The Reach Lodge is a wonderful lodge with an amazing oceanfront location. It felt more like I was staying with old friends, than a lodge. Nancy and Bruce do a wonderful job of making you feel right at home the entire time you are there. They provided honest, useful, and fun information on Brooklin and the surrounding community. Many hours were spent hanging out by the fireplace talking to other guests at the lodge (even lucky enough to have a fire a few times when the temperature dropped). I cannot say enough about how nice and helpful the entire staff was during my visit. If you are going to Brooklin and want a nice, quiet, and relaxing lodge...this is the place for you.

First let me say that negative reviews are an injustice to this establishment. I and two other colleagues stayed there for a week while attending a course at the Wooden Boat School. The managers, Bruce and Nancy, were there for what ever we needed. Breakfast included home-made muffins and breads and wonder hot oatmeal and a variety of yoghurt and fruits. It is so amazingly peaceful and beautiful looking out over the water. In the cool evenings the fireplace was a great place for reading. I definitely plan to go again for a recreational stay.

This place was a find...quiet location with INCREDIBLE VIEWS. I had read some of the reviews before I called and spoke with the new manager, Nancy. We had a wonderful stay and are looking forward to returning next year. Brooklin and the entire area is one of the prettiest locations n Maine and you are not going to find a more idyllic place to stay for any price. Check out their new website: http://www.thereachlodge.net.

We did not know what to expect and for the price, I felt it was slightly sub-par. It was a nice, homey place and very convenient as far as having breakfast, lunch, dinner or just drinks right downstairs. The innkeeper/manager was a man and he did make every attempt to be friendly. We never met the rude female manager everyone is talking about. The food was very good and the potential for relaxing was there; however, this was true as long as there were no unruly kids running around. I'm sure it was great fun for them--I would have loved it as a kid there myself! But, it is not much fun when you are trying to enjoy your meal to have a few kids yelling or running back and forth with the parents doing not much of anything to stop them. One morning after one particular family arrived it was chaos. We had gone back to our room to rest after breakfast and there were young children running up and down the hallway, banging on their room door, yelling, slamming doors--it was unbelievable. One parent was in the room trying to talk on the phone, we think, and the other was somewhere downstairs ignoring them. Good grief!

We were in the middle of nowhere and didn't prepare very well other than looking up some boat excursion places. Everyone we called was "dead in the water" so to speak since no one was even going out. We had a very nice experience viewing Life on Lobster at a local playhouse one evening, produced and directed by locals, who were actually in the audience and got up and answered questions afterward.

We love Maine and are going back this time to the "other" Eggemoggin on Little Deer Isle. I would gladly return to Eggemoggin Lodge in Brooklin, if the price was significantly lower and there were no kids staying there at the same time. The lunch and dinner menus were a little pricey, and breakfast was okay with me. I happen to like toast and fresh fruit for breakfast rather than eggs. I thought the selection was very nice. I did have to request a hair dryer, but the staff hunted it down for me and got it to me within a couple of hours. Luckily I requested it the day before I needed it.