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Luxury Home on 250 Acre Prairie Preserve with Pool & Hot Tub [#315365] | View Property

Manhattan
House, 4 Bedrooms + Other (See Description), 4.5 Baths (Sleeps 8-14)
From $410/nt
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Traveler Reviews (12)

• Our mom's surprise 80th birthday weekend!

  Our mom's surprise 80th birthday weekend!

  • Guest Joni B.
  • Date of stay 08/19/11
  • Review Submitted 08/24/11
  GORGEOUS Retreat! We surprised our mom for her 80th birthday and her weekend could not have been better! Families from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ohio, California and Wisconsin spent the weekend swimming, touring the prairie, playing in the creek, fishing in the pond, playing pool, enjoying the peacefulness and cows and wildlife...just having a wonderful time together. With its proximity to Manhattan it was easy for those who could not stay overnight to come and go throughout the weekend. The house was beautiful, including a kitchen with everything we could possibly need! We turned the conference room into a dorm room for some of our younger generation and that worked perfectly! Kimberly was very helpful with any questions we had as we planned our surprise. Kail, the owner, was so friendly and informative as he drove us through his prairie trails! Four generations celebrating our mom/grandmom/great-grandmom together...we could not have chosen a better place!

  Recommended for: Age 55+, families with teenagers, families with young children, girls getaway.

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• Wedding Accommodations & Rehearsal Dinner

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  Wedding Accommodations & Rehearsal Dinner

  • Guest Becky W.
  • Date of stay 05/30/11
  • Review Submitted 07/03/11
  You guys ROCK! Fifteen of us stayed here for my son's wedding in town. We had Rehearsal Dinner here and everyone was blown away by the entire property. There isn't a single thing any of us would change. This retreat is stunning and amazing, and Kimberly is fantastic. Thank you so much for such a wonderful idea and home. We will definitely be back if you will have us. Love the Sirius Radio, wow! Thanks a million.

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• Wedding Reception

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  Wedding Reception

  • Guest Chris & Laura
  • Date of stay 05/20/11
  • Review Submitted 07/03/11
  Marriage reception for Chris and Laura. Guests said this was the best reception they've ever been to. We enjoyed the pool, sound system, pool table, foosball, basketball, and sunset viewing from the top of the hill. The wildlife was great - wild turkeys, deer, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, chickadees, nuthatches... We love it here!

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• Graduation Getaway

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  Graduation Getaway

  • Guest Carol H.
  • Date of stay 05/14/11
  • Review Submitted 07/03/11
  Celebrating Vet School Graduation, family-style! Gathering from Arizona, Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas. We enjoyed the beautiful Flint Hills with four generations. Thank you for providing us with such a lovely location to enjoy. Many thanks!

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• First Family Reunion

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  First Family Reunion

  • Guest Janet R.
  • Date of stay 05/06/11
  • Review Submitted 07/03/11
  What a wonderful place for our family to have our first family reunion! The house is beautiful, comfortable, and has everything we need. Maybe someday we can return to enjoy again. Thank you, thank you.

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• Snow in Hot Tub

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  Snow in Hot Tub

  • Guest Annual get-together of local friends
  • Date of stay 12/05/10
  • Review Submitted 07/03/11
  Snow in the hot tub! Excellent time in a beautiful place, so much fun and so relaxing. We will be back soon!

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• Great Football Weekend!

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  Great Football Weekend!

  • Guest George & Maggie S.
  • Date of stay 11/10/10
  • Review Submitted 07/03/11
  We love Prairiewood! What a great place to gather. Our group was a mix of Texas "K-Staters" and Texas "Nebraska Cornhuskers"!! The hiking trail was beautiful. Thanks so much for a nice place to stay in Manhattan!

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  • Guest Patty B.
  • Date of stay 07/23/10
  • Review Submitted 08/15/10
  I wanted to write you this email to thank you for sharing your wonderful Prairiewood Retreat with us. My family was joined by several others at Prairiewood last weekend. We were looking for a place to spend a long weekend in Kansas and Prairiewood was perfect. As we told Kimberly, our group absolutely loved the place. We loved the flora and the fauna and the house itself is beautiful. The pond was so relaxing and our group caught [and released] a number of fish – including a huge bass [who knew they could grow that big in such a small pond?] And on Saturday night we saw a giant bonfire nearby [made us all think of s’mores]. The trails were also beautiful – several of our numbers saw the cows [and this, of course, is a rarity in the suburbs in which we live]. We also saw some big deer and some turkeys too. We had fun hiking through the creek and getting our shoes wet – lots of great rocks for the kids to find and many toads, frogs and small fish too. The spring fed water was so clear and cool! I also wanted to let you know how much help Kimberly was to me in putting the details together – responding to my many emails and phone calls and in meeting us there and giving us a tour of the property. She was so easy to talk to and shared many ideas with us to help us make it a perfect weekend. She was a great “ambassador” for Prairiewood. I am a lifelong Kansan who has spent too little time in the Flint Hills and this was the perfect way to showcase it for our kids and to spend time with friends. We count ourselves very fortunate to have found Prairiewood and each of us took a brochure to share with friends and business associates. I think you all have done an outstanding job in putting together a unique place for business or family or friend retreats. The setting is beautiful and the view is stunning. Thank you again for sharing this with the public – and with us. Patty B.

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  • Guest Nadiya K.
  • Date of stay 07/17/10
  • Review Submitted 09/10/10
  Prariewood is great because there is always something to do for teenagers. The big screen TV, the pool table, lap top computer, foosball table and the swimming pool. I went out hiking every morning on the nature trails. The views were awesome! I encountered groups of wild turkeys every day during our time we spent at Prairiewood. The nighttime swims were great with the clear skies to see the stars. I very much liked the automatic baby grand piano – I would sit and listen for hours. Thank you Prairiewood!

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  • Guest Salih D.
  • Date of stay 07/03/10
  • Review Submitted 09/10/10
  What a wonderful place to spend a weekend with friends. The location could not be better. One could easily feel he is deep in rural Kansas and not mere minutes from Manhattan. The accommodations are first rate with everything one would need for a totally relaxing and luxurious stay.

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  • Guest D.C.H
  • Date of stay 06/03/10
  • Review Submitted 09/10/10
  We had a wonderful opportunity to host a retreat for women financial advisors from all over Kansas at Prairiewood. The location was a huge draw for people to come. There was a lot of curiosity about an unusual setting that was so different from the usual conference room setting with no windows. In fact, right before we had sandwiches for lunch, we looked outside the window to see a big tom turkey come over the crest of the hill like he was planning to join us for lunch. Apparently he didn't realize turkey was on the menu! Kail provided a really fun experience for us with a guided nature hike through the prairie after lunch. The staff was wonderful and attentive in the planning phase, during the event, and was sincerely interested in our feedback after the event was complete. We certainly received the kind of service you'd expect at a 5-Star hotel. In fact, I've stayed at 5-star hotels who could take lessons from the folks at Prairiewood!

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  • Guest Sue M.
  • Date of stay 10/10/09
  • Review Submitted 09/10/10
  How many opportunities do you have to celebrate your mother's 100th birthday and do it with unforgettable elegance and style? With relatives arriving from Oregon, Oklahoma, California and all parts of Kansas we were looking for something more intimate than the typical dark church basement or sterile hotel banquet room. Prairiewood was definitely the answer. Cousins from afar could have their choice of state-of-the-art bedrooms while cousins from nearby could come for the day, reminisce and enjoy the occasional deer, turkey or coyote that came to pay their birthday respects. The inside ambiance mixed with the prairie setting made mom's 100th one of a kind.

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