My wife was looking on the internet for a nice place to travel to a couple of years ago. We thought we would give it a try, nothing ventured nothing gained. We enjoyed our stay so much last year we went back again this year. If your are looking for alot of activity, lots of people, and someone to wait on you hand and foot, -----this is the wrong place. Depending on how many people in you group, there are three floors, like a small 3 story house, for people to stay. We have had the second floor both times, and enjoy the real wood burning fire-place. Heating and air-conditioning, kitchen, living-room bedroom and deck.
Fire wood is cut and is about 100 ft away. There is a nice place to dine out about 5 min. away. Golf, zip-line, skiing, nearby. Should you want to shop or go to "town" it is about a half hour to Harrisonburg. Caverns, a winery nearby also.
We love it and will go back again.

The Sky Chalet is a wonderful place to stay if you enjoy nature, the mountains, peace & quiet, and privacy -- and especially if you are looking for a place that allows dogs but is still nice. (We've found that many places that allow dogs don't meet our standards in terms of cleanliness, etc.) We stayed in the 2nd floor 1 bedroom mountain view suite and loved it. The suite consists of a bedroom and bathroom adjoining a living room/kitchen/dining area with a wall of windows with a spectacular mountain view, including french doors opening to a deck overlooking the same view. The decor, fireplace and vaulted ceiling give it a real mountain-lodge feel. The bed was far better than most hotel beds and much like the beds in higher quality hotels. The bathroom was small but clean. The accomodations were clean and nice, but what we really loved was the location. It's on a mountain ridge surrounded by many acres of woods and there are multiple trails leading in different directions. (It's the perfect place to vacation with a dog, with many options for walking right from the lodge.) Yes, the property is adjacent to Bryce Resort, and you can walk to parts of Bryce (including the top of the ski lift) from the property, but it doesn't seem like you are near anything. We followed one of the trails down the mountain early one morning and ended up on the edge of a farm in the valley, and it was just breath-taking. There's also a large clearing on top of the mountain, perfect for fetching balls (if you or your dog are so inclined). And in the morning breakfast is brought to you in a basket - which includes a dog treat if you bring your dog along. Sky Chalet is unique in that it is sort of a bed and breakfast, but it lacks the bed and breakfast feel (where the owner and the guests are all in one house and all eat breakfast in a room together). The owners live in a separate house on the property, and we only met the owner's daughter and dog when they delivered our breakfast (the dog didn't actually deliver the breakfast - he was just along for the walk) -- the owners appeared to respect our privacy, so we didn't see them. This is something we really liked -- when in a bed and breakfast, we always feel a bit uncomfortable, like we are guests in a stranger's home. One negative about the property is that there are several buildings that were part of the original lodge and restaurant, and they are closed up with "no trespassing" signs, and that's what you see when you first drive up, and it doesn't look very inviting. But if you keep driving to the last building, you'll get to the Sky Chalet Mountain Lodge, which is where you stay (and what I've described above). There are two restaurants in the area, the restaurant at Bryce which we didn't try, and a place called Hot Plates, which we went back to 3 times. There are also some restaurants just down the road in Mount Jackson, which also has some beautiful old buildings. There are all kinds of activities available at Bryce (we recommend the zipline) and lots of good hiking nearby. There's also a wonderful store just down the road called Wetlands Trading Company -- they have many whimsical yard ornaments plus many other things. We are happy we stayed at Sky Chalet rather than the other dog-friendly bed & breakfast in the area (which was advertised as "in a quiet country setting" but was actually close to Interstate 81). The Sky Chalet is truly in a quiet country setting. We highly recommend it and we plan to get back up there again soon.

My husband and I stayed at the "Sky Chalet" in Basye, VA to celebrate our anniversary. We rented one of their mountain view suite rooms that included a living area. When we arrived our room and living area were on the lowest level. However there were also 2 other bedroom/bathroom rooms attached to our common area by doors. These were rented by other guests. The doors were locked shut but you can still hear everything that is going on in the adjoining rooms--and I emphasize everything. There is just no privacy and that's a deal breaker for me. And we also heard every step the folks staying on the floor above us made--they woke up at 6 AM, we were also waking up then. I noticed the positive review on this site was from someone who rented the honeymoon suite that is the entire top floor-so there are less walls/ceilings being shared.

The views are pretty and the delivered breakfast is decent but my husband and I felt the website made the place seem more classy than it is. Also there is only 1 real restaurant close by, it's a very remote area. I'd spend my time and money elsewhere.

Agree with the other post, that the views are great. But the amenities are not so great. We never saw the innkeeprs, which could be good or bad, but many things were also not as they seemed when talking to the staff before deciding to stay there. First of all, the property is a dump -- all the buildings are really really run down, they have no restaurant/store, except for the new building where the rooms are. and th erooms are only separated by a door -- there is one common room with access to all the bedrooms, so you can hear everything going on in the room next to yours. also, there are really only 2 restaurants nearby -- in the summer. in the winter, i suppose there is more stuff open, since it is so close to bryce. but we were very disappointed with the accomodations. my wife is allergic to nuts, and i told the innkeepers that upon making the reservation, but they still gave us stuff in the breakfast basket that had nuts in it. overall, not impressed. keep looking -- there are better places in the valley you can stay at.

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