This is a lovely old hotel in a great, central location. (Think big wooden turn-of-the-century New England summer hotel.) Rooms are dated but all have modern private baths. Great housekeeping staff. Room, bath very clean. Linens could use an upgrade, but okay. The bad part is if you are expecting some peace and quiet at night-forget it. There is a busy bar located off the large front porch that fills up around 11pm. Soemtimes unsleepably loud, sometimes managable. Worst is they feel the need to make a buck off the lobby space where an amplified, (!!), piano and singer(s) belt out "Oklahoma" and other jewels at dance club volume just a short distance from the rooms. They do mention the sound in the confirmation letter and when making a reservation. They say it's "barely audible" in the rooms. Simply not accurate.
They figure it's Ptown and most people don't go to bed until after the town's 1am closing time anyway, but the blasting music in a small lobby is overkill for the non-partying people.. That's the only big negative.

i only reserved one night at this hotel, as i had my suspicions and knew from the past that it has a bar in the hotel, meaning loud music and loud drunk people untill early in the morning
i thought this only occured on friday and saturday nights and since i was staying on a sunday night, that i should be ok, especially since the room rate(85 plus tax) was great considering ptown prices,
well there is a party every night at this hotel
the room was tiny, but clean with a very comfortable mattress and pillows had i been able to get more than 3 hours of sleep, the person in the room beside me played loud hip hop music and slammed the room door coming in at 5 am and proceeding to talk loudly on the phone for about an hour
the front desk was closed until 9 am and many (about 5 people ) were waiting to have breakfast and to check out, i couldn't get out of there fast enought

I'm a hotel manager in NYC and I found this to be a well run establishment.

Standard accomodations (the rooms are not fancy)
Amazing housekeeping dept. (They are always cleaning something)
Friendly, professional staff
complimentary continental breakfast
AMAZING LOCATION!
Fun terrace bar, lounge and piano bar

This is a very well priced accomodaton! I will be back next year!

Four of us shared a large room/suite at Gifford House this past week for our first visit to P-Town. The accommodations were basic in decor, but it was very well maintained and the entire staff were super friendly and accomodating. We always had ample towels and everything laid out for us, with beach towels available. The rooms were clean and everything worked well. The location is perfect - half block off Commercial Street (main drag) and right in the center of things. We were warned about noise from the nightclub in the basement that goes til 1am, but never experienced it. Because in P-Town, you're rarely in your room before the bars close anyway....;) Absolutely recommend this as one of the more reasonably priced guest houses in P-Town.