 in March my family booked 5 cabins because it’s was a total of 5 family visiting Big Bear my sister rented the Otter cabin and it had a dead rat and feces in their sofas told management and they came picked up but she wanted to change cabins and they couldn’t change cabins so they gave my sister a voucher to come back and stay for free for 1 night and now they claim they are under new management and don’t want to acknowledge their card giving her what they promised I look at it this way even if it is under new management it’s still the Grey Squirrel please people make sure your cabins are clean and that if something goes wrong that they give you more then writing we will never stay there again and that was only five family when this year we are going it’s going to be more then 5 family you lost our business it sucks because in order to leave this review you have to give them a star

Avoid this place.
My husband and our four young kids (ages 6,4 and twins 2) stayed at the Molly cabin on December 26−28^th. Upon arrival we got two sets of keys and a map to our cabin. We kept driving trying to find the cabin called «Molly» but could not find it. About 15 minutes later of driving in the snow we where notified that the cabin’s name had been changed to Kayla’s but they had not updated this on the map they provided us.
This place is advertised as a three bedroom cabin but it is not. There is a small space very close to the stair way that they have put bunk beds that they call a bedroom. It was very dangerous and I did not have my kids sleep there as they could have fallen off. Also, the entire upstairs has no heat at all. Instead they have a small portable heater for the two bedrooms.
You can’t even use it because the electrical outlets only have two prongs and the heater has three prongs. The downstairs wall heater did not work and we had to call them to have them fix it. Next, our fuse popped and we had to call again. Keep in mind that the temperature was around18 degrees.
Since we were limited in the rooms with heat, we tried to sleep in the pull out bed in the leaving room only come to find out it had a lock and couldn’t be used. Later on, Kaity the property manager told me that they put a lock on it because it was broken.
There is mold growing on the bathroom floor. The beds were so old and uncomfortable and the sheets were old and disgusting. As an end result, all my four kids got pink eye and are now on antibiotics, my husband and I are both very sick with a fever. In fact, on our second night my husbands fever was so high he was shaking and shivering. Again, in the snow I had to drive to the local Kmart to purchase medicine for him. We have come to Big Bear several times and this has been the worst experience ever. In fact, this has been the worst trip.
I contacted Kaity the property manager and was told they could not do anything and that they checked the cabin and everything was fine. I was also told: «I’m sorry we couldn’t crank up the heat to 200 degrees.» My family and I just wanted a comfortable stay with working utilities. After our second conversation, Kaity told me not to post this review and send her the picture I had taken and she would talk to the owner to see what they could do.
By the way we paid close to $ 1,000 for our two night stay.
Bottom line, this was hell. Don’t waste you money or your precious time.

This is the spot for us! This is the first time we stayed here or in big bear at all. Very cozy cabins. (Fox Cabin). Reasonably priced two bedroom cabin with a kitchen and a fireplace.
I read the other reviews and most people were very satisfied staying here so we picked this spot. Some people talked about the décor and weren’t happy and some were. It’s so quant and crafty, nothing fancy but exactly what we needed for the weekend. We spent all our time outdoors so we didn’t need fancy or travel lodge style lodging. The property is very nice and clean. Close to the lake and not a far drive to the shopping area. I have no complaints about our stay. They are even Dog friendly so that’s why we chose this place. We will definitely be back.

My daughters and I love this place! We always have the best time when we rent a cabin from them. We’ve stayed across the street at another resort when this one was full and did not like it. The whole time we wished we were at Grey Squirrel. The cabins are clean and have everything you need to prepare your own meals, except the groceries of coarse! My girls love the playground. They even have a fire pit and bring out everything you need to make smores! This is our little hideaway and we couldn’t be happier. It’s become our family tradition to stay here every Fall/​Winter!!!

Exceeded our expectations, and we can’t wait to come back! Our cabin was awesome! Large living room, dining room, full kitchen, full bath and king size bedroom with sitting area. Love the area and will definitely return ASAP. New owners are really fixing up the property! Thank you for a wonderful stay!

We just checked in. Our room is a dump. The carpet is filthy and stained. The bed sheets have that 5 years of brown scuz stained into them. Pretty much everything I have touched is sticky. We were supposed to stay for two nights but we are outta here tomorrow. Oh, yea. The cabin is more like a duplex and the walls are paper thin. I can hear the people next door as if they were in our room. This is my first Unilocal review, by the way. And, I am not one to typically complain. But, I just turned 49 today and really don’t need to subject myself to filthy accommodations at this point in life.

Great place for our family reunion. I especially love the heated pool. Room was clean and the location was excellent this was my second time at the squirrel but I have had family members coming here for years.

Even though bear mountain is an awful place to ski, having a great vacation rental was the perfect retreat. We stayed at Hagey’s house. It was very cute. A little small, but had a great living room for us all to hang out in and enough beds for everyone to fit comfortably. The front desk was really nice. The view was nice and I loved being in the water. The only negative comment I have was that we had to take our trash somewhere else. Instead of the staff throwing it away. So we had to take multiple trash bags in our car and drive it somewhere. Not very pleasant and wish they could have take. Care of that themselves.

I have stayed at the Grey Squirrel Resort twice. The first time was a few years ago in the Bamboozle cabin. That experience was just perfect and the cabin seemed very clean and had everything we needed.
The second experience was not so great. We needed a bigger place for a bigger group, so we stayed in the cabin Molly’s Peak. The place was very big and spacious with lots of sleeping areas. Unfortunately, when we opened the sofa bed in the big living room, the mattress was covered with rat poo :-(We obviously decided against using that general area. That experience made the rest of our stay very uneasy. It made the whole house feel neglected and unclean. I was very nervous opening cabinets, closets, and bedding. It was also uneasy to control the temperature of the cabin.

We LOVED it here. We got in late on Friday night and they made it super easy to check in after hours. We stayed in the «Baby Bear» cabin and it was the perfect setting for our mini-​honeymoon. The area was beautiful, well-​manicured, and you could tell they keep up on it. It’s nothing fancy, but it doesn’t need to be. Our cabin was beautiful and completely old-​fashioned, which is exactly what we wanted. It had a Jacuzzi on the patio which was wonderful to come back to.
Don’t expect anything too fancy… after all, you are staying in a cabin in the woods by a mountain and a lake. The downside is that it can be a little pricey, but then again, it’s your own personal cabin with a Jacuzzi and a peekaboo view of the lake.
All in all, we loved it and can’t wait to go back!!!