Okay, first things first: the rental company website tells you this place can sleep ten. It was only AFTER we reserved it that they mentioned that of those ten, no more than 6 can be adults, and no more than 4 can be kids. So keep that in mind. This place isn’t awful. It’s just a block or two off the main drag, so in good weather you can walk just about anywhere in downtown Red River in a few minutes. It’s spacious, and if you’re the type to ignore rules, you can easily sleep 11 or more adults here. There are three upstairs bedrooms, two with a full/queen bed, and one with a full/queen and a twin bed. The downstairs has a master bedroom with a queen or king size bed(sorry, i don’t remember exactly) and a twin bed. There’s a day bed in the living room, too, and couches and chairs people can crash on. The furniture’s all in pretty good shape, no pokey springs on the mattresses or threadbare upholstery on the couches. The building itself, however, will test your patience. It is impossible to go up or down the stairs without waking every person in the house due to the unreasonably loud creaking of every single step. The whole upstairs floor is rickety, creaky, and unstable. When someone walks anywhere on the upper level, it shakes the whole floor something equivalent to a 5.0 earthquake. As an experiment, we asked a 5-year-old girl who thinks she’s a ballerina, and thus walks very very lightly on her tippy toes at all times, to her ascend the stairs and cross the upper floor. It was still a cacophony. Even rolling over in bed can shake someone awake in the neighboring bedroom. Unless you’re a really, really, REALLY heavy sleeper, assume you’ll spend your whole time in this house sleep-deprived. There were also some random bonuses, like the staple in the floor of the bedroom i was in that tore a hole in my sock(but luckily not my foot), and the random holes in the board walls between the bedrooms that allow accidental violations of privacy. And speaking of privacy, there’s none upstairs, because the walls don’t extend all the way up to the ceiling. I’m sure this is for air circulation in the winter, and probably keeps those bedrooms much more livable in cold weather, but don’t plan on having any private conversations. Even low-voice conversations in the kitchen are clearly audible in the upstairs bedrooms. So, in short: Bear Run is convenient, spacious, and utterly impossible to get a good night’s sleep in. Also, wear your shoes at all times.
