We decided to take our employees and their significant others to Spicer Castle for a work Christmas party. We booked 6 rooms in the main house.

If you are looking for new and modern I would not recommend coming to Spicer Castle. however, If you are open minded, enjoy history, can appreciate what this home was like back in the day, and enjoy good food and fun you will enjoy your stay here.

We arrived at 4pm welcomed in and shown to our rooms. This gave us time to freshen up before we went down to have appetizers and beverages. We have some guests who like tea and coffee, and some who enjoy stronger bottled beverages, there was enough of each for everyone. The food at "tea" consisted of portabella mushroom pizza, awesome cookies, nuts and snack mix, and prime rib roll ups.

While I agree with some of the other posts there isn't a lot of common areas to sit in, we had a group of 11 and had no problem being able to either sit/stand and visit with one another.

After "tea" we went up to prepare ourselves for the murder mystery dinner. We came down 1/2 hour later were ushered into a large diningroom for our dinner. Our name places were set and the fun began! We had a great time with the mystery and the food was amazing from the appetizers to the desert!

Yes, staying at Spicer Castle is what you make of it. If you aren't comfortable with your companions and can't visit or are a person who needs to be entertained by the television set, this place isn't for you. But as I previously mentioned if you enjoy antiques, history and can appreciated how they were able to convert closets into bathrooms in a home that was built in the late 1800's this place is definately for you.

Bedding: Great smell, not old
Cleanliness: no issues!
Bathrooms: yes, they are small, however, if you have a problem with small, you could use the bathroom in the hallway which is more than ample size.
Food: Awesome! Supper consisted of Punch, crackers/spread, veggies, amazing onion soup, cranberry spinach salad and roll, Choice of chicken or pork, baked potato, green beans and a fabulous cheese cake for dessert! Breakfast-fresh squeezed orange juice, coffee, fruit, home made muffins (assorted!), individual baked eggs benedict with hollandaise sauce!
Service: Nancy was wonderful and kept not only our group satisfied but all of the restaurant patrons and other murder mystery in the other dining room as well. The murder mystery host (Grandson of the orignal home owners)was great as well! His dimeanor added a lot to our fun the night of the mystery and at breakfast the next morning. he was very knowledgable about the property and you could really tell he enjoyed our company.

Our entire group of 11 had nothing but praise for our stay here!

We stayed on a 1/2 price deal through the Star Tribune Golden Gavel. The place is very old and creeky. If you really like history and mysteries you will like this. You have to be able to stand old floors, old bedding, old rooms, old everything. It is a very old house. Smells of course come along with that. I personally do not enjoy that and it was a rough night, but I may be a little snooty and used to nicer hotel types. We did the Dinner cruise which was fun - if you made your own fun. Allen (Grandson) gives history and stories. Dinner was good. Breakfast in the morning is family style and that was alright. Fun experience over all,but a been there done that kind of thing for me.

My husband and I came for our one year anniversary. Upon arrival we noticed that the grounds looked a little run down. When we went to check in the staff were not very friendly. We arrived five minutes before the end of tea time, however the women said "We shut it down at 6pm to get ready for the murder mystery dinner" When we arrived it was not 6pm.
Our room was also disappointing. The bathroom was so tiny you can barely fit in there. Also the plumbing has issues. Upstairs there was no shades on our window and I could easily see people outside, which made me feel uncomfortable as this was the bedroom. The jacuzzi bathtub was dirty and my husband could not stand up straight to take a shower because of the sloping ceiling. When my husband mentioned the dirtiness of the tub they stated it was recently caulked. Well, it was sticky and we didn't end up using it. We had specifically chosen a room with a jacuzzi.
When we arrived for the murder mystery dinner we were all standing around waiting for over 25 minutes before they finally told us to go to our seats. They never told my husband and I that are parts changed last minute so we had trouble finding our seats. When we mentioned this the women was rude and told us our new roles. In general the staff looked like they didn't want to be there. They did not smile during dinner service and were overall rude.
The dinner itself was okay. The french onion soup and dessert were delicious, however the main pasta dish was very bland. Also we were about one hour into dinner service before the server took our drink orders.
Breakfast the next day was average. Usually bed and breakfasts have lots of sitting areas and placed to relax. The main room had only two couches and the rest of the perimeter was for non- B/B guests as it was a local restaurant. The advertised gift shop consisted of tea, soap, and tylenol. There was nothing to do on the grounds and so we were stuck in our small room.
Mr. Spicer would be roling over in his grave if he saw this!

We were booked to stay in the Spicer Castle Bed and Breakfast on September 18th. We drove 3 1/2 hours to get there and were looking forward to our first bed and breakfast and a chance to relax with family members. Their website makes the property look warm and inviting, but what you will find a a WORN and UNINVITING property. From the minute you drive ont the property you can tell that it is not kept up, The flowers on the website are few and far between with mostly weeds growing. The Website advertises free houerdrves from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. When we arrived we were disapointed with no offering of anything even a warm hello. The place smell of mildew and is run down. Windows appeared not to have been cleaned in years with bugs dried to them, when ushered up to our rooms we could only laugh at how small they were, they converted all the closets to bathrooms but they are so small you can hardly fit in one. When we went down to see the main floor where we assumed we would sit and chat and play games(as there Website advertises) we were appauled to find the rooms had very little furniture in them except for dinner tables for a 45 person dinner that was booked for the evening. When we asked where we would be able to play cards and relax before turning in for the night they said we could always go play in our rooms. Well the rooms could not fit 4 people in a room at once not alone 6. Why wouldnt they have the courtesy to let us know that this is not really a Bed and Breakfast as advertised? They have no beach as the pictures on the website make it appear, just a rocky area with a dilapidated dock. We decided the accomadations would not work so we asked for our money back, pointing out we did not want to share the house with 45 guests who decided to bring there dogs and kids also. I have written many reviews on this website and trust others who post here, but believe me when I tell you this, this is the worst property I have ever stayed at and you are forwarned, the accomodations and Staff of the spicer Castle make this property a DUD!!!