This B&B came highly recommended by a friend, and it lived up to our expectations. The rooms were clean, nicely decorated, and the breakfast was ample and delicious. Never met the proprietor (Shelley) who was very nice on the phone; the person who works for her (Cathy) was wonderful. She was friendly, helpful, and put out a terrific breakfast spread. She answered all our questions about places to go, restaurants to patronize, etc., and even lent an empathic ear when I had car problems one morning. The Halibut State Park is next door, and a natural area not to be missed when visiting Cape Ann. The cost of our stay was reasonable and I hope to return with my family in the future!

My husband and I had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Old Farm Inn. The Inn is located next to Halibut Point , a beautiful state park with incredible views of the coastline. The Inn's rooms are comfortable and well decorated. The rates are very reasonable and include a filling breakfast in the morning. We stayed in the Sunshine Room in the Barn Guesthouse and liked having our own private entrance. The rooms also all have refrigerators. We already are planning a return trip in October.

I stayed at the Inn with friends for a wedding. When we arrived at the inn, we walked around the grounds for a few minutes looking for someone to greet us, but then we realized that our keys (and directions to our room) were waiting inside on a table in one of the buildings. This lack of presence set the tone for the stay because, during the course of my stay, I never saw the owner. It was nice that we had the house to ourselves, and were able to lounge together in the common areas. However, we were not able to commune with anyone at the Inn to register our complaints, concerns or even be made to feel welcome.

The location of the Inn was useful because it was very close to the park.

After seeing our friends' rooms in the main house, we felt that they were better off than those of us in the barn. Our room in the barn (the Sunshine Room) was a nice size, but it smelled very musty and mildew-y. We immediately opened all of the windows and left them open - this made the smell tolerable. I killed an ant and shared the room with a couple of spiders. There was also a noise, which we affectionately named the Lobster in the Pipes, which is what it sounded like when someone upstairs used the bathroom. One of the chairs in the room was threadbare on the arms, and the carpet was dirty and smelled. The sheets and towels also smelled very musty. We would have requested new ones, but I never saw a soul who worked there until the following morning, at breakfast.

There was a young girl serving the breakfast, which was one notch above continental. Also, breakfast was served for a short time and ended fairly early, so I was up earlier than I would have been to get a bite to eat. I also saw the people who cleaned the rooms one morning, but I had to turn them away because it was too early. They did not return.

Additionally, I booked this room in January and learned that the room was double-booked when I called to confirm in July. The owner offered the smallest room at a discount as an alternative. After a few more moments of discussion, the owner admitted that her largest room was available, and said she would give it to me at the same price as the room I originally booked, but really did not want to do that because she would lose a lot of money. I did not feel that this was an appropriate professional attitude to take, given that my reservation was messed up because of her error and that I had discovered it only through my own diligence.

Came up to Rockport for a friend's wedding, and decided to stay at the inn since it was really close to the reception site. The convenience of the location was probably the only good thing about the place. When we arrived on Friday afternoon, the place appeared to be deserted. There was no one around to greet us or show us to our room. Instead, our key had been left in an envelope by the front door with instructions on how to find our room. The room itself (Dillon's Room) was small and damp-feeling. Incredibly, what looked to have at one point been a closet was converted into a shower stall. The toilet and sink were in one closet, and the shower was in another. You had to leave the closet door open and just pull the shower curtain closed, so it was essentially like showering in the room. The towels smelled awful, as did the linens (mildewy). I think the website advertised that the room had cable television -- the TV was tiny (13"?) and looked to be from the 1970s. The picture quality was terrible and the remote did not work. Granted, we did not travel to Rockport to watch television, but I think this just shows that no care has been put into this place in a long time.

The breakfast was not great, but after not seeing a soul our entire first day there, I was just pleasantly surprised that someone had actually showed up to put the food out. I had to track someone down at the end of our stay in order to settle up our bill.

It is also worth noting that after I initially posted by review on tripadvisor, the owner called me to harass me to take down my review. She did not apologize for the quality of my stay, but instead insisted that I was "killing" her business. When I refused to take down my review, she hung up on me.