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I spent a long weekend at the Homestead this past weekend for my Brother In Laws wedding. I will admit I am a little biased against the Homestead, as I am a Greenbrier girl. But if you are paying essentially $700 for a weekend, I expect the quality to be like the Greenbrier, and every stay I have ever had at the Homestead it just isn't. The Greenbrier even in bankruptcy just knocked it out of the park. Having said that- the new outdoor pools at the Homestead with the lazy river area, is really nice and if you had kids, I am sure it is a great way to get them worn out. Our room had a lovely view of circular fan, which fine, we got a discounted room from a wedding room block, fine. But the clock in the room was blinking and had the wrong time for the whole entire stay, clips from the curtain weren't attached so you couldn't pull the curtains all the way closed over the blinds, which meant our room was never really completely dark. There was only one outlet in the room, and one in the bathroom for plugging in things to charge. The worst was our first night we were woken up by an incredibly loud buzzing and banging sound at 3:00 am. All the rooms around us probably got woken up too, as it was really loud. We had to call a maintenance person at 3:00 am it took over 15 minutes for them to get there, and this sound was so loud, I wanted to go somewhere, but was in my pjs and couldn't. Apparently they forgot to switch our room over to AC, it was still on heat and for some reason that made it made this sound, even once we turned the unit completely off. So at that point our room was really hot, we were really tired and annoyed. They didn't do anything to acknowledge this, no note the next day with some vouchers for a coffee, nothing. MK is part of the omni club so we were supposed to get two items pressed for free and shoe shine, but you had to take your shoes down to the bell stand and then get them, and they took over 30 minutes to get the shirt, and Matt had to go to a groomsmen event, so he had to take the shirt down to concierge, I got a call an hour later, they still hadn't sorted out where the shirt was, despite us asking the concierge to please call them and let them know we had to go to events and were dropping it off. My Mom booked on Hotels.com because the room block expired and the deal they would give her was more expensive than hotels.com and it said on the charge it covered the resort fee, but the Homestead charged it to her anyway, Hotels.com apologized and is sending her a refund, although they didn't get the money, the Homestead did, but they just nickel and dimed everything and didn't have great service. Anyway, the wedding itself was lovely. And there is a restaurant in town called Sam Snead's that they just reopened which was very good. I had steak, asparagus, Brussels sprouts and Caesar salad which were all very good and they had nice foccacia bread. Anyway, still not convinced to ever go back to the Homestead. I just don't get why people are so smitten with it.
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Rapid City It was just a matter of time until the 2nd largest city in South Dakota's, the 5th least populated state, hit donrockwell.com. Tally's Silver Spoon on 6th St is a great spot for breakfast or brunch and understandably popular. We loved the two dishes we had: "duck duck goose": duck confit, onion, arugula, sweet potatoes, foie gras, sunny egg, gooseberries, toast "migas": chorizo sausage, onions, peppers, potatoes, tortilla strips, scrambled eggs, green chili, white cheddar On a related note, I'm not sure good coffee can be had in Rapid City. Alternative Fuel, Bully Blends and The Daily Grind all seem to compete for top honors so we flipped a coin and tried Daily Grind. If this is at or close to the top for Rapid City, then Rapid City isn't a coffee town yet. Q&A: - "Where do you get your coffee?" A: A place on the east coast. - "Who?" A: A place in New Jersey called 'coffee bean direct' - "Hmmm, I'm from the east coast but never heard of them. Do you do pourovers?" A: "What's a pourover?"
