Avis Escape to a 5-star Lodge at the top of a mountain in SW Colorado

Lorie and her group ended up at the wrong place. They should have stayed in a town or city with paved roads and rented rooms at a Comfort Inn with a coin operated laundry and unlimited Internet access. The Lodge they rented is in a very remote wilderness location. It relies on well water, solar energy and a dish antenna for the Internet. As unbelievable as it sounds, they arrived with three large duffle bags of dirty laundry for a five day stay and proceeded to ignore our appeal to use the clothesline for drying clothes to conserve electricity. We offered to take their laundry to a local “wash and fold”, and happily pay for it, but they demurred. Regrettably, they ran out of electricity in three hours and we put them on 24/7 generator support. We provided an additional 50 GB of Internet usage on the day of their arrival (added owner expense of $150). According to HughesNet, the provider, a month of 45 GB of data is “Ideal for today's connected household with multiple devices and a large appetite for data.” They used up the entire allotment in 36 hours! I was staying on the same property in an unheated log house. Every night my group slept with all the windows open so our morning temperature was the same as it was outside --53 degrees. We all slept soundly and noone complained. We have rented this Lodge to 11 groups through Airbnb over the past 2+ years and received "5" ratings from all of them. We plan to change the listing to show just 5 bedrooms and a maximum of 10 guests. This will hopefully adjust down the expectations of future VRBO guests

Thanks for coming Dwight. We hope you return and are glad you appreciated the uniqueness of the property and the setting. Double R Ranch staff.