Our stay at Loondocks started off a bit rough. The door code we were provided was wrong which was a total non-issue because Matt responded very quickly to every message I sent him!
However, when we walked in we saw that there were three window AC units running in the main cabin, but the windows they were in hadn’t been insulated or blocked, so there were about two inches of open window without a screen in each one totally open to the outside (and all the mosquitos come sunset). So we unfortunately had to begin our trip by trying to block off all of the gaps around the AC units to keep the cold air from going right out and the bugs from coming right in.
In terms of cleanliness, the cabins were clean enough! By this I mean I wouldn’t rearrange any furniture, but the places that mattered were clean. That being said, we did have to give the back porch a good sweeping and de-spider webbing before we felt comfortable hanging out there.
We also struggled with the fridge door. The door was pretty full of condiments when we arrived and we spent a whole week there with eight of us so we took up the rest of the fridge space easily. The guards on the fridge door in the main cabin kept. Falling. Off. and everything would fall onto the floor. (This feels like a petty issue but it happened daily.)
Overall, the neighborhood is super relaxing and quiet. (And if you’re worried about your large group being too loud, we checked our noise volume from outside frequently and couldn’t hear a thing!)
There were plenty of great amenities like floaties, a canoe, games, a sauna, etc.
We did also spend an afternoon de-seaweeding the lake surrounding the dock with a water rake to make it swimmable, because the area surrounding the dock was about 90% seaweed. Once we did though, the lake was super nice and warm. We used it multiple times a day every day.
We overall had an awesome time at Loondocks, but it’s difficult for me to justify the price when we spent so much of our vacation cleaning up. If I knew that i’d arrive at a cleaner version of Loondocks with just a few small fixes, I would absolutely go back.