We picked this B&B because every one else was already booked since April. That should have told us something. I had seen the reviews which alternated between good and Terrible. But nothing else was available.
We booked the Stardust Cottage.(see LaDonna43's review, too) We went to attend the OU/Texas Tech football game on Sat 10/22/11 where my daughter is attending OU in Norman. We arrived @ 6:45 PM Fri evening. Checked in and were shown to the room. Which was a small building adjacent to the Main House which housed the restaurant. This building housed two (2) separate room accomodations. I could hear the TV going in the adjacent room.
There was a bedroom immediately through the front door, and a large bathroom through a doorway to the right. No door on the bathroom, just a curtain. HHmmm.
The room had an old musty odor to it. There was a canopy bed in the bedroom. The nightstand had a sign on it saying, "Please Do Not Touch the Canopy". My wife noticed that there was dust on the canopy which could be clearly seen through the fabric. I then showed my wife the sign. She said it must be so that folks don't dislodge the dust to cause it to rain down on them while sleeping below it. We went to the front desk to complain about the dinginess and the canopy dust, as well as the fact that there was hair on the toilet top. The woman who could barely speak English said she cleaned the room herself, kind of to blow us off. We also asked about the breakfast wondering if it was to be served in the dining room there in the main house. We were told that the breakfast would be served in our room on the small dinette table in the room, not in the restaurant facility in the main house. We were to leave our menu choices hanging on the room door which would be picked up and then served at the time we chose and listed on the "room service" hanger. There was no place to sit except at the diniette table with the 2 dinette chairs which did not substitute for comfortable sitting area seating. You had to lay on the bed to see the TV which was mounted immediately above the dinette table so if you were sitting at the table you had to crane your neck to see the TV.
My daughter who is attending OU came to meet us to show us around and have dinner with us. When she walked into the room she looked around and said to me, "Nancy" (my wife) "is not happy with this room." I said, "You think?" She was aghast when we showed her the canopy sign. She also remarked about the decor which was strange to say the least in addition to the pink wall paint, brown curtain and brown canopy over the bed.
Breakfast the next morning was not wonderful. My scrambled eggs and bacon were passable, but the breakfast potato "patties" were not good, and I wondered what they were made from; greasy ground plastic maybe? Nancy's Blueberry Pancakes were passable, but she said the "butter" patty on top of them had the consistency and taste of margarine that had been left uncovered in the refrigerator, which she had to eat around, so she was unhappy with the breakfast too.
We left to meet my daughter for the day. We returned to get ready before going to the ball game later. When I opened the door and stepped into the room, I was assaulted by a smell that hinted that
the sewer had backed up. I went into the bathroom, but found no problem there nor was there any smell in there, only in the bedroom area. I sprayed Glade air freshener which alleviated that.
The next morning I had the same breakfast, Nancy had the omlette. She had the same potato patties that I had and asked me what they were.
We packed up and left before 11AM leaving the key in a bowl on the front desk since there was no one there.
Nancy has said that she would sure like to get her money back. So to be sure DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME NOR MONEY AT Whispering Pines B&B. You will be seriously DISAPPOINTED!! Especially with the Stardust Cottage which was not a "cottage" in any sense of the word, but a duplex in a delapidated building with a carport out front where the our car and the adjacent customer's car had to be parked.
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