Harraseeket Inn

Great location! Came here for an overnight business trip. Sweet place nestled in downtown Freeport. Loved the easy proximity to the airport. Was so glad that I was here before the Summer crowds, so that I could really enjoy the serenity of the area. The Inn itself is very comfortable and clean with beautiful grounds. Staff was very friendly and helpful.

If I could move in here FOREVER I would.
The staff is the best — Penny at the front desk is the sweetest lady in Maine.
The rooms are elegant — lovely and clean bedding, large tv’s, mini fridge upon request. The rooms with a fireplace are exceptional.
The breakfast buffet is not to be missed:
Fresh yoghurt & granola
Fresh blueberry muffins
Fruit salad
Baked beans
Pancakes or french toast
Frittata
Scrambled eggs
Roasted potatoes
Bacon & sausage
Need I say more???
I suggest ordering room service by your fireplace (pizza & fish are yummy)

Recently had a work conference here and the service, food, atmosphere was outstanding. Ashley the person who helped get everything set up was wonderful! No task seemed to be out of the question. If you are looking to host an event here or for a quiet getaway I would highly recommend the Harraseeket Inn.

Peaceful, clean, and charming. Comfortable beds, beautifully decorated rooms, and a soothing salt water pool. The food in the tavern was excellent and the service was friendly. The breakfast buffet was excellent. Just a one minute walk away from all the stores. We enjoyed staying at this inn a great deal. Will come back!

On the recommendation of some friends, my wife made reservations. I wanted her to cancel them because of the weather forecast but she wouldn’t. She signed us up for some sort of meal plan, which I highly recommend. We have eaten in the main restaurant, and in the tavern as well. This plan also comes with breakfast, and an afternoon tea with desserts is included. Everyone here goes out of their way to make you feel comfortable, and to get you to return. My wife left her pocketbook, with all of her money, in the dining room. They returned it promptly! Our car was covered in snow, they cleaned it! This place is amazing. Great accommodations, great food, great value. Five stars for sure!

I absolutely love the Harraseeket Inn. Growing up, my parents went every year for their anniversary. Two years ago, my boyfriend and I went the week before Christmas and also fell in love. This year, we became engaged during our stay at the Inn.
The entire inn is so charming with fire places and local décor, and the staff is warm and welcoming. The breakfast is fantastic! In addition, I love eating at the Tavern. I highly recommend the crab cakes and lobster stew– They are so good, I even bought the inn’s cookbook as a Christmas gift for my fiancé!
The area has lots of wonderful things to do! The outlets (within walking distance) are fantastic and have great sales. It’s fun to check out the enormous LL Bean store. Wolfes Neck Woods State Park is right down the road and so beautiful– a must see.
We had a fantastic stay here once again and we will definitely be back!

The Harraseeket still gets five stars however this article is written based on the townhomes that they have on property. This is one of my top five favorite places to spend a weekend. Have been coming here for years. We were traveling with four people and instead of getting adjoining rooms the townhome was suggested. This should not even be part of the property. I felt like I was in a lower end Daze Inn. Probably built in the late 1970s the popcorn ceiling was peeling in the bathroom The tile grout was chipped and missing, caulking in the bathtub was peeling and mildewed. Analog TVs are provided it’s been a while since I’ve seen these. Overall the place is grimy. I’m very surprised that an organization such as this allows these conditions. I will say that up in the main house everything remains perfect. If this was my first time staying in the resort (Based on the townhome conditions) I would never return because it’s a reflection on the property as a whole.
A note to the management: you may consider these old townhomes to be a cash cow but the long-​term negative impact will be very bad for business.

This is a great hotel. I wish we could stay here every time we were in the area. The rooms are very nice, its very quiet and they have a small firepit with a few chairs (wish there were more, its full for the few hours after dinner that you want to be out there) and a bar inside that you can get some drinks and sit by the firepit with. It is within walking distance to town and shopping and right off the highway.

Spent two nights ⁷⁄₁₀ and ⁷⁄₁₁ at the end of a week long vacation in Maine. We loved this Inn! Sweet rooms, very clean. Wonder staff. Delightful tea in the afternoon and an incredible breakfast. Was such a comfortable stay. Kids enjoyed the pool, the games in the parlor, and smores by the fire outside the pub. If I ever make it back to Freeport, I will stay here again. Loved it.

I was utterly charmed by this Inn. I am laughing at the review complaint about no gym. Who does that on a vacation? By the way we aren’t old or snowbirds-​Californians who adored the retro feel, friendly service & good food. We loved the morning breakfast in this beautiful Inn. Quiet and classy. We also had the luncheon special-​which is all you could eat at the pub grill. We ate outside & had a nice server –I think my husband took the record for helpings! Shout out to the ribs, blueberry pie and homemade ice cream.
It was so dreamy, just the place I had been waiting for in my first visit to New England.

Had nice graduation dinner there for my niece with 8 family members. Service was good and food was nice. Had a tasty Lobster Stew which was just a light cream soup with a few bits of lobster. For main course had Maine Scallops, which were good but sitting in a quarter inch of butter. My mother had the lobster which they were kind enough to take out of the shell for her.
Oh and the Rhubarb pie with Vanilla Ice Cream is a great way to finish off the evening!
Overall, a nice evening in comfortable surroundings. While some people were wearing jackets (it was a Saturday Night), you’ll be fine in a collared shirt and pants.

EVERYONE SHOULD GET MARRIED HERE!
I got married here in May 2014 — everything was awesome, from the food to the flowers, and ESPECIALLY the wedding planner there, JeanMarie. She is awesome — really professional and plans everything to a T!!!
For the price, it is truly AMAZING what you get here. They provide the flowers for an amazing price, I loved my rustic purple flower arrangements and got so many compliments on them. The food is SO GOOD — you can get anything you want with the wedding package, we had scallops, lobster tail, beef roast, lamb and so much more. They also provided a dessert buffet! We had such an amazing dinner, all our guests were so impressed. I’m so happy we got married here and I just am so happy with everything. Even if I had a million dollars I’d get married here again!

Inn patronizes a very mature crowd, lots of snow birds here. Nights stay includes a bland breakfast with a rather apathetic (well to me anyways) but they are friendly. There is no gym and the lower levels reek of a seafood smell. The rooms are very outdated bad don’t allow you to control your. Room temperature. Food is average at best and very overpriced.
Also, helps not to be a minority, the guest and staff don’t see’em often and stare… a lot.

Although, we didn’t stay here, we did make it our first stop on our little road trip. We came for the Sunday Lobster Brunch and it was totally worth the earlier flight into Maine. The service was so attentive even when it started to get really busy. The buffet style fare was scrumptious and the lobster was incredibly fresh. The prime rib was perfectly cooked as well. I left SO satisfied. If I’m ever back here again, I would definitely include the brunch in my itinerary again!

My parents like to stay here because it allows dogs and also supplies bowls for them and beds. There are only a small handful of rooms that are dog-​friendly though, and they are a little bit worn down. But that is no big deal. There is a great restaurant on site, the Inn itself is attractive, and the location is excellent. It is right on the edge of town so you don’t have to drive through a billion stoplights and traffic to get there, yet it is an easy walk to everything in «downtown» Freeport.
Freeport is a charming little town with outlet clothing stores, a large LL Bean, various restaurants and some cute smaller shops as well. There is a strict building code so even the fast food joints have to be in attractive buildings. Harrasseeket Inn is a good choice to say as its charm and look perfectly match that of the town and it is close to everything. Definitely recommend it!

Smelly, spiders, mildew in shower, hair on my sheet when we turned down the bed. We had reserved a cottage — the only good thing was they let us out of our reservation because I would rather sleep in my car!
Thanks for the apology — sorry I called my room a cottage — we were in the white dog friendly building across the way — the front desk called it a cottage.

We stayed at the Inn on June 14^th before the weather warmed up in Maine. We had a lovely room on the first floor with a garden view and ate dinner in the «Dining Room.» The food and service were excellent. I had a wonderful bouillabaisse while my wife enjoyed lobster spaghetti — high praise from a Mainer married to a Brooklyn
I-​talian.
Even though the Inn is on Route 1 on the edge of the Freeport shopping district, the atmosphere of the inn is that of a quiet New England retreat.

We stopped by the Broad Arrow Tavern at the Harraseeket Inn the night before Thanksgiving to grab a bite to eat after our long drive from Boston. The hostess informed us of a 15 minute wait which we were fine with. We stepped up to the small bar and were ignored for about 5 minutes (no, the bartender wasn’t busy — he gave a wine list to the woman sitting in front of us and while she was deciding… he unloaded the dishwasher rather than see if we wanted anything). It was pretty rude… to the point where my husband said to me, «You know what, let’s go.» I hushed him and said we should just deal because I was starving. A minute or so later, we got drinks and mere seconds after that we were sat at our table.
Our waitress was extraordinarily pleasant (even though she came across like she was talking to 6 year olds rather than adults). It wasn’t patronizing in any way — I think she actually was literally THAT cheerful. Good for her!
I started with their Lobster Stew (I apparently operate under the mistaken assumption that stew is made with veggies… this was just lobster… very delicious lobster). Huge chunks of lobster… very tasty. It was $ 9.00 for a CUP of the stew. Worth that much? Meh. Probably not, but well-​made and tasty nonetheless.
I followed that with a basic hamburger with cheese but by the time I got it… I had eaten two huge hunks of the delicious bread at the table and had lost my appetite. Oops.
Husband got the half rack of ribs and said that they were delicious.
All in all, a nice place to go… very packed… large menu with many different selections and fun people watching (like some visiting folks from the South that had never cracked a lobster before… very fun to watch).

I’ve been to the Harraseeket Inn twice now. Once for lunch and once for dinner. I wasn’t a fan when I went there the first time, but figured I’d give it another shot since there aren’t that many, if any, great options close by.
Walking in there were a few people around a fire pit outside and I thought that was pretty cool, maybe I miss judged this place. However, after eating the food (inside) I was just not impressed. I think the food is pretty expensive for not being the greatest quality. For example, there was a pear salad that was decent, but I am 99% sure the pears were from a can. Maybe I am just turning into a food snob, but you couldn’t have gotten some fresh pears? The scallops I had were good and I wouldn’t say the meal was bad — the service was good and the atmosphere ok, but I have definitely had better.

We came to L.L. Bean Mecca hungry and in need of a bite. I’m not reviewing the Four Diamond hotel, which looks like it’s worthy of a stay, but its restaurant, the Broad Arrow Tavern.
The Broad Arrow Tavern, named after the tall virgin timber that used to be cut for sailing ship masts from the nearby forests, is a dark, cozy, kitschy room filled with everything from canoe paddles and geese decoys to the large, and, my daughter, who stared back at it for some time, would say quite intimidating stuffed moose head over our table.
I had one of the best lobster rolls that I’ve ever had, with sweet, well cooked meat and not too much dressing. The lobster stew was likewise a winner. My wife had the chowdah and it was also top drawer, full of cream and a touch of bacon good enough to be banned by Heart Associations everywhere, but loved on a cold spring day. The buffet looked like a pass, but the menu itself, which sports the names of the local farms and fish suppliers from which they buy, has a lot of dishes that you’ll find really exceptional with a sold four-​star kitchen
Service was prompt, and just a step above coffee shop courtesy in the functional department. These gals are busy, and you will know it, even if you don’t want to. Still, the glasses got filled, the plates taken away, so all-​in-​all, a good enough experience there.
Parking was easy in the back, a stone’s throw from shopping central, and it sits right at the entry to town, so it is hard to miss it. We’ll come back.