You got quite the deal. The prices are outrageous for August. I’m all for supporting Canada but at the prices they quoted on the booking site I could book a week somewhere tropical for what they charge for 2-3 nights.
Depends on what level of room you book. You can go full potato for some of the chalets here and yeah in peak season they're pricy for sure. We were going to book a Masters suite but it was an extra $600 vs what we paid for basically a slightly bigger room - in the end they're the same, they all have hot tubs, soaker tubs in the room, a wood burning fireplace, etc. So we're in an top floor "Junior". But yeah, in the peak season it's expensive for what it is. Keep an eye out for last second deals, or third night free deals - that's what we scored on both counts.
Breakfast and dinner is included so keep that in mind. I was a little disappointed in breakfast this morning honestly, it was good, but it wasn't anything close to as option packed as it was in years past - we've been coming here ocasionally for 20+ years here and I remember the breakfasts being a pretty impressive spread with tons of options - your main, plus a fruit bowl, bagels and smoked salmon if you wanted, and a few extras that were just a tick of a box on the order form thing. Now it was basically a main, some juice, and a coffee caraffe. It was good (I had eggs benny), but I kind of missed the little extras like the fruit bowl and smoked salmon.
Dinner is still quite nice, formal (or increasingly, smart casual, which I'm OK with, I'm not big into dressing up) in their dining room, lots of course and the food is always delish - I had a salad of some sort with some amazing house-made dressing (I need to ask for the recipe), and a nice tiger prawn jambalaya, and my wife had a striploin.
There's also a lot of water toys included, they give you an hour and a half or something like that in a fishing boat for free plus all your gear, there's a big pool, and others stuff to do. Algonquin park passes are complementary.
Would I pay more than ~$350/night for this based on the room we're in? Not really, but I guess they'll charge what the market will bear, and they get a lot of tourists up here, so I don't blame them. Honestly, you'd pay a lot more for a room like this and 2 meals a day for 2 people in a lot of places, so one needs to keep perspective.
Lots of EV chargers here as well lol.
Like I said, the "hop on a jet and go somewhere" thing was a consideration, but it was too time consuming for the window of time we had to work with. If we'd taken the full week off it would have been a no brainer, but with basically Friday night through Monday to work with, well, there's no replacement for just driving a few hours and you're here.
