ThreeToedToad
2022 年 12 月 31 日
Traveling from Halifax or PEI to Montreal or the other way round, and think that Little Shemogue Inn would be a great place to stop? Well think again! Considering breakfast, lunch or dinner in quaint Shemogue or at the Inn so conveniently situated on the highway? Don’t! Slam the accelerator instead and clear out while you can!!! Our family of four made the enormous mistake of booking one night at Little Shemogue Inn - the sorriest excuse for a 4-star rating I’ve ever seen. We should have known that in summer, as soon as you leave the safety of your car to search for the hotel host, you would be devoured alive by swarms of persistently aggressive mosquitoes, and why? Because Little Shemogue Inn is nicely located in a swamp of all places! Swamps attract mosquitoes and so do unsuspecting Tripadvisor-booking hotel guests! We are used to finding good accommodations and we are always ready to pay top dollar for them, but this was nothing less than an overpriced scam masquerading as European-inspired class. Fascinatingly, there seemed to be more voracious mosquitoes inside the room than outside, especially in the evening, but if you ventured outside, they seemed more plentiful outside, and if again sought refuge in your room, they appeared more numerous than before! For those of you apiarists, you would not have been happier because, aside from rock hard beds, dingy room, frightening washroom and shower area, not to mention off-kilter door frames, there was a lovely and grandiose hornets’ nest around 35 cm in height, strategically placed on the most inviting terrace overlooking the swamp on the one side, and the admittedly lovely water view directly in front. You could have studied it all you wanted but it posed a clear danger that the Inn completely ignored. The excitable concierge called Debbie, touted a tantalizingly sophisticated European dinner and dessert but it turned out to be a rather ordinary and stodgy oven broiled meat and vegetable dish thing which at least was edible and did not send us to hospital. The funny thing, if you can call it ‘funny’, were the odd comments Debbie made throughout our dining experience that seemed entirely inspired by her evidently and thoroughly ingrained, shall we say ‘down-to-earth’ or perhaps ‘agricultural’ ‘upbringing’. Truly, it was difficult to catch any slumber during our unfortunate sojourn ‘adventure’ because the beds were structured with iron bars that pressed themselves into your spinal column, reminiscent of Medieval serfdom. The best thing about Little Shemogue Inn was escaping from it!
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