Hotels on the River in Michigan

The Bavarian Inn Lodge was incredible, with a great location and fantastic amenities. However, the check-in process was very frustrating. We arrived at 1:00 PM hoping for early check-in since you cannot access the water park until you are checked in (standard check-in is 4:00 PM). Staff took our details and promised to text us when our room was ready. By 3:30 PM, we still hadn't heard anything, even though our friends had already been checked in. We waited in the long reception line again, only to be told at 3:45 PM that our room still wasn't ready—despite watching four couples ahead of us get their keys. I finally had to ask why they couldn't just assign us an available room. The receptionist checked and switched us into a ready room, though she had to re-do our entire check-in from scratch, including putting the incidental hold on our Visa a second time. It was disappointing that we wasted hours waiting and had to suggest such a simple solution ourselves.

Great, spacious rooms and friendly, attentive staff. Perfectly located and gave a luxury feel without the luxury price!

What I love about the shuttle is that for two days we were dropped off at the Basketball game and picked up. 🙌