Montague Inn

My husband and I stayed at the Montague Inn B&B many times throughout the last 34 years. The breakfasts and dinners were always delicious! We revisited a few years ago and was so disappointed in what we experienced in the quality of our stay and found out the Inn had been sold from the 4 couples who lovingly operated the Inn. New ownership/management is allowing this beautiful gem to slowly fall into disrepair. We are planning a trip up to Saginaw in December but will find another place to stay.

The grounds are beautiful. The architecture of the building is great, the history is also interesting. However, the interior is in need of a major cleaning. Very dusty under tables, dirty baseboards, and walls that really need to be washed. There was peeling paint in our room too! The solid wood floors really need to be sanded and refinished as well. The furniture is very old and likely original but also looked stained. The bathroom floor felt sticky on the soles of my Converse shoes and looked very dull. Whereas the exterior grounds are beautiful, the interior really needs work. A fresh coat of paint (after washing the filmy walls) would be a great start. The scratched and stained hardwood floors could very easily be refinished as well. Just a good cleaning would help a lot. Interesting place and a good price, but we will not be staying again entirely based on the run down and somewhat dirty interior.

Oh where to begin. My fiance and I drove 14 hours from NJ to visit his daughter her husband and their baby girl. We only get out here 2 times a year so it's special for us My fiance found this place and we both enjoy staying at bed and breakfast places. But this place? Never again! We finally get here and we were greeted nicely by the man at the desk. After a quick tour we were told our room is in the carriage house. We drive up to it and see it's just a run down garage made into rooms. We get our room which was the Dressler room. What a huge disappointment. Run down barely describes it. The carpet was dirty. Worn out old furniture that probably was picked up from a yard sale. The bed was absolutely awful. No joke when I say that when you sit on it you can feel the mattress springs. It was so worn and lumpy and saggy. The pillows were awful too ( we went out the next day and bought two pillows for ourselves). On to the bathroom. Small old vanity. One little shelf over the toilet. Shower/tub was ok as far as shower/tubs go. The bathroom door had to be slammed shut otherwise it opened back up. But it was hard to close and open because it stuck. The towels were so thin and worn out. Not absorbent. I wouldn't use them to dry my dogs. We asked for other towels and did get some that were a little better. The inner curtains were ripped. There's a spotlight that shined into the room at night. Closing the curtains helped a little. The chairs were dirty and worn. The ottoman had no cushion whatsoever. I sat down on it and thought I broke my tailbone The main door into the building was supposed to lock and needed a key. You barely have to put the key in and it opens. A Bobby pin could do the same thing. The lock for the door to the room was just a regular lock like the kind you buy at home depot for $10. No security at all. The thermostat was in the hallway so it's thermostat wars when the other rooms are occupied. Who wants it hot or who wants it cooler. We kept turning it down to keep it comfortable only to have someone else jack it up really high. Annoying Now on to breakfast. We got up a little late the first morning but I had time to check out the food. I saw they had scrambled eggs and pancakes that were definitely not homemade. Just the frozen type. The home fries were also the bagged frozen ones. The sausage was thin little sad looking half pieces. There was cereal, packs of oatmeal and breads. Nothing spectacular or interesting. I cook far better than this. My fiance only drinks decaf coffee and there wasn't any. We had breakfast out each morning we were there. Good cute little place called Bringer Inn a few miles away. Good reasonable food. Try it. You won't be disappointed The whole place needs to be cleaned, painted and refurbished and refinished. And new mattresses and pillows and blankets. It's obvious the owners just pocket the money and don't give a damn about the place or the customers. The library was the only nice room. We didn't get to see upstairs since we were shuffled off to the garage aka carriage house. We'll be going back out to Michigan in the spring to visit again but definitely not staying here. I'd rather stay at a nice regular hotel.