RC Montréal is fantastic.

Lake Placid Lodge will likely feel like a big step down after The Point, but we do like their cabins (but long overdue for a renovation) and the top floor rooms in the main lodge are nice. It is better located if you’re visiting the town of Lake Placid but they have consistently increased their price over the past year or two so it rarely makes sense to book there vs The Point when you consider all the inclusions at The Point ($1k+ for a cabin at LPL...!?).

I would do The Point over Lake Placid Lodge. We stayed at Mirror Lake Inn years ago. Nice, but no where near the beauty of The Point. Hubby is big on trees and has been going to the Adrirondacks since he was a little kid. He was really upset when he saw the damage from a hurricane that knocked down lots of old trees at The Point. The hurricane e was probably ten years ago, we were at The Point probably seven years ago. I saw new plantings of trees, not a destructed forest.
We had never been to a place that unpacked your clothes. While we were on our tour of the premises little elves emptied our car, and unpacked all our clothes. I thought I was in heaven!
We were there Friday to Sunday, so it was prime time for the investment bankers to take a quick weekend trip.
We met an elderly couple who flew in on a private plane form Ohio. It was such an easy trip to make for them. Otherwise it would have been quite a long trip. She did say that even though The Point was expensive, they spent more on the private plane. Back then I knew nothing about Net Jets and Private Planes. I still don’t!
There was a lean to that you could sleep in over night. Tons of fur lined throws. It looked so cozy, but when you are spending that much money, who wants to sleep in a lean to?
They told us a very amusing story about a guest who was a male hand model (this sounded just like a Seinfeld story). He got a little tipsy at the bonfire, tripped and fell towards the fire pit. Luckily he landed on his North Face Jacket, and not his hands. The next day there was a brand new North Face jacket outside his door.
We met another guest who came from Japan about seven times a year, it was his favorite place. I asked impolitely how he could afford this travel. He told me he was adopted by an elderly lady.
I had wanted to go to The Point for five years, finally we were in a financial postition to do so. That was our first trip to a really high end place. I’d go again, if only hubby said yes. I think it would be better with friends also.
Ah, such wonderful memories!

Hubby and I went to Thy Broadmoor several times when he had conferencesthere. I loved the spa, they had a great room where you could sit before and after your treatments and look at the mountains. They had a Toto toilet in the changing area, I had never seen nor tried one before. I made sure all the other spouses in the conference tried it out, they must have thought i was nuts!
There are a number of restaurants to try. They did have a very fancy restaurant that was really old style, with a combo to play dance music. Hardly anyone was there mid week. Not sure how busy it was on a Saturday night.
There is a wall of photographs of celebrities that have stayed there. I always had fun, looking to see the new pictures of guests.
They did have a fishing retreat, up in the hills, but not the quality water that husband requires.

Lodge rooms at Brush Creek are nice but ordinary. However it makes going to breakfast a lot easer, you just stumble dowstairs. The spa is located in the main building as is the gym. I rarely saw anyone working out at the gym.
There are conference facilities there, it’s a great spot for that. Meetings and team building activities, how great is that?
French Creek Sportsman Club does not have a pool or spa. Instead it is situated right near a lovely creek, a beautiful spot to sit and think or talk with your budddies about the great day you had fishing or shooting. You have your own chef to cook for your group. It’s a great spot for a bachelor weekend, or guys get together. We saw it when they did the finishing touches, I’m not sure how many queens or kings there were for couples.
Magee has a much smaller creek, some of the cabins face it with fire pits where you could sit and cuddle in the evening.
Fishing is excellent. They do have ponds and instructors on the main ranch for those who have never fly fished before. Many of the guest’s are new to the sport.
There are also yurts for glamping.
Magee is quite close to Brush Creek, staff will bring you over anytime. There was a ride I especially liked on Brush Creek and they brought me there for riding.
Brush Creek Ranch has a saloon with a pool table and they also do Karaoke. There is a lovely outdoor wedding spot and an indoor location also. For those that like to rock climb, they do have a special tower for that. Lots of stuff to do!

Mickidon that is exactly whey we have not returned. Arrangements that husband had made to go offsite fishing were not entered in the books when we arrived. He was told he couldn’t go exactly when nor where he had arranged.

We were only upgraded on our second visit, due to it being an anniversary. There were plenty of cabins available for us to be upgraded. With having been there five times in six years, we thought we were special. Obviously we weren’t.

There were never large groups when we were there, that definitely would change the flavor. We liked going in September after school started, but then weekends got busy. Going in late June when the Green Drake hatch was on was a magical experience for Hubby.

We are thinking about going to ABarA which is near by. Has anyone been?