Mohonk Mountain House

[imbues]

The Mohonk Mountain House package is another great deal at LL. I live in the area and I've been here for lunch, dinner and a company conference. The food is always good (four star only), the grounds are beautiful and they have a number of activities right on the property. I understand that they have renovated in the last few years, also adding a tavern and a spa.

Victorian rooms usually sell for much more than the starting bid for this auction

Anyone looking for an upstate NY getaway should look at this package. If anyone is interested I can post more about things to do in the area as well.


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Message Edited by imbues on 05-09-2008 10:05 PM

[lhbrown]

Hi imbues,
We love the Mohonk House. We go there at least once a summer for lunch with friends. A great place to take friends for a lovely outing. Food is wonderful there. We also love to take the hike through the "Lemon Squeeze" to get to the top to enjoy the wonderful views. Have you ever done that? Also 5-0'clock tea and cookies are nice. Feeding the huge trout from the balcony is fun too, and so is a stroll through the lovely gardens. Great find, and I am glad that this property is now on LL.

[imbues]

Hi travelfan,

Yes, it's a gorgeous property and thankfully the fires didn't reach there. Minnewaska State Park Preserve near New Paltz, N.Y. lost 3000 acres of forest last week.

[nomadbea]

Great pictures, thanks for sharing them. Maybe I should plan a trip there.

[lhbrown]

Hi nomadbea,
If you can manage, you should plan a trip there. As imbue said, it is a fabulous place. If you live in the NY area, you can plan a day-trip for lunch there. If not, LL has a great 3-day auction package that starts at $755 which is a steal at that price. We usually make time at least once a summer to take friends there since other friends made us discover this lovely sanctuary.

[naslux]

Not to bash, but I'm just going to throw this out there. If you truly do live in the area and know anything about it, you wouldn't ever call it the Mohawk Mountain House. It's Mohonk (, which I'm glad another reader corrected more graciously than I am doing here.



But yes, I agree it is a great location. If you are into doing outdoorsy stuff, that is a great base from which you can do marvelous hikes (some of the best fall leaf peeping south of New England), bike rides with great views,and cross-country skiing in the winter. It is also part of the Shawangunk Mountain Range, which is recognized as the #1 rock climbing destination on the East Coast. Those rock bluffs you see in the photo are where all the action happens. If you go on a weekend to the East Trapps (the most popular climbing area of "the Gunks"), even if you don't climb you can sit back and watch as world class climbers strut their stuff. And if you are feeling daring, you can go into the town of New Paltz (about a 5 min drive) and head to Rock and Snow, a climbing store where they can point you in the right direction on finding a guide for a day adventure.



Enjoy!

[imbues]

It does sound like you are calling me a liar and that is bashing someone. I DO live in the area and I'm a graduate of SUNY New Paltz. Mohawk is the Mountain and not the INN, also when you're talking about a property it's best to use the name of it so others can find it.

naslux wrote:

Not to bash, but I'm just going to throw this out there. If you truly do live in the area and know anything about it, you wouldn't ever call it the Mohawk Mountain House. It's Mohonk (, which I'm glad another reader corrected more graciously than I am doing here.



But yes, I agree it is a great location. If you are into doing outdoorsy stuff, that is a great base from which you can do marvelous hikes (some of the best fall leaf peeping south of New England), bike rides with great views,and cross-country skiing in the winter. It is also part of the Shawangunk Mountain Range, which is recognized as the #1 rock climbing destination on the East Coast. Those rock bluffs you see in the photo are where all the action happens. If you go on a weekend to the East Trapps (the most popular climbing area of "the Gunks"), even if you don't climb you can sit back and watch as world class climbers strut their stuff. And if you are feeling daring, you can go into the town of New Paltz (about a 5 min drive) and head to Rock and Snow, a climbing store where they can point you in the right direction on finding a guide for a day adventure.



Enjoy!

[naslux]

Yes, Mohawk is A mountain. It's just nowhere near where this LL deal is. Mohawk Mountain is in Arizona. I believe you went to SUNY New Paltz, but then that's just a sad story that you don't know this.



From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawangunk_Ridge):


The Shawangunk Ridge is the northern end of a long ridge within the Appalachian Mountains that begins in Virginia, where it is called North Mountain, continues through Pennsylvania as Blue Mountain, becomes known as the Kittatinny Mountains after it crosses the Delaware Water Gap into New Jersey and becomes the Shawangunks at the New York state line. These mountains mark the western and northern edge of the Great Appalachian Valley[3].

And here's the Mohawk Mountain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_Mountains:

The Mohawk Mountains is a mountain range in the western Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It abuts the western Gila River valley on the south, and is located in southern Yuma County, Arizona and is part of an eleven mountain rangethree valley region. The Mohawk Valley (Arizona) lies west of the range; the San Cristobal Valley is east.

[claassenam]

Naslux, who cares? We love new visitors here, but do you really need to accuse somebody of posting false information (in what appears to me to be a friendly attempt at sharing info.) in your very first post? Not a great way to enter the Luxury Link community.

[thepiranha]

I think that Naslux is being a little harsh on you, Imbues. Reading all of the posts concerning the Mohonk House, it's pretty obvious that you made a typo or weren't paying attention when you typed the name. There's no reason for someone to accuse someone of lying unless someone says something that's blatantly untrue. I think that if you were going to lie, you'd find something more important to lie about or something that you could gain by lying. Besides, I looked up your earliest posts and on August 17, 2007, you specifically state that you live in the Hudson Valley. That's not something that people usually make up.

I'm a relatively new Luxury Link member and I've been very impressed with the informative posts and the civility displayed in these postings. Let's keep it that way.