Avis Historic manor house on working farm with pool and sauna 10 minutes from VA Tech

So glad that you enjoyed your stay. We are honored to have had your daughter's wedding party here. Thanks for leaving everything so neat and tidy. We would love to have you come stay with us again!

So glad that you enjoyed it. We look forward to seeing you again!

So glad you enjoyed your stay! We'd love to have you back again any time!

Thanks, Scott. Always a pleasure to have your family visit. We look forward to seeing you again in the future!!

We are terribly sorry that you had this nightmare at our property. Nothing like this has ever happened here before, and I think that if you read our other reviews, you will see that this was a total aberration, and that most folks have nothing but good things to say about the place. A whole series of unfortunate events converged to make this situation worse than it could have been. Firstly, I always check the house the same day that we have people checking in. That day, though, something had come up that made me unable to do so. I thought that the house was okay as I had checked it out several couple of days before. I have no idea how so many flies hatched out in a few days. Again, this has NEVER happened in the 40+ years that the house has been in my family. It doesn't help you but I will never make that mistake again of not checking the same day! Secondly, I was already late for a meeting when you arrived and told me about the situation, and I had to rush off. Thirdly, I received a message from VRBO but it was garbled and I could make no sense of it. I called my husband and asked him to go over. When he went over to the house initially, he did not see that many flies flying around. There were some dead ones on the floor, which he swept up. He thought it was just a few flies, and we do live on a farm. He offered a discount and later apologized for his initial response. Truly, neither one of us realized the extent of the problem at all. You did not inform us that you were not staying and I did not find this out until midday the next day. Once I learned that you were not there, I went to the house and looked. I was horrified to see that you had not been exaggerating, and I immediately called the pest control company AND the cleaning service and further, immediately gave you a full refund. Again, we are so sorry that this happened. All that said, I do think it was rather disingenuous of you to book the house for 6 adults, later to tell me that there would also be 4 children, and then ultimately show up with TWELVE people. I did ultimately, against my better judgement, say that you could bring the FOUR children at no extra cost, because believe it or not, I was trying to help you out, but then you still showed up with 2 more people! I realize that this has no bearing at all on the fly situation, which was more or less an "act of God". but even so, it was not really fair to us. Still we are sincerely sorry that this happened to you and ruined your weekend.