Howards Mountain Lodge

Great facility!
We especially like the kitchen.
Rating: 5 - SABRINA SEQUEIRA, Jun 2017

Very friendly and very helpfull service
Rating: 5 - KAREN GEISTER, Jan 2017

Pleasant place to stay. No real atmosphere. Great kitchen for more expensive rooms.
Rating: 5 - GUY BEATSON, Aug 2014

Was a bit concerned about howards mountain lodge as it was only after we had made our booking that i read the previous review. However i should not have worried, this place was great. The staff were extremely helpful and we didn't make it easy for them. Last minute date changes and very late arrival were no bother. We even locked ourselves out of the room at 1am but the chap (grant) wasn't put out by us knocking on the door and getting him out of bed for a new key - pretty sure i wouldn't have been so understanding ! skiing was excellent and really handy to rent the gear from the lodge and well priced too. Decided to stay on for the weekend but howards was booked out, annie took about 20 minutes to phone around trying to find us somewhere else to stay. Luckily during this time they got a cancellation so we could stay after all. Absolutely recommend howards, very good value for money and a well kept, clean place. We will be back for sure.
Rating: 5 - CARL MANNING, Sep 2012

I don't normally complain but this is one time i will. I read the reviews and thought the place couldn't be that bad, big mistake, it is and worse. I booked a double/twin bed room and asked specifically for a double bed on my internet booking. On checking in i found out i had a twin single but the lady was to busy to answer my questions and although i hovered later, still she was to busy with the ski shop etc, and then disappeared and i didn't feel comfortable making a fuss. Maybe they didn't have one and i was traveling alone so... Well i paid $109 for a tiny room with no tv, tea, coffee or even a glass in it. A backpackers?, sure, i don't mind paying but don't rip me off and this is a rip off. I could have paid $18 more and stayed in a 100% better place down the road, and i do wish i had. I spent the night after an exhausting drive down, mostly awake. I slept in the bed against the wall and it was so soft you fell off it, no joke, you cant even sit on the bed. In fact at one stage in the night i fell off the bed onto the floor and the mattress followed me and landed on me! i ended up shuffled up against the wall to try sleep. Sleeping in a plane is easier. It was noisy and i swear at 11pm and 2am someone was having a spa bath, there was this hum with vibrations going through the whole building, i was awake all night and i normally sleep like the dead. The rooms and whole place was warm, hot even and i had my bathroom window cracked, but the noise from the central heating kept waking me, trade off i suppose, i would rather have a heater or something i could control in my room, all us guests commented on the heat and the terrible beds, you guys really need to address this. Eventually at around 6am i gave up and went to find a cup of tea, everything was dark, the passageways, it was awful. The kitchen was great, spotless and spacious. The rooms too. I only found one lounge, who knows where the other was, you were pretty much left to it once you paid your money. No service at all,that i found anyway. It was like this complex where only the guests were around. The guests i met were great and kept the kitchen really clean. The parking was very tight, honestly, i could not recommend howard's at all.
Rating: 1 - Wendy Cain, Aug 2012