Courtyard by Marriott Lake George in Lake George, NY

The hotel was very nice. We booked a two bedroom/two bathroom suite. The view of Lake George was amazing! There is a rooftop deck with lots of chairs to enjoy the view. It is located within walking distance to restaurants, shops, bars, and a small grocery. The room was nice. I would stay here again, and recommend to others.

My husband and I visited Lake George the first week of September. Overall the Courtyard by Marriott in Lake George was average however when you are paying $400 per night plus more is expected from your hotel. I would say my greatest turnoff was upon arrival the lobby floor was filthy and the glaringly loud chartreuse green couch was filthy. I mean really dirty. The positives were that our room was clean and included many charging ports. We ate breakfast at Charlie’s twice. The food was delicious and the servers were friendly and efficient. Including the fact that their efforts were impacted by reduced staff. They definitely rose to the challenge but should not be expected to do so. Overall my experience was positive and was significantly better than it was from the start.

My husband and I had a good room that was clean and good size. Our son and his family were given a room near us that was awful. It was situated near the elevator and additionally an ice machine, both of which made noise all night long. Their stay was for 3 nights- and each morning they requested a different room that was quiet. The staff and manager were indifferent and uncaring, and would not change them to a different room. They paid extra for a sort of mini suite and would have been happy to move to a smaller room that would be away from the noise. As a result, their family was exhausted due to lack of sleep. It really put a damper on the family vacation.

Wonderful visit to Lake George and the Courtyard Marriott was the perfect location on the Main Street. Beautiful view. Our room was so spacious.

Do yourselves a favor and don’t ever stay at this hotel! We checked in rather late on Monday, and although I chose, and paid for a room with 2 King beds, we were told that there were none available upon check in. I didn’t even argue about it because it was so late by the time we got there. We were sent up to our room on the 3rd floor…as soon as we got off the elevator on the 3rd floor we were literally slapped in the face by what smelled like cat urine…we continued to walk to our room and when we opened the door, the smell in the room was even worse than the smell in the hallway. We immediately went back downstairs to request a new room. We explain to the guy at the front desk what the problem was and he just blank stares at us as if his brain is loading on dial up internet. He types some stuff into the computer and grabs us a new set of keys…still not saying basically anything at all. Hands us a new set of keys and we just go on our way. Now we’re sent to the second floor…room 215…my family goes into the room ahead of me while I grab all of the bags from the car. I go upstairs and my wife tells me that there is blood on one of the beds. She calls downstairs to the same front desk person, explains the blood…and crickets…again loading on dial up…finally after about a full minute of silence he says “do you mind if I come take a look?” … so he does…looks at it up close and says “looks like makeup to me” …. How one confuses makeup and drops of bright red blood are beyond me, but that is neither here nor there. He then says “would you like me to change that out?” …… no, we are just gonna cuddle up with someone else’s blood, no big deal….like wtaf! Fast forward the blood sheets get changed, we’re so tired at this point, we have 2 toddlers with us that also need to get to bed. As we’re setting up our stuff I notice random strands of hair that don’t belong to us, which we ignore for the most part bc I understand that no cleaner can be perfect. We finally go to get into bed and I see a fly on the wall…kill it…move on. We go to sleep, at least try to because we just feel skeeved at this point honestly. I’m feeling like things are crawling on me, ive convinced myself that im probably going to get eaten alive by bed bugs so no part of me can get comfortable. Eventually I finally fall asleep. We sleep in a bit the next day after a very long night. My 1 year old was in her pack and play and wanted out by a certain time to which I obliged and put her into the floor to walk around, against our better judgement. As she’s walking around following her big sister, I see that she steps on something on the ground…I go to look to see what it is, it seems to be a crumb of some sort. As I look closer, I see that it is face a piece of food, which we did not bring into the room because we hadn’t eaten anything in the room. I turn on my flashlight in the area and see 100’s of ants alllllllll overrrrrrr the floor!!! I look all around the room and they are not only on the crumb, they are EVERYWHERE!!!! We immediately call the front desk and they are very apologetic for once, get us a new room 2 doors down into room 217. So now we spend almost the entire morning moving AGAIN for the 3rd time. I had to inspect every corner of the new room before I even brought our stuff in because I didn’t want to have anymore surprises. I didn’t find anything super concerning aside from the lack of a good cleaning. Again random hairs in places, but at least no bugs that I could see. We finally get settled, again….and to to breakfast down the street. Our family just couldn’t shake the anger and disgust from the night before and that morning, so after breakfast we went to a place across from the Marriott to see if they had any vacancies. Luckily for us, they had 1 available room. So we just booked it and moved our stuff again for a 4th and final time, and we are so glad we did. Staying in a motel on the lake side was way more comfortable and clean compared to what we experienced at the Marriott. Never again!!!