Great service and dinner was delicious. We will come back.

Great inn. Great service. Good food. Maybe a ghost if lucky.

The Innkeepers lack customer service. The dinning room was very warm felt like the air condioning was not on. Food tasted like it was frozen as well as coming out slow. Deffinately not worth the money paid for it. I tryed to look around the Inn to see the history of it, but was only able to go in the front part cause it was so dark near the bar and the old kitchen, which is where I wanted to see. The lady behind the desk acted like she didn't want to be bothered. So I didn't bother her. I had visited here about 10 years ago and had sooo much better service than I did this time. Oh, and might I mention the internet was not working. As well as the TV kept going off. No wonder why the parking lot is always empty. It's a wonder how they stay in business. Bernstein would roll over in his grave if he knew how the Inn was now. It has NO heart. Do not waste your time!

We first stayed at the Wayside in October, 2004. We love history and genealogy and we were researching an ancestor who had fought at the Battle of Cedar Creek in VA. We decided at the last minute we would go to the last day of the re-enactment that Sunday, October 17. The inn had been completely booked for the weekend, but once everyone left, we were able to get a room for Sunday night. We were enchanted with the inn the moment we walked through the ancient front door into the warm and welcoming lobby. We ate a wonderful dinner at the inn that night and resolved we would return soon. It was three years later before we did, and we made a special side trip to Middletown on the way to Lancaster, PA so we could stay at the Wayside; we brought our daughter and her children along with us and we also had an excellent dinner there that night. They loved the inn as much as we did. The children especially liked the ghost stories associated with the inn! Our most recent visit was just days ago, when we took six friends along on a business/pleasure trip. We had not met the new owners, but upon our late arrival that night after a seven hour drive, Lois greeted us as if we were all old friends and some of us enjoyed a (very) late-night dessert of warm apple pie and vanilla ice cream while rocking away in the chairs on the front porch. Everyone in our party enjoyed a good night's sleep in our various antique-furnished rooms. The continental breakfast the next morning was nice and the coffee exceedingly good. We ate dinner at the inn on our second night. The Virginia peanut soup was just as rich, creamy and good as I remembered from our previous visits and the spoonbread was excellent as well. The green beans served with our entrees were fresh from the owner's garden located at the back on the inn. After dinner, we wandered into the bar and listened to a talented local singer. We could have stayed at a cookie-cutter chain hotel and paid more per night and had "modern" furnishings and a larger bath, but the Wayside is truly special and we are planning a return visit in October. I would urge anyone who is in the area to stay at this inn for a experience you won't forget - you will feel you have stepped back into another century.