Where to start...From the outside it looks like a fabulous place to stay. Looks can be deceiving. Yes the ground are well kept and the pool is nice and the playground for the children is very cool, but the owners are completely crazy. Upon check in I was read the riot act. Don't do this, don't do that. Blah blah blah...I felt like I was a teenager on a field trip. 35 by the way. So after check in Mrs Colonel led us to our room. Seemed like a nice touch, but the only reason for this was to make sure that we parked correctly and in the right spot. Which made her seem even more crazy because there were no other vehicles in site. I guess this should have been a sign.
We get to the room and the rules are reviewed one more time. No coolers in the room...no juice boxes...my wife and I couldn't use the pool alone, no guest allowed unless they paid a 45 dollar per day resort fee...on and on and on. Phew....all this and I haven't even seen the room yet. Let me tell you about the room. Small small small. Double bed as hard as rock and we had to go into the bathroom sideways because the door would only open halfway. Towels were so thin I would have been better off using bounty sheets. The shower couldn't decide whether it wanted to be ice cold or blistering hot with water pressure equivalent to me urinating. However at this point I'm really okay. I just figure, "well it's a small quaint mom and pop operation and I can overlook some of the short comings." Everything was okay for the next few days of our stay.
I found it a bit odd the colonel prowling the grounds on his little golf cart, but paid it no mind, until he chewed me out for getting some ice for my cooler...very small cooler...six pack size cooler. $130 a night and they can't provide their guests with a little ice....hmm. Next day we are visiting family across the way at the Whipper will---fantastic little place by the way---doesn't have the eye appeal of the Colonel Williams but owners are so hospitable. My wife goes back to our room to pick up some things and the colonel whips over in his little cart and proceeds to give her hell for us having too many people in our room. She's floored. It has only been the two of us at the resort the whole time we have been there, but because Mrs Colonel only gave us one key when we checked in, the colonel assumed there should be only one of us in the room. This man needs help. Again we just brush it off. We do however tell our travel agents about our experience and unfortunately they confront the owners before we check out.
Well...holy smoke. We have just finished loading the car and coming across the parking lot towards our room is the Colonel and Mrs Colonel. He barks, "do you have a problem with us!!!" I'm standing there like a deer in the headlights because I'm unaware that our agents had talked to him. Unaware I say, "well no sir not really, just a few concerns." I politely explain to him some of our issues including him confronting my wife about us having too many people in our room. He sticks his boney finger in my face and calls my wife a liar. Over and over again. I am a pretty calm person, but at this point I am ready to go all hockey on his butt and give him a good old fashion Canadian tune up. Of course being Canadian I do not...I try and calmly talk to him but he would not listen. He just provides us with insult after insult. He even threatens to call the police. This just blows me away. We have been ideal tenants. We were there to sleep and that's about it. We used the pool twice for 20 minutes at best. We were clean, quiet and paid in full up front. I hand him his room key and say, "thank you very much." He says, "yeah yeah yeah...Go back to Canada." I say, " thank you sir I will." So to my American friends I say, "stay away from the Colonel Williams Resort...he is giving Americans a bad name. To my Canadian friends I say, "Stay away, because he already doesn't like you." And to the Colonel and Mrs Colonel I say, "Thank you for opening my eyes...and helping me cross one more thing off the bucket list...No. 10 - Meet the biggest jerk in the world.
Room Tip: Don't do it...seriously!!!
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