Woodsy Mountain Cabin - Best Location In Graeagle

Hi James, yes this is true about Quincy. If you need a larger town with more services, Quincy or Portola are good options. Graeagle and Blairsdon are quaint little towns with a market that closes at 6PM, a gas station, and ACE Hardware, about 10 small local retail shops, and several food service locations such as Graeagle Cafe Breakfast & Lunch, Coyotes for dinner, Brewing Lair all day, Grizzly's Grill, Goombas Pizza and Grill, Iron Door Restaurant, Graeagle Meadows breakfast or lunch on the deck, Frosties, Nakoma, Knotty Pine Saloon, Mohawk Tavern, Millworks for breakfast or lunch, and the Outpost for a sandwich, breakfast burrito, or corn dog. There are 3 places for ice cream or milk shakes also. These are all within about 3 miles of our house and in the town of Graeagle. All of these are in our book of things to do we have available at the cabin. Most people choose Graeagle because of it's quaintness and central location to all of the great things the Lost Sierra and Lakes Basin has to offer. Thank you again for staying at our home.

Thank you for your kind words and we are glad you enjoyed our cabin. We understand your desire to be able to hang your clothes in the bedroom. As with most VRBO homes, we use our walk-in closet as our owner's closet for private storage, so we are installing a shelf/clothes rack in addition to a new larger dresser in the master bedroom. Regarding trash removal, since the logistics of removing trash in Graeagle is difficult because the dump is only open on weekends and the garbage pick up is Wednesday, and we can't leave garbage out overnight because of the bears, we are now offering an optional trash removal service. They charge us an extra fee as they have to store the garbage for several homes for several days until the dump opens on weekends and so we will make this an optional fee, if renters want to have them remove the trash. Thank you for your suggestions.

I'm glad you enjoyed our cabin. I was able to make special arrangements with our housekeeper to remove the trash and let you know around 10 am, but you had already left. In our listing it says that you have to remove or dump your trash. In the mountains we have bears, mountain lions, raccoons, and other critters that frequent the neighborhood and love to spread garbage all over the property. Graeagle has trash pick up on Wed. morning and you can't leave cans out over night. Every VRBO I'm aware of in Graeagle is like this unless you stay in the Golf Course condos. You can't have bear boxes because the garbage pick up will be using robotic arm trucks. We can't leave garbage in the garage for 3 days because the bears will tear off the doors if they smell it. We can't ask our house keeper to store everyone's garbage for half a week or more. We owned a mountain cabin in Donner Lake and have removed our own garbage every trip for 50 years. That's just how it is up here. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience, but that is why we put it in the listing so you know up front. I hope soon we will be able to change this.

Thank u for your review. We're glad you enjoyed our cabin. It sounds like you would have given 5 stars except for 3 issues. One the heating. There must have been some confusion. Each room has it's own heat/ac split system. The main living area has baseboard heaters on a Nest thermostat. It is kept at 50 degrees when vacant, but can be adjusted to your comfort zone anytime. It will heat the house right up. We can adjust it also remotely. We will start doing that before guests arrive. Second, the cleaning fee is to wash linens, make beds, sanitize to covid 19 protocol, and mop, and clean. We just ask you wipe down counters and floors and vacuum areas that might have crumbs so we don't get critters before cleaning crew arrives. This is common in virtually every VRBO I have ever seen or stayed in. Third garbage removal. We require all guests to either take garbage with them, or to the local dump 1.5 miles up the road. Garbage left will bring bears. This is a big problem in the mountains now. We make sure this is spelled out in our agreement. If it's a problem we can make arrangements with someone. Our phone number is in our agreement and we are always available. If there's ever any reason why you wouldn't give us a 5 star review, like all other guests that have stayed here, please call us so we can clarify any issues or get something fixed right away. Sounds like a call or text would have alleviated all 3 of these concerns.