Cottage, 2 Bedrooms, Lake View | Desk, free WiFi, bed sheets

Reviews of Northwoods Inn LLC

2.5 out of 5
Northwoods Inn LLC
3716 Main Street, Barnum, MN

Reviews

8.0

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 83 out of 222 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 86 out of 222 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 24 out of 222 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 18 out of 222 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 11 out of 222 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

6.6/10

Amenities

7.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

6/10 Okay

Shiloh

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was a cute property. I appreciated them texting me before my arrival to let me know how to get find and get into my unit. I was travelling for business, and the internet was not working very well. That was inconvenient because I had work to do when I got there and wasn't able to complete it.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

2/10 Terrible

Michelle

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Very strange furnishings and smelled strange
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

6/10 Okay

Tina

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Pam

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Jim

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Captain

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
My wife and I were travelling and only looking for an overnight stay with bed and bathroom. No frills needed. This was perfect and should our path ever take us this way again, we'd certainly stay there again. Great value compared to "name brand" hotels up and down the interstate.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Laverne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very nice relaxed visit in a beautiful area.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Jack

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Cherise

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Bruce

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Laurie

Travelled with family
IT WAS NICE AND VERY QUIET
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Heather

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The room was very clean. They say that they have free Wifi. They did not give me the password when I checked in. I had to ask for it.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

Julia

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Check in was a breeze. Furniture in room is literally falling apart. Bathroom fan extremely loud!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Dianne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Did not have internet. Otherwise it was a great place to stay.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Bruce

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

4/10 Poor

Lisa

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The doors were not very soundproof, and we could hear people talking and watching the TV next door until 2 AM. I wasn’t sure if the bedsheets had been changed as they looked wrinkled.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Alexandra

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Richard

Travelled with partner
The table on thr deck was dirty. We had wipe it off with a napkin before we could use it. We did think the bed was very comfortable! We had to be right up to the TV to make it work. After a bit of frustration we did figure it out and were able to change channels of control the volume.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Barnum Hotel
Nice Mom and Pop hotel, nothing fancy and pretty much basic needs were fulfilled. Very impressed walking in everything neat and clean. Nice oversized mini fridge, beautiful balcony overlooking hwy then Bear Lake. If anything the Towels were too basic and small and some of the lights didn’t work. Would for sure stay there again.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Donald

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful lake view!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Karyn

Quiet
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

debbie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Loved it. Giant room with suitable patio and great view privet with big grassy lawn
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Terry

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Emma

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Amy was extremely helpful the whole time! Everyone was so nice there. It was a wonderful experience to stay. I would honestly go back over and over. Probably one of the best placed inns in minnesota too! Its about an hour from most major cities in minnesota. You get great access to everything minnesota has offer. It is a wonderful stay for just getting to know minnesota.
Stayed 14 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Anthony

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We will stay here again.
Very nice experience. Staff was friendly and helpful, room was very clean, comfortable bed, nice view.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2023

4/10 Poor

Alexander

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Paper walls. Couldnt sleep because I could here anything and everything on either side of my unit. Even regular conversarion sounded like they were in the room with me. Otherwise the room was clean.
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 8 Dec 2022
Sir I appoligize about your unable to sleep becauce of the sounds you hear while you sleep. I can't help with your light sleep hearing. This is a old building, and to be honest with you I've toured brand new housing and you can hear everyting from any where in that house and those are brand new. and those cost hundreds of thousands of dollars an they reall have paper walls. just saying. tank you for your review.

4/10 Poor

Michael

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
No Housekeeping during my three day stay.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 30 Oct 2022
Thank you for the review. I apologize for your inconvenience. I've been limited of help lately, and been work by myself an trying to do the best I can. so again sorry for your inconvenience.

10/10 Excellent

Shelli

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Verynice
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 25 Oct 2022
Thank you very much for the review

10/10 Excellent

Chelsie

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The room was alright clean. Bed was kinda stained, and bathroom was dirty. An service kinda sucked.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 25 Oct 2022
Thank you for your review. we will fix what you have told us . and again thank you for the good rating

6/10 Okay

Jean

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 19 Oct 2022
Thank you very much for your review. WE try to do the best I can to give you a as comfortable stay possible. We hope to have you stay again sometime. Again Thank you

4/10 Poor

Tracey

Disliked: Amenities
It is a very old property and although it was clean, carpet very stained, not even a bedspread, loose and hanging sheets, no second ( ie: chain lock) for door, furniture all over the place. Just not put together.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 17 Oct 2022
Thank you for the review, I'm deeply sorry for the messed up room, I don't like it when they are not properly cleaned and put together. No excuse, I did have a helper with some of the work, but I hadn't checked on all the rooms after. As for the carpet there isn't anything I can do about it. They do get shampooed often. but they are the results of rude customers. We are but a family owed Motel not a corporate or chain. We try our best to keep our rooms as clean as possible . Repairs and replacements have a large cost.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 1 Oct 2022
We would like to thank you for your review, we hope to see you again some time

8/10 Good

Stanley, Shushan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It's a perfectly fine place to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 7 Sep 2022
Thank you for the nice review. we hope to have you stay again sometime.

10/10 Excellent

Holly

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice hotel,. Friendly service, would stay again
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 7 Sep 2022
Thank you very much for your kind review. We look forward to seeing you again.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Overnight up north
Overpriced but clean and quiet. Looked to be recently updated. A funky driveway to rooms located below
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 30 Aug 2022
Well thank you for your review. We hope you can stay with us again sometime. we are really underpriced do to the surrounding area. the driveway as is the parking lots need to be replaced. but sense we are only a family owned business the cost for repairs extremely high. for a small business but we keep trying.

8/10 Good

William

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Pleasant basic motel w soothing lake view. Very clean.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 30 Aug 2022
we thank you very much for your review. We hope to have you visit us again sometime.

10/10 Excellent

Syen

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
One night in Barnum.
The manager was very friendly which made us feel really welcome.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 28 Aug 2022
Thank you so very much for your nice review. We hope to have you vist again.

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 24 Aug 2022
We thank you very much for your great review, I personally thank you we hope to have you at Northwoods Inn and Cottages again.

6/10 Okay

Jana

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stay was fine for our purposes. Would have preferred a mirror and more towels
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 16 Aug 2022
Thank you for the review. So sorry about the mirror. we had a guest break one and we hadn't had a chance to replace it. Towels all you need to do is ask.

6/10 Okay

Thomas

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Kathleen

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very clean.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 11 Aug 2022
We thank you very much for the nice review. we do hope to see you again sometime.

4/10 Poor

Leslee

Travelled with family
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Needs a deep cleaning and some updating. Broken furniture in room.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 11 Aug 2022
We apologize for any inconvenience. I try to keep thing repaired and working. As I'm the only one here, but my part time worker hasn't said anything about any broken furniture. So I'm guessing I need to go searching.

6/10 Okay

Kirk

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Stephen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Sara

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Check in was to start at 3pm, after calling 3 times we got a call back at 3:45 the he was on his way. there was another person waiting to check in as well.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Dawn

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Dennis

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in May 2022

2/10 Terrible

Rachel

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This rated among our top worst hotels ever.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Deb

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good for the caretake but bad for the owners
It would help if the owners would give the caretaker money to do some improvements to the rooms and the outside parking lot as well as other things that need to be done otherwise it is a very nice and quiet place to stay and the caretaker is friendly and tries to accommodate as much as he can with what he has available.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022
Response from Matt Motel Manager on 26 Jul 2022
Thank you so very much for your review. I always look forward to having you here again. Again thank you.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not worth it.
I will never stay at this place again. The parking lot was dark. Absolutely no lighting in the parking lot or by the doors. There was a block of wood holding up the toilet. The sheets were a dark purple and had crusty stains on it. The comforter was also dirty. The comforter was very old and very used. The only lock on the door was the lock on the door knob. The rug was a sample of carpet. The air conditioner did not get cold. No ice machine. The furniture was from a garage sale. The pillows were very cheep. Not worth the $128 per night that I was charged. The soda machine was not working. It just sucked. There are rules posted in the room. There is a large bucket of cigarette butts right outside the door. The wash rags said RAG on them. The rags looked like they had been used to clean the bathroom for the last 30 years.
Comforter was very old and very used and not clean
Carpet sample as a rug
No lock on the door other than the lock on the door knob
Rules of the room
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022