Hotel and food review

Instead of taking out the pain of crappy accommodations during the trip, I’ll do a review so maybe they will lose some future revenues.

Saturday – Grand Gateway in Rapid City – Nice first class hotel, the restaurant in the hotel is a Perkins. We ate there just to keep from having to leave. It was Perkins.

Sunday – Yodelers in Red Lodge MT, clean mom and pop, NO water pressure, easy walk to town for food and drink. Don’t recommend the motel unless water is better. Food was Red Lodge Pizza very good…go there!

Monday – Alpine Inn in West Yellowstone. Clean, newer remodel, bed sucked, the toilet was so close to the wall I could not sit without pulling my elbow in front of me! NO AC and it was 93 degrees that day, but I’m finding most don’t have AC. The shower was about 24”x24” and no way to get away from too much water. Oh and a helicopter tried to land on the roof I think. Don’t stay here, even if the owners were super nice. Food was Beartooth BBQ. They had sausage and every pulled meat possible. Good but 2.50 for a glass of tea was high…but I’d go again.

Tuesday – Seeley Motor Inn in Seeley Lake MT, clean, good bed, cheap, walk to ice cream, laundry mat and other stuff. No AC, go figure. Good place. Food was the Chicken Coop as recommended by the guy who owned the Polaris shop in town. They serve chicken three ways. 1. Deep fried 2. Deep fried breast strips 3. Deep fried gizzards. I got #1, Jenn got #2. Mine was great, weird but it was really good. It took forever to get and Jenn swore there was a chicken coop in the back, cause it was fresh never frozen meat.

Wednesday – Jacobson’s Cabins – clean, big, cheap, beds feel good. They are super friendly. Can’t walk to food or much anything. Lunch – yes we ate lunch today in Glacier. It was our first lunch of the trip besides the crackers and Gatorade we were eating. Lunch was at Two Dogs which is at the Rising Sun area in Glacier. They are sort of a lunchy place. Tacos were the specialty and they were good. Dinner was in East Glacier Park which I thought was going to be a big tourist trap place, turns out to be just a stop on the Amtrak line with not a single modern looking building. The owners of the cabins said the Whistle Stop was good. Well, it looked like a dump but the beef ribs were I’m not kidding the best beef rib I ever had. They looked like they were hacked from the cow as it walked around town and roasted for hours. Jenn had a club sandwich which looks a bit like the same, big slab bacon. Two thumbs up.

Thursday – back to Red Lodge. This time we stayed in Château Rouge. It was a huge two story ski type condo/townhouse. Not a bad place and still cheaper than the SOB who ripped us off in red Lodge the first time at Yodelers. They had a pool and hot tub. Not bad place to stay in Red Lodge. Pizza was so good at red Lodge Pizza we went back. They did not disappoint again.

Friday – Buffalo Wyoming. Stayed is a Comfort Inn, it had outside room door which was nice, also had a pool and hot tub which was clean and empty other than us. Nothing special or unique but comfortable. We ate a The Winchester Steak House, which was situated next to a slaughter yard…pens and all. Great steaks, good portions, fair price. Highly recommend this local establishment.

Saturday – Our room was not as plush as the other, the back seat of a Silverado is nice but still not the greatest. We ended up calling it the sleeper portion of the rig. I don’t recommend. I don’t recall eating anything but McNuggets for the next two days.