Lakewood Inn & Cafe
Rooms · Cafe · Lakeside Comfort
Serving travelers on the lake road since 19▮▮
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What's New
Oct 13 '97 — Page updated.
Oct 13 '97 — Page updated. Oct 13 '97 — Page updated. Oct 10 '97 — Room 4 page under construction. Oct 8 '97 — Guestbook goes online! Lake Weather
from the porch thermometer
Today: mild, fog until noon. Tonight: rain. Tomorrow night: rain. Extended forecast: rain, nightly. Guest Poll
From the Gazette
You are visitor No.
0027412 since October 1996.
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The house from the lake road, on a good morning.
“M.”, who kept this house before us.The only picture of him we found; the damp got to it. Tucked between the autumn forest and the still water of the lake, the Lakewood Inn & Cafe has offered honest beds, hot coffee and the best pancakes on this side of the water for as long as anyone in Lakewood cares to remember. Whether you are passing through on the Old Lake Road or staying the season, you will find the radio playing, the griddle warm, and a key waiting on the rack. The hotel is under new management. The house and its customs remain exactly the same. Our door opens every morning when the sign turns. Not before. Folks around here are creatures of habit, and we find this comforting. 
Room 1, made up for arrival.
All stays include breakfast at the cafe. Guest rooms are upstairs, at the top of the stairs by the front desk — ask for one facing the water. The evenings are rainy here; bring a coat, whatever the season. Check-in from noon at the front desk; you pay when you leave. Ring the bell once. One key per guest; kindly return it to the rack when you leave. The rack remembers.
Finn and Kuro, heads of security.
The short stack. Butter included.
Our cafe serves the village as much as it serves the hotel — if you want to know Lakewood, take a counter seat at eight. The radio plays, the coffee is honest, and the regulars order the same thing every single morning.
Prices at the counter.
“Three, okay? Extra butter and no syrup. Butter IS the syrup.”
— Lucía, at the counter, every single morning
The counter. The radio stays on.
The lake, around closing time.
The Lakewood Gazette · Oct. 13, 1997
Lights back over north shore Fourth night running. Sheriff Donovan calls it “heat lightning.” “Wind's up and the lake won't move. Same as '86,” says fisherman Esteban Morales. Our little lake makes the paper now and then. Heat lightning, according to the sheriff. Items our guests have forgotten, kept at the front desk. Unclaimed items are held for thirty days, then longer.
“The pancakes alone are worth the drive around the lake. The grey cat supervised our breakfast and approved. Five stars from both of us.” “A most satisfactory stay. The sheets were of the proper thickness and the walls were where I left them. Forty dollars, on the counter, exactly.” 
Hand-drawn by the management. Not to scale, like most things here.
Lakewood Inn & Cafe · Old Lake Road, Lakewood 
The front desk. Ring once.
NO VACANCY
There's always room. HOLD MY ROOM — WISHLIST ON STEAM → Holding a room means wishlisting a videogame. The hotel is not real. |