We finally made it up here this week the lobby area and location of the hotel is outstanding, it's a 3 minute walk to town. The staff and food have been great as well too, they remodeled the View resturant during the shutdown and the resturant and views are stunning. We are in a room like the one you had in the mountainside wing, the view is great and the rooms are well maintained as you mentioned. We still have a few more days up here but at this point I'd highly recommend this hotel especially if you want to be within walking distance to town, there is no better place to stay in Lake Placid. The Whiteface Lodge is the other hotel we considered for this trip and we went there last night for dinner. Its beautiful property too and newer than the Mirror Lake Inn but its about two miles from town so you have to drive or use their shuttle service to get where you want to go.

I think for future trips to Lake Placid I'd stay at the Whiteface Lodge for ski trips (since you need to use your car anyway to ski Whiteface) and for non-ski trips I'd stay at the Mirror Lake Inn to be close to town. I'll add some photos too once I get better WIFI service......