My boyfriend and I stayed here for one night while we were travelling around cape cod and it was the best value room we found. It was in a lovely setting in cape cod and the room was very spacious and clean. Kelley the hotel manager was absolutely lovely and gave us a wealth of information on things to do and see in cape cod. She even went through the trouble of printing us a welcome pack as well as looking for hotels for us to stay at for our next night's accommodation. We would definitely stay here again and have not found a better service since.

The place is for sale and it looks like they are putting no money into the ramshackle place because of it. The room they had held for us was in a damp basement; the lamp nearly fell apart in my hand when we tried to switch it on, there was a dehumidifier in the room for the obvious dampness, there were cob webs in our room and along the stairs going to out room, one window didn't close/latch all the way, there were brown spots along the seam of the mattress, a couple bugs, and a dog had apparently urinated on the wall right inside the door; and we were told the room had just been cleaned! The grounds had potential, but were overgrown and in need of mowing.
I only saw one other car there, despite being told they could have rented the room to someone else. ..and the other couple we saw there, was heard having this conversation as they opened THEY'RE door; <female, sounding disgusted> "Ooohhh!" <male>"Oh...Well, we'll stay tonight and go someplace else tomorrow for the rest of our stay." They were apparently braver than us!
Kelly, the mngr seemed helpful & pleasant, but did not have the authority to refund our credit card. We were told the info would be given to the owner, but we probably wouldn't hear until the following Monday about it. (it was Friday afternoon)...we stayed at another place (Green Manor = wonderful!)...and it is now the Thursday after we returned home and I have still not heard from anyone regarding the refund to a place we never stayed in! I called my cc company today to dispute the charge.

*Note the dates on most of the 'positive reviews here; most are from 2008,2009!' The place has obviously changed hands a few times...

I stayed 3 nights at the inn and it was great. My room was clean and Kelly at the desk was so nice. She recommend a few great place to go see and some places for dinner.

The inn is close to everything we went to barnstable, dennis, hyannis, and yarmouth. there is a great icecream shop a little up the rd.

The pool was so clean.

I Cant wait to go back!!!

We at stayed at the Shady Nook several times before our last stay and were very satisfied with this mom and pop type operation. However, our stay this time was very different. We were put in an adjoining room which offered NO sound barrier at all. A very noisy couple was fighting and watching tv very loudly in the adjoining room at 1am. It's hard to believe that mgmt. (and everyone else staying there) did not hear them. The towels were incredibly thin and rough. The ice machine was broken. The box spring on the left side of our bed was broken and in addition to being very uncomfortable, was very loud!!! I emailed mgmt with our complaints and he offered to discount our next stay. We will not go back!