Rude... Not willing to accommodate you...better off booking a room straight through the hotels... Water street inn doesn't have their own front desk..

This inn is located over a bar on the main street. There is no lobby - you check in at an hotel up the street. Most importantly, it has no parking. If you bring your car, you will have to park it on the street, and move it every two hours during the day. Parking is so crowded in town during the day that there is no place to move your car to. Our room faced the waterfront and was not air conditioned. This was not a problem temperature wise, as there was a cool breeze flowing off the water. However, when the bar closed about 1:30 a.m., there was enough street noise to wake us up. The room was very basic - two beds, but only one chair! However, it was clean, and came with a mini-fridge. With all these drawbacks, the inn is located right in the center of things, and could not be closer to the ferry landings.

Stayed there so we could be located central to beaches and etc...Room was dated,slanted floors, tiny bathroom and musty smell. Big bucks for the room. We stayed there August of 2010. When weather turned we felt traped in a musty cage. Left a day early and was glad to be out of that room. Too much for the condition. Good place for a bunch of drunks to crash and sleep it off.......lived and learned

I stayed with my family at the Water Street Inn this summer and had what can only be described as an awful experience. I believe I recall when this hotel had its own check in desk, but now shadily it is lumped in with the harbor side down the street. First off the rooms are insanely expensive for the quality they possess. The floor was literally slanted in our room, there was no air conditioning, there was no soap for the bathroom sink, and the TV had 10 fuzzy channel (you don't go to block island for TV but just making a point). Now the staff. Both nights we came back moderately late from being out enjoying the nightlife and at the top of the stairs were two teenagers who immediately tell us we are loud entering and that they are security. Then they followed us up and watched us enter our room, which made us all feel incredibly invaded and creeped out. The same thing happened the next night, with three different teenage looking aged european/russian boys. Finally, the harbor side desk staff were very short and clearly don't quite understand the phrase "customer service". They put forth a very pompous "we don't need you, you need us" attitude and I can assure you as a column writer, I will make sure people are aware of my experience. I will never stay at that place if I go to block island again, I'd rather sleep on the beach with the seagulls. I hope this helps.