Clean air conditioned room that sleeps three adults at a very reasonable price. A short walk from town .

creaky bed, lack of water, house, hill, all handled eslsewhree, had shades - significantly lower price - maintenance - not there long enough to eval service

Block Island is a great place, and the Appleyard is adequate, as long as you know what to expect. Basically accomodations at the Appleyard are spare bedrooms, each with a bathroom. There were two things that I found to be annoying, one was an extremely sqeaky king sized bed, and the other was the complete loss of waterpressure (no water to the shower) on a couple of occasions. Both times we lost the water, it was back in about 5 minutes, not sure why this happened, but I assume there just isn't enough water pressure in the house to accomodate multiple bathrooms, etc.

The house itself was well kept, basically what you would expect of an average house. As another reviewer noted, you are walking into their front door, their living area is seperated by simple wood/fabric dividers, but guest accomodations are upstairs, so this wasn't an issue for us. The house is maybe 1/4 mile from where you arrive on the ferry, but you should know that it is up a very steep hill, which wasn't a problem for us. As far as another reviewers complaint about lack of window coverings, we didn't find this to be the case at this point. There were roman shades in the windows, which was adequate for privacy.

Reservations are handled by a 3rd party, which worked out fine for us, I suppose this could be an inconvenience if you ran into issues. We only stayed for one night, so I can't really rate the service.

I can understand the frustration of the other reviwers given the prices they paid. Columbus Day weekend, being the tail end of the season, put the price well below $100 for us, which was well worth it in our opinion. Had I spend $200/night, I would not have been satisfied. If you care about the extras, this probably isn't the place for you, but if you're just looking for a clean and convenient (as long as you don't mind climbing a hill) place to stay, this could be a great fit if you can get a decent price. I would suggest that Appleyard for long-weekend type travel, I'm not sure I would want to stay here for a full week.

So here are the things that went wrong

1-We had room #1 with king side bed. Check in is at the Harborside Inn, where the receptionist gave us the keys to Room #1. We open the door to room #1 and find that someone else is staying there. So we are given room #2 with a queen bed. We were told that the owner had decided to give the room to one of their friend’s who were visiting

2- No curtains on the windows, the owner friends walking on the deck had a clear view of us in our bed room.

3- At 2 occasions, we had some child barge into our room.

Now I realize why on a short notice, this was the only property on Block Island that was not booked up. I cuffed up $229 a night, but would suggest locking your doors at all times and bringing little napkins to cover the windows for some privacy.

At $179 per night, this place was simply not worth the money. (There are a number of lovely equally priced places. We went around to compare once we were there.) The Appleyard is neither a B&B nor an efficiency apartment but features the inconvenience of both. You must enter the accommodation through the side door and the owner's house is 'blocked off' with folding screens. We stayed in the room with 2 beds. The room was tiny and cared for poorly. Paint reeled from the ceiling, the curtain rods were loose and fell off, the carpet was tired, etc. The bathroom only has a shower (not for small children). After a full 8 days stay at the Appleyard, the cleaning staff only came (at completely unpredicatable hours) to change towels and not vacuum or change our sandy sheets (inevitable). The owners of the house smoke and at 6am the lovely aroma seeps into the room. They also have their own life, which included a very late night noisy dinner party. Block Island Reservations was unhelpful in resolving any problems and the manager on duty (I’m not sure what this means) seemed annoyed when I provided feedback (this was done as an FYI and I was very diplomatic about it). I didn’t even get the placating "I’m sorry", rather I received ‘uh huh, o.k.’ as a response.

Block Island is a lovely place, please dont ruin a good vacation by staying here.