Baumann’s Brookside

My family has been going to Baumann’s for 40 years. When my (now) wife and I were thinking of places to have a wedding, Baumann’s immediately came to mind. The entire Baumann’s staff worked with us every step of the way, helping to plan and make the perfect wedding weekend. From the menu, the activities, the décor (which they also helped create, especially for our special day) everything was absolutely perfect. We had 130 people coming for the wedding including a rehearsal dinner, a ceremony on the beautiful grounds between the two ponds and an amazing reception in the Rec hall. The owners family also built a cedar arbor just for us! Everyone including Carol Baumann, her daughters, sons and grandchildren pitched in to help and partied with us as well! I highly recommend this place for some family fun, amazing food and perfect cozy atmosphere.

Well let’s start off by saying that if you are disabled and travel with a service dog you won’t get accommodation by management. My family has been going here for almost 20 years — it’s a simple, down home reasonable place; but make no bones about it, that many beds for that many years is still called profit any way you cut it. I am now disabled due to cancer in my leg — and have a well trained and certified mobility service to help me with walking, balance, stairs and the like. Imagine my surprise when I, as a courtesy, called to say I would be traveling with my dog to a family reunion and was then told the dog was not welcome and had to go to a kennel. Did that mean I would stay in the kennel too since the dog is always with me? The dog assists me as a service, she is not a pet. My further explanation resulted in the proprietor hanging up on me after she I quote «was rendered speechless that I would even consider bringing my dog after she offers such great hospitality.» «And it’s private property so she doesn’t have to comply» ADA compliance is a federal law, not an opinion. My two feet and four paws will never cross this threshold again. #discriminationdoesntpay

We won’t be going back. Really loved the place last year but they let us down this year. They didn’t get they’re usual attendance for Labor Day weekend so they cheaped out on us and didn’t give us the Steak and eggs send off. The rooms were dirty and the carpets were badly stained. Oh well many others to choose from.

Amazing resort!
This is a place that improves every year. Very excited to see someone else put 5 stars, this is a place where you can get away and you can really get out of the city and into nature, relax by the pool, hike, swim, do all kinds of activities, such as any sports.
Amazing resort the Horse races are the best! Really love that they have different kinds of activities for the entire family for every age group!
Highly recommend!

This was our first trip to Baumann’s and we can’t wait to get back next year. Maybe this year again for Columbus Day if we can work it out. We wanted to go to the Celtic Festival at Blackthorn so my wife started looking for accomodations in the area. We only live an hour away but we wanted to stay the night and have a long Labor Day weekend up there. She found Baumann’s and it looked OK to me and the reviews were great about the food and the fun and the great people, but of course we were a bit weary about an old Catskill resort. Well, let me me say that from the moment we got there (just in time for supper) we felt like we were special guests. We went straight to supper in the rec hall and found our name on the table and had a fabulous home cooked meal. At that point we decided we weren’t going to the Celtic festival and were staying there the whole weekend and we stayed an additional night as well. This place is a true family run business and they are still in business for a reason. We hope to see all the great folks we met this Labor Day weekend next year.