Mixed Appetizers
The Lakeside Inn

The Lakeside Inn

595 North Ave, Wakefield, United States Of America

Pubs • Brunch • Buffet • American


"Driving up to this hotel, you question the good reviews and the photos. It looks like an abandoned apartment building. Very dated. The hotel is clearly in the beginning stages of a remodel. They seem to need the business to help pay for it. The loby was nice and clean and the staff was super nice.Our room #200 for two adults with a king bed had fresh paint. I am assuming newer furniture, but it was pretty beat up. The linens were thin, and bedspread was dated. The carpet was very stained. Have flip flops on hand. The bathroom was painted, and the cabinet and shower title looked newer, but the sink and tub were skipped. The tub was stained. There was a window unit. It kept the room cool. We had a view of the lake and the pool.The lake is not accessible. There is a pool off to the side in a field? Pool access is to walk out the front door, through the parking lot, and across the grass through construction tape. It has weird hours. It looked clean and had chairs but no umbrellas. No shade.The bar is only open early in the week.Behind the hotel they had a firepit with Adirondack chairs that looked nice. No access from the back of the hotel.The gym was across from our room. Basic needs covered.The area is a business park, but if you walk down a quarter mile or so, there is a nice park. Nice neighborhood with many people out enjoy the day walking and jogging.We stayed two nights. No maid service. Not a room to hang out in. Just sleep. This is a one night get in late sleep and get back to the road trip.If you are picky this may not be the hotel for you.Room was clean and safe.No frills and no breakfast."

Primo - Rockland

Primo - Rockland

2 S. Main St. Rockland, ME 04841, 04854-3205, United States

Pasta • Hotels • Italian • Spanish


"The food in Primo is excellent. In Primo we have eaten several times in recent years and both the menu and the food are consistently very creative and well executed. However, the service can be met or miss. This new year's eve, it was more of a miss. This did not seem to be a consequence of being excessively busy, it was not. We were there when it was much more business. We had reservations, and although there were empty tables when we arrived, we wanted to wait in the bar until our table was ready. We sat 30 minutes after our reserved time. The waiting staff is pleasant, but on this occasion does not meet our expectations for the level of service we enjoyed there before and have come to expect prices (our bill was over $300.00 [including a 20% tip] for two without dessert or a bottle of wine). Examples of the less than expected performance obviously contain empty glasses at the edge of the table are not deleted until after several visits on the table are deleted by server/wait staff, no refilling of water glasses by waiting personnel; we did it ourselves, and food (complementary pre-Meal appetizers) on the table of runners without description of what was placed. It seems as if the staff tried, but was not sufficiently trained to provide the level of service that should be provided to make this a truly 1st class experience. Here, too, this seems rather to be a function that you get as anything else. We used to be there and had excellent services. The service was fair, only not what we expect at the calculated prices. Nevertheless, we will come back because the food is good enough to overlook the unconsistent quality of the service, just as often as we would otherwise. It is unlikely that we will return for dinner at the New Year's Eve."