Blue Ridge Lodge & Rv Park

Charming rooms with a cabin atmosphere. Easy access to down town and lake blue ridge. friendly proprietors. The room and grounds are clean and well kept. The room we occupied had a fully equipped kitchen.
We will recommend this location to friends and family. As we are driving home now, we are discussing a return visit soon.

This is a very small jewel in the North Georgia Mountains. We were told by other
employees that had stayed here. This place is super clean. I came here with a staff of people so we took 4 different rooms. Each was uniquely different. I understand that the management staff is new. Dan and Beth are very nice people and helpful. It’s so close to the water we could walk to fish after work. This was a work trip but we managed to squeeze in fun activities. Our room rate was $ 275 for a week and included a small kitchen and a setting area. There was a fire pit and a pavilion for outdoor cooking– the view was fantastic overlooking the Tennessee Mountains. Loved it.

I can’t help by first pointing out that our room had cockroaches. I’m not talking about large Georgia «water bugs» — the roaches in our room were straight up German cockroaches that infest houses. I know for a fact because I moved into an apartment last year that had a roach infestation in the kitchen. My wife and I did not notice any roaches when we moved all of our stuff into the room. We were in the room for about 15 minutes and left to sightsee. When we returned in the evening my wife found an adult German cockroach in the bathroom. I immediately killed it, but found a few babies on the bathroom sink and mirror. We thought: okay, we’re near the woods and there are a few bugs in our room maybe this is just a minor issue. The next morning we woke up and found a few more baby cockroaches on the bathroom sink and mirror. We killed them and left for the day. We came back late the second night and found 2 adult cockroaches in the bathroom and 1 was near the TV stand. There were about 8 babies on the bathroom sink and mirror. I killed every roach I could get to. I went to the bathroom an hour later and there were 5 more babies on the sink and mirror. It was about midnight and I asked my wife if she wanted to leave, she said that we should just sleep and leave early and try to ask for a refund. It was a very busy weekend in Blue Ridge and we would have been lucky to find a hotel room that late at night.
The next day we packed the car and went to check out. The owner asked, «How was your stay?» I replied, «It was awful, our room has cockroaches.» She replied, «That’s strange, we spray for bugs every two weeks.» I said, «Well we had to deal with killing cockroaches all night.» She smiled and said, «Well, I hope you enjoyed your stay and had a great time in Blue Ridge.» I was completely baffled by this response. Mind you, I did not really expect that the owner would give a refund because I’m sure she is well aware of the cockroach problem. However, she did not even remotely apologize. She smiled the whole time as if we were making lite small talk. Cockroaches carry diseases for crying out loud. My wife and I used the sink to brush our teeth and cockroaches crawled all over the sink and mirror. I used up 2 rolls of toilet paper killing a total of 4 adult cockroaches and 20+ babies. She acted like I said, «You know, not a big deal, but we found a few red lady bugs in our room.»
Now I suppose there may be a few skeptics out there. Maybe you think that it was a fluke and our room just had a minor bug issue. Here are a number of other issues we had:
1) The owner told my wife over the phone that if we couldn’t make it for check-​in by 6pm then we should call and let her know. We called and told her that due to traffic we would get there at about 6:30pm. When we arrived, the owner mentioned about 4 times how she had to «patiently» wait for us and didn’t know if we would arrive or not. She also started complaining about how busy it was during the weekend and how much work she had to do. My family owns a business and we would never complain to customers directly. This was very unprofessional of the owner.
2) The room was pretty small. Just a love seat, bed, small table, tv, mini frig, and tv stand. The tv was pretty dated and small. Also, the tv channel guide printout was sticky and gross. The love seat was old, dusty, and had a few cigarette burns in it. I flipped through the Yellow Pages provided in the room and it was covered in dust — I started coughing and sneezing.
3) The bed was not very comfortable and there were only two pillows. The blankets were old and stained. It was unclear if the bedding had been washed before we got there. The extra blanket was some old and itchy wool blanket.
4) I washed my hands in the bathroom and went to dry my hands. The bathroom towel bar fell and hit my foot really hard (I was not wearing socks). I managed to put it back up. However, 10 minutes later it fell again on my wife’s foot.
5) There were 2 large, 1 medium, and 2 small towels all crammed onto the bathroom towel bar for some reason. Since the towel bar fell twice on the ground, my wife and I decided not to use those towels. The «maid service» was only bringing new towels to our room and nothing else. Plus, the towel my wife used had a hole in it. Fortunately, I used a towel I brought from home.
6) I was very disappointed with the lock on the front door. There was no deadbolt or chain. The only lock was a very basic lock on the doorknob. Also, the window in the bathroom was not securely in place. I realize that crime is probably very low in the area but it would be VERY easy to break into our room. I saw a security monitor in the main office, but it looked like it was from the 1990s.